Things We Righties Can Live Without

Someone I was talking to on this forum will not eat Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream due to their politics.

To me politics does not change the taste!

 

It's baffling to me. Pretty soon there will be nothing left for these people to do or eat...hahaha

 

It does help to explain why they are all so bitter all the time.

 

Good point

 

Lol...given you user name, it should be obvious.

 

Post of the DAY!

 

I can't 'like' this post enough!!!

 

There is no such thing as a conservative communist. The two are exact opposites in every way. The current group of liberal politicians in D.C. are practically all communists.

 

I understand it. If I don't like the way a company is managed I go somewhere else. It pleases me to do that. I feel like I am doing my small insignificant part to fight what I view as incompetence. I haven't deprived myself of anything important. I quit watching NFL football when the kneeling started. I will quit watching major league baseball as well. I won't feel hurt or deprived. I will do other things. I don't go to chick Fil A or Hobby Lobby either. I don't sleep on a My Pillow. And I am anything but a liberal. For me it isn't about politics. It is about doing what I view as the right thing. If it were about politics I feel the same way you do.

 

That is hyperbolic. Call them taxers and spenders, call them confused and wrong, call them liberals. But only a handful are communists. Not practically all.

 

You say it is not about politics, yet every reason you gave for not doing something is based upon political actions by the company

 

That is true. I did what I consider the right thing to do. I hate politics in sports and I hate to see businesses become publicly partisan. Those are the incompetent things that I fight against. But I don't do it in a partisan manner. It really isn't about politics for me. It is about the incompetence of hurting a sport or a company.

 

I see you managed to dive head first into two of your party's bumper sticker's political agenda; that being capitalism and Donald Trump. And both capitalism and Trump go hand in hand in that they both showed their success story big time all across America. Trump's capitalism gave America it's greatest economy ever--lowest unemployment rate ever for all classes of people, before the China pandemic hit. So its no surprise that Trump lives rent free inside your head, because his capitalist success runs contrary to the liberals' need to keep America dependent of a welfare government so as to keep power over them. Looks like Biden is fulfilling the liberal need to kill the economy.

So you didn't fulfill the left's other two bumper sticker agendas being global warming and racism. Did Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline because he thought it was an environmental hazard, or that he thought the deposed workers will have no trouble finding work at a solar plant?

And the last bumper sticker agenda or narrative of you lefties is of course to shout out the term 'systemic racism' whenever you feel slighted or feel like it becomes a positive political play do so so for those poor (dem voters) victimized minorities of of our society.

 

I could be convinced Bernie has commie sentiments, but the red scare has been a red herring for decades. The Chinese are successful communist capitalists. The term has lost meaning.

 

Fair enough. While I disagree that being political hurts a company, I can appreciate your views

 

The Chinese call the economy a Socialist market economy, they try to blend the best of both worlds. And so far it seems to be pretty successful, but having a work force the size they do helps

 

China is politically dictatorial and economically capitalist. I'm not sure they practice communism at all as they did in Mao era. Communism is an economic system, not a political one. Eventually the dictators will become too corrupt and the political system will crumble. It usually does. Few dictators are smart enough to keep power for life.

 

It depends on how many people feel as I do. If you just rely on common sense, it will tell you that public partisanship will anger some people. It will also tell you that angering potential customers is not something a business should do. Business has shown that the best way to attract customers is with good products and services and marketing. Nobody has shown that partisanship is as effective.

 

I wouldn't say the Chinese domestic economy is free in the Western sense, but yes, the isolationist command economy of Mao is history. On the global stage, they are as capitalist as the US, maybe more so.

 

Yes, public partisanship will anger some people but if it brings in more than it angers, then it was an effective tool.

I think my example of Ben and Jerry's was a good one of partisanship as an effective marketing tool.

 

You don't know that and neither do I. Ben & Jerry's could well be more successful without the partisanship. Common sense should tell you that. Deciding to market to half the population instead of all of it is what doesn't make sense.

 

I agree it's a numbers game, and common sense tells me these companies are well aware of the numbers. What looks like politics is actually just business.

 

There are 1000s of regional ice creams out there, 99% of which never make it nationally. A company needs something to make it stand out from the crowd. And it is not a half and half thing. Most of us do not give a **** either way, so they are not turning us off.

 

Premium products often occupy niche markets. And does anybody really know Ben & Jerry? Lol.

If you like (extremely) dark comedy, watch The Last Supper.

A group of idealistic, but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.