Do you continue to support people or companies despite their politics? -

[The Nothingness]

I've struggled with this for the past several years and at times it frustrates me. I guess it is because I want to show I have thick skin but I also don't want to come off as someone who has no principles to stand on.

An example this is I've been subscribed to a wrestling podcast for, I say, well over five years. The hosts are from the UK and they proudly wear their left-wing views on their sleeves. I tolerated the number of times they have done political hot takes or talked about things they find "problematic" but it is getting to a point where their swipes at wrestling personalities who disagree with them politically and socially has become tiresome. It doesn't help that they've mentioned times people have brought up their hot takes and basically said, "Deal with it."

Maybe I should be asking myself is am I still entertained?

 

[cypocraphy]

Yes , because deep down we're all autistic morons who don't really know shit about anything.

 

[ClownBrew]

To you guys who point out that it does nothing to harm their bottom line, in my case that isn't why I'm doing it. For me it's the principle. I know that these businesses will go on their merry way and laugh all the way to the bank every day-- but at least they won't be doing it with my help. For me it's more about simply knowing I didn't willingly give a cent to Antifa or BLM. Also been boycotting Chinese products for more than a decade now due to wildlife poaching and dog murder not to mention their treatment of their fellow humans. Cynics who tell you it's impossible to get by w/o China are full of shit, it's hard but far from impossible.

Not preaching at you guys whatsoever. These are just my own personal choices that I'm talking about.

 

[Mr. Bung]

If I like what they create, of course.

Reading his Tweets, you can tell web cartoon creator Dean Packis of "Apocalypse Cartoons" is an insufferable far-left politisperg. But I love his shit because it's memorable and hilarious.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

like i have a choice? my only other option is too live out in the woods. if they think sucking black dick will make them the most amount of profit well, they be the best dick suckers on the corner.

what you have to remember is they dont care about you. they just want your money and will tell the majority what they want to hear to get it.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

I try to reduce my consumerism as much as possible; part of that is not buying unnecessary shit, making my own food as much as I can from scratch. I use a milk round to get my milk, bread, butter, tea, jam/curd from local farmers.

But being realistic, I'm pretty well off, I don't need to use ASDA, Tesco, and other big capital sort of shite; because I can afford the more expensive local products. A cut of beef from my local butchers costs about five pounds more on average than in ASDA, and a good seven or eight more than in LIDL. If I eat a red meat dinner every week that's about ten pound more a week, each year. Chicken/Fish/Pork has a similar sort of upmarking when I get it local. Milk is significantly more expensive from a float than from a shop. My three weekly bottles run me about six pound, wheras from the shop I could get the same for about two.

Oh and I buy from the co-op. I hate labour (the party), and Co-op is their little bitch boy that funds them with purchases, but it's literally the only shop within five miles that stays open (and isn't related to Walmart), so I have to go to them sometimes for supplies. Which I dislike doing, but it's either that or no toilet paper, and I really, really, don't wanna have to sacrifice a sock every time I use the toilet.

Boycotting multinationals and shopping local to try and help my community is expensive. But I don't do it because I hate their politics (I do hate them though), but rather because I'd be happier with local businesses, ran by people I know, who live near me and share my community and values succeed more than they do.

 

[Every Crook and Nanny]

As much as Nestle is neck-deep in all sorts of unethical scumfuckery, it's almost impossible to avoid it in my country where it is very much dominant in the food and grocery market. Plus, my family has been life-long customers and it would be hard to convince them to buy other less shady companies.

So what the hell, at least some of its products are decent.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

I thought about this as it's easy to boycott something until you end up wanting that product. There was an article on Cracked back when it was decent, probably by David Wong, about Chic-fil-a's owner having an anti-gay marriage stance and Wong argued that people who continue to eat at Chic-fil-a are not homophobes, they just like the food.

Nearly a year ago, Blizzard shut down a tournament player for saying things that would upset their CCP overlords with many players vowing to swear off their products yet I've seen some quickly coming back to reactivate their accounts. For others, maybe they don't like what Blizzard did but would still continue playing their games because they paid to be entertained.

People have boycotted Nestle because they have done some awful shit but this is hard to do because they practically own half of everything.

The most general example I can think of is all the woke advertising. For the most part, they're empty gestures that want to grab your wallets but should it stop you from enjoying their product? Coca-cola has shilled for BLM but should that even be relevant if you just want Coke?


tl;dr - Do you boycott products or people because of their stances? Do you think people who don't follow through with their boycotts are weak or do you think it's possible to support an establishment without having to agree with them?

Depends on the quality of their content and how much they are personally impacting me -- for example I never stopped using Blizzard because I don't fully care about China's internal affairs, I knew the majority of the population was virtue signaling at the time, and I was using the products heavily; However, I have cut out most subscription services since the content to me is all garbage at best and domestic propaganda at worst.

tl;dr - I do not think boycotts work and only stop using products when I no longer enjoy them anymore/are openly telling me not to buy/use their product.

 

[Cool Dog]

I havent bought a non-physical product since the early 2000s, torrented every game, movie, book and song since then. Never ever paid for porn, and I would rather die than give a cent to an eThot.

If we ever get replicators I'm going to torrent plans for everything from toblerones to a fucking lambo, fuck corporations

Politics? Susan Wojcicki can let me buttfuck her daughters in front of her and I still wont pay for youtube premium

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

ITT I have no convictions and I must consoom

I'm anti-woke to a degree where saying what I really feel would likely end up with me in court, but that only applies to things I perceive as imminently harmful to myself, my loved ones, or society at large. Race baiting, indoctrinating children into the tranny cult, antifa/BLM, that sort of thing I will not support because they're legitimately evil and are actually, measurably getting innocent people killed. As far as I'm concerned, supporting critical race theory is no better than pulling the trigger yourself. So of course I'm going to avoid giving money to people who support CRT as much as possible.

Retards who don't know shit about economics yelling about muh livable minimum wage, on the other hand, aren't evil, they're just stupid. I won't be affected by it because I'm not dumb enough to live in a big city. If they want to destroy their own lives, I'm fine with that. TDS is borderline because it so frequently veers into "kill those who disagree" territory, but generally my attitude there is it's benign enough not to warrant a boycott. Although if they're spergy enough about it sometimes I'll pirate their game purely out of spite.

 

[DeAtH]

Yes, anyone should continue to support a company despite their politics but here's the thing though. If the company doesn't have any good content. Then I don't care both ways. That's how I would view such matters.