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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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Once again I have been confronted with a boycott that, while
Jan 16, 2019, 11:05 AM
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sounding like one I would participate in, I have realized I've already been participating for years. I'm always ahead of these conservative boycotts for one reason or another, politics notwithstanding. Just pulled up some random list from Google....
Gillette (#MeToo) - Already gave up their razors years ago and use cheaper gels now, so I'm already boycotting.
Nike (Kaepernick) - Their apparel looks like crap, and their shoes are over-priced. Haven't bought Nike anything in years.
NFL - Never been a fan.
Starbucks (No Merry Christmas) - Never been a fan pf pver-priced coffee.
Nordstrom - Something about Ivanka Trump. Never been a customer
Target - (OPEN bathrooms) Never shop there. Wal-Mart's cheaper. Wife does though.
Beyonce - Not a fan. Never purchased a song of her's.
Ben & Jerry's - Don't like it.
It seems almost all of the conservative boycotts I'm already boycotting. I heard Amazon was one and Nabisco (for moving jobs to Mexico or something). Other than those two I think I'm pretty sure I'm already boycotting. Which begs the question WHY am I not a customer of things conservatives decide to boycott? I think the answer lies in the fact that all of these companies sell over-priced and hyped goods and services based on brand name over affordability. Which begs the further question of why do companies selling over-priced goods feel compelled to make political statements?
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King Camp Gillette wanted to build a utopia on top of
Jan 16, 2019, 11:12 AM
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Niagara Falls where most of the population of the US and Canada would live. the entire country would be powered by the falls except for the few people who did the farming.
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Re: King Camp Gillette wanted to build a utopia on top of***
Jan 16, 2019, 11:14 AM
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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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Just make a quality razor, sell it at a good price, and
Jan 16, 2019, 11:26 AM
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keep your mouf shut. Why is that so hard? Sell some good freaking ice cream and keep your mouth shut. Sell coffee and keep your mouth shut. Box up #### and ship it and keep your mouth shut. Sell Chicken sandwiches and keep your mouth shut. As for the bathroom thing, just open them all up. I'd rather have truly gender-neutral bathrooms than freaks going int the wrong one. The Paris train station had the best bathroom EVER. It was open to the public, as in no walls. It just had bars, kind of like a huge jail cell, keeping it separate from the people walking by along the train platforms. Men could pee on the urinals on the far wall facing away from the people walking by. Women went into stalls. It's wide open so no one can rape or molest anyone in there. Heck, I didn't even notice it until mid-stream then realized people were walking by behind me and could see my back, and women were walking out of stalls. No big deal really.
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All-In [47795]
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but the CEO is a Harvard grad who has to impress
Jan 16, 2019, 11:30 AM
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his friends and/or makeup for working in a field that caters to the toxic gender.
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Why are those folks not supposed to voice their opinion...
Jan 16, 2019, 2:25 PM
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But you are?
Why do so many people think that if you own a business or you're a pro athlete or a celebrity of some sort, you're supposed to "keep your mouth shut" but there's nothing wrong with them babbling on and on about their opinion?
Honestly, anyone who decides they're not buying someone's product because they voiced their opinion about something political has some serious growing up to do, regardless of age. Sorry, Tiggity. This is silly.
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Haven't seen commercial, don't care.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:45 PM
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I don't care about commercials in general. I like funny ones, but generally turn the channel when they come on and come back when commercials are over.
Zero of my decisions about what to buy come from watching commercials.
I recently switched to a generic brand of razors, solely for the reason that I could get the razors off the shelf without having an employee come with a key to get the ones behind the glass. I may have been using Gillette before, I don't really remember. If they are the ones that make the one called "Fusion," then that's them.
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As I posted before...
Jan 16, 2019, 12:48 PM
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I'd eat at Our Lord Satan's Chicken Shop if they made good chicken and I'd boycott the We Love Jesus and the Braves Chicken Shop if their chicken didn't taste good.
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Re: Haven't seen commercial, don't care.
Jan 16, 2019, 12:53 PM
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what is Gillette herp de derp what is a Fusion blade herp de derp i just go around life like herp de derp
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I wish the photo you posted wasn't blocked
Jan 16, 2019, 12:57 PM
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maybe it would potentially give some meaning to the words in your post! LOL
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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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In a world full of Tiggity's........
Jan 16, 2019, 1:20 PM
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There would be no commercials. There would be no marketing at all really. No television either. No Super Bowl. No NFL or college football games on TV. No internet. No Facebook. No Starbucks. No internet ads. No TigerNet. No credit cards. No payday loans. No pawn shops. No....
You get the picture. I've come to embrace the idea that the world is a much better place without 7 billion Tiggities. I mean, no one could make money on payday loans, increase sales from commercials, no internet ads at all, no credit cards. NOPE. I enjoy having a credit card even though they make VERY little money on me. I've never purchased anything from an internet ad. I ignore commercials totally. Word of mouth is what I go by. Never taken out a payday loan. Never hocked anything at a pawn shop. BUT....I enjoy the benefits those people who DO fall for all that stuff gives me.
This is a dangerous bill right now in the SC legislature.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/bills/15.htm
Responsible people simply can not afford to have everyone else be responsible too. That means trouble for the financial sector. Ever wonder why you can literally get a freaking PhD and NEVER be taught how to balance a checkbook, taxes, credit cards, loans, mortgages, investments, savings, etc.
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Re: In a world full of Tiggity's........
Jan 16, 2019, 1:33 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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Seriously....
Jan 16, 2019, 2:01 PM
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There would be no Nigerian scam emails either. I mean if no one took the bait, EVER, they wouldn't exist. If I click an internet ad, it's because of fat fingers, on my phone, and only then because of Google and their chokehold on the app store to block ad blockers or the ability to install ad blockers on your phone (without rooting it).
Prod seems to be a kindred spirit in this regard.
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I'm convinced that a large portion of the "bait takers"
Jan 16, 2019, 2:05 PM
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for scams and pop-up ads are older people who don't know that the internet is full of people who want their money.
I see all the time on my Facebook feed, for example, that my mom now "likes" Wal-Mart. And Bounty paper towels. And Quaker Oats. She thinks she just should click on these if she literally likes them. She doesn't know she just signed up for constant advertisements.
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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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I kind of think the opposite, at least when it comes to
Jan 16, 2019, 2:46 PM
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money. Older people are scammed a lot, but usually after they get dementia or something. But the real head scratcher are all the young millennials who are scammed and don't even know it, as if it's not a scam really. I remember even back in the 1990's, credit card companies would come to the Clemson campus and hand out free t-shirts if you signed up for a card. One of my friends graduated with $10K in CREDIT CARD debt, on top of his student debt, from that thing. I had a credit card when I was a freshman, and didn't get it from the vultures at the tables all over campus. I hardly ever used it.
Then I remember wife and I purchasing our first house after 2 years in an apartment when we got married. We each made a fraction what we earn today. 2 years out of college, and we qualified for a $400,000 loan for our FIRST house. My friend was selling them. SAME friend who left college with $10K in credit card debt. He offered us a 30 year ARM, PLUS interest only at 3% for the first 5 years. We could easily afford the 3% rate interest only for five years, then we'd be killed on year 6 with the regular payments, which would then be WAY more than we could afford. We passed and opted for a 30-year fixed for less than half what we "qualified" for. But I saw the sales pitch. Others got it. And we got a housing crisis because of it. Asked my friend what happens when we can't afford the house in year 6, he said we could sell it. I asked him what if everyone who takes this deal does that in 5 years? How could you sell it then? That's exactly what happened.
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You are a treasure.***
Jan 16, 2019, 3:28 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97666]
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Please remove that tongue from your cheek
Jan 16, 2019, 3:43 PM
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I'm just saying young people get duped a lot too. We're 50 years too late for financial education being required in high school. Still, better late than never. Over 90% of everything I know about finances was learned from my parents and inlaws. Family. Literally nothing in high school, nothing in college, except the lessons taught by the credit card companies with their free t-shirts, if that counts. Or the lessons first time home buyers learn buying more house than they can afford.
A big contributor to "wealth" inequality is the level of financial education. And the biggest contributor to "income" inequality is overall education.
If nothing else, the biggest thing everyone should know by the end of high school is how to manage a checking account and write checks/balance expenses/budget, etc. AND how credit card companies and banks make money. Add in mortgages, taxes, insurance and some other basic stuff. It would have a huge impact.
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I can 100 percent guarantee...
Jan 16, 2019, 2:17 PM
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You don't ignore commercials (even if you think you do) and their marketing does work on you as it does everyone else.
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So if you liked Gillette razors, and on the back of each
Jan 16, 2019, 1:51 PM
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package was a line "Yes! 3% of our proceeds go to fund abortions in underprivileged communities!", you'd shrug and be like "still a good razor"?
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No, in that extreme hypothetical, I would not do that.
Jan 16, 2019, 1:54 PM
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If they are directly telling me that's where my money is going, that's different than their corporate leadership holding opinions I don't like.
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Boycotts over politics are silly and childish.
Jan 16, 2019, 2:18 PM
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Anyone offended by the Gillette ad needs to grow really thicker skin really fast.
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Re: Boycotts over politics are silly and childish.
Jan 16, 2019, 3:20 PM
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