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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
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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
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.
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.
This guy plays chess