Who are you boycotting?

[Toxick]

Boycotts are a childish and stupid cop out.

So true.
We should ban together and outright cancel anything that offends us, or just moderately disagree with.


That could work too, if the media portrayed us as an enormous, powerful group of righteous power-brokers, instead of a bunch of bored, entitled ineffectual aqua-haired hipster wankstains.

 

[GURPS]

No one has mentioned boycotting Chic-fil-a. I heard from a customer this morning who is because apparently they have gone woke. I wasn’t aware of this.

I posted about this last week

 

[stgislander]

It's moved a long way from...

I'll see your Mercury Cyclone and raise you a Plymouth Superbird.

 

[vraiblonde]

Man, you people are going to be exhausted keeping up with all the boycotting in which you must take part.

Nah, it's just you Dembots who have to do as your masters command. The rest of us are free to choose.

 

[vraiblonde]

What's hilarious is the bots keening all, "If you boycott all these super expensive elite products how will you survive?? You'll starve! Die!"



Because in their world there's nothing else except this tiny handful of brand names. "My god, if you boycott Budweiser what will you drink???"

Yeah, keep your Buttwiper, kiddo.

 

[HemiHauler]

Nah, it's just you Dembots who have to do as your masters command. The rest of us are free to choose.

OMG!

 

[HemiHauler]

What's hilarious is the bots keening all, "If you boycott all these super expensive elite products how will you survive?? You'll starve! Die!"



Because in their world there's nothing else except this tiny handful of brand names. "My god, if you boycott Budweiser what will you drink???"

Yeah, keep your Buttwiper, kiddo.

Those are just the voices in your head. Literally no one is saying anything of the sort.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I am not watching NASCAR any longer because it is no longer a stock car race.
At one time it had to be a car that was built by a manufacturer and had safety bars and features added.

I doubt at any point in your life they were "stock" Richard Petty wasn't a better driver, he was a better cheater.

 

[Hijinx]

I doubt at any point in your life they were "stock" Richard Petty wasn't a better driver, he was a better cheater.

Of course none were really stock, but back at the start anyone with the wherewithal to buy a car and fix it to race was allowed to race if they could qualify.
Now it's a monopoly of rich teams and the racing sucks.

Budds Creek is better.

 

[SamSpade]

Boycotts work when there's an actual injury to the company being protested as a consequence. This is why - generally - national or global across the board boycotts have very little effect, while a local boycott of buses by very large percentage of its ridership - the Montgomery bus boycott - DOES have an effect.

Coca Cola, Amazon, Nike and of course, Nestle - all have worldwide boycotts. The Nestle one is still "ongoing" but it's been around since I was in high school. None of these companies are suffering from any of it - the boycott has no effect and is largely ideological - which is to say, rather pointless.

I often ask - in lots of situations - do you want to make a point, or do you want to make a difference?

Now - that said - I suppose I "boycott" some celebrities or organizations, but it's because I just can't support them - I can't watch an organization that opposes intercountry adoption, on some woke grounds that it deprives them of their culture, but in reality most certainly takes their life. I can't watch an actor preach about global warming who owns several homes and leaves a massive carbon footprint. I can't stand actors whose entire career succeeds on their portrayal of characters who shoot people and then decry the private ownership of guns. My NOT seeing their movies doesn't affect them - it affects me. I am not nauseated by watching them.

 

[CPUSA]

Boycotts are a childish and stupid cop out.

:losers:

are you still boycotting everything Trump?

 

[CPUSA]

I'm not boycotting anyone. I buy what I want if it fits my needs and meets my price. Boycotts are the strategy that the extreme woke left used against Rush Limbaugh years ago without success while successfully using it against many they didn't like. I'm not going to be a part of that. That's a leftist strategy and I am not going to use their loser tactics!

FIFY....
Funny you would call their tactics, loser tactics....while they are WINNING with their tactics...

 

[OccamsRazor]

Coca Cola, Amazon, Nike and of course, Nestle - all have worldwide boycotts. The Nestle one is still "ongoing" but it's been around since I was in high school. None of these companies are suffering from any of it - the boycott has no effect and is largely ideological - which is to say, rather pointless.

I often ask - in lots of situations - do you want to make a point, or do you want to make a difference?

They want to shout to their neighbors and co-workers that they have an opinion. Nothing more.
In the end, they will end up ordering their Nike shoes from Amazon and buying their Coke and Nestle candy because they only want to "appear" to be against "the man."

 

[Hessian]

Chobani yogurt deserves to be on the list...The Muslim owner can't wait to overthrow the nation and create a Muslim-run autocracy. If we were a nation of laws we would run his resistance cell right out of the country.

 

[Bonehead]

Chobani yogurt deserves to be on the list...The Muslim owner can't wait to overthrow the nation and create a Muslim-run autocracy. If we were a nation of laws we would run his resistance cell right out of the country.

Dammit now my yogurt too, how am I supposed to keep up with who/what to hate ??

 

[HemiHauler]

Chobani yogurt deserves to be on the list...The Muslim owner can't wait to overthrow the nation and create a Muslim-run autocracy. If we were a nation of laws we would run his resistance cell right out of the country.

Need a source, homeboy.

 

[SamSpade]

I'm reminded of a Scripture. The Bible uses a terminology in the New Testament that is confusing to people not familiar with it, but it refers to being of this world, worldly and so forth, and how Christians are called not to be of this world. It describes a concept of not being ensnared by the petty, inconsequential things of this life - material things, fame, wealth. Those who are shallow or greedy - it's their life. They are "caught up in this world". They're glaringly superficial.

But even as they're reminded not to be of the world - they can't avoid things because - they're IN the world.

You can't eschew every person, every THING, every company that does something bad. You'll find yourself paralyzed and alone. It's just the way it is.
I avoid things that specifically annoy my conscience, but I don't clutter my life with things to avoid, just so I can brag about it.

 

[Hessian]

Need a source, homeboy.

I did some research...found quite a divided opinion on him (Hamdi Ulukaya)....Is he an entrepreneurial hero? A savvy businessmen? An importer of immigrant labor for his plants? a Philanthropist? The general media sings his praises but digging a bit deeper we find a mosque built in Little Falls Idaho, 3000+ immigrants hired since 2002, and even controversial lesbian Chobani commercial in 2015. So...yeah...still on my boycott list. Hemi made me do some homework....it was worth it.

 

[HemiHauler]

I did some research...found quite a divided opinion on him (Hamdi Ulukaya)....Is he an entrepreneurial hero? A savvy businessmen? An importer of immigrant labor for his plants? a Philanthropist? The general media sings his praises but digging a bit deeper we find a mosque built in Little Falls Idaho, 3000+ immigrants hired since 2002, and even controversial lesbian Chobani commercial in 2015. So...yeah...still on my boycott list. Hemi made me do some homework....it was worth it.

Sounds terrible.

 

[HemiHauler]

This boycott nonsense gets no less silly the more I read it.

One, having the right to do something doesn’t mean that doing it (or how and based on what criteria one does it) is right.

Second, what’s ostensibly against one’s personal interests isn’t necessarily morally wrong and deserving of retribution of any sort.

Should I stop being a Deadhead and refusing to go see Dead & Co or Phil Lesh & Friends just because their views are 180 out from mine?

Likewise, should I toss all my Pink Floyd records for the same reason?

Why the hell would I separate myself from what I enjoy? Ain’t gonna happen.

I view these people as musicians and I’m not gonna stop supporting them.

You statists just are wired differently. By and large, you take your politics so damned personally. It goes back to the 60s, “The personal is political and the political is personal.” Or: “Think globally, act locally.”

We non-statists are much better equipped to keep political issues at arms-distance. You statists are emotionally unstable.

You should seek help immediately.