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Despite the fact that Anheuser-Busch almost immediately caved to the pressure—abandoning Mulvaney, sidelining the staff who oversaw her ad, rolling out new ads with football players, and sponsoring country music concerts—the boycott went on, as right-wing media gleefully tallied declining sales.

That's still the dumbest thing ever....

Normal people were pissed they doubled back so fast, and conservative media had already latched onto it, and they don't let go of a story like that.

And then they give conservative boycott all the credit for declining sales making conservative media keep talking about it.

Whoever over at Anneheiser Busch who decided to cave....

Is probably the dumbest executive in America, and that's saying a lot. They pissed off the majority of Americans for no fucking reason.

These idiots are protesting Bud Light while billionaires are paying them less than a living wage.

Yup. Grifters making a buck off of bigots. Just wait for some bullshit moral panic to nucleate around a popular brand, and then market your own shitty version as the anti-woke alternative.

I'm sick of the rabid right.

Normal people: you hate minorities? You're an asshole. Fuck you! ✓

This is cool because being a hateful bigot is wrong and hateful bigots should experience social shunning.

Rabid right: you don't hate the people we hate, fuck you! ×

This is wrong because being a hateful asshole is wrong and perpetuating hate is wrong.

They need to deal with the fact that LGBTQ+ people exist. Existing and appearing in ads and shit isn't "sHoViNG iT In OuR FaCEs" it is existing and being represented instead of white, cis, hetero always being overrepresented.

Considering concepts like quality control and safety / health regulations are anathema to these guys, I will not be trying any "anti-vaccine protein bars" produced by one of these grifters.

[shrug] Ehh, just more ways for these idiots to grift one another and fuck each other over even more.

And they accuse the left of dealing in identity politics.

Veebs, that allows customers to scan supermarket barcodes to check a product’s “V Score” and find “brands with the best values alignment”; a whitelist of conservative companies put out by the right-wing CatholicVote;

Wait, that's sweet! I'm going to download that app to help me find brands that do support woke causes!

Can we just stop having conservatives? They're stupid hateful people.

Or does the parallel economy’s ethos of values-based brand identification evolve into endless splintering, with ever more niche ways to opt out?

While I think that the "parallel conservative economy" is doomed to fail, I could see this being a major contributer.

We're already seeing the splintering in politics. Candidates that are Republican darlings quickly turn into RINOs because they don't support the latest crazy conspiracy theory. Why would "right wing companies" be any different.

"Oh, you buy from Right Wing Beer because they don't donate to LGBTQ? Well, I only buy MAGA Beer because they contribute money to groups that want to ban LGBTQ books!"

"Oh, you only buy MAGA Beer? I buy QBeer - the only beer willing to contribute money to have all LGBTQ people rounded up."

"Oh, so your beer just wants to round them up?...."

The way the right is going, what's "right wing/MAGA" today is "woke" tomorrow and anyone on the right who doesn't keep up is a RINO (at best).

Bud Light’s other problem is that it sucks and is $2 more expensive than it has a right to be. Conservative boycotts usually go poorly because they’re being asked to sacrifice and that isn’t their thing. But you can grab basically any beer in the cooler and it’ll be tastier or cheaper than Bud Light. If you boycott The NFL, Disney, etc. you’re gonna have to stare at a wall in the other room because no one else is missing the next game or Star War because dad’s all riled up about nothing.

They are just so very fragile.

Weren't the republicans recently complaining about boycotts? Didn't somewhere make it illegal to boycott Israel recently? I remember being puzzled about how you could make it illegal NOT to buy something.

Naomi Klein just wrote a book about Naomi Wolf, and it talks about the mirror world and all this is so bat shit nuts. People are so easily grifted out of their money and their trust.

On one hand, fine. Let the chuds eat themselves. If they want to buy a dropshipped six pack of the same garbage for double the price then let them.

On the other hand they are just being manipulated by the ruling class just like us.

Very conflicted. I'll probably just forget about it and move on.

The best part about this is that these companies and groups are usually trying to take advantage of people, so that just means the right wing is going to get fucked by themselves. Remember those Trump coins? The right wing is so stupid.

I can't imagine what it must be like to live everyday being this goddamn stupid and scared. Truly, I don't understand how they manage to get by in life. They would be pitiable if they weren't so hateful.

The real snowflake culture right there.

I mean this is all just really stupid

hot boycott summer

Hey that's pretty clever

I figured these culture warriors would insist that ketchup is on their WALL.

This story goes down some rabbit holes but it is a great read.

They tried Republican ketchup years ago and it fucking sucked