04-04-2021, 10:18 AM
(04-04-2021, 07:10 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is definitely the sad reality of any sort of boycott, to be quite honest. I try to explain this to my wife who still refuses to get Chick-fil-A. The amount of money the corporation gets from my number one with a diet lemonade is tiny in comparison to the money in the pockets of the workers and franchisers that are a part of our local economy. This will have a negative impact on the economy of Atlanta and the surrounding area which is a liberal area of the state and was the area targeted by these voter suppression measures.
Yep. I think it's cheap for the far-right to bang on the anti-cancel culture drum. Honestly, I don't know how you can characterize yourself as anti-camel culture when the figurehead of you're movement wants to cancel anyone and anything that looks at him funny. However, it's really bad for everyone when politics are injected into consumerism on the level that they are now. People make knee-jerk decisions like the one MLB did without considering unintended consequences, which at street-level are going cause damage to a lot of people that don't deserve it. I'd rather companies not make it their business to force right or wrong on people.
The only way to respond to the obviously racist voting reforms is to hit the GOP hard at the polls again. They failed to get the message last time around, so they want to move the goalposts. Black voters know full well what their impact on elections can be and I doubt they'll forget in 2 years. The ultimate price for Kemp and his cohorts to pay is loss of power. They fear it more than anything, which is why they made these changes in the first place. They already lost a very consequential senate runoff that many GOP "experts" thought would be a walk in the park. Organize and get ready to make them pay again, and make it hurt.
