Boycott? I wasn't buying shit from these idiots to begin with.
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
40 points (100.0% liked)
Politics
10180 readers
95 users here now
In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
These people are so lame. Despite their best efforts to redefine woke to mean something bad, the majority of Americans aren't following their bullshit.
I guess the reasoning is they only have to keep that magat minority who votes comfortable in the cocoon of hate that they spin. It's not like they need to actually win a majority of votes to win the presidency.
"Get woke, Go broke." Said the anti "cancel culture" crowd as they... literally try to... cancel ...
It's not that they are trying to cancel just anything, they are trying to cancel culture itself.
Lol, what if out of spite we basically created a "woke" cooperative that actually sold good stuff? We'd get media for free: good press from our service and good backlash media from opponents.
Name it Woke “R” Us. Sell stuff that keeps you informed or alert or wakes you up.
So, copies of the constitution, caffeine drinks, alarm clock apps.
The merchandise alone...
Hard to boycott something I was never planning on using.
I mean, the idea is that lots of companies will use it to market their stuff. As far as I'm concerned they will be making a political statement that I strongly disagree with.
I guess PublicSq. is meant to be pronounced "public suck."?
Can't boycott what I never intended using, but there are some fun bets people could take...
How long until it offers nothing but acres of tawdry political slogan t-shirts & junk quality trinkets aimed at people who want other people to think they are preppers/badass?
How long until it is caught selling snake oils that are found to be hazardous?
How long until some child dies because the site sold their parent bleach or borax as "medicine" to be taken internally?
How long until they're hacked into oblivion because they were too cheap to pay for some basic security measures?
How long until it is revealed to be an especially clumsy attempt at fraud or money laundering?
That last one. That's coming soon.
Why does this remind me of Publix? I smell a lawsuit coming...and fraud
A lot of these people are small operators; most don't have storefronts, some sell online, and a few through farmers' markets.
This is part of a movement astroturfed by Gab and Truth Social to create a market for goods and services that caters to trumpist producers and consumers. None of these businesses are capable of growing past their trumpist market. When they make enough capital to get noticed by journalists, their growth is going to crater like MyPillow due to the political backlash.
Here's an example vendor. She's going to be making overpriced unhygienic peanut butter in her kitchen for less than minimum wage and taking advantage of her children's free labor until they all burn out. If by some miracle she got the capital to buy the machines needed to make peanut butter to USDA standards and at scale, a proper boycott of her distributors would bring it all down.
They're rubes, offering their depressed labor to their cult leaders in order to take a small chip out of a corporation's bottom line. The Budweiser boycott is a great example of this - when a culture war exercise got out of hand, Republican thought leaders shut it down to avoid hurting one of their major donors. They make them think they're going to build a thriving business, but the masters will throw them aside if the corporations pay the appropriate bribes.