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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 17, 2020 18:06:54 GMT -5
I don't shop at Hobby Lobby or Home Depot. Home Depot is over an hour from me so that isn't hard. We have Lowes. I would not go to Chik-fil-a, but that is easy as I am a vegetarian. The local coffee shop that I frequent uses fair trade products to make my latte. i was quite sure did not go to those places but if you like chocolate you really should try theo. It is very good and named after either you or my theo
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Post by dondub on Jun 17, 2020 18:37:04 GMT -5
I don't shop at Hobby Lobby or Home Depot. Home Depot is over an hour from me so that isn't hard. We have Lowes. I would not go to Chik-fil-a, but that is easy as I am a vegetarian. The local coffee shop that I frequent uses fair trade products to make my latte. i was quite sure did not go to those places but if you like chocolate you really should try theo. It is very good and named after either you or my theo Theo is here in Seattle. A friend of a niece worked there and chocolate would appear at every event. Awesome stuff.
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Post by mollyc on Jun 17, 2020 18:50:43 GMT -5
So Papa John's and another bunch of companies are considered liberal because they did one thing - stop advertising on a show? Interesting. I wonder how the business they lost because they did that compares to the business they kept or gained because they did that.
And if they start advertising on his show again, will that prove the "conservative" boycott worked or will it prove they only pandered to the "liberal" boycott until they thought the coast was clear?
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 17, 2020 19:47:12 GMT -5
i was quite sure did not go to those places but if you like chocolate you really should try theo. It is very good and named after either you or my theo Theo is here in Seattle. A friend of a niece worked there and chocolate would appear at every event. Awesome stuff. I know, I have visited them a few times when DS2 lived there within walking distance. . He is the one that now lives in Munich. And they have a cool Biergarten within walking distance there I like that kid LOL
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 17, 2020 23:09:22 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
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Post by tallguy on Jun 17, 2020 23:39:20 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
Safe to say you found it as ridiculous as I did?
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 18, 2020 0:41:20 GMT -5
Of course it's expensive. That's what happens when you don't use free slave labour. Same with coffee. Fair Trade ensures that the farmer gets a fair deal and that the workers are paid living wages. I only buy Fair Trade coffee. I can even get a variety at my local chain grocery store. Glad you can afford the chocolates and coffee. My guess is over 90% can't unless it is a special treat. I get the fair trade and agree with it. However, you are not understanding that while probably 90% support your opinion, 90% can't pay those prices. Life is what it is. I found incredible chocolate from France, at Costco, Fair Trade and 100% traceability, from bean to bar. $4.49 for 4 BIG bars, 100 grams each. About $1.12 each. You just have to open your eyes and LOOK.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 18, 2020 1:24:06 GMT -5
I very much like the idea of boycotting the shit out of companies that interfere in politics. after CU, it is about all we can do to preserve our democracy.
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Post by Opti on Jun 18, 2020 2:54:14 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
Some of the reasoning is pretty lame. Ending discounts is now attacking consumer groups? They need to update their list. Shoes.com was bought and is alive. What amazes me is how many big corps advertise on far right shows. The fact that they dropped a couple probably means they are currently on others. I found the Meetup.com one hilarious. Does the list maker not understand how Meetup actually works?
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 18, 2020 6:35:52 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
Safe to say you found it as ridiculous as I did? I was laughing before I clicked the link. now I feel like I was missing my
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Post by jelloshots4all on Jun 18, 2020 7:05:09 GMT -5
Glad you can afford the chocolates and coffee. My guess is over 90% can't unless it is a special treat. I get the fair trade and agree with it. However, you are not understanding that while probably 90% support your opinion, 90% can't pay those prices. Life is what it is. I found incredible chocolate from France, at Costco, Fair Trade and 100% traceability, from bean to bar. $4.49 for 4 BIG bars, 100 grams each. About $1.12 each. You just have to open your eyes and LOOK. Each Costco has it's own inventory based on the demographics at the location. I'm not going to open my eyes and look because as I stated I very rarely eat chocolate. So I'm not supporting the companies who don't abide by the Fair Trade either.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 18, 2020 8:15:52 GMT -5
Found this interesting from Gambler's list: Papa Johns - Fired its CEO for criticizing the NFL. NFL - Anti-American. If you watch then don't pay for NFL Network or buy NFL clothing. If you insist on going to games then sneak in your own food and drink. Put less money in their pockets. And I am no longer going to buy lumber, chicken tenders, or car parts from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Post by seriousthistime on Jun 18, 2020 8:40:43 GMT -5
Thank you for the first laugh of the day! Businesses are on the list because of pulling ads from Fox News/TuckerCarlson/Laura Ingraham? Sheesh. What about the thousands of businesses that never advertised on Fox. Are they liberal too? Anyway, I'm a proud supporter of a number of businesses on that list. I'll investigate patronizing a few more. I do see why conservatives don't like Snopes and Politifact. As far as I know, those two do not verify the truth of alternative facts.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 18, 2020 8:41:43 GMT -5
I remember Oldcoyote going ape shit over Delta Airlines canceling the discount to the NRA. The number of Delta Air Lines passengers who bought tickets with NRA discount: 13How many airline passengers does it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines? Only 13. The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, dropped the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear neutral on gun policy. After the firestorm, Delta will review all its marketing programs to avoid those that might become political, CEO Ed Bastian announced Friday. But the airline said only 13 passengers ever bought tickets with an NRA discount. That translates into each discount costing the airline about $3 million in tax breaks. “We are in the process of a review to end group discounts for any group of a politically divisive nature,” Bastian said in a note to employees. The legislative flight played out against the Republican primary campaign to succeed Gov. Nathan Deal, who supported the jet-fuel tax break before it was removed. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, one of the primary candidates, gained attention by tweeting Monday that he would kill any tax break for Delta. The number of Delta Air Lines passengers who bought tickets with NRA discount: 13
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 18, 2020 8:42:01 GMT -5
giving up home depot is gonna hurt, but investigating adding it to my boycott list. My personal boycott list is very long. I've been accumulating names and companies for years. I did have some questions about the list though. Some just had a founder or major stakeholder donating privately. I'm not sure how that should impact boycotting. here is one point: www.npr.org/2019/07/10/740173176/home-depot-responds-to-calls-for-boycott-over-co-founders-support-for-trumpso - thoughts on when to boycott? How much involvement? Where the funds come from?
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 18, 2020 8:58:34 GMT -5
Poor, poor Tucker and Laura. Thoughts and prayers.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 18, 2020 9:02:10 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
That was quite amusing! Thanks for noting that I wouldn't have clicked in otherwise.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 18, 2020 9:15:17 GMT -5
I very much like the idea of boycotting the shit out of companies that interfere in politics. after CU, it is about all we can do to preserve our democracy. yep - and as we know from the popular vote, there are fewer conservative leaning than other in the country. I do want to point out a bit of hypocrisy however - when I was young, everything about environmentalism, equality, representation, fairness, etc. was in a 'hippy-dippy' category that was countered consistently from GOP, etc. as every business has the right to do whatever they want/need to do to maximize profits. It was foolish, and stupid, and naive to try to address or encourage any other consideration. But now that many businesses are green as choice or for profit, or encouraging diversity and representation, fairness and equality - well - it wasn't really that business get to do whatever they want, was it? It was just in the 80's business were helping to keep the status quo. Now that some business are forward-looking and trying to be better - oh what an uproar!
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Post by bean29 on Jun 18, 2020 9:22:03 GMT -5
Found this interesting from Gambler's list: Papa Johns - Fired its CEO for criticizing the NFL. NFL - Anti-American. If you watch then don't pay for NFL Network or buy NFL clothing. If you insist on going to games then sneak in your own food and drink. Put less money in their pockets. And I am no longer going to buy lumber, chicken tenders, or car parts from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The kind of people that can afford to go to NFL Games, wear official Jerseys to the game, and buy food and Alcohol at the event. When we had the shut down and restaurants were takeout only, Chic-fil-a had the longest lines of any restaurant. Whether or not it is Liberals or Conservatives Boycotting them, they have plenty of business. It seems to me I also saw that they were the best Franchise to buy (Most likely Franchise owner will make a profit in a short time kind of thing).
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 18, 2020 9:24:14 GMT -5
I used to think you were a pretty reasonable person. this definitely took you down a notch.
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Post by busymom on Jun 18, 2020 9:28:14 GMT -5
Thank you for the first laugh of the day! Businesses are on the list because of pulling ads from Fox News/TuckerCarlson/Laura Ingraham? Sheesh. What about the thousands of businesses that never advertised on Fox. Are they liberal too? Anyway, I'm a proud supporter of a number of businesses on that list. I'll investigate patronizing a few more. I do see why conservatives don't like Snopes and Politifact. As far as I know, those two do not verify the truth of alternative facts. LOL! The official list that sets off Republican snowflakes. They ended an NRA discount?!? Noooooooo!
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Post by flamingo on Jun 18, 2020 9:31:50 GMT -5
Rukh O'Rorke - My DH and I have been talking about this recently. What's the line? Is it all or nothing? Or if just the owner/shareholder/whoever donates some private money, do we care? I want to be all or nothing, but at some point, that means I would have to drive to a whole different state (thank God I live close to the border) for some services. Shockingly, we don't have a Home Depot in our area, so at least that's not an issue. To be very clear, I still believe in voting with my dollars. But if the company is supporting causes I believe in, but the founder/CEO/whoever donates privately to a cause I abhor, what to do? It can be very murky.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Jun 18, 2020 9:41:14 GMT -5
Rukh O'Rorke - My DH and I have been talking about this recently. What's the line? Is it all or nothing? Or if just the owner/shareholder/whoever donates some private money, do we care? I want to be all or nothing, but at some point, that means I would have to drive to a whole different state (thank God I live close to the border) for some services. Shockingly, we don't have a Home Depot in our area, so at least that's not an issue. To be very clear, I still believe in voting with my dollars. But if the company is supporting causes I believe in, but the founder/CEO/whoever donates privately to a cause I abhor, what to do? It can be very murky. I'm thinking this is the important distinction. Everyone should be able to make their own private donations however they want, and I don't think that should make a company boycottable. But private direct donation are quite limited. When someone like an original founder, who is retired, makes those small donations, doesn't seem like it should impact the company. But if that retired founder is getting a 10 figure or more annual income off the company - and then channeling significant sums into PACs and kind of circumventing the limitations on personal donations - that is something else. And the millions in profit the company takes in is really being funneled into the political side of things.
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Post by tallguy on Jun 18, 2020 10:23:15 GMT -5
I used to think you were a pretty reasonable person. this definitely took you down a notch. Only one?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 10:27:28 GMT -5
I'm all for not supporting companies that use child slave labor and torture animals and what not, but I don't really care about the political affiliations. We are all free to support the political parties we choose. Home Depot might donate to the Trump campaign, but that is their right, and I go there to support the workers that are trying to earn a living by helping me find items and ring me up. The Home Depot near me has a great staff, and I don't really have a Lowes close by, so whatever. Also, I live in a lower income suburb, and my only choices for shopping are pretty much Walmart, Big Lots, and Dollar Store, unless I want to drive to another town. I don't care about political donations enough to spend a lot of time researching them. I do try to be a little more mindful when shopping online, but I mostly buy amazon and I dont have time to search out where some third party seller got their merchandise, and where/how it was made. We have Lowe's and Home Depot side by side. Even though I'm a politically fiscal conservative, I still shop at Lowe's because I prefer their inventory over Home Depot. Nobody has noticed so far...
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Post by mollyanna58 on Jun 18, 2020 10:44:57 GMT -5
Thank you for posting the link. I appreciate the fact that you actually did some research and were willing to share it. However, I will not be following its recommendations.
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Post by dondub on Jun 18, 2020 10:45:36 GMT -5
Theo is here in Seattle. A friend of a niece worked there and chocolate would appear at every event. Awesome stuff. I know, I have visited them a few times when DS2 lived there within walking distance. . He is the one that now lives in Munich. And they have a cool Biergarten within walking distance there I like that kid LOL Ha! Dubette #2 went to college in the middle of Oregon’s Pinot Noir country. Well done youngun’!🍷
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 18, 2020 10:49:40 GMT -5
I used to think you were a pretty reasonable person. this definitely took you down a notch. Only one? touché
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Post by dondub on Jun 18, 2020 11:11:46 GMT -5
That list is hilarious. That there is a cadre of Trump snowflakes compiling that, and the reasons given, is the best laugh I’ve had all week. Poor Tucker indeed.
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 18, 2020 12:12:07 GMT -5
hilarious. thanks for posting. I bookmarked it.
I won't eat at Chic-Fil-A, either, and I am as liberal a person as you will find.
I just saw this shared to FB and thought of your post here. so much for being a liberal place, eh?
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