XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, talk.politics.guns   
   From: anonymous@internet.everywhere   
      
   Joel wrote:   
   > Dead companies  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> I just bought a six pack of Budweiser, because of their stance on   
   >>>>> transgender identity.  If they don't mind taking a hit in their   
   >>>>> profits, due to phobes not buying their products, I can stomach a six   
   >>>>> pack of their mediocre brew.  It's in honor of my beautiful soon-to-be   
   >>>>> trans wife, and Anheuser-Busch's brave marketing.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Cheers!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yeah that's some real intelligent marketing, not.  Pandering to the 0   
   >>>> purchasing power 2% by thumbing your nose at the remaining 98% that   
   >>>> includes the largest group actually buying your product.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> We will see some personnel changes very soon at Budweiser.   
   >>>   
   >>> You are just a phobe, taking out your hate of trans people by   
   >>> boycotting a fucking brand of beer.  You're angry over nothing, you're   
   >>> making a big deal out of this company merely honoring people's   
   >>> personal identity, that somehow conflicts with your constructed   
   >>> worldview.  Pathetic.   
   >>   
   >> I'm in the 98%.  He who is the 98% makes the rules.  You don't like it?   
   >> Move to Canada.   
   >   
   >   
   > You're dreaming, because in fact people aren't so unenlightened as to   
   > dismiss trans identity.  The phobes are throwbacks, reactionaries.   
   >   
      
   Most people are Havel's greengrocer. They go along with the dictates   
   of power to get along. Even if it means Point Deer Make Horse.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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