Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts - eviltoast
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    wake up honey, new BDS list just dropped.

    but seriously I like that there’s a list of “maga friendly businesses”… because up until now the fascism has been too subtle.

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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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    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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        In my head I called it The Scarlet Letter and the logo was a giant red burning T.

        Not that I have put thought into it or anything 😅

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        My dude, they are black bagging people off the street and now our AG says ICE can walk into your home without a warrant.

        If anything I am behind the curve.

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          Hey bozo, not wanting to normalize creating lists of people based on politics is not “feeling sowwy for Nazis”. Pay the fuck attention, this type of thing in this type of climate doesn’t end well.

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            When their politics include coming for people like me? Yeah, it’s well past time for lists.

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            Businesses aren’t people and we’re allowed to vote with our wallets if nothing else. Plus, the red hats made the site, dummy. We’re just using the list they gave us.

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              I wanted a similar site but to track houses

              We aren’t talking about businesses. Please read the discussion taking place before commenting in the future, thanks bud

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      A plausible guess, but the article says he’s on the website’s board of directors.

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    As a consumer, PublicSquare’s website is easy to use. You just enter your ZIP code

    Where? In the search box I just get a few products that happen to have my zip code in their description (not as a zip, but as a product number or something). Other comments here mention a map, but I’m not seeing that.

    Edit: Found it. It’s really buried.

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

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    7 hours ago

    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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        Again, I’m not saying that what is happening here is bad. I’m saying that I wish the reasoning behind it would be different.

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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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    I recently bought some stuff online from Penzeys, specifically because of the anti-maga stuff.

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      My mom orders stuff from them all the time. We don’t even use the spices fast enough but she gets more, usually for her friends too though.

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        Their Fox point seasoning is the shit. Veggies, eggs, garlic toast, and it makes an excellent dupe of noodles and company buttered noodles.

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          Love Penzeys Spices! The ‘Justice’ seasoning is also really tasty in savoury dishes. Next order I will have to try out the ‘Fox Point’ as it sounds great. For sweet stuff, their ‘Pie Spice’ is wonderful (goes well with anything sweet that has cinnamon in it)!

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    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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      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.

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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.