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    Huh...what are you going on about? I'm not talking about the bomb threat, I'm talking about a general trend. There is clearly a growing trend of companies openly taking controversial stances on political issues. See...Budweiser, Target, the Los Angeles Dodgers, all in the news just this week.

    Now, what is interesting here, is in each instance, they took a stance that alienated one side of extremists in the culture war (both sides are frankly a bit fascist in their zealotry), but not only that, their response to the outrage was to walk it back, which predictably pisses off the other side's extremists, and now they BOTH want to boycott you. Its even more amusing, because these companies all watched their peers make this mistake, and did not seem to learn anything

    Also double points to the Dodgers for walking it back TWICE - They invited drag queen nuns, pissing off the largely Mexican Catholic fanbase, walked it back uninviting them, pissing off the LGBT's, and then walked it back again and reinvited them, lmao. Real geniuses in the marketing department of that multi-billion dollar franchise

    Companies who sell products that EVERYONE uses (beer, baseball, groceries), should not be champing at the bit to take highly controversial stances that alienate large sections of their customer base, just shut the fuck up and sell your product

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      If 1/2 of the population are fascists, are they really fascists?