Posted on 04/02/2013 8:29:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
While the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the legalization of gay marriage this week, some of the biggest companies in the world risked isolating its conservative consumer base to come out in loud support of marriage equality.
Brands from Bud Light to Martha Stewart Living riffed on the Human Rights Campaign red equal sign that has gone viral on Facebook.
Although the image of Paula Deen riding the symbol — with the caption "It's like two sticks of butter, y'all" — that has been going around is clearly a parody, many other companies have created legitimate social media campaigns to show their unabashed support for the cause.
1) Bud Light re-created the red equal sign — a symbol of people's support of marriage equality that has taken over Facebook newsfeeds — with two cans of Bud.
The company has received a lot of Facebook hate, but it doesn't care.
2) Martha Stewart Living decided to spread the message with cake.
3) Expedia changed its cover photo to the popular image linked to marriage equality advocacy.
Here's the Expedia ad about how a father overcame his prejudices to travel to his daughter's lesbian wedding last fall.
"I told her, this is not the dream I had for my daughter," Artie Goldstein said. But the journey to the wedding and experiences with his new daughter-in-law opened his mind and heart.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
If people desire to boycott a business in today’s day and age that promotes homosexual “marriageâ€, you will need to entirely live off the land and forfeit government goodies/bank/savings accounts. Get your bows and arrows handy too, not sure if gun manufactures are falling for the sham as well.
Psst. You are being played. Do not feed the trolls.
From Milton Friedman:
Look at this lead pencil. There’s not a single person in the world who could make this pencil. Remarkable statement? Not at all. The wood from which it is made, for all I know, comes from a tree that was cut down in the state of Washington. To cut down that tree, it took a saw. To make the saw, it took steel. To make steel, it took iron ore.
This black center—we call it lead but it’s really graphite, compressed graphite—I’m not sure where it comes from, but I think it comes from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was imported from South America by some businessmen with the help of the British government. This brass ferrule? [Self-effacing laughter.] I haven’t the slightest idea where it came from. Or the yellow paint! Or the paint that made the black lines. Or the glue that holds it together. Literally thousands of people co-operated to make this pencil. People who don’t speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met! When you go down to the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people. What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil? There was no commissar sending … out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system: the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate, to make this pencil, so you could have it for a trifling sum.
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The point is this -— the products we use are created by thousands of people whose moral values you are not aware of. They could be Muslims, Sympathetic to Terrorists, they could be sympathetic to communists, they could have broken our laws, they could be immoral themselves, you just don’t know.
It would require something short of omniscience to know which maker of which product is or is not in harmony with your moral and religious values.
Proctologist asks assistant for a light and she hands him a bud light. “No! I said Butt Light!”
J.C. Penis
Oh man, I see what you did there.
I literally laughed out loud!
Amazon... c’mon Amazon!
I feel your pain!
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I think I had withdrawal syndrome when I first started boycotting Amazon about 18 months ago. They had gotten quite a bit of business from me over the years. No more!
Me thinks thou dost protest to much, little Stu.
She doesn’t even take off all her germ infested rings when she cooks.
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I had heard about Paula, but I had never seen her show. Before I even knew about her politics she turned me off when I saw her appearance on some stupid morning infotainment show while I was visiting my son. (The DIL has the TV on constantly.) Paula was making cookies and licked the batter off her fingers. Disgusting!
I don’t have any choice on the software my company dictates that I use, and Microsoft is the gold standard as far as office software (by a mile). The other companies...most of them never got my business anyway.
Yep. I was thanking General Motors for putting tinted safety glass in that car.
Classic reduction ad absurdum statement.
If there were a real choice, and being principled" were the end in itself, we would cease any and all dealings with the greatest current promoter of perversion, deviance and aberration in the country : the Federal Government.
Ironically, that sort of mindless absolute dogmatism is what drives the deviants.
How about a collage of many pictures of these gay pride events with a caption; “xxxxxxx supports gay pride”. ;^D
There are other cookies that taste and look like oreos. In today’s world there are many brand options, I like buying store brands rather than national brands when possible. Store brands and local brands spread the money around while the big national brands concentrate the money in a few hands. It is sort of like all of our money and power being concentrated in Washington rather than the local communities or states. I believe the rise of big national corporations feeds the power of big Washington government because these corporations are some of the big lobbyists that control our government. Spread the money and power around.
So are we.
I’ll give the Walmart brand a try. Can’t hurt to try them.
I just threw that in because they make cpus and I just wondered if anyone would read the list.
Don’t think I could stomach going through some of the sad (yes, sad) pictures of these mis”guy”ded souls. I suppose to be charitable, I need to pray for them more. Those that don’t answer the call are on their own. The companies that support them have no clue (napolitanoisim)just what they’re supporting. Just another check box in the government pushed diversity goals. Like most of corp America. We are obviously headed the wrong way on a one way street. Gladly.
You are probably right, the corporate elite are likely just as nearsighted as the politicians. Politicians often do not have any knowledge of the issues, they depend on their staff and lobbyists. It is probably the same with the corporate bigwigs, some gay guy in their public relations department convinces them that this is new thing that everybody wants, and like fools they buy it.
Roger that. Manipulate the idea/ideal and the sheep are easily led away.
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