• buh [she/her]English
    27•2 years ago

    I’m guessing by political he means “woke or anti-woke” which is a stupid way to gauge how political one is to begin with, but even then it’s stupid because while most business owners might try to appear politically neutral publicly (as a means of avoiding controversy that might affect their business), when you get to know them you find most are very solidly chuds

    • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]English
      16•2 years ago

      most business owners might try to appear politically neutral publicly (as a means of avoiding controversy that might affect their business)

      It constantly surprises me how many businesses have abandoned this principle in the Trump era. There’s a new shop in my town that erected a huge sign that says, “Vote out the corrupt Democrats in all 50 states!”. This is in a town that voted 71% for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I don’t understand a business owner that would try so hard to get the majority of residents to avoid their business.

      • Barabas [he/him]English
        11•2 years ago

        Businesses found out about spite consumption. Same reason that a relatively low amount of chuds can consistently get shite country music up the lists.

        They have a much better chance to get chuds in by virtue signalling to then than trying to be bland and pry people away from wallmart or whatever.

      • burnt_toast [he/him]English
        10•2 years ago

        We had a friend chicken business in town that was putting up cooker conspiracy posters and placards for the antivax party during the worst of covid, I stopped going there immediately. Who knows what kind of other shit they thought was government overreach, like wearing gloves while cooking my food or something. Yuck.