Buy Nothing Day

[XtremePacifist]

The only product that the USA makes is consumption. If the people stop shopping the US Empire falls.

No money in your wallet? Charge it. Maxed out credit cards? Go get another one. Denied? Game over. The US Empire: USA Inc. is over!

[pegginpett]

I am personally going to round up my friends and I invite all others to join in too.

Save up as many purchases as possible for November 25th and go on a SPENDING SPREEEEEE!

HA! I laugh so hard at you goons because if you losers actually got what you wanted, anarchy and the collapse of our society.

It would be all of YOU that would bitch and complain and die of starvation.

[FunnyDigestion]

OK, have fun getting significantly less Rich while not making your point to anyone except the voices in your head.

Unless you're going to parade all yer new shit by the Ad-Busters headquarters or whatever, I guess that might take a bit of balls.

[pegginpett]

Actually I can afford to go on a spending spree without hurting myself financially.

You see, unlike you and your kind, I work hard and make good money instead of sitting around complaining about how hard life is.

As far as requiring balls to show my shit to Ad-busters...like I care about what a bunch of dope smoking hippies think.

[shep2112]

See, I don't get that at all. It just seems like someone having a seizure. If I was walking past a restaurant and saw someone having a seizure, I wouldn't think "oh that place must have bad food", I would think "that person must have epilepsy or something and how can I help them?" (if no one else is helping them already). It doesn't do anything to say 'the food here is bad'..

Same thing with faking choking, it just messes with people but doesn't get any point or message across.

[FunnyDigestion]

Well, if it fails at what it's supposed to to at least it's fun and gives everyone an interesting story to tell.

[shep2112]

What exactly are they accomplishing by falling out of their chairs and convulsing? How is that a statement of anything or trying to instigate change of any kind? The only effect it MAY have is drawing out the people who are concerned about their fellow human. Once they find out the person convulsing is an actor, and is not actually in any distress, I doubt they'll listen to anything that person has to say.

This video has nothing to do with 'buying nothing'.

[Tressco]

@sheep2112:

Like in most stories, the 3-D-characters are more likely to be empathized with, once felt, than the 2-D-characters in grey shape and mind, always ending up to be forgotten...

How come...?

Go chew some grass, boy...! We're handling things for ya!

[shep2112]

Please re-read my comments, I believe you missed my point. Misspelling my nickname and trying to be cute isn't helping either.

Please explain how someone falling over and pretending to have a health problem pertains to 'buy nothing'.

Again, the shoppers are not the problem, the stores are the problem. Talk to them about this whole 'buy nothing' thing and go to the source of the problem.

[Tressco]

Agree!

Just wanted to defend & honor those activists, cause they can make people think differently from what they're used to see in slick commercials from these junk stores.

Familiar to the situation, when somebody reports you his food poisoning, after eating somewhere? You won't go there..at least for some time...

Again, I agree! Most effect is to confront the stores themselves with their criminal, dissocial economy.

To arouse peoples suspicion it's utterly important to go on with flashmobs!

[ifvideo]

One person convulsing in a chair is a potentially serious health risk. Ten people seated at different tables in the same establishment all convulsing and "dying" at the same time in a very over-the-top, theatrical manner is obviously not and clearly a statement. This scene in particular was to protest a Starbucks that had just opened on the campus of Concordia University.

[shep2112]

Well why don't they explain it in the description, like what's going on, what the point is, what they're trying to accomplish, etc?

What is the 'statement' they're making? What is the *point* of it? "We don't like Starbucks".. Okay, great, a convulsion is not a protest and doesn't say anything about their goals, etc. So people say "Hey I saw a bunch of people convulsing at the new Starbucks the other day".. What does that achieve? Absolutely nothing. Except more customers checking it out ;)

[shep2112]

There is also no explanation of the Ronald McDonald character.

Harassing shoppers for giving-in to stores and their black friday promotions is not going to do any good. Talk to the stores instead.

This also has the effect of trivializing a person truly in distress. If this 'plan' succeeds, people will think "oh that person isn't hurt, they're protesting something, just ignore them". And then that person could have brain damage or possibly die.

[Tressco]

@sheep2112:

Amazing how a simple bio-structure-analysis makes you the perfect "blue", naive, non-thinking, always obeying structuralist!

Corporate insurance methods have their values, if used wisely...!

You don't even know, won't EVER know (because of your bio structure!) how you're manipulated!

It's mind-boggling to see a sheep turning circles out of ignorance!!!

Can't laugh, though! Just feel pity for you!

Try to achieve knowledge anyway, no matter what your believes tell you!!!

[FunnyDigestion]

LOL, please.

If you people had your way nothing interesting would ever happen in public; people would just go about the script of everyday life like robots and everything would be really polite and safe and clean. A Byrnian paradise where nothing ever happens.

[florkgagga]

Yea FunnyDigestion and if you are really bored you can always join the army and get paid to travel around the world and shoot bad guys that hate you so much... because an hour ago you shot their defenseless family and maybe even got "friendly" with their daughter. Why enjoy nature's beauties when you can bomb it to shit and enjoy your healthy "diet" coke at home?

[shep2112]

Here's an idea, fake a bunch of car accidents to protest people driving cars. Then when there's a real accident, no one will come to the aid of the people in the accident.

This is such a brilliant video. No, really. Convulsions are the best way to get change to happen, it will change EVERYTHING. Epileptics have been hoarding this secret for years!

[trent0090]

More power to everyone who wants to make a change. Best of luck to everyone that has realized that we don't everything we see.

[flkjeio]

It is sad to see that so many parents failed to raise civilized offspring. You people aren't accomplishing anything other than being obnoxious pests.

[copycatfilms]

Nice!

[ericfrombayonne]

HELLZ YEA