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Buycott the right companies. BUY their stuff.


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2021 Apr 18, 6:35pm   2,709 views  37 comments

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https://spectator.us/topic/boycott-corporate-america/


The question, then, is what conservatives do now. One proposed solution is to dust off America’s antitrust machinery, to start breaking up these corporate behemoths. And certainly there’s a case to be made that, say, Google has grown so massive as to be anticompetitive. But antitrust action won’t solve the problem at hand. Break up Google and you’ve got…two Googles, both as woke as the first one was. The issue isn’t that these companies aren’t competitive and innovative — Silicon Valley does nothing if not creatively destroy — but that they’re acting as agents of bad cultural change. ...

Still, the operative idea is a good one. If woke capitalism is to be stopped, businesses need to be disincentivized against it. To that end, the most effective tool in the conservative arsenal is probably the good old-fashioned boycott: turn the left’s tactics around on it. Isolate and pressure these businesses. There is precedent here. When France declined to support the war in Iraq back in 2003, conservatives launched a boycott of French wines, and French businessmen later admitted that their sales had taken a dent. And while research suggests boycotts tend to damage a company’s reputation more than its revenue, in today’s flashbulb online world, nothing is more important than public image.

The trick to any pressure campaign will be to sustain it in the long run, to make sure companies can’t wait it out until the news cycle dashes on to its next shiny object. Fortunately there is precedent here too. When Hasbro announced it was going to make Mr and Mrs Potato Head gender-neutral, it kicked up a wave of fury, and not long afterwards, it sent a tweet clarifying that the spuds would remain sexed after all. It was a small win, but those matter in a culture war. We shall fight in the toy-store aisles and the Mulberry Streets and the midscale Florida grocery stores. And so forth. The point is that conservative public pressure can make a difference, even against a corporate giant.


I think there is an even better way than a boycott, because boycotts are easily broken.

Companies like Goya Foods have learned that coming out for truth and fairness gets them slews of new customers. We need a way to create a good honest list of good honest companies, and take away business from evil woke companies that way.

Similar to how the first business to not require masks will get my patronage and gratitude forever.

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17   PeopleUnited   2021 Apr 19, 4:44pm  

Not defending Walmart, but Sam Walton did not set out to build a company that would sell out to the Chicoms, even if that is what actually happened. But even so, Target and Amazon are just as evil, if not more so.
18   Ceffer   2021 Apr 19, 5:32pm  

If you are short on weapons, it might be a good idea for your local militia scouting parties to go into Costco and Walmart warehouses and look for the caches of Chinese weapons sent over in the guise of consumer goods. The militias can use them to arm the people instead of the waves of illegal insurgents admitted by Biden.
19   Patrick   2021 Apr 19, 8:05pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
1990s. What happened to those millions of high paying jobs of the future exporting to ONE BILLION CUSTOMERS?


Lol, I remember that.

They sure don't try that bullshit line anymore.
20   AmericanKulak   2021 Apr 19, 8:22pm  

Patrick says
They sure don't try that bullshit line anymore.





The new line is to act like it's some force of nature that can't be stopped and the original unamended Constitution doesn't empower the Legislature to tariff anybody, anytime. Or the CATO/Reason lie, which is to pretend that from Washington to after WW2, the Tariff was the Main Source of Revenue and only started to decline in importance after the Income Tax was passed in the 1910s.

The High Tariff, always north of 20%, often 30%+ for most of the 19th Century is the original, all-American tax.
21   Patrick   2021 Apr 28, 3:34pm  

Steak-Umm also has some courageous and reality-based people working there:

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1381799324179427330

Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
Apr 11
The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.
2:40 AM · Apr 13, 2021

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Steak-umm
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log off bro

Steak-umm
@steak_umm
Apr 13
the irony of neil’s tweet is that by framing science itself as “true” he’s influencing people to be more skeptical of it in a time of unprecedented misinformation. science is an ever refining process to find truth, not a dogma. no matter his intent, this message isn’t helpful
22   Patrick   2021 Apr 28, 3:36pm  

Another company on the side of reality:

Software company Basecamp ends politics in the workplace
As politics has consumed offices, virtual offices, and entertainment, Basecamp is following Coinbase's lead. ...

CTO David Hansson penned another blog post further expanding on the reasoning behind the company’s decision not to promote an activist but ultimately contentious workplace. Something that Hansson says he at one point saw as a “healthy debate” he now considers to be counterproductive and a source of stress.

The goal, Hansson said, is to come to work and be able to collaborate with others regardless of their political and other persuasions, unburdened by difficult and highly controversial discussions that have to do with society at large rather than their work.

According to him, by allowing these sensitive topics to be brought inside the company, “we’re setting ourselves up for strife, with little chance of actually changing anyone’s mind.”


https://reclaimthenet.org/basecamp-ends-politics-in-the-workplace/

https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

https://basecamp.com/
25   zzyzzx   2021 May 25, 7:58am  

Boycott:
26   Patrick   2022 Jun 10, 9:50pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/oh-look-liberals-want-us-to-boycott-those-delicious-martins-potato-rolls-i-think-because-the-owners-supported-a-republican-candidate-or-whatever

Oh look, liberals want us to boycott those delicious Martin's potato rolls, I think because the company owners supported a Republican or whatever
28   AmericanKulak   2022 Jul 9, 2:47pm  

Cereal is the dumbest fucking food product. Sugar and refined shit.
29   AmericanKulak   2022 Jul 27, 9:00am  

Publicsq.com : Patriot/Pro-US Companies against Woke, both local and online/national.

App on phone, too -

https://app.publicsq.com/marketplace/online
30   Patrick   2022 Jul 27, 10:43am  

AmericanKulak says

Cereal is the dumbest fucking food product. Sugar and refined shit.


Rolled oats with raisins, dried cherries, hazelnuts, and pecans, etc is really good cold and raw with whole milk. All the ingredients are relatively cheap at Trader Joe's.

Cereal companies generally make crap.
31   AmericanKulak   2023 May 31, 9:45pm  

Sales increased after the controversy. According to news coverage:

Chick-fil-A's sales soared 12 percent, to $4.6 billion, in 2012. The good fortune follows several years of impressive expansion and strong sales, which have pushed the privately held company's valuation north of $4.5 billion, making billionaires out of its founders ... These latest sales data are just further proof that all that negative coverage didn't hurt demand for chicken sandwiches among Chick-fil-A's core consumers.

— Joe Satran, The Huffington Post[91]

...
On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II of Virginia entered the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Family Research Council carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, a 9 mm handgun, and a box of ammunition. After being asked for identification, he shot a security guard in the left arm and was wrestled to the ground by that same guard. Prosecutors said he told FBI agents that he wanted to use the sandwiches to "make a statement against the people who work in that building ... and with their stance against gay rights and Chick-fil-A",[65] and that he planned "to kill as many people as I could ... then smear a Chicken-fil-A [sic] sandwich on their face".[66]
(Lazy Wikipedia quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people)

How did Chik-fil-A reward conservatives coming out and increasing their revenue? They spent the rest of the decade cutting off long time Trad Family and Anti-LGBTQ groups, including a Christian Athletic Club.

Before finally grovelling to the Summer of Sam in the infamous foot wiping moment in 2020.
32   AmericanKulak   2023 May 31, 9:45pm  

Patrick says

AmericanKulak says


Cereal is the dumbest fucking food product. Sugar and refined shit.


Rolled oats with raisins, dried cherries, hazelnuts, and pecans, etc is really good cold and raw with whole milk. All the ingredients are relatively cheap at Trader Joe's.

Cereal companies generally make crap.

Exactly. I've been adding in plain rolled oats with whatever berries are on sale/in season.
33   mell   2023 Jun 1, 8:00am  

European style muesli and low-sugar granola is good for you as well.
34   Patrick   2023 Jul 11, 9:34pm  

https://publicsq.com/


America's Marketplace
Join over a million freedom-loving Americans in shopping quality products, services, and exclusive discounts from values-aligned businesses.
35   AmericanKulak   2023 Jul 11, 11:30pm  

I like publicsq, it's good to know who is based, esp. when it comes to services, like haircuts and restaurants. I'd rather patronize a patriot.

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