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[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeh if any company hasn't renounced it yet you better believe they at the very least tacitly support it.

My guess by looking at that list is most of them wouldn't care if conservatives or really anyone not hoisting up a BLM flag or not chanting about "we're all in this together" were sent to the gulags.

Ironic for ones such as Pepsi And Doritos considering most of these companies likely believe conservatives, libertarians and Republicans are just uneducated toothless obese hicks living in a backwoods trailer somewhere prepping with their guns and bibles while sipping on Pepsi and munching on Doritos while watching NASCAR.

Honestly, a boycott by anyone center right, right, or heck even center is really needed. I don't think companies should be pandering to anyone. It's fine to let your employees do whatever they want, but companies should want to sell their products to whoever.

I think Companies can make decisions such as the above because they're so excessively wealthy and it is also largely fueled by gross excessive pay for CEOs and other white collar individuals and shareholders. Passing off cheaply produced goods and/or services from China or Vietnam as high priced items, paying CEO's and others exorbitant salaries, even upon their firing or resignation, and artificially low wages for their employees leads to such malfeasance that allows the boards and executives to pander to whatever garbage group comes along to "strong arm" them, like antifa, BLM, media matters, SPLC, etc.

Before anyone thinks I'm in their camp, think again.. What's enshrined and solidified the above is the fact that the government directly and indirectly picks winners and losers through bailouts, grants, loans, ordinances, special tax breaks or special payment credits (like carbon credits), or the administrative state; e.g. administrative state approvals and/or regulations from a multitude of acronymed agencies that essentially render all big business and any incumbent business untouchable by newcomers to market.

That's just a start, but the administrative state goes pretty deep, and it is across the aisle, so it really depends on if you prefer your politicians beholden to wells fargo or BoA. It really is a Marxist and Democrat wet dream, all under the guise of capitalism.. Crony capitalism brought to you by a Republican party that wants cheap labor and a Democrat party who are true believers and want fundamental and cultural change and they get to beat the drum of how capitalism is terrible and the system is destroying people of color and plain white trash while Marxists such as AOC get bankrolled on public dimes and have lavish digs in DC and NYC.

Whew, That's a mouthful. In an ideal world anyone who cares about freedom would boycott any company guilty of this nonsense. In fact, i think that's one of the few ways we can stave off a real balkanization break up of the US within the next 50 years or so.

But let's be honest, most of us don't care enough to be bothered to do any of that. The greatest change is always done by a few but dedicated true believers. In fact it was the few who fought a revolution when everyone else said, nah fuck it I'm good with the Crown. We see that same fervor today, they're smoking statues of Lee, Washington, Grant, Jefferson and Jesus. They're occupying and holding 9 blocks of a city, they've created their own country. They hold vigils and have their faithful recite mantras. They make your kids sit on the laps of those you don't want them to at the public library all while you complain about it being unfair or rationalize it as the new norm.

Ultimately, they'll get away with everything they will. The true believers might not win yet, but I'm satisfied that we'll still be discussing the practices of ethical ad agencies and they'll be discussing how to progress the revolution that's begun...