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2018-09-05 Economy

Nike Stock Plunges After Tapping Kaepernick as 'Just Do It' Campaign Poster Boy

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-05 04:47|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 If you ever wondered what it would take to get the woke Social Justice Warrior crowd to loudly support a multinational corporation with nearly $35 billion in revenue in 2017; that pays its assembly line workers about 2.5 percent of production costs; that faces accusations that its factories bar independent inspections of working conditions; whose workers frequently faint from heat and exhaustion, and suffer wage theft, forced overtime, restrictions on their use of toilets, exposure to toxic solvents, and padlocked exit doors . . . well, apparently Colin Kaepernick is all that it takes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-05 05:21|| 2018-09-05 05:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The -6 billion dollar man.

Boycott Nike and your chances of being murdered for shoes in urban America go way down. If it saves just ~~one~~ thousand lives.

Posted by Sonny Dribble1184 2018-09-05 06:09|| 2018-09-05 06:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Bloomberg has big article today claiming it's a great idea of Nikes.

Posted by 3dc 2018-09-05 06:34|| 2018-09-05 06:34|| Front Page Top

#4 SJWEA EA on Women in Battlefield V: Haters Can Either "Accept it or Don't Buy the Game"

Result: Sales down 85%

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-05 08:11|| 2018-09-05 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 http://www.youtube.com/embed/jpt6Bvr2L-s?rel=0&controls=0&
Just watch a real hero....

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-09-05 08:31|| 2018-09-05 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 THAT is how you honor a fallen comrade.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-05 10:52|| 2018-09-05 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 BP, interesting point about Women ~~Soldiers~~ Targets in a FPS...

That's what they are to the Player. Does one get the same game enjoyment sniping at women soldiers? Possibly a certain fraction of the gamers would find a certain distaste at shooting unaware women ... or children. Why not explore the Ick Factor!, EA, by having underaged children in the target groups?

There is a Vietnam-Era FPS that I find myself unable to play. My older brother manned the forward MG on a riverboat in Vietnam and I get a visceral distaste shooting at targets like that in the game. He survived his year unlike many of the electronic phantoms I massacred...

Posted by magpie 2018-09-05 11:59|| 2018-09-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 stock dropped 2.7 percent today

It makes any buybacks that much less expensive, I guess.

Posted by gorb 2018-09-05 17:31|| 2018-09-05 17:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Magpie,
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/26716/gaming-nine-circles-hell
Your comment reminds me of The Seventh Circle.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-05 18:32|| 2018-09-05 18:32|| Front Page Top

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