Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)

[simon666]

A rhetorical point: I think it's best to avoid "resist" language.

1. It's antiquated and arouses imagery and iconography that IMO many have negative associations with. (I'm leaving this a bit vague intentionally.)

2. Framing oneself or a movement as "resisting" is to frame one self or a movement in a weaker, defensive position. It's better to use to language that indicates actions and offense as opposed to defense.

3. Because of 1 this opens up typical lines of attack and characterization that make one's "resistance" an easy rhetorical target. No unforced errors.

I don't have a sense of what would be a better alternative, but probably throwing things against the wall until something sticks/galvanizes people makes more sense. Something like "assert yourself", "push back"/"fight back", "take it to 'em" etc.

[sph]

Leave that advice for corporate drone training. Not all sort of countercurrent has to follow the same academic advice to create harmless, defensive and ultimately forgettable prose.

We are drowning in sterile PR speech already, sometimes an earnest “fuck the system” resonates better with the intended audience.

[NietzscheanNull]

Perhaps "deny, defend, depose" – not sure where I heard that, but it has a certain mental impact.

[vagrantstreet]

Or words such as "rise up" "fight the oppression".

Resistance sounds like some shortform offensive action, I'd prefer something more long term that shows a better path or what you're missing out on. The people I see who uses aggressive language like that aren't who I want to be around with ironically enough.

[JellyBeanThief]

I could get behind "exercise", as in your rights (while you have them), and your power (to stop relying on specific conveniences, businesses). Combines with imagery of gaining strength, independence.

[znpy]

Ironic to see this posted here, as YCombinator is the nesr from which Sam Altman originally spread his wings.

I’m keeping my chatgpt subscription though.

[tamimio]

Cool, I just found that I don’t use any of these services. And I encourage the site owner to add instagram as well.

>the most radical action in capitalist society is not participating

So that’s why they are after NEETs now?

[p3opl3]

I have wanted to do something like this for the UK as well. But scared of losing my job.. if I could do this anonymously - oh man - that would be great.

[Havoc]

As much as I appreciate his impetus to do something I don’t think unsubscribing will move the needle. You’re still going to want shipping, entertainment and transport. Those dollars are still going to be spent somewhere. So don’t think it’ll move the market in aggregate

[UnreachableCode]

Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years. Entertainment - Blurays and CDs! Transport, who are we talking here? Unless you're giving Tesla your dollars, are you really supporting the regime? Forgive my ignorance here.

[mythrwy]

What are we resisting?

[selridge]

You, looks like.

[profsummergig]

Apparently a return to the policies of 14 years ago when people like Bill Clinton, Hillary, and Obama used to call for enforcing laws against illegal immigration.

[rafavento]

Wouldn't be more effective for Galloway and his billionaire friends to dump these company's stock, maybe sell $900M each, use whatever money they get from that for good and still be left with $100M+ at the end? I don't like how he is parading himself everywhere like he's part of the solution, when he is actually part of the problem.

[delichon]

  Boycott Target           | Ticker | Before (1/30/26) | After (2/13/26) | % Diff
  -------------------------|--------|------------------|-----------------|--------
  Amazon                   | AMZN   | 239.30           | 198.79          | -16.93
  Uber                     | UBER   | 80.05            | 69.99           | -12.57
  Meta                     | META   | 716.50           | 639.77          | -10.71
  Alphabet (Google)        | GOOGL  | 338.00           | 305.72          | -9.55
  Paramount (Skydance)     | PARA   | 11.21            | 10.32           | -7.94
  Netflix                  | NFLX   | 83.49            | 76.87           | -7.93
  Microsoft                | MSFT   | 430.29           | 401.32          | -6.73
  Apple                    | AAPL   | 259.48           | 255.78          | -1.43
  Dell                     | DELL   | 114.44           | 117.49          | +2.66
  Comcast (Xfinity)        | CMCSA  | 29.75            | 31.57           | +6.12
  AT&T                     | T      | 26.21            | 28.69           | +9.46
  Marriott                 | MAR    | 315.30           | 353.89          | +12.24
  Charter (Spectrum)       | CHTR   | 206.12           | 239.09          | +16.00
  FedEx                    | FDX    | 322.25           | 374.72          | +16.28

[emestifs]

That's not very useful. The market has seen volatility for unrelated reasons over the past month.

And effects of this, resist and unsubscribe, wouldn't be a factor so quickly. AFAIK this only launched less than a week or two ago.

[Havoc]

That’s just measuring noise and arbitrary market swings