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2022-07-03 -Great Cultural Revolution

Unilever investor: Ben and Jerry’s boycott fallout will be ‘lesson’ to multinationals

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

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Businesses need to stick to business and stop playing the Social-Justice Advocate role.

Playing in Social/WOKE/Religious issues tends to tick off 30 to 60 percent of any customer base.

Take Aunt Jemima product now sold as Pearl Milling company / PepsiCo playing WOKE. I can show you pictures taken at Wally World. Of End Cap after End Cap, and shelves full of these products that people just are not buying in the same amounts. In fact Pearl Milling has even resorted to "Specials" hoping to sell product.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-03 06:02|| 2022-07-03 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 That has been my argument as well, NN2N1. The counterargument has been that only those on the Left play such games — conservatives being more interested in getting a good price regardless of the company’s politics, so there is no downside for companies going Left — but it sure looks like that has changed.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-03 06:09|| 2022-07-03 06:09|| Front Page Top

#3 That argument is biased. The left and the right are now philosophically opposed. Both, as Americans, are consumers and seek a good price. The left wants to impose their will upon others and seeks to have their ideals reflected as self verification they are justified. The right seeks to impose no ideals (yet) in defference to free thought and free expression, freedom. In that they see allowing freedom of the lefts philosophical ideology as self verification of right ideals. Freedom is exploited beyond reasonable boundaries. Radicals represent the lefts current expressionism, a byproduct is self identity as group identity. Very Un-American at it's core.

Posted by jefe101 2022-07-03 16:12|| 2022-07-03 16:12|| Front Page Top

#4 The right seeks to impose no ideals

The so-called right in America wants only to get up to the trough and sup deeply. They are willing to pretend to ideals to get there. This leads to co-option. For America in particular and the world in general, this has led to their disastrous co-option by the neo-cons, who are not conservative at all but pathologically obsessed with Russia.

We need to leave conservatism behind, as it is a hollow shell. What we need to be is anti-totalitarian. Because have no doubt, the deep state is completely bought into the totalitarian model.

At the end of the day, you either believe you should run your own life, or you are hoping to the marrow to be part of the cabal running everyone else's lives.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-03 16:27|| 2022-07-03 16:27|| Front Page Top

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