Maga really doesn’t like freedom of speech, does it?
No one is owed you any advertisement on your platform. Bunch of snowflakes.
“Its only free speech when I get to say the N word.”
Remember, conservative logic is literally “I’m allowed to tell you what to do; you are not allowed to tell me what to do.”
What is it woth the right and cancel culture? It feels like there’s no free speech anymore.
Bunch of snowflakes.
Something something cancel culture…
Whatever blip Bud Light experienced was due to their flip flopping. I was ready to start stocking up for our annual July 04 bash and would have gone out of my way to buy some (even though I don’t normally) until they rolled over for the magas and fired the person responsible for sending that single can of bud light to a trans influencer. I know others had a similar thought process, because I’ve seen it discussed online and in meatspace.
I’m sure I’ve bought products that they own since then unknowingly, but haven’t knowingly bought an AB product since then. All they had to do was take a stance, but they proved to be exactly what all megacorps are - greedy and spineless. Edit: Just like Target, I might add.
Ah yes, a boycott which will impact the company much like all the previous ones which were uh, wait no, they didn’t do shit did they?
Yawn.
The Bud Light one was actually impactful for several months:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Light_boycott
“On June 3, Brayden King, a professor of management and organizations, gave an interview to CNBC calling the Bud Light boycott an outlier in the right’s attack on “woke capitalism” because it is the first one to actually harm the company’s sales. King studied 133 political boycotts from 1990 to 2005 and none of them accounted for more than a 1% drop in sales for a company; the Bud Light boycott had resulted in an estimated 18% drop in all AB InBev sales.”
Bunch of rednecks and angry fundies boycott a higher cost department store/coffee shop… meh. The same people boycott $2/gal alcoholic piss water? Real shit
The thing is Budweiser caved pretty much immediately, which also led to allies boycotting! Dumbasses did the worst possible thing, fold to a decentralized demand and piss off everyone while not even ending the boycott from the first group because there was no one to tell them they won!
Interesting. I had assumed it went like the other 133 that source mentions.
Wonder if there’s just an extremely over-sized overlap between conservatives who were going to be offended about and willing to boycott and people who drink cheap beer that led to that statistically unusual outcome.
Also maybe cheap beer is cheap beer and there’s limited enough brand loyalty that other types of products don’t?
It was the fact that Bud Light openly advertised using a trans person. It was an image that could be flaunted and would rally even moderate republicans.
An executive respectfully writing a response detailing why they would not want their brand associated with a platform that had extreme right wing views is much harder to rally around…
Fundamentally it’s because there is no convenient image to rally behind… they would have to read and think to be outraged.
When they figure out how to use AI to generate picture book propaganda for their followers, watch out. (Wait, is that why they are obsessed with meme images…)
Cheap beer and Bud being #1 for 20 years made the fall more dramatic.
If it were some no-name beer, nobody would have cared.
I do find it hilarious that by abandoning Bud this “America First” crowd let Modelo into the top spot. LOL.
Modelo, owned by… AB InBev.
Kind of…
“Although AB InBev did have to sell the U.S. distribution rights to Modelo to rival Constellation Brands as the result of an anti-trust suit in 2013, one could still make the argument that Anheuser-Busch still technically retains its top ranking since it still owns the Modelo brand.”
They just don’t have US distribution.
I don’t think there was any real strong attachment to it. It was a recognizable go-to cheap beer. But nowadays there’s dozens of cheap light beers, and seltzers, and mixed drinks in a can, and ciders, and I can go on.
Good. Shorter lines for me.
Found the New Englander.
Hey, they could be Midwestern too. We have the double-Ds too!
Yeah, but the eastern US is just a different world. Starbucks are literally hard to find while Dunkin is everywhere!
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What the shit is Rumble anyway?
Rumble/Locals is a video sharing platform, like YouTube, and you don’t have any of the ridiculous no-no words & censorship of YouTube to abide by (under threat of age-gating, deletion, demonetization). You can say words like: suicide, depression, covid, vaccine, Hitler, porn, pedophile, etc etc etc without people getting all weird.
You can stream copyrighted content & watch a movie together, as long as there’s some banter & you’re not straight ripping movies. It’s fun, it’s like watching with friends.
Each creator can enforce THEIR OWN censorship & values on their community as they see fit, the only thing(s) Rumble/Locals does not want to see are: porn, child porn, and idk probably like extreme gore.
sounds like the name of the right wing ‘grindr’ app
Fascist YouTube.
Oooooo hopefully this means lines will be a lot shorter in the morning when visiting the south
Okay? They’ve been shit-tier donuts as far as I can remember
So invest??
Well if they follow the Elon Musk model, can’t Dunkin Donuts sue MAGA? LOL
I’m confused about this lawsuit. Haven’t advertisers always been allowed to not advertise in places they don’t think align with their brand?
Elon Musk’s lawsuit over alleged X ad boycott “a very weak case,” professor says
Stupid people, who believe in “free speech” and resent “cancelation,” don’t think that should be allowed.
And they’re willing to cancel anyone who disagrees
They have always been the bitch-made invertebrate snowflakes they love to complain about. It’s always projection with these mouth-breathers.
MAGA influencer, catturd2
That really says all there is to say.
Tinfoil hat time, maybe they’re a false flag plant by the FDA to fight the obesity epidemic.
It’s clearly not working.
I want to be an influencer too.
Isn’t that the guy who’s always chasing Elon Musk’s dick around?
No idea.
But it’s a grown-ass man who thinks calling himself catturd is the height of comedy.
Agreed, that’s just childish.
It’s a woman. Both other than that, you’re both right.
As far as I care to research, it’s a guy:
My bad, I was thinking of Libs of Tiktok.
So many hate mongers. It’s easy to lose track.
Very true. And really, they’re all essentially cat turds.
I feel attacked.
What is this weird as fuck idea these people have that they’re entitled to a company’s advertising money?
