• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    lol. This site is comedy.

    A lot of MAGAs registered in my county. A county Trump only got 21% in.

    Why the fuck would you slap a MAGA sign on your business when 80% of your potential customers hate that shit?

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      Smart people don’t vote Trump, but that doesn’t mean they’re not jerks willing to take advantage of dumbasses that do.

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      When you’ve convinced yourself that your parties membership is like twice the size it actually is you make great decisions

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        They got a majority of votes. Unless you live in a deep blue area it’s likely to get you more customers than it costs, at least for now. Most customers won’t care either way, they’re at your business to buy your goods/services, not as a political statement.

        Those signs will go down fast except for the very political and deep red areas once we’re in a post-Trump world.

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      Gotta say, I love the idea of a private company being called ‘PublicSquare’… and the irony of this utterly whooshing over the heads of literally everyone involved.

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          They would all arrive at the market and insist on being able to open carry slung AR15s, and then be utterly baffled by the concept of a weapons check.

          Like… even in ‘the West’ (yeehaw cowboys West) it was pretty common to have a weapons check at bars… because they quickly learned that if you don’t do that, well, patrons don’t enjoy the risk of getting their balls blown off while trying to throwback a shot of whiskey, because two other idiots nearby got into a fight.

          Literally the fabled Tombstone, AZ, did this, as a city wide ordinance.

          https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

          Gun control is older than almost half the states in the union.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Any way we could keep a historical record of these businesses? I can foresee them doing a full cleansing of their internet presence as they lose business.

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    Well shit. The landscaping company we signed up for this year is a MAGAt apparently. I’ll be shopping for a different company now.

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        It makes sense, as MAGA are the human equivalent of leafblowers: loud, obnoxious, spew shit for miles in all directions, and serve no discernible purpose except to make the world worse for everyone around them…

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        Nah, that’s a conference venue. You’re thinking of the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

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        Their statement on being a press conference venue for the Trump administration was that their business was not supporting anyone in particular, but was thrilled to be part of the democratic process. The tone this statement was said in led me to believe that they were also thrilled to facilitate Trump’s goons making a hilarious fuck-up.

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      Make sure you tell them why you’re firing them, and post a review on their Google page. Dont mention the quality of the service, just that you dropped them for their treasonous support of MAGA Nazis.

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        I’m on the fence about telling them why. I have zero faith that losing me as a customer will make them reconsider their political position even if it would make me feel better. What it may do it make them remove their add from the MAGAt site meaning we lose the warning signal to others.

        As far as leaving reviews pointing out there MAGAness, I’m in a red state and that may help them. They love their martyrs, so I’m definitely skipping that step.

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          I kinda don’t care about hearts and minds. Let them know you dropped them for that reason, the scorn is enough. They’re allowed to be maga it just can’t be without consequences

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            I kinda don’t care about hearts and minds. Let them know you dropped them for that reason, the scorn is enough.

            I get where you are but this is contradictory. If we don’t care about addressing mindsets of folks then making my position known is the opposite of that. They likely won’t care, and simply dismiss me as some kind of “woke lib”. So the only benefit to making my feelings know would be to make me feel better.

            They’re allowed to be maga it just can’t be without consequences

            Worse, pragmatically speaking, they might actually benefit if I did that. Yes they lose me as a customer, but that’s happening anyway. Now though, I’ve given them a story to tell. A cross to affix themselves to as they talk about their hardship of a single “woke lib” that drop them. If they even get a single person to accept their story, then they’ll have replace the revenue they would have derived from me and are made “whole”. Worse, they need only circulate the story in the areas we both live in and many of my MAGA neighbors would likely rally around them giving them even more business that before.

            In these circumstances, the consequences for MAGAism for them would be positive as they would (at least for a short time) gain additional business from MAGAness.

            This is one of those hard adult decision where the only move is to not play the game. I drop them as business I patronize and say nothing as to the reason of there MAGAness. I leave their (self inflicted) warning signs in place for others to see as I did, and without becoming a rallying cry which will benefit them.

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      I have communed with the dead, and they told me that there’s gang related activity happening in those businesses.

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        Wouldn’t you need to put your name and other tracking in there

        Which then ICE would then watch you and do who knows what to an American citizen

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    Go fash, lose cash.

    Complete tangent:

    “PublicSquare is basically the Green Book, but for conservatives,” this TikTok user, who goes by dapper.delinquent, says in his video. “The Green Book was a book passed around Black communities that was a list of stores and businesses that were safe for Black People to use. PublicSquare is the same thing for conservatives.”

    If you make an analogy, then have to explain the thing you are comparing the first thing with, what is the point of the analogy?

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      Not only that, but what the fuck is wrong with conservatives that don’t feel “safe” at other places? How are they even the least fucking bit in danger of anything?

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      what is the point of the analogy?

      it’s a historical example , which not everyone is aware of. those who know understand faster, those who don’t learn more about events that actually took place.

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      If you make an analogy, then have to explain the thing you are comparing the first thing with, what is the point of the analogy?

      The explanation is about as redundant as a third wheel. You know, the awkward extra person tagging along with a couple on a date.

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    I wanted a similar site but to track houses with Trump signs up. Have to upload pictures for the record, and cross referenced with MLS listings/sales so everything is expunged on property transfer.

    No particular reason to keep this info around. Just a curiosity.

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    I love when people vote with their wallets.

    However, I do wish that people would do it because of informed decision making instead out of spite.

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      It is an informed decision.

      They choose the party where a creepy ass man with multiple crimes and convictions is their president, one that continues to dismantle American justice by directly locking up opposing judges, locked kids in cells, and directly threatening opposers.

      They could have chosen anything – to support local community. To back unity. To defend disenfranchised people.

      Instead, they chose MAGA and everything it has with it.

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        I don’t feel like that’s an “informed” decision. It’s a decision because they hate trump. There’s nothing wrong with that, vote with your wallet for any reason, but I just feel like people could do a lot of good in the world if they just did a bit more informing. Then they wouldn’t buy stuff from companies that try to fuck them over.

        Shit like apple, samsung, nestle etc. wouldn’t exist today in that form if people would make more informed purchasing decisions.

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          Dude you are quite literally letting perfect be the enemy of good enough. You are getting pissy that folks are using a quick shorthand to figure out if a business isnt worth supporting, usually it takes far more effort to figure out how bad any individual business is cause most of them will fuck over their employees but are smart enough not to fuck over consumers. This stupid index is basically a big ol’ flag saying we are raging cunts who support a fascist, that makes it piss easy to figure out who to boycott.

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            Holy shit I’m not getting pissy about anything I’m saying I WISH PEOPLE WOULD MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS IN OTHER AREAS OF THEIR DAILY LIFE

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      Why give money to bad people when you could support good people? It’s a simple calculus. Remember it’s not that they just so happen to be conservative, these are people who opted in to advertise that they are bad people.

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      Odd, the Scheele’s by us is not, interesting that a big chain like that would allowed certain locations to sign up for something like that

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      Looks like it’s just one particular Scheels that’s on there. I’d guess the franchisee is a dickhead, not the overall corporation (any more than corporations are usually dickheads anyway).

      My local Scheels is not on there. In fact, relatively few local businesses are, which is surprising since I live in a pretty red state (though the city is pretty purple, and only getting bluer as time goes on).

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    I just checked to see who was listed in my area, I sure would like to boycott them but I’d never heard of any of them before so I guess I already was.

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    Does anyone know of an indirect or mirrored source, just wondering if it will go down. Obviously the way back machine, but I’m not sure if it will pull the databased side of it.

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      Not really, I just looked at it, They’re behind cloudflare so scraping them would be painful. Tried hitting the api and unhinging location and distance, they hard cap 250 results. Js is required to get the results. We could go zipcode by zipcode, in the browser with GPS coordinates (available for free) but there are 33k zipcodes and if anyone hits more than a few, cloudflare is going to robot check you.

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      OK, holy fuck, there are 48 k unique businesses in there in just the first 1900 zipcodes.