Not every comment has to convince someone of something, sometimes you can just enjoy the ride.

I do think the article you posted was written with a bias towards trying to make people believe boycotts work without actually providing evidence they work. So yeah, I guess that means I think it is a bad article. Not saying you're bad, just probably the first article you thought was sufficient, wasn't to my eyes.

If I was to write an article trying to prove that boycotting works, I would strive to include data showing loss of profit due to the boycotts as well as shareholder meetings or complaints about those losses resulting in a change of company policy. To the point of this post though even that is insufficient...

This post implies that boycotts create change that protests can't. So changing a store from stocking one item versus another is not the sort of change a protest is aiming for. I don't see a boycott changing how police interact with black people, or how politicians interact with religious groups to the detriment of women's rights.

I'm not trying to prove anything, Socrates.

Your goal was proving the point, not mine...

I didn't read them all, all the ones I read I felt were at least somewhat exaggerating the results of the boycotting.

That does sound effective. I imagine grocery stores had to start stocking more ofnthose alternatives as well to support the cafes.

That's pretty cool, haven't heard anything about that. How did the boycott work? Did they boycott the cafés specifically or all dairy products?

You're using the author's work to prove your point, which I think it does poorly. Your point was not successfully made Mr/Ms messenger.

Many of those feel debatable as to whether it was the boycott or something else. Negative publicity isn't the same as a boycott, for example. Decades of efforts by Peta doesn't sound like it was really their efforts that caused change...

Did it change anything though? The goal wasn't really to get the shops out of Russia, it was to save Ukraine via economic pressure on Russia.

When was the last time a boycott changed anything?

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I need more details on how to: "slowly ass yeast mixture."

Put a tub of water under it.