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[–] NegativeInf 114 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Spirit Halloween is like an Eldritch being that consumes all failed business spaces at the end of their lives.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There seems to be a size heirarchy to it.

Supermarkets become either a gym or a Goodwill.

Mid-size businesses become Spirit Halloween.

Small businesses just get replaced with "hobby" businesses where it's obviously someone with money cosplaying as a storekeeper selling scrapbooking suppkies or country decor items.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

The historic main street in my town, the one they've bouged up with brown street signs on black posts rather than the standard DOT green signs on galvanized poles, there's like 10 or 12 storefronts down there that play host to an endless list of short lived businesses practically all run by women in their mid-40s with nothing to do. Yoga studios, antique stores, clothing boutiques, crepe restaurants, tea shops, basically none last two years.

[–] _stranger_ 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like the reaper at the end of every vampire survivors level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ohh I remember those.

Shame you can't kill them all.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Conservatives: I'm fed up with all these woke businesses! People that sell basic necessities shouldn't be political!

Also conservatives:

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 9 points 6 months ago

Then you have yet to hear of Ultra-Right beer. For the anti-woke person who wants to keep politics out of beer

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I'm sort of intrigued how they got the startup funding.

You're building a retail business around a meme. Even in the best possible case, you have a couple years of relevance to pay down the debt.

It's brick-and-mortar, with real inventory, not like just online drop-shipping stuff silkscreened on demand, so the overhead is pretty high.

If a bank financed any of this nonsense, I want to know so we can send the FDIC Shock Troops in to find out what other stupid shit they're doing with depositor money.

[–] Maggoty 7 points 6 months ago

The business model is clearly going to be selling conservative aligned merch. The name of the store doesn't pin them to Biden.

[–] chuckleslord 4 points 6 months ago

shit they're doing with depositor money

Is... is that still a thing they do? I thought they just endlessly borrowed money from the Feds, which is why saving account interest is so stupidly pitiful.

[–] Madison420 3 points 6 months ago

Likely more money than sense and operating at a loss.

[–] Diplomjodler3 3 points 6 months ago

There are plenty of shops selling Trump Merch. It was probably one of those and they just rebranded.

[–] Shelbyeileen 1 points 6 months ago

There's one of these, up my street, that started as a MAGA themed store, then they moved to more being Trump worshiping type products, then they promoted 2020 campaign stuff, then Let's Go Brandon, and back to 2024 campaign stuff. I don't even think they even like or support him, but are capitalizing on how his followers act in a fan-club manner and buy up all the merchandise.

[–] marcos 1 points 6 months ago

Even in the best possible case, you have a couple years of relevance to pay down the debt.

You pick another meme, reimage the store (ideally keeping the brand), and push the new products.

I can't imagine how this one on the photo could get into any other meme while keeping its brand. But the meme part is not the stupid one.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shit, it’s real and they have a website. Also, they lie about printing their shirts in the US. I’d link their site but lemmy isn’t big enough to DDOS it and I don’t want to provide them entertainment and hope in the form of a sudden rush of visitors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Of course just the top sign/store is real.

Well Spirit exists too but a little early for them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

somehow I only found out that "let's go brandon" was a republican slogan by reading this meme

after saying it in real life, thinking it was a sports thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It kinda was a sports thing lol

idk if you actually looked up it's origins, but for anyone curious there was a NASCAR winner "Brandon" I forgot his last name, but he was being interviewed after the race and everyone in the background was shouting "fuck Joe Biden" (because they're sheep, wtf does Biden have to do with anything in that moment?) so the interviewer possibly trying to cover for the network since you can't exactly go cursing on there says (paraphrasing) "they must be saying let's go Brandon!"

Naturally MAGA morons took that as "ThE mAiNsTrEaM mEdIa iS cEnSoRiNg Us! ThEy'Re CoVeRiNg FoR BiDeN! FaKe NeWs!" So now let's go Brandon means fuck Joe Biden and also hints to msm manipulation.

It's also a perfect example of how they NEED to be part of a tribe. That phrase includes you in the tribe if you use it with others that "know."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Were you living under a rock in 2021/22?

[–] niktemadur 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe lives outside the US. Or just not living maybe in a "battleground" state like Ohio, Michigan or Pennsylvania.

If you live in a solidly Democrat part of a state that's also solidly Democrat, it's possible you're like double-landlocked away from this sea of politically-supercharged excrement. In areas where most of the political campaign money ends up, even if you don't want to pay attention, you're force-fed this shit wherever you look.

I'm sorry for those who find themselves the direct target of republican propaganda. Trapped like labrats in a hellish social experiment of overexposure to nonstop toxic messaging, billboards and robocalls where "Biden's coming to tAkE yEr GuNz!" or "Kamala Harris hAz TwO mOmMiEs" or whatever, on top of what's already on the national infotainment industry.

[–] HappycamperNZ 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maggoty 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh it's political. Some NASCAR fans thought it would be funny to chant, "Fuck Joe Biden" near the cameras. The anchor incorrectly attributed the chant as, "Let's go Brandon". The Republicans near instantly adopted the second sentence as a slogan with a coded meaning.

[–] flicker 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The winner was a driver named Brandon Brown! The reporter says Brandon was talking about hearing the chant from the crowd. So either the reporter was trying to make this young man's first win about him, or maybe the driver thought people were chatting for him instead of just screaming about politics... whichever it was, assholes took the reporter as "censorship."

And that's how the MAGA chant was etched in stone.

Poor Brandon; "This whole Talladega race win was supposed to be a celebration, and then it was supposed to be something that I was able to use to move up, and I really wanted to capitalize on that," Brown told the Times. "But with this meme going viral, it was more of, I had to stay more silent, because everybody wanted it to go on to the political side. I'm about the racing side." 

[–] Maggoty 1 points 6 months ago

That's a man who's aware the political machine will eat him with no regrets.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every single thing they do is embaressing AND massively stupid. They really thought naming the store "Let's go Brandon Store" was cool, huh?

[–] Jiggle_Physics 3 points 6 months ago

There is store between where my mom lives, and St. Augustine, in Florida that is called the MAGA store, or MAGA headquarters, or something like that. IIRC it's off of A1A.

[–] moistclump 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can someone explain to me what let’s go Brandon means?

[–] GrabtharsHammer 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Some nascar racer named Brandon won a big race. During the post race interview a chant of "Fuck Joe Biden" went up in the crowd.

The interviewer said they were chanting "Let's go Brandon". So dipshits all over started using that phrase as an anti-Biden slogan. This is also why there's a "Dark Brandon" meme for occasions where Biden trolls the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It was something about a NASCAR event where the crowd started shouting "Fuck Biden" and one of the announcers covered by saying it sounded like "Let's go Brandon".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Brandon Gone!

[–] Donjuanme 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What is the significance of 3 red bars instead of a capital E? I feel like there's something malicious there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm assuming it's to shove a flag in there somewhere. They can't live without their flags, they even shove em up their ass. True story.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Gotta be from 4 years ago right? No way Spirit Halloween has rentals lined up yet.

[–] evidences 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So the let's go Brandon moment was November of 2022, hasn't even been two years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah I didn't think about how the nickname didn't exist in 2020. Wild someone would have a store like this for the midterms, Biden wasn't even running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

…is it socially acceptable to shun these f*cking losers yet or do we still have to play nice?..

[–] AnthropomorphicCat 3 points 6 months ago

Let's fuck, Brandon!

[–] dariusj18 1 points 6 months ago

Not to give anyone any ideas, but have they tried "Let's Go Brenda"?