Part of the National Mass Blackout â November 25âDecember 2, 2025
The beast is bleeding. Time to twist the knife.
Every year they tell you itâs a holiday â
a day to save, a day to give.
But look closer.
Every ad. Every countdown timer. Every desperate âdoorbuster.â
Just one more IV drip keeping the corpse of late-stage capitalism twitching.
Black Friday isnât a celebration.
Itâs a harvest ritual for the rich â
a feeding frenzy where the beast drains our wages and calls it gratitude.
They call it retail therapy.
But therapy heals.
This is infection control â capitalismâs dialysis.
A ritual to keep us sick enough to shop again.
The beast is on life support.
Pull the plug. Drain the tub.
Why We Black Out
This year weâre refusing more than consumption â
weâre refusing complicity in a system thatâs starving us while fattening them.
From November 25 through December 2, we go silent.
No spending. No scrolling for sales. No feeding the machine.
Thatâs when the noise hits its peak â
âGet ready, deals are live, the rush is on.â
Thatâs when we go dark.
Because this machine was built to run on profit,
to extract everything from us â our wages, our safety nets, our hope.
While grocery prices spike, food benefits vanish, and social supports collapse,
the same corporations stage âholiday dealsâ
and tell us to be grateful for drowning slower.
This campaign is both moral and mechanical.
Every unspent dollar, every unopened tab, every unclicked ad is a cut in the ledger â
a small wound that becomes a hemorrhage.
We knew this all along.
The boycotts. The refusals. The blackouts.
They werenât symbolic. They were the lever.
We starve the machine.
We make the ledger bleed.
The Beast Is Weak
The corporate giants are faltering.
Theyâre losing money â and they know it.
If Trump comes knocking again,
like he did with Target and the other DEI cowards earlier this year,
the response wonât be the same.
Theyâre in self-preservation mode now.
They know profit margins are collapsing. They know weâre watching.
Trump isnât the boss of the beast anymore.
Heâs the weak link.
A coward on a crumbling throne.
When the wealthy say no â even ICE backs off, like they did in San Francisco.
Weâve seen what happens when money turns its back on fascism.
So letâs amplify it.
Letâs make refusal louder than his rage.
The blackout is an expression of OUR rage.
The Corporations That Feel It Most
đ Amazon / Whole Foods / Twitch / Audible
Every âdealâ is a donation to the authoritarian data-state.
đ Walmart / Target / Best Buy
Corporate feudal lords dressed like discount Santas. Donât feed them.
đ Apple / Meta / Google / Samsung
The holy trinity of surveillance capitalism â your attention is their product.
đ Disney / ABC / ESPN / Hulu / Marvel / Star Wars
The empire that sells rebellion as merchandise.
đ Starbucks / Chick-fil-A / Flowers Foods / Coca-Cola
Each cup and crumb a tithe to the gospel of greed.
đ AT&T / Verizon / T-Mobile
They own the towers, the wires, the air between us â and theyâre listening.
đ Nike / Shein / Temu / Amazon Fashion
The sweatshop hydra that prints âjusticeâ slogans on its own chains.
Skip them all â especially this week.
Because this is when they expect you to cave.
This is when your silence costs them most.
đ Blackout Dates for 2025 (U.S.)
November 25 â December 2, 2025
Black Friday: November 28
Cyber Monday: December 1
Seven days. One refusal.
Starve the machine until it screams.
Donât Fall for Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is just Black Friday in sweatpants â same beast, different costume.
Every âexclusive cyber deal" is a notch tighter on that leash.
They promise convenience.
What they mean is control.
Youâll get your item for a discount â but youâll pay with your data, your privacy, your planet.
And when your grandkids ask what you did while the world burned,
youâll want an answer better than âI found it 30 percent off.â
If Black Friday is the harvest, Cyber Monday is the bloodletting â
the dopamine drain straight into their quarterly reports.
Keep your cart empty.
Keep your wallet dark.
Keep the week dead quiet.
What to Do Instead
đŻ Buy nothing. Not a damn thing.
𧰠Fix something you already own â rebellion disguised as maintenance.
đ„ Cook. Walk. Read. Touch grass. (Still free. Still fascist-free.)
đ€ Donate locally â food banks, mutual aid, legal-defense funds.
đȘ Support small and local shops. Feed people, not shareholders.
đą Share this blackout list. Send this post instead of a product link.
Then follow the Living Boycott Guide until the fascist oligarchy falls.
The Point Isnât One Day
Black Out Black Friday isnât about a single sale â itâs about survival.
The blackout is the ignition point.
Seven days of silence. Seven days of sabotage.
Itâs how we remind ourselves the future doesnât have to be bought.
That solidarity spends better than cash.
That the most dangerous thing you can do in a collapsing empire
is refuse to participate.
Keep your wallet shut. Keep your eyes open.
Let the malls rot. Let the ads echo unanswered.
When the beast goes hungry long enough,
it eats itself.
đ€ Black Out Black Friday. Delete Cyber Monday. Keep it dark all week.
Coordinated national pushback. Maximum local impact.
Then get tactical. Every dollar denied is a blow struck.
Read Psycho Peteâs Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace â not just a list, a strategy map for starving the machine all year long.
Full boycott targets, ethical alternatives, and printable list live in our Mutual Aid Hub.
