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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 175 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

lol. This site is comedy.

A lot of MAGAs registered in my county. A county Trump only got 21% in.

Why the fuck would you slap a MAGA sign on your business when 80% of your potential customers hate that shit?

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 94 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

When you've convinced yourself that your parties membership is like twice the size it actually is you make great decisions

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 24 points 15 hours ago

Hey, putting their money where their mouth is, I don't have a problem with that.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Great for the rest of us anyways lol

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 18 hours ago

It's a cult

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Gotta say, I love the idea of a private company being called 'PublicSquare'... and the irony of this utterly whooshing over the heads of literally everyone involved.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Logic is not one if their strengths.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

It's a null set.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago

Smart people don't vote Trump, but that doesn't mean they're not jerks willing to take advantage of dumbasses that do.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

It’s the power of living in the bubble

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in a place that is the complete opposite. Slap a MAGA sticker on it and people will pay extra.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And having done business in those areas, I know not to hang a “Feel the Bern” sign up. I’m Switzerland from 9-5.

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Any way we could keep a historical record of these businesses? I can foresee them doing a full cleansing of their internet presence as they lose business.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 36 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Archive.org

There's additional mirrors, but that's the big one

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 17 points 9 hours ago

And that's why the US government cut all public funds to Archive.org.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

I'm worried they'll pull another 2008, where everyone decided they hadn't voted for W in 2004 so nothing was their fault, they'd been 'liberteranians' all along.

We need to remember who supported him, this matters.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 75 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I just checked to see who was listed in my area, I sure would like to boycott them but I'd never heard of any of them before so I guess I already was.

[–] classic@fedia.io 23 points 20 hours ago

Nothing says you can't share that information in a review

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 70 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Well shit. The landscaping company we signed up for this year is a MAGAt apparently. I'll be shopping for a different company now.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Nah, that's a conference venue. You're thinking of the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago

I’m thinking that it will be fun to call this out on Yelp and Google reviews pages in blue areas.

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[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 36 points 16 hours ago

Ooh good to know, I don’t want to give my hard-earned money to MAGAt nonsense.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I recently bought some stuff online from Penzeys, specifically because of the anti-maga stuff.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My mom orders stuff from them all the time. We don't even use the spices fast enough but she gets more, usually for her friends too though.

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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Anybody got an actual list? I can't be asses to scroll through product listings and that site is terribly designed.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's a map by zip code, seems like it's an per business opt in setup.

I'm surprised by how many of the local shitholes figured out the internet in my town. Lot of construction, photography, and those shitty businesses that sell scam ass herbal supplements.

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[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

I have flirted with the idea of pulling a list all registered business in my area and cross checking political donations from them/their owners.

It's a lot of data to crunch though

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I was hoping for a list of bigger companies. I've never heard of any of them from my quick perusal of their shitty site, so in all reality it doesn't affect me at all, really.

Though I do love that some fucking moron is going to shell out $1100 for a laughable "bulletproof T-shirt". I honestly can't tell if they're a real maga company or some Democrat laughing their fucking ass off. You can get actual vests, with plates for less than that!

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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

You can look at the categories in the near me section, as that will list businesses of that type within a certain radius(you can set any location). But I've not been able to find any complete list so far.

Although I think the businesses can choose their own categories. And some of them have to be trolling, or really dumb. I checked near one city and found a guy who's descriptions says that his services are available "at no charge to you". And he seemingly listed his personal phone number(it isn't registered to a business in that state, but to his full name(which is different than the one on the website) in a different state).

This website is going down as soon as the teenager who manages it wakes up.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 23 points 21 hours ago

Shame these Nazis as much as possible.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

sigh… goodbye, favorite coffee

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 28 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

You'll find a new one that will taste all the more sweet.

Or bitter, whatever. I don't drink coffee.

It will be worth it.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 14 points 19 hours ago

already know who i'm switching to. better coffee, less selection, doesn't ship. but they're also a non profit co-op and align opposite maga views

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[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

I noticed that none of the restaurants & bars & such let themselves be seen on PublicSquare (and I know that some of them are run by MAGA-loving POSes.)

That is a good sign that being seen in MAGA circles is a kiss of death for a lot of businesses.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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Lol, they're soooo free speech, they're scared of anyone taking the tiniest of privacy precautions. If I can't access it anonymously I'm not attaching my IP to that honey pot.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is definitely an incomplete list. There is a gym I drive by about twice a week that has a "hard to kill" banner with a picture of Trump after his first assassination attempt. I'm sure that place is full MAGA.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

The business owner has to sign up, and pay, to be included. That gym owner either doesn't know about it, or is too cheap to sign up

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

As a consumer, PublicSquare’s website is easy to use. You just enter your ZIP code

Where? In the search box I just get a few products that happen to have my zip code in their description (not as a zip, but as a product number or something). Other comments here mention a map, but I'm not seeing that.

Edit: Found it. It's really buried.

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 10 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

I wanted a similar site but to track houses with Trump signs up. Have to upload pictures for the record, and cross referenced with MLS listings/sales so everything is expunged on property transfer.

No particular reason to keep this info around. Just a curiosity.

[–] MdPhoenix@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That would drive them absolutely batshit insane

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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How do you boycott this wonderful product? It taste like shit cooked in a toast over, then dunked in a toilet of piss.

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