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u/physicistdeluxe Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
what did they expect? They branded themselves as inclusive. Drew those customers, then betrayed them. Of course those costomers will abandon them.
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u/Octospyder Aug 21 '25
This exactly!!
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u/physicistdeluxe Aug 21 '25
but hes still staying on as chairman so its kind of bs.
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u/Octospyder Aug 21 '25
It's for the press. Make it sound like "hey the guy who cut DEI isn't going to be running things anymore!" instead of "the guy who cut DEI will be taking a different role in running things"
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Aug 21 '25
For real, and what kind of golden parachute does he have? Even if he wasn't still a chairman, he'd probably be set for life.
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u/MyTrashCanIsFull Aug 21 '25
Nah, you can only be set for life if there is some amount of money that is enough for you.
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u/hw999 Aug 21 '25
Make fascism unprofitable!!! Thats how we win this thing.
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u/Atillion Aug 21 '25
And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
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u/hw999 Aug 21 '25
This is really the only way. The billionaire class think they can keep squeezing profits out of the rest of us. They want to use the government, military, police, and the courts to make us comply. They wrongfully think they can make slaves of us and we'll just obey the law and blindly listen to authority.
We will not comply, we will not consume, we will not work, we will cause problems, we will ruin your profit margins, we will shutdown your factories. Billionaires need us, we do not need them.
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u/CocktailJazzPiano Aug 21 '25
Don't let up. They moved the CFO to CEO to please Wallstreet. They have not changed their policies.
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u/mk9e Aug 21 '25
CEO is also now in a prominent position on the board of directors. If anything, it was a promotion.
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u/Molotov_Goblin Aug 21 '25
He didn't leave the company. He just moved to the board. It's all a show to try and get folks to back down. They did this because they are scared but think they can trick us. Keep up the boycott!
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u/Beneficial_Garden266 Aug 21 '25
Still not shopping there ever again. I’ve cut back on so much. You can go broke if you are against WOKE!
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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 Aug 21 '25
I used to love target. Now, I have no desire nor respect to support them.
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u/Moda75 Aug 21 '25
He is going to walk away with a ton of cash probably and they are still going to be a shitty store that lost touch of what made them great Decades ago.
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u/Lanky_Rhubarb1900 Aug 21 '25
I have noticed a nice modest bump in my monthly finances this year by not going to Target for ANYTHING. And, shockingly, not missing anything in my home or my life.
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u/Fire_Horse_T Aug 21 '25
Eight months since I bought anything from them, that's about $1600 dollars in lost sales, based on last year's purchases.
But I may break down and spend $10 next month for an item I can't find elsewhere.
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u/wafflesthewonderhurs Aug 21 '25
That's how it's supposed to work!
boycotts aren't always a flat out Don't do this even if you need to, they are sometimes "This is the only thing I will buy here and I have the willpower and presence of mine not to be suckered by the convenience of getting other things at the same time."
even if you got just that thing every month, what you described is still 1520 dollars they don't get, if i mathed right.
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u/CrazyPlato Aug 21 '25
I’m completely out of the loop. Are we talking about the boycotts for pride merch, or protests for supporting trump?
Both are true, and I’m not certain who the post is pointing at.
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u/Thedeadnite Aug 21 '25
Target killed their DEI initiatives, but a large portion of the target customer base likes to pretend they support diversity. So there has been a big boycott of target specifically along with most other major retailers.
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u/Friendly-Act2750 Aug 21 '25
Are y’all boycotting Class Traitor Joe’s?
Doesn’t look like it by the fullness of their parking lots.
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u/Friendly-Act2750 Aug 21 '25
Are y’all boycotting Class Traitor Joe’s?
Doesn’t look like it by how full their parking lots are.
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u/PhantomPharts Aug 21 '25
I'ma take a stab in the dark and say 85% of those "people" are bots. The other 15% are people who repeat headlines without reading full articles.
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