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[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

This feels like celebrating a neighborhood burning cause you got mugged once when walking through it.

Then you and I have very different conceptions of a neighborhood. Neighborhoods contain humans and are good and bad as a correlate to their good or bad effect on people's lives. Companies contain products and are good or bad based on how well they do or don't serve the profit of shareholders.

Moreover a company facing consequences for giving all of its power to a fascist intent on literally funnelling the world's wealth to himself and turning us back to feudalism is not merely symbolic, especially since his wealth is still tied to it. Sucks to suck. They could've dumped him with the Cybertruck.

Lastly, though bankrupting a company isn't merely symbolic in this case, symbolic retribution is not worthless. If we made effigies of these people and executed them, lit them on fire, and dragged them through the streets, there would be real effects. The coalescing of the people's anger, the fear of those who were burned in effigy, whatever steps that would be taken in response. Symbolic acts have power.