Boycotting Works... Ending the Woke Plague

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 05:31
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, May 25, 2023 9:09 PM

Bud Light Boycott Already Costs Anheuser-Busch $15.7 Billion

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/bud-light-boycott-alr
eady-costs-anheuser-busch-15-7-billion/

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The market value of Anheuser-Busch InBev, whose fourth bestselling brand is Bud Light, dropped $15.7 billion since April 1, based on a conversion to U.S. dollars by Investor's Business Daily using data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. That's the day Dylan Mulvaney, a TikTok influencer and transgender woman, pitched the Bud Light brand during the NCAA March Madness tournament.

Meanwhile, the other major publicly traded global beer brands have added $3.2 billion in market value during the same time.

The Bud Light backlash to the promotion was almost instantaneous. Conservative consumers called for a boycott of the beer. Bud Light sales are down more than 23% as of the week ended on May 6, said Jared Dinges, beverage analyst at JPMorgan Chase in a note to clients Tuesday, citing data from NielsenIQ.

"We believe there is a subset of American consumers who will not drink a Bud Light for the foreseeable future," Dinges said. "We believe a 12% to 13% volume decline on an annualized basis would be a reasonable assumption."

Dylan is a man. Stop saying that Dylan is a woman. Dylan will never be a woman.

Target loses $9B in week following boycott calls over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing

https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/target-loses-8b-in-week-since-boycott-ca
lls-over-pride-collection/

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Target has lost $9 billion in market value since angry social media users called for a boycott of the Minneapolis-based retailer over its rollout of the “PRIDE” collection featuring LGBTQ-friendly clothing for children.

A week ago Wednesday before the controversy erupted, Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share, giving the big-box chain a market capitalization of $74.3 billion.

As of early trading on Thursday, however, shares of the company were trading off 1% at $141.76 — capping a weeklong tumble that has shrunk the “cheap chic” discount retailer’s value to $65.3 billion.

That amounts to a 12% drop that has shaved a whopping $9 billion off the company’s market capitalization.

Target said on Tuesday it was removing some items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month after intense backlash from some customers who confronted workers and tipped over displays.

Don't put "tuck friendly" swimsuits in the kid's section, GROOMER.

Time to stop watching Sportsball too, people. Plenty of things you can do to occupy your time that will be more fulfilling for you than watching grown men play games and make more money in 90 minutes than you'll make all year long working hard in the long run.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-arent-tommy-lasordas-dodgers-cathol
ic-church-pride-baseball-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-cce786ad?mod=opinion_lead_pos10

SECOND

Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:39 PM

Americans drink too much alcohol: hundreds of billions of dollars worth.

Americans buy too many clothes: again, hundreds of billions of dollars worth.

Americans gamble too much on sports: also, hundreds of billions of dollars in bets.

It would not be bad for Americans to spend only half as much on what they have too much of.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Friday, May 26, 2023 3:47 AM

I think it wasn't a boycott as much as near-universal and visceral revulsion.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, May 26, 2023 4:20 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Americans drink too much alcohol: hundreds of billions of dollars worth.

Americans buy too many clothes: again, hundreds of billions of dollars worth.

Americans gamble too much on sports: also, hundreds of billions of dollars in bets.

It would not be bad for Americans to spend only half as much on what they have too much of.

For once, Second and I are in complete agreement about something.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think it wasn't a boycott as much as near-universal and visceral revulsion.

Indeed.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

SECOND

Friday, May 26, 2023 5:41 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

For once, Second and I are in complete agreement about something.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think it wasn't a boycott as much as near-universal and visceral revulsion.

Indeed.

Revulsion you say? To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion. . . . To a surprising degree, a recent strand of experimental psychology suggests, our political beliefs may have something to do with a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical disgust.

That’s a quote from “Liberals And Conservatives React In Wildly Different Ways To Repulsive Pictures” or “The Yuck Factor”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/5
80465/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Friday, May 26, 2023 6:01 AM

“Liberals And Conservatives React In Wildly Different Ways To Repulsive Pictures” or “The Yuck Factor”

In the mid-2000s, a political scientist approached the neuroscientist Read Montague with a radical proposal. He and his colleagues had evidence, he said, that political orientation might be partly inherited, and might be revealed by our physiological reactivity to threats. To test their theory, they wanted Montague, who heads the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Virginia Tech, to scan the brains of subjects as they looked at a variety of images—including ones displaying potential contaminants such as mutilated animals, filthy toilets, and faces covered with sores—to see whether neural responses showed any correlation with political ideology. Was he interested?

Montague initially laughed at the idea—for one thing, MRI research requires considerable time and resources—but the team returned with studies to argue their case, and eventually he signed on. When the data began rolling in, any skepticism about the project quickly dissolved. The subjects, 83 in total, were first shown a randomized mixture of neutral and emotionally evocative pictures—this second category contained both positive and negative images—while undergoing brain scans. Then they filled out a questionnaire seeking their views on hot-button political and social issues, in order to classify their general outlook on a spectrum from extremely liberal to extremely conservative. As Montague mapped the neuroimaging data against ideology, he recalls, “my jaw dropped.” The brains of liberals and conservatives reacted in wildly different ways to repulsive pictures: Both groups reacted, but different brain networks were stimulated. Just by looking at the subjects’ neural responses, in fact, Montague could predict with more than 95 percent accuracy whether they were liberal or conservative.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190209010213/https://www.theatlantic.com
/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Friday, May 26, 2023 6:52 AM

Revulsion is what keeps people from eating spoiled food, living in unsanitary or septic conditions, getting physically close to someone who is obviously diseased, or engaging in socially destructive behavior.

It's probably a good thing, from an evolutionary standpoint.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

SECOND

Friday, May 26, 2023 8:12 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Revulsion is what keeps people from eating spoiled food, living in unsanitary or septic conditions, getting physically close to someone who is obviously diseased, or engaging in socially destructive behavior.

It's probably a good thing, from an evolutionary standpoint.

Signym, a Vulcan, Mr Spock for example, would comprehend that instinctual revulsion, uncontrollable, makes for bad judgment in politics: "One defining characteristic of disgust, though, is that it occupies a blind spot in our psyche. As Pizarro notes, “It’s such a low-level, almost noncognitive emotion that you really aren’t thinking that much about it.” Compared with anger, happiness, and sadness, he says, disgust is also “less open to change based on your judgment, your thoughts, your reasoning.” Chocolate in the shape of dog poop, he points out, is still gross. The emotion is more reflexive than reflective. “That is the rhetorical strength of disgust,” Pizarro says. “It’s a little hack. You hack into brains pretty quickly and easily by making them feel disgust,” bypassing logic and reason to sway judgment."

https://web.archive.org/web/20190209010213/https://www.theatlantic.com
/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Friday, May 26, 2023 8:51 AM

Revulsion is,to some extent,taught.

Some cultures don't understand 2D representations (pictures)
In order to understand a gun pointing at the viewer, you have to know what a picture is, and you have to know what a "gun" is.
Viewers who aren't repelled by repulsive pictures are also called "sociopaths'

As an aside, I've often wondered how gays ram their dicks into shit

But in the context of socially destructive behavior, well, that accounts for the social context and the measure of sociopathy. Maybe liberals are really sociopaths. Judging by WISHY, REAVERBOT, and SECOND, I'd say that's a good working hypothesis.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

SECOND

Friday, May 26, 2023 4:34 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

As an aside, I've often wondered how gays ram their dicks into shit

But in the context of socially destructive behavior, well, that accounts for the social context and the measure of sociopathy. Maybe liberals are really sociopaths. Judging by WISHY, REAVERBOT, and SECOND, I'd say that's a good working hypothesis.

Signym, you are on the Russian side of the Ukrainian War and Putin is anti-gay. The Russian side of the Ukrainian War and the Anti-gay War are connected by Signym's and Putin's disgust.

Putin's Anti-Gay War on Ukraine, Mar 14, 2022 — A pervasive ideology of "traditional values" has taken hold in Russia, portraying LGBT rights and Ukraine as existential threats to the nation. https://www.google.com/search?q=putin+antigay

Using a far cruder tool for measuring sensitivity to disgust — basically a standardized questionnaire that asks subjects how they would feel about, say, touching a toilet seat in a public restroom or seeing maggots crawling on a piece of meat — numerous studies have found that high levels of sensitivity to disgust tend to go hand in hand with a “conservative ethos.” That ethos is defined by characteristics such as traditionalism, religiosity, support for authority and hierarchy, sexual conservatism, and distrust of outsiders.

Broadly speaking, studies of possible connections between ideology and susceptibility to disgust fall into two categories. The first involves measuring subjects’ sensitivity to disgust as well as their social or political ideologies and then calculating the correlation between the two. The second category explores whether exposure to disgusting subject matter can actually influence people’s views in the moment. But whatever the type of study, the same general finding keeps turning up. “We are at the point where there is very solid evidence for the association,” says Michael Bang Petersen, a political scientist at Aarhus University, in Denmark. His own research finds that “disgust influences our political views as much as or even more than long-recognized factors such as education and income bracket.”

Researchers have theories rather than answers. At a deep, symbolic level, some speculate, disgust may be bound up with ideas about “them” versus “us,” about whom we instinctively trust and don’t trust. In short, this research may help illuminate one factor — among many — that underlies why those on the left and the right can so vehemently disagree.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190209010213/https://www.theatlantic.com
/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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