When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take: https://archive.ph/quYyb
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If you think you can stop using products of companies whose executives support the Republican Party, you’re quickly going to find yourself in the Stone Age.
Nearly every corporate executive, for nearly every company, is likely to be a Republican.
Even Tim Cook, an outspoken homosexual who has previously been the target of Trump-led MAGA vitriol, just recently expressed support and donated a million dollars to Trump.
People will just posture and harumph, yet keep buying Samsung, Google, and Apple cell phones, or use Enamel baby formula, or eat meat and vegetables grown using John Deere and Monsanto products…
I could go on, but there is no need to depress myself.
That's in large part because the market has been engineered to force that on a lot of people. There's exceedingly few alternatives that aren't evil, and those few that exist are comparatively quite expensive to choose - especially at a time when much of the public doesn't get paid enough anymore to be able to afford that choice.