President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

It’s utterly exhausting.

How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act

 

How many of us have a mental tote board with odds on the first poster here to “Well actually” MLK?

 

It's likely I won't see that post thanks to The Button.

 

“We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

And there you have it. No wonder the right is pining for the 60s.

 

The 1860s.

 

It's never time to get behind Fatfuck.

 

This. I have come to peace with the idea that consumerist purity is not possible. Moreover, I am not bothered by the owners of businesses using their companies as pulpits. If they feel moved to do so, more power to 'em. When entities set out to purposefully cause harm, it gets problematic. For instance, I have bought art supplies at Hobby Lobby. Their shady practices are more ridiculous than harmful. The powers that be at CFA were underwriting efforts that led to the death of LGBT folks in Uganda. Big difference between genocide and wanting to play Indiana Jones. Quick sidebar: Did the Greenes buy from the people who murdered Kaled Al-Asaad? No? They're just vain, silly people. Still laughing my butt off when friends buy materials to make their BDSM props from The Lobby.

 

Good. I'm jonesing for some chicken livers.

 

Haven’t visited this thread in awhile, so suddenly I’m trying to figure out what CFA is. Some kind of bargaining agreement?

Oh, we’re talking about chicken.

Carry on.

 

I've generally held that boycotts are dumb because scale. That said, I'm a straight white man, and I suppose if I had a friend or a family member from a marginalized group like that, it might be rather hard to look them in the eye and make that purchase, but in the end, it's $10 of company whose annual revenue has three commas.

Also, as Twirling Time said regarding In and Out, I think you could find a significant reason to oppose any company of any significant size or relevance if you looked hard enough.

Besides, CFA hasn't come this far north. We don't even have Popeye's yet, though they've been in planning/construction hell on building one for nearly two years, which combined with some of the stories I've heard about their organization, leads me to believe that "We don't make sense, we make chicken." is a pretty accurate mission statement.

 

It's really not good weather to go catfishing!