• plinky [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Be in a union

    make a woke video how you shit on conservative doodoo heads

    buy stake in your company

    ???

    :iww:

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    This is still the funniest boycott of all time. Budweiser has tents at pride fests for 20 years and chuds never cared

    • kristina [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      Gay guys boofing Bud light in leather gear: I sleep

      A trans lady that is excessively happy all the time gets a single bud light can with her face on it: real shit

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        It really does highlight how fucking evil these fucks are that a Trans person being happy was enough to launch a nationwide boycott.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Longer than that. Bud has been a gay beer since Coors had a polygraph test for employees that, among other things, asked if employees were gay.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      That's the strangest part of the whole Bud thing and why they fired people over it. Every gay bar, queer event that I've been to has Bud Light everything. They've been sponsoring us for decades and every frothingfash thinks this is something new or somehow over the line. They do the same with cishet places as well. Just ridiculous over it.

      Bet that can is a priceless artifact now though.

      • ChapoKrautHaus [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Why do they call it "Bud light" anyway, does it have reduced alcohol or something? Is there a "Bud strong" advertized to like, the Army reserve? Please explain these Americana details to me fellow light-bear

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          "Light" in American beer parlance means it's lower in calories and alcohol content. They came about initially because there were a lot of reactions to changing diets for Americans. Lots of stuff happened at once, like a very powerful dairy lobby, increase in high fructose corn syrup, big pushes to gain weight basically. A lot of Americans actually took notice and started developing modern diet culture, and part of that was cutting out beer. Companies responded by offering beers lower in calories. They stuck around because they're less bitter.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Yea there's a regular budweiser comes in a red can. Bud light is so much more popular most people refer to the twp as bud and bud heavy. Light beer has slightly lower alcohol percentage and slightly less calories because the goal of them is that you can drink 20 of them at a barbecue even if you don't like beer.

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Like having sex in a canoe.

            Fucking close to water.

  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Pose as a conservative influencer, short a stock, expose them for being woke, profit. Buy the dip, wait for the controversy to blow over, profit twice.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    There's a nonzero chance that the campaigns are organized by people shorting these companies to begin with.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      I tried explaining this to a conservative and they looked at me like I was crazy. People are so invested in this fake moral outrage that they can't see it for what it is.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        Because if you're not with them, you're against them! And trying to explain that they're being duped into getting angry about stupid nonsense means you're one of those woke sjw cuck soyboys who are trying to destroy freeze peach!

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I did it with Disney a bit. Bought some shares at ~$78 when the frothingfash was at it's peak [redacted] and sold for $95 when Kang the Domestic Abuser got shitcanned. Didn't get rich, but a half priced Steam Deck OLED is nice.

          • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            Clearly? I always thought it was just 4chan and twitch frothingfash chuds melting down not autists, let alone not ever hearing about autistic "meltdowns" as a thing. Thanks for the education.

            • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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              11 months ago

              Yeah naw its always been a dig at autistic people, at least Ive never seen otherwise personally

              (also probably don't say autist either? if you're autistic yourself do whatever but otherwise, its autistic people not autistics but if you're doing a reclaimatory thing go off I have no right to call you off)

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    11 months ago

    Works even better if you're a chud influencer or the company "Wokeing it up" as you can also make money by short selling the outrage dip.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Isn't that illegal? :pondering-the-line:

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        11 months ago

        Shockingly no, insider trading applies to "material, nonpublic information" about the company and its economic actions. If you're trading based on advance knowledge of a subscription price hike or a change in recipe, that's insider trading. If you're trading based on people getting mad for literally no reason or a company's continued compliance with a law or social norm, that's not insider trading.

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        No, shorting a stock, yelling "hey everyone, you should all boycott this company because of vibes," and then profiting when people inexplicably listen to you is legal.

      • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Nah it even theoretically benefits the market's information/price discovery in capitalist theory. "Activist short sellers" stand to make a lot of money by exposing unknown true negative information about a company. Straight-up lying is prohibited as securities fraud, and ultimately if you publicize something untrue or unimportant ("woke" accusations) the price will return to normal as the market recognizes the information was BS. So there's a bunch of firms that essentially exist to scrutinize the finances and activities of other companies, and if their "audit" finds a problem they get paid and offender gets punished.

        (The line between straight-up fraud and overenthusiastic PR for fluff is not clear.)

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      why wait for them to be mad, let's all make twitter accounts and invent right wing outrage for shitty companies

        • Juice [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          That's just bog standard conservativism.

          A better bit would be to go online and say we made money shorting the stock of the companies that woke hunters get mad about, and donated it to gender affirming care clinics and planned parenthood or whatever. Like anytime we donate to a charity say we made the money shorting Disney or Budweiser stock.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Literally all you would have to do is find a product with more than 4 colors on it and say it's a gay pride version.

        He'll you could probably take a picture of a freezer full of different Gatorade and say they're woke.

  • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Let the record show I had this idea May 31st and then didn't do anything about it. Price is up 18% since then, but most of that started in November so I would have lost money on short-term calls anyway.

    conservatives are gonna forget about them in a year, tops

    6 months isn't bad. I think the play is LEAPs or literally buying stock on margin, plus whatever short you can cobble together for the rest of the industry.

  • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    I actually got in the top 10 of the stock market game in middle school by spending all my money on AB stock when they got bought out by inbev in 07-08. I just wanted to spend all my money so I could play Marble Blast for a semester and ended up meeting the governor at some dinner for all the top placers.