Saying that the drops that Target or Bud get from bigots trying to boycott them will be meaningless in the long term. Actually probably a good time to buy
Beer companies are always cranking out new commercials and new promotions, they're always sponsoring countless events and sending free promotional shit with their logo on it to any bar that'll take it. Especially the shitty brands that have nothing going for them other than advertising campaigns. You think they didn't already have patriotic commercials planned a few weeks out from the 4th of July? You're so fucking naïve.
Should companies be chasing the bigot dollar anyway? If Bud were chasing Muslim or Commie bucks, FF wouldn't be stepping up to crow about it.
Gotta love the Fox News spin. "Stock prices dropped by an amount that's so common it happened at least twice last year, but it's all because woke! Also we're going to write a headline that looks like their sales dropped $9B and hope that our followers are too dumb to know the difference."
We need a meme for whenever the culture warriors self-sabotage themselves. I've got just the thing. The green clown from Voyager's "The Thaw" going "We've won!! We've won!! Victory is ours!! Celebration! Celebration!! We've won!! Celebration!! ". Then, next panel, him fading away going "I'm afraid " and Janeway going "III knoooowww ".
So I went to Momocon this weekend. For those who know Atlanta I was in the Westin and had to make it to the con center behind olympic park. Turns out I am much worse than I thought physically so I fell down the hotel escalator and had huge troubles with the walking. So after falling down the escalator and dealing with unpacking and the mile walk I take a break on a bench before getting to the con center properties by the CNN building and the street preachers are out spouting hate at the crowd. After a good rest on a bench I stumble up behind the pne at the intersection and he is spouting off about sin and damnation in hell so I go up behind him and tell him lucifer is waiting for him. So he whi[ps around and asks me what I said to see me there standing above him in drag, and I told him he heard me. Then idiot starts in on his speaker about how horrible it is to pretend to be a woman and be a man in a dress. Big fucking mistake. I laiugh and give him the finger as I am walking across the street and he is spouting crap at me. By the time I crossed there were already a number of crossplaying guys all over street preacher, and the fangirls were joining in. I do not know what happened as I was just trying to make it to registration without dying, but that was the end of the street preachers in olympic park and on the con property. I do not know if they just decided to not bother with the weekend or if police ended up removing them for the con. I cannot imagine they just decided to leave on the own given how antagonistic they were, but I also do not think Olympic park was private property the police could tresspass the street preachers from. I could be wrong because the park did have gates and closed at 10 so maybe Atlanta properties asked for the rif raff to be removed for the con. In other news my deepest apologies to @steve2^4 but I really barely survived because of all the walking and my friend thought the valet parking at the hotel would fill up. I need to start physical therapy because barely being able to make it a city mile sucks.
So they decided to side with the Nazis in a complicit act, and allow the Nazis to threaten their staff and customers? I have also seen some of the Nazis are broadcasting this shit, and there is no security or police action afterward. OK, so Target does not want to take out the garbage and prosecute Nazi vandals and people threatening their staff in site. Why the fuck would I bother stepping into a Target after this as a trans person? Especially with them caving and taking away GLBT merchandise. Have fun with your new Nazi overlord Target. You had a choice and you chose to coddle and pander to them. You have chosen to endanger your own employees by forcing them to deal wiuth these angry and violent people while not sending security and police after these terrorists to lock them up. Bow down before the ones you serve, you will get what you deserve when the terrorists vandalize your stores, harm your people, and are not your customers. See ya, would not want to be caught shopping at a Nazi complicit store anyway.
So about… eight months ago I guess a bar/restaurant opened up in ruralish* Snohomish County. About an hour and a half from me. It wasn’t explicitly a Queer or Polyam place but the people behind it were people I knew. And they were friendly and inviting to those kinda folks. When I was there a couple weeks back they had rented out the event space to the Snohomish Drag Queen Runway Off. Twice a month they had Snoho Polyam meetups on Weds and on the in between Weds was table top gaming nights, so basically every Weds night was a Polyam meetup. It was a bit of a drive for me so I wasn’t a ‘regular’ but I went a couple times a month. I like country queers, I do. Like Army queers there is just a kinda shared connection that you don’t always get from folks privileged enough to grow up in cities where they weren’t hated on growing up and had to hide. Burned to the ground Saturday night. To the ground. Investigation hasn’t been completed much less released but considering how quickly and thoroughly the place burned, and how recently it opened (and thus had up to date fire codes, inspections) arson is suspected. *I have a hard time thinking of a place, even in the middle of the woods, only an hour away from a major city as rural.
Nova had a great article on Facebook about how nothing less than "we hate gay people too" will make the Nazis happy, and that'll drive literally everyone else away, so there's no way kowtowing to Nazis makes you money.
This becomes the reality of the Nazis. The Nazis of germany viciously attacked everyone who dared say boo to them. The jews and others did not do that because they were not based in violence. So the regular people became complicit because they felt if they were the Nazis would ignore them. Being complicit and hiding from the Nazis makes you a fucking Nazi by default. At least you cn see the loud nazis coming. You think a complicit person has your back until they allow the Nazis to attack you because Target security hides in the back and allows this shit to go on. I know security in stores like target. They are there and with the employees can react immediately. If I walked into target in a fucking dress I would be surrounded by plain clothes in a few seconds. I have been there. Idf I tossed something on the ground I would be escorted out of the store very quickly. They would not let a sales associate start discussing shit with me like I see them doing with the nazis. It is the wrong choice to support Target while they permit these acts and cower to the Nazis.
Last time I set foot in a Target was 3 years ago for emergency TP during the early covid paper-pocalypse. Think I can keep my avoidance up.
So, one of the folks attacking Target is the wife of a Marine, and she has made death threats against the President. https://twitter.com/chudsoftiktok/status/1663100765450190856?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ
In 2016 the bigots attacked Target, for a bit stock values dropped by about 40% (which, coincidentally, they did last week) But, to quote Paul Harvey, wait until you hear....the RRRRRREEEEST of the story
Meh, I can drive to the fringes of the Memphis metro in about an hour and everything along the way is pretty rural as fuck. I mean, it's not depression era Appalachia anymore, gotta go to the Delta for that. But I'm off topic here.
I had to Google that. Google says you're mashing up 3 different ideas there. You're either trying to say gender bending... Or, you're saying binding, which is a boob thing for trans men, and little kids don't have boobs, so that's nonsense. Or results for "gender affirming" come up. Gender binding? Nope. You wanna take another try at that?
I think I am supposed to go in there and buy a whole bunch of shit so I can burn it to teach target a lesson about being complicit with Nazis. Or maybe I need to buy an AR-15 so I can shoot up alol the stuff I buy from them to teach them a lesson. ' That all sounds like a lot of effort so I am going to go do the lazy thing and just not be bothered with going to a Target so I can be a target of the Nazis they tolerate in their store.
So I am to understand that FF does not find men's clothing to bind his genitals. I guess that is a problem only some children are exposed to and others do not have to worry about their clothing being too tight in the crotch. I am not saying the boy has a microdick, but the boy is.
No, he is talking about clothing that binds your genitals. Normally binding is what you do to breasts while tucking is what you do with the stick and balls. I find it very telling that the supposed boy is worried about binding boobies, and not about tucking a cock into a woman's bathing suit. Is there something we should know about FF? Is he bitchtit bob? Does he have prostate cancer?
Go back a century and FF would be trying to argue why it's immoral for his female neighbour to wear pants.
Half a century? If I said there were quotes on WF where he said that we all really couldn't say I was absolutely wrong. Just sayin.m
What I am saying is federal farmer does not seem to have that problem with his underwear because his dick is so small. Hey, it is still a joke when I have to explain it that way.
Goddammit, so you reply to a NYT post saying you hope the Sackler family gets virulent syphilis and can't get access to a treatment one time, and you get a 12 hour ban for it. Amazing who Elon actually protects on that free speech platform.
So I went back to the church where I went to drag queen bingo a while back for their new fundraiser. One of the people who run it struck up a conversation with me. So I asked him what happened with drag queen bingo and it seems the group that was doing it was in competitions in the state, and now they have broken up to find new places where they can perform because why risk florida now that there might be a problem. The church was willing to host them and defend against any problems, but the performers cannot afford lawyers to defend them, and it is not guaranteed you will get help from places like the ACLU or GLBT organizations. We still had fun, and there were still people there supporting the community and each other. So really they just stopped Bingo. There were even gender bending dance performances of dances. Really, the Tango is a saucy dance with two people that is pretty sexual. Much more sexual than watching a drag queen sing "I will Survive." It will come back because Bingo is fun and drag performers are still out there. I am just tired of Rhonda Santis and Orange golf man being the only drag male performance being allowed in the state. If they can pretend to be men, why the fuck can't other people identify as whatever gender they feel is right?