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How effective boycotts are depends heavily on the circumstances, especially in terms of how dependent the boycott target is on public opinion. That mostly means companies that sell directly to the public, but every level of indirection makes it exponentially harder. Most companies do not give a gently caress about public boycotts because they don't deal directly with the public and the companies that they do business with don't say who they're doing business with. A lot of people wanted to boycott BP after Deepwater Horizon, but BP's crude goes to refineries that don't care where their crude comes from, then gets sent to gas stations that don't care where they get their gas from, so boycotting their crude requires getting multiple levels of the supply chain to care enough about sourcing. Good luck. BP doesn't care what the public thinks, just like Goldman Sachs doesn't care what the public thinks, and most businesses don't care what the public thinks because they're insulated from it. The NRA doesn't make the majority of its money from membership dues and they're probably not going to lose a lot of membership over a few lost discount perks.
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