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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:28:02 JST Bread up, Bro
   until people "leave the company" things won't change
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:32:10 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @c yes, their offenses haven't fully penetrated normiedom, but they are playing with fire.
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     mr bigot (c@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:32:11 JST mr bigot

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     I live in a 70%ish Republican area and plenty of people are always at Target here.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 02:36:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @c what companies *should* learn from the bud light affair is that while you can get away with a lot, there are lines you can't cross, and no-one can define them because you aren't allowed to ask the kinds of questions which would tell you
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:57:24 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • mr bigot
     @racs @c you are reading to be surprised later
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:57:25 JST Racs

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     @sickburnbro @c The Bud light "boycott" didn't achieve much because these corporations are oligopolies and the retarded public simply started buying other InBev products. For all the faults of the left, they know how to properly boycott and vote with their wallet.
     
     https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/bud-light-owner-ab-inbev-beats-forecasts-despite-boycott.html
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     rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:14:55 JST rein

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     • mr bigot
     @racs @sickburnbro @c > For all the faults of the left, they know how to properly boycott and vote with their wallet.
     
     No, they do not. The difference is they have institutional support. The reality is boycotts do not matter. Actual consequences are *always* top down. Same with protests. Protests have zero effect if they are not approved from the top, and are quickly dispatched and the people in them arrested if necessary.
     Meanwhile if a protest is approved, you will be the one arrested for defending yourself from their violence, and they will get away with anything. It's top-down violence disguised as grassroots. Just like boycotts are never grassroots movements when they succeed.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:18:47 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • rein
     @rein @racs @c bingo.
     
     their boycotts do exactly as much as the ones on the right do.
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     rein (rein@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:22:20 JST rein

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     @sickburnbro @c This is a good point. There is no real standard either way, because it would be crimethought to even think of defining one.
     By either way, I mean it goes both ways. There's absolutely no clear standard as to what you can say and what will get you cancelled, and it not only changes every year, it also can vary from day to day or even whatever the current seasonal trend is.
     
     At least in most totalitarian dictatorships it was pretty obvious what could or could not be said. You can just shut up about those things. But there's no subject whatsoever that one can safely talk about.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:31:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • rein
     @racs @rein @c the key is that it's the institutions that do the work, not the boycott.
     
     The boycotts function, at best, as a filtering method for attention of the institutions.
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:31:26 JST Racs

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     • rein
     @rein @sickburnbro @c Institutional support makes things 10x easier, that much is true. With that said, beyond cherry-picking examples from Reddit, the left has successfully orchestrated boycotts such as that against Israeli goods. When one side has the government literally creating laws to break boycotts while the other is rotating money from one product to another under the same company's umbrella, they're not even on the same playing field.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:31:59 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • rein
     @racs @rein @c this is the same mistake as saying "a protest march will make changes"
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:32:59 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @racs @c I've poasted a lot on bud light and been following the story closely. What do you suppose the purpose of that story is?
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:33:00 JST Racs

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     @sickburnbro @c I hope you're correct, but I doubt it.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:37:14 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • rein
     @racs @rein @c boycotts as performed by the left are a puppet used to disguise the real hand. The additional benefit they gain is that they can call you a "conspiracy theory nut" when you wave away the useless noisy crowds to point at the real powerbrokers.
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:37:15 JST Racs

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     @sickburnbro @rein @c Yeah man, the institution sure is against Israel. That's why the institution had to create anti-BDS laws to break the boycott.
     
     The point is that action has impact.
     Properly orchestrated action has a larger impact.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:44:06 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • mr bigot
     @racs @c My point is fairly complex, and if you doubt it you can look at my poasting history;
     
     But in short it is that people are not infinitely malleable, and there are things that will cause them to change their behaviors. The bug light boycott was an example of this. The brand has suffered a continuing loss, 6 months later.
     
     The part that between both this and the target trannysuit share is the incongruity that the c-suite have expressed which boils down to a "but it was only 1 thing!"
     
     You have to look at rules for radicals to get an idea of how action works when there is not institutional support. Moralizing your side is a perfectly acceptable result.
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:44:07 JST Racs

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     @sickburnbro @c Depends on the angle you're coming at this from. Without further context my default assumption is that you're coming at it from the conspiratorial demoralization angle.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:47:23 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @racs @rein @c talking about a hand here is incorrect as these are all players with actual power.
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     Racs (racs@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:47:25 JST Racs

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     @sickburnbro @rein @c According to you, who is the real hand in this scenario?