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Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil A — homophobia and weird religious nonsense/political involvement.

Nestle Apple EA

McD.

20 or so years ago I had several bad experiences back to back in different restaurants, and I just decided to not go there anymore.

And EA. Fuck them

There’s so many. Oreo changed their cream filling and you can see they only fill the rows by like 2/3 now Ebay (I honestly don’t know anyone who hasn’t had problems on the platform how are they still in business?) When I was a teen, my manager at dominoes fired me after I caught him stealing my tips. I wont even eat free dominoes

Home Depot (they helped found autism speaks),

nestle,

Walmart,

Warner Discovery,

Anything homophobic/transphobic,

anything that supports Trump,

any company that supports autism speaks,

All of those shitty Big Tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and many others, all corporate Social Media platforms (including Reddit of course, fuck Spez), those shitty Hollywood media corporations, CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai, Tesla and everything related to Elon Musk, Starbucks, basically all fast food chains, every Chinese or Russian company, every Israeli company, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestle and many others. I also try to stay away from PayPal, banks and insurance companies as much as possible, they are criminals.

We shouldn't just focus on shitty companies. Foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are basically tax-exempt billionaire investment funds in disguise. This is a great video about the lies of billionaire philanthropy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto

Apple and Microsoft will never get my money. So i don't use any MS and Apple products. Apple products are for fools who have no brain.

BP. Obvious reasoning.

Seagate, it let me down too many times

EA, Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard, Netflix and any streaming service, LG

Burger king.a few years ago i went through the drive through to get my little sister a milkshake. Machine down, okay what about an ice cream? Oh thats down too. " i didnt know I came to McDonald's" dude over the menu laughed.... but then this big ole cunt of a manager comes yelling at me to leave their property! I dont remember what all was said but it ended with me yelling back at her "fuck you, you dont just come screaming at people over a joke. YOU FAT BITCH!" Then i went to a McDonald's and told their drivethrough lady and got free ice cream while they laughed. And i havent been back since.

Spotify & pretty much most music streaming services. I buy all my music directly from the artist whenever possible....

Amazon, PayPal, Google. Did I say PayPal? Oh, right and don’t forget PayPal.

EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizz. All for their various flavours of greedy nasty and/or sexual abuse. Bethesda is honestly likely to go on the list soon as well.

Chick-fil-A. Hobby Lobby. DeviantArt/Wix (any Israeli company, in fact, until Palestine is free).

CVS and Walgreens.

Walgreens pulled out of selling certain reproductive health items in numerous states even though they would have been an ideal test case and certainly could have absorbed the costs of litigation.

CVS fucked up my meds years ago during a period i was cash pay, and then doubled down on the error and expected me to pay for it. Basically, extended vs immediate release, and $100 va $1.

Never did get an apology, or even an admission that the paper scrip said immediate release.

My employer unfortunately insists on using them as a PBM but that doesn’t mean i need to buy drugs from them.

They did another thing a few years prior that angered me deeply, but that’s neither here nor there. Something something “the law requires…” and the law verifiably did not require that behavior or process.

Also, you can bet your ass that I will never give one unnecessary dime to Express Scripts. Without disclosing too much, they have a monopoly on a thing that’s got some regulations around it, and I’m stuck with them for fulfilment. Doesn’t mean I’ll ever give them a penny voluntarily.

Seriously considered switching to a different formulation of the same long term med just to avoid them, but it didn’t make sense for my use case. Doing so would just have put me back in Come Visit Satan’s clutches anyway.