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Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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Jul 24, 2023, 9:58 AM
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Over political or social issues. There's really not a way around it, and one side doesn't have the market cornered over the other. If a person is fragile and weak-minded, they boycott something because they're too much of a child to disagree like an adult. And they're saying, "My opinion is so important and valid, I want to destroy the livelihood of anyone who disagrees with me."
Look, Bud Light tastes like ####. Jason Aldean's music is hot garbage. I have no desire to see a Barbie movie. I remember a few years ago, people boycotted In n Out burger because they gave money to Trump. I'd eat that if we had em out here.
The point is, if the reason for suddenly boycotting a business or artist or whatever because you don't like their politics, you have the logic of a child. If a leftist didn't like Aldean's video, don't watch it (who da fuq is watching music videos on CMT nowadays anyway?). Don't call for it to be removed. Who cares what Bud Light did? Apparently now Republican lawmakers have their panties in a bunch over a map in the Barbie movie that somehow appeases China and they want a boycott. Wut?
These matters highlight the stupidity and lack of intelligent discourse in our nation. Again, it's a person saying, "My opinion is so right and special that I want to ruin anyone who disagrees." That's how a child behaves.
Jason Aldean is gonna suck no matter what he believes in.
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Aldean didn’t even write the song, lulz.
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:06 AM
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Isbell snarked him.
“ dare Aldean to write his next single himself. That’s what we try in my small town.”
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Cancel culture is a conservative movement? LOL.***
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:06 AM
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It's just the sh**lib tactic of changing definitions.
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:21 AM
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Cancel culture is the idea of using authoritarian means to punish people who have opinions that you don't like. It is institutional discrimination (supposedly prevented by the constitution and US law.)
Things like closing someone's bank account because of their political views. That's cancel culture, and par for the course for leftist. They love institutional discrimination.
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I'm old enough to remember when
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:15 AM
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conservatives got all angry with the Dixie Chicks for criticizing W and every other song on country radio was Tobey Keith singing about boots in #####.
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Oh, the butt hurt that was on this board...
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:18 AM
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By the mouth-breathing neo cons over the Dixie Chicks.
If you mention that to people today, they often say, "Well, they trashed America!"
No, they criticized a president.
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Re: Oh, the butt hurt that was on this board...
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Jul 24, 2023, 11:15 AM
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By the mouth-breathing neo cons over the Dixie Chicks.
If you mention that to people today, they often say, "Well, they trashed America!"
No, they criticized a president.
And no one insisted that they be not allowed to have concerts or have their songs being on XM or radio. Not listening to them is not the definition of cancel culture.
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Wrong. It's much more logical to vote with your time and
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:18 AM
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money than to vote in a popularity contest. If you don't support something, don't spend your time and money on it. Pretty simple and straightforward.
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How do you make it through life...
Jul 24, 2023, 10:19 AM
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Boycotting all those products that are made by businesses that support democracy and a free market?
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Democracy, mouf-breathing , free market...you got it going on today. I like it.***
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:28 AM
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Dems own this corner of the market…
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Jul 24, 2023, 4:19 PM
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Woke
LGBTQ victimhood
Gay wedding cakes
TRANS acceptance
Chic-Fil-A
Hobby Lobby
Conservatives finally push back and it’s like REMEMBER DIXIE CHICKS AND AND AND BUD LIGHT???
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:26 AM
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Yes, InBev, Disney and Target will be closing their doors any day now.
But yes, keep screaming cancel culture while doing the cancelling.
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
Jul 24, 2023, 4:52 PM
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oh boy, T3 breaking out the graphs again.
Let's revisit in a few years when those charts are back up and nobody cares about the dumb boycotts anymore.
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So you're predicting a T-Rump victory...?***
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
Jul 24, 2023, 10:29 AM
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Effectiveness doesn't eliminate the stupidity of the boycotts. Bud Light's is a bigger failure due to not knowing their audience. Aldean's was an easier one to combat; it's media and when people attempt stupid censorship, it only spreads more online. When you tell people they can't see something, they want to see it.
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Re: I’m confused
Jul 24, 2023, 10:36 AM
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You keep talking about free market and democracy yet all these people are doing is exercising their right to buy or not to buy.
I'm not arguing that they don't have this right. I'm just pointing out that they are childish buffoons.
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Re: I’m confused
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:41 AM
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BTW I’ve also heard Barbie has been selling out in theaters lol.
Perhaps another metric for evidence of our nation's growing stupidity.
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Re: I’m confused
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Jul 24, 2023, 11:16 AM
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You keep talking about free market and democracy yet all these people are doing is exercising their right to buy or not to buy. There’s no doxxing going on, or threats, or camping outside of the exec’s homes like the Left loves to do. In the Aldean case, the Leftist media preemptively lost their minds on behalf of their protestors.
Excellent comments!
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Hmm.... I don't tend to spend my money on things or with
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:44 AM
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Companies that get all involved in politics to start with. But if there is a company, who has a habit of involving themselves in politics or the culture wars, I tend to stay away from them - especially when I disagree with their stated position (e.g. Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream). As long as there are other viable options and product choices I'll spend my money elsewhere. But that is as far as I take it. I'm not going to call for a boycott or go around telling others who/where they should spend their money based on some political/culture war commentary. If someone wants to spend their money on Ben and Jerry's products then that is what individual freedom and choice is all about.
I could not care less what any corporation thinks about any social/political issue just as I do with celebrities or my plumber. But if a Company feels compelled to enter the sewer that is the culture wars/politics - then given a choice I tend to go elsewhere. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just turn back the clock to a time where most of Corporate America avoided politics and expressing their "social values" stances and just wanted to make and sell products to EVERYONE...
So...If you think I'm "weak-minded" in that I do consider the publicly expressed stances of a company when I spend my purchasing dollars then so be it. Given a choice, I tend to spend with companies that stay out of the public fray and only concern themselves with making and selling good product(s).
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Re: Hmm.... I don't tend to spend my money on things or with
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That's not a boycott, though. That's just you exercising your personal preference, the right to which is pretty much one of the rights you spent your career defending.
The far left, given the option, would run around trying to get Chick-fil-A, professional sports, and anything that didn't adhere utterly to whatever passing social consciousness that happened to be en vogue at the moment. They're also picking stupid hills to die on, like defending the right of biological males who "identify" as female to jump into women's sports and pummel the actual chicks.
The far right has gone equally insane. They have rabbit ears up for anything they perceive as "Woke" - which honestly, has gotten to be anybody who tries to advocate Hey Let's Not Be D!cks To One Another (or any form of fairness or basic human decency) as leftist Wokism with screaming apoplectic fury because we do so have the right to be sociopathic a$$holes and it's Woke to even question that. I mean, in the past year the far right has declared war on Barbie, also on Chick-fil-A (like, wut?), Bud Light, Adidas, Cracker Barrel, Ford, Garth Brooks, Jack Daniels, Kohl's, both the LA Dodgers and Major League Baseball, Mark Cuban, Miller Light, Nike, the North Face, the Oscars, Starbucks, Target, and Mickey #$^&ing Mouse.
Despite the fact that you seem grouchy about leftism, no one would describe you as "far right". You definitely aren't one of the fringe crazies barking partisan craziness from either flank like two warring groups of howler monkeys flinging poop at one another.
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^^^ Pretty much sums it up.***
Jul 24, 2023, 11:08 AM
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:49 AM
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There will be no 'discussion' with the leftists. I do not believe you are one, but the goal of the leftists is not peace and tranquility. The supreme goal of the left is to be supreme - to have it their way. To have elites in charge and to have the commoners looking to the elites for their needs.
This is the exact model in the blue urban areas - the modern plantation. You got the masters who live in guarded high-rises and the ones that live in the burbs in their 5000 sq ft homes. Then you have the 'slaves' of the urban areas that depend on the elites.
The left's goal in cancelling people, companies, etc. isn't childish - it's part of the path in making themselves supreme and the others not. Per leftist mentality, if you are not on their team, you are the enemy so anything that can make the enemy seem 'bad' and illegitimate is good for them. There will be no negotiating with the enemy.
The right's intent is simply to push back on the leftists bullchit. No one cares who or what it is, but if it gives conservatives a voice, then it might happen. Bud Light was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:51 AM
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Yeah, it's only the extremists on the left who want supremacy and power. All those extremists on the right are good, altruistic, pure people who only want the best for everyone. Right.
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And, in my experience
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:58 AM
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Most people on the left I've met/interacted with simply want people to have equal rights, opportunities, and freedoms.
Of course, that's not everyone, just like your generalization of the right is incomplete as well.
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Re: And, in my experience
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Bullsh!t. You threatened to run me out of the state at one point because you didn't like what I had to say.
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Re: And, in my experience
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No, you are completely wrong about that. The left wants EQUITY - the same results for all people. Go watch Kamala Harris' video on equity. This is what it is.
It is the same reason the democrats cannot stand the bill that says MERIT must be used for military promotions.
You have been sold a bill of goods. It is the RIGHT that says equality and the left that says EQUITY.
The left has convinced you the right is a bunch of X-phobes. The places the left imagines as utopia, where everyone lives in harmony, do exist and it is called rural America. People are people. People work to get ahead and to live. The left wants you to think these places do not exist.
tiger_thom® I don't know how old you are, but you are seriously incorrect about this post.
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Look at the content of the Hip Hop culture and some Rap music.
Jul 24, 2023, 10:54 AM
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It is filled with and embraces subject matter that’s outside social norms. So what.
Similarly so what if Country music or a particular song gets edgy.
Extreme public reaction to either is hysterical _ an unrestrained emotional response.
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Look at the content of the Hip Hop culture and some Rap music.
Jul 24, 2023, 10:56 AM
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It is filled with and embraces subject matter that’s outside social norms. So what.
Similarly so what if Country music or a particular song gets edgy.
Extreme public reaction to either is hysterical _ an unrestrained emotional response. Boycotts are similarly based on emotion but perfectly within an individual’s prerogative. Again so what.
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Well if we're being honest,
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Jul 24, 2023, 11:01 AM
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Those can't be "cancelled" without getting cancelled. So there's that. Not that anything should be. If you don't like it, don't listen to, purchase, or participate in it. But don't let someone else tell you that you shouldn't in some virtue signaling BS.
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It should be treated like taking a dump.
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Jul 24, 2023, 11:18 AM
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You do you, but no reason to announce it to the world.
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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For decades literally every major institution in this country has bent over backwards to appease the kook left in order to hopefully stay off of its radar. The left won't just be happy to get people to stop buying your product, they will get other businesses to stop selling your product, get the banks to cancel your accounts and lines of credit, and encourage every jobless basement dweller it can find to physically assault you if you dare show your face in public.
Spare me the crocodile tears over a few Republicans and their refusal to drink Bud Light or buy Dixie Chick albums.
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POTD***
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Lefties getting worked up over boycotts & buycotts. Relax
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Jul 24, 2023, 11:39 AM
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Why does anyone get worked up over any boycott or ‘buycott’ that is driven by the end consumer?
Whether or not a celebrity or media outlet alerts consumers to something from a vendor (with ‘vendor’ including: Entertainers who ‘sell’ their product [skills / talent] to viewers [the consumers]; businesses who sell goods / services to consumers) that does not appeal to the consumer and the customer stops buying the product / service is nothing more than the free marketplace doing its thing.
Buy what you want to buy, and don’t buy what you don’t want to buy.
Buy from who you want to buy from, and don’t buy from who you don’t want to buy from.
Simple. No drama. No ‘underlying social statement’ implied. Just ‘spend your money as you want to.’
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Why do lefties get so worked up about this?
They get wild mad when one subset of consumers buys something that the lefties don’t like (Jason Aldean’s stuff).
They celebrate when a different subset of consumers refuses to buy something that the lefties don’t like (Chik-fil-a because they aren’t open on Sunday).
Relax. Why GAS about why consumers change their buying preferences? How does this consumer freedom impact lefties?
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"They get wild mad when one subset of consumers buys
Jul 24, 2023, 11:45 AM
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something that the lefties don’t like (Jason Aldean’s stuff)."
Back this up, even a little bit. Show us a single poster who is doing anything but laughing about rubes eating up Aldean's simplistic, hero-fantasy tripe that somebody else wrote.
Oh, man, I'm SO mad that people are giving Jason Aldean money. What the fuck, dude?
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That's the conclusion you arrived at?
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Jul 24, 2023, 12:59 PM
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I quite literally have no anger whatsoever about Aldean's song. None. I think it's stupid, and also funny in how predictably it appeals to a certain "type". Angry? Not even a little.
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Rubes?
Jul 24, 2023, 2:50 PM
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Are they supposed to make me angry?
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Why would I need to be wealthier than Aldean to make
Jul 24, 2023, 3:25 PM
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fun of the people he's grifting?
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Where are you going with this?
Jul 24, 2023, 3:41 PM
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Are you trying to convince me that I shouldn't make fun of the MAGA/Aldean crowd?
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Oh. He must be really good then.
Jul 24, 2023, 4:01 PM
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You should buy his album.
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Re: "They get wild mad when one subset of consumers buys
Jul 24, 2023, 1:03 PM
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From the OP.
“These matters highlight the stupidity and lack of intelligent discourse in our nation. Again, it's a person saying, "My opinion is so right and special that I want to ruin anyone who disagrees." That's how a child behaves.”
I don’t see where non-leftists are making a stink about other non-leftists choosing whether to boycott something or to buycott something. Laughing about the business decisions that a company or entertainer makes that hurts their business? Yes indeed. There is always some humor when powerful people make social statements with their ‘business’ and fall on their face while doing so.
I don’t see where non-leftists get excited when leftists revel about their boycott of Chik-fil-a. The non-leftists don’t GAS what the lefties do. Leftists boycott My Pillow. Non-leftists don’t GAS about this. We may, however, decide that shopping at a retailer which makes a social statement by dropping the My Pillow brand is making a social statement instead of a business decision, in which case the non-leftist will more strongly consider doing their shopping at a store that carries or doesn’t carry brands based strictly on consumer demand.
Lefties, on the other hand, contrive amusement at ‘rubes’ who have been buying Jason Aldean’s product. Why do lefties care so much? Got nothing better to do? The answer is that the buycott of Jason Aldean’s product has, by natural collateral effect, shown the lefties that the influence of the non-lefties on boycotts and buycotts is far bigger than when the lefties try this. Lefties are mad about this, but pretend to be amused and also not care at the same time. This isn’t fooling anyone. Lefties are unhappy about this; the marketplace has won again and lefty ideals are in the marketplace gutter.
The big corporation that tried to cancel J.Aldean (the Nashville / CMT business leftist establishment) got the finger because Aldean’s product sold like mad (buycott) despite the efforts of the country music industry’s lords and masters. Lefty-ism got the finger.
The big corporation that tried to promote trannyism to their customers (AB-InBev with Bud Light) got the finger because AB-InBev didn’t pay attention to their customers, and was unapologetic for their failed social statement marketing program. The resulting boycott essentially gave AB-InBev the finger.
Take it easy. Your ‘what the frock, dude’ emotive statement betrays your feigned indiffer3nce about J.Aldean’s sudden popularity.
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So you're just letting me know that I am in fact furious
Jul 24, 2023, 2:49 PM
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over this, and I'm just pretending not to be?
Also, do you have any evidence at all that CMT is a leftist establishment? Because I seriously doubt that, and it sounds like something you just made up.
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying
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but I think you got some of it opposite.
I only see far right wingers MF things like the NFL (kneeling), CFB (equality statements), bud light, the USWNT (rapino), etc. And in doing so it is shoved down anyone who will listen's throat. Over and over and over and over and over again.
I can't say I've had the same experience with the far left, although I'm not around many of those types on the regular.
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Offended about offended people getting offended.
Jul 24, 2023, 3:37 PM
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This is the way.
Why can't everyone just mind their own business? Including freaking corporations. I think most people just want to be left the hell alone.
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Re: I agree with a lot of what you are saying
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but I think you got some of it opposite.
I only see far right wingers MF things like the NFL (kneeling), CFB (equality statements), bud light, the USWNT (rapino), etc. And in doing so it is shoved down anyone who will listen's throat. Over and over and over and over and over again.
I can't say I've had the same experience with the far left, although I'm not around many of those types on the regular.
Having you been living under a rock? Over and over and over again leftists screaming at Riley Gaines, leftists yelling down public speakers, etc etc
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To me, it's about consistency....
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Jul 24, 2023, 12:23 PM
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And first, you aren't and I'm not saying no one has the right to make their buying choices based on...whatever they want. It's just that you think they're small-minded. I generally agree with that...with a few exceptions....
I can respect people that are consistent and thoughtful...meaning that they investigate most all of their choices and are consistent in their practices AND (and a big and) don't proselytize based on said choices.
What I don't respect are the folks that just move with the masses, based on whatever slanted news outlet they watch telling them what to like and dislike.
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Re: Weak-minded people boycott products/movies/business/artists
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Jul 24, 2023, 2:01 PM
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Why would I give a #### what people want to buy or not buy? Definitely some stupid marketers out there, though.
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Orange Blooded [4036]
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Why is it weak minded?
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Jul 24, 2023, 2:06 PM
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If you strongly disagree with the way a company or organization is using the money you pay them, why should you keep giving them your money?
I think it’s weak minded to be unsure and to forfeit your principles over things that are absolutely true
If you believe in something, then being resolute and principled isn’t weak-minded?
Are you a Budweiser delivery man or something?
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T3 megathread…achievement unlocked.
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Jul 24, 2023, 4:13 PM
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Lulz.
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Who?
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Jul 24, 2023, 4:49 PM
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Yeah, I don't know who Jason Aldean is. My thinking is kinda like Flow's: On the one hand, there's nothing wrong with boycotting. But when large groups of people get bent out of shape about a business, performer, etc. because they're social media sheep, it's sad.
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I think the real rubicon of character here is making a
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Jul 24, 2023, 4:53 PM
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personal choice of what and who gets your money, which is fine and dang 'Merican, against making this decision a (temporary) cornerstone of your identity and expending far too much emotional energy into it. For example, filming yourself in Target, or making X number of posts about it on certain Clemson message boards.
Don't want to shop at Target, or drink Bud Light because they like the gays? Don't want to eat Chic-Fil-A or shop at Home Depot because they donate to the GOP? Good for you. Don't expect me to care, and please stop trying to get me to.
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Boycotts were once an important political action
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Jul 24, 2023, 5:28 PM
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And making them public and noticed was part of what made them effective.
So I don't even mind if people want to use social media to promote their boycott. The problem is just that their boycotts are dumb. I'm more saddened by the dumb political positions themselves, and the tendency for so many people to follow along with the dumb ideas, than the boycott itself.
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Imagine a continuum
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Jul 24, 2023, 10:12 PM
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The Montgomery bus boycott at one end and calling French fries "freedom fries" at the other.
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Re: Imagine a continuum
Jul 25, 2023, 2:25 PM
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I won't paint everything with a broad brush or even say what "most" boycotts are about. Instead, for any particular boycott, I'd ask whether the boycott is more about fighting intolerance, hate, etc. (e.g., bus boycott to fight racism) or whether it's more about promoting intolerance, hate, etc. (e.g., freedom fries because we don't tolerate France).
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Re: Imagine a continuum
Jul 25, 2023, 3:53 PM
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Seems closer to the freedom fries side, but I could possibly be convinced otherwise if you have reason to disagree.
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Agree and this impeaching presidents is as trashy as 3rd...
Jul 25, 2023, 2:50 PM
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world countries. I didn't like Trump's impeachment and I don't like the talk of impeaching Biden either.
The American people need to step up and show some integrity.
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And weak minded people don't***
Jul 25, 2023, 3:32 PM
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