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Feel powerless? Can American boycotts be effectively weaponized? (See Budweiser)
https://freerepublic.com/perl/post_article ^ | 4/11/2023 | dragnet2

Posted on 04/11/2023 11:08:22 AM PDT by dragnet2

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To: Ikeon
AB.is having a record year. the stok(sic) price is down 38 cents the day. its still over $60.00..

Carrying someone's water much?

We have no idea how this is going to affect their sales even for just this month. We will eventually know, but making a claim that they are having a 'record year' at this point is just silly, and transparent propaganda.

21 posted on 04/11/2023 12:06:55 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: RoosterRedux
I believe boycotts can be extremely painful to corporations like AB-InBev.

Agree. Corporations hate bad publicity, or any publicity that they don't create. Bad publicity bothers them just as much as losing money does.

22 posted on 04/11/2023 12:09:05 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: Ikeon
bloodbath? the MSM is still lying to you AB.is having a record year. the stok price is down 38 cents the day. its still over $60.00.. So no, AB is not being hurt in the least bit. They sht in the soup, and people are still gobbling it up!

Wait a minute. Ya say Budweiser has not been hurt in the least bit because they have many products?

Tell me, how many of their other products have transgenders stamped on them?

23 posted on 04/11/2023 12:13:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rexthecat
Oddly enough, AB-InBev may actually like this bad publicity because it makes them look attractive to their new Woke market.

In the eyes of the Woke, Bud is earning its stripes by insulting beer guzzling all-Americans.

24 posted on 04/11/2023 12:16:22 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
Certainly we can’t wait on the “Republican Party” to take action.

They'll take action when I learn to juggle flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle on ice.

25 posted on 04/11/2023 12:21:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
We need our own shakedown artist, a la Jesse Jackson or Rev. Al. Threaten boycotts at targeted businesses if the businesses don’t stop doing the things we don’t want them to do. No more ESG. No more green chit. No more fags, lesbos and gender deniers in our faces. No more woke. End all diversity programs.

Conservatives don’t operate that way tho. We have pesky principles and think the owners of businesses can do what they want. It’s a property rights issue.

26 posted on 04/11/2023 12:46:45 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: for-q-clinton

Set up a “web site” (call it what you will) on FBook, Twitter, etc etc. All of them and link them together. If all you do is one, I will not bother checking since I go to few — no FBook a’tall.

List potential targets. List why. Prompt vote. Winner gets a boycott for a time period appropriate to the product. Gauge results. If noticeable, publish. Repeat.

Make sure stockholders know about this — they wield the real power. The stock price variations will drive the company Execs crazy. They will spend loads of time explaining in each stockholders’ meeting. This will cost them money many times any stock price dip.


27 posted on 04/11/2023 12:50:41 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Ikeon
AB is not being hurt in the least bit.

You refuse to look at the big picture.

Read slowly.... What is happening is their product with the transgender stamped on it is being beat like a drum.

The message is clear, you want to push misfits and the mentally ill on one of their products, they do so at a risk.

Question; Do ya think Budweiser is going to slap transgenders on any more of their products again?

28 posted on 04/11/2023 12:52:24 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I agree.

And it begs the question, with all these talk show hosts supposedly on our side, why are they not calling for weaponized targeted boycotts?


29 posted on 04/11/2023 1:00:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
all these talk show hosts supposedly on our side, why are they not calling for weaponized targeted boycotts?

They live on ad revenue. It’s a glass house thing.

30 posted on 04/11/2023 1:08:10 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: dragnet2
AB InBev is a Belgian company.

Belgian people got something wrong with them.

They are like French or Dutch people who got dropped on their heads in infancy.

I'm not at all surprised they hired this uptalking snowflake know-it-all girl to "reinvent" beer and work out her man-hate all at once.

31 posted on 04/11/2023 1:12:49 PM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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To: bobbo666

If you don’t do FB what about wiki?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_brands


32 posted on 04/11/2023 1:48:11 PM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: ConservativeInPA
They live on ad revenue. It’s a glass house thing.

You bet. And why it makes people like Bongino and others with big fat microphones, hypocrites.

33 posted on 04/11/2023 2:57:38 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: cgbg

Thank you. It’s odd others have difficulty seeing this.


34 posted on 04/11/2023 3:02:34 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: cgbg
The long march is the key to victory—one consumer at a time, one friend at a time...patience... That is how the left trashed every major institution in the country. That is how we will have to get them back.

You're right. They also pushed 'the envelope' so we were always discussing their ideas. It would go from intolerance to tolerance to acceptance to being cancelled if you don't celebrate their position. The purpose of these situations was NOT to make people 'tolerant' is was to set up 'learned helplessness' against them.

After we're having parades celebrating the sexual mutilation of 6 year olds, they'll come up with something new...

Cannibalism.. And they'll follow the same tactic line. From 'intolerance' to parades and flags and sports teams wearing detached leg jerseys...

35 posted on 04/11/2023 3:09:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gender affirming care' - it's SEXUAL MUTILATION OF A YOUNG PERSON. Don't use their words.)
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The long march is the key to victory—one consumer at a time, one friend at a time...patience... That is how the left trashed every major institution in the country. That is how we will have to get them back.

You're right. They also pushed 'the envelope' so we were always discussing their ideas. It would go from intolerance to tolerance to acceptance to being cancelled if you don't celebrate their position. The purpose of these situations was NOT to make people 'tolerant' is was to set up 'learned helplessness' against them.

After we're having parades celebrating the sexual mutilation of 6 year olds, they'll come up with something new...

Cannibalism.. And they'll follow the same tactic line. From 'intolerance' to parades and flags and sports teams wearing detached leg jerseys...

36 posted on 04/11/2023 3:17:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gender affirming care' - it's SEXUAL MUTILATION OF A YOUNG PERSON. Don't use their words.)
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To: GOPJ

The next thing will be decriminalizing pedophilia, that’s where all this praise trannies disgusting crap is leading.


37 posted on 04/11/2023 3:19:59 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: dragnet2

Don’t believe in “boycotts” - like you refuse to buy product until they give into your demands. Just cut them out of your life and then pursue a better alternative if it exists.

Unfortunately a lot of people just continue funding these things to the tune of many billions of dollars by refusing to stop subscribing to services where this kind of garbage is produced and distributed to the public, vs. only using services where they can only make money if you are actually watching something.

Then some literally think certain perversions are better than others. Witness those who support and watch shows / movies loaded with pornography - I guess somehow thinking making this kind of perversion acceptable in mainstream society didn’t ultimately lead to the acceptance of taking kinds to strip shows, drag shows, etc.

The acceptance of beer commercials where women tore off their clothes in fights lead to this. Previously, the former also were not acceptable. What do you expect? Being a pervert is being a pervert, and no, certain perversions are not “better” than others, and no, you are no more moral if you find the former acceptable but not the latter. That’s how we got here by defining deviancy down - once you start traveling down that road the wheels don’t stop rolling.


38 posted on 04/11/2023 3:40:15 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: zeugma

@stupid/zeugma.Anheuser-Busch stock recently hit new 52-week highs despite controversy surrounding its Bud Light brand.


39 posted on 04/11/2023 4:48:34 PM PDT by Ikeon (I miss the days, when making friends, you could ask you new best buddy " what church do you go to?" )
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To: for-q-clinton

And in lawfare we need state and local prosecutors to charge judges their families and the entire Biden family and friends with crimes. Don’t have one? Make it up. It will cost them money, time and stress to fight it. And it will scare others from being radical and going against the right.

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Tempting, but I don’t really want to live in a country like this. It will go both ways. Do you want to be shut down due to false charges? I don’t.


40 posted on 04/11/2023 7:35:39 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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