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Posted: 7/18/2023 5:32:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Modelo Sol is a low carb beer. No, Modelo is not AB. Personally I don't buy the whole Modelo isn't InBev thing. It's not like it would be difficult to set up a shell company to pretend to own the brand in the US. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 7:03:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: AB has a lot of other brands besides BL. Doesn't matter. AB is too big to take down. While it is great that some are boycotting all AB brands, the downfall of Bud Light is enough to send the message- and that is exactly the purpose. AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:20:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:22:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doesn't matter. AB is too big to take down. While it is great that some are boycotting all AB brands, the downfall of Bud Light is enough to send the message- and that is exactly the purpose. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: AB has a lot of other brands besides BL. Doesn't matter. AB is too big to take down. While it is great that some are boycotting all AB brands, the downfall of Bud Light is enough to send the message- and that is exactly the purpose. Legit question ... how old are you? Wait, don't answer. Ask the old farts about pan am. Ask them about eastern airlines. Ask them about sears. This is not me saying yeaahh, we can, it's invetiable! ... I literally just meant that they are mouthing off while they still have a soft underbelly. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:25:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:26:15 PM EDT
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Have they flown the Roman Catholic flag at their headquarters yet?
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:34:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Have they flown the Roman Catholic flag at their headquarters yet? https://media.tuffflags.com/image/cache/data/Flags-Banners/Religious-Flags/Roman-Catholic-Flags/3x5-Roman-Catholic-Indoor-Parade-Flags-500x500.jpg 
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:34:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Different topic entirely but some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSKgN-P5dE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWeuCs7BJRE Or look up how elon has constantly over-sold the self driving feature in teslas, etc. There's stuff out there if you poke around. I remember those days, argued with the "E-Vees will be 50% of sales by 2020" crowd in GD  "Guys, you've bought into this ^ because they wanted your money for their stock, that doesn't mean- " and off to the races. IMHO? Elon wasn't doing anything that other tech businesses or even auto businesses haven't done before, or worse.  He was doing what they've done for years, he just did it better (and did deliver some products) But the past ~15 years has made me VERY weary of the phrases: "The way of the future" "The way things are going" "Muh horse and buggy crowd, Gee-Dee are just a bunch of scared luddites! "In 2017 2018 2020 2022 we will simply have ___________ fantasy thing I like!" (But it would but absurdly expensive, technology doesn't exist yet and there isn't a guarantee it will, etc) A lot of those people have egg ALL over their faces, they fell for some persuasion pieces and stopped using their critical thinking skills
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:40:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You'll notice that the better pundits and analysts on box office returns always mention when they are using official numbers and when they are not and state when they're having to speculate. People who count beans seem to be amazingly competent at lying and hiding stuff. If anything, the way DS9 portrayed the ferengi accounting and business practice may be an understatement. This ^ is such a normal and commonplace thing now, watching "big institutions" effectively lie to people/obscuring what's really going on, for any number of things.  All while pretending to tell the truth, and screeching at people (or suing them) who get close to the truth hidden beneath the smoke screen. Worse: They saw what was under it, and said it out loud, and other people heard it. At this point on one end of the spectrum, we have the people who just cling to Official_NarrativesTM like Linus hugging his blanket, no matter how nonsensical or absurd. We have friends whose minds sort of broke, and have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole Most of us are somewhere in between. At this point, we're all trying to re-map reality, full well knowing how normalized dishonesty is now |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:44:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The analysts job is allegedly to get answers and data that helps them analyze a company and inform investment decisions. The c-suite guys are supposed to use the call to explain prior performance and then give guidance on future. IME sometimes you'll hear some mildly pointed questions but the suits almost always have a canned answer and usually tap dance around rather than giving hard guidance even when there's no explosive political element. I'm hoping for really tough questions and some fireworks and lost tempers this time, but I've never seen or heard of anything like this entire scenario so I have no clue how hard the analysts will push. I'm just guessing they will mostly be PC unfortunately. But fingers crossed! TBH part of me expects a Bob Iger style admission/non-admission, claim they've never supported anything, but it's also ImportantTM that they talk down to their audience with NYC/SF values.  Absolute mental gymnastics |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: FlashMan, you have been Geralted. You are now in the company of some of the best social philosophers in ARFCOM.  [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" 
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Posted: 7/18/2023 9:54:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If I must be thrust unwillingly into such ... https://neilschultz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/abandonhope.jpg For I have none to give. Only God does. Just some background music for posting  Toss A Coin To Your Witcher - Classical Guitar Cover (Beyond The Guitar) |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:05:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:06:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://media.tenor.com/Ic7HkzSJnV8AAAAC/witcher-the-witcher.gif [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: FlashMan, you have been Geralted. You are now in the company of some of the best social philosophers in ARFCOM. https://media.tenor.com/Ic7HkzSJnV8AAAAC/witcher-the-witcher.gif [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" You strike me as a guy who was a gamer and not terribly involved in politics who got ... "wilded" by the game journos and reacted by becoming politically aware. Is my guess far off? |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:07:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Outside of Avatar I don't think they've had a mega blockbuster since COVID and Endgame. And as you said, most of their woke movies have tanked, some HARD. With the strike, you got to think anything in production now is stalled and costing them a bunch more. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. Funny thing on avatar. Apparently they aren't allowed to really get in on the profits from that. Not the same way as they have with other films. I don't know the exact details. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:09:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Outside of Avatar I don't think they've had a mega blockbuster since COVID and Endgame. And as you said, most of their woke movies have tanked, some HARD. With the strike, you got to think anything in production now is stalled and costing them a bunch more. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. It's amazing how fast they slid, it really is amazing. They wanted to lecture their audience so badly that they've missed how many billions in potential profits by now? And they won't fucking stop. It's going to take a Bud Light failing and Star Wars being sold, to get SOME execs to break ranks. And yet we know that some woke execs will not give up their religious purity. They would rather tank their whole company than come to grips with the fact that they are the niche audience not worth making happy. ETA: it's going to take a bank failing (for de-banking someone, and the customers finally have it and leave) before they decide to knock it off. .........or the banks will demand legislation that protects them from consumers realizing they can be de-banked for political stances and leaving
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:28:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Funny thing on avatar. Apparently they aren't allowed to really get in on the profits from that. Not the same way as they have with other films. I don't know the exact details. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: AB Inbev has more than 500 brands so it would be exceptionally hard to put them out of business worldwide, but many of those brands were purchased for a premium during the last decade or so. That means the Inbev has to keep the cash coming in to service the debt load for those purchases. If enough cash isn't coming in, Inbev may have to start selling off some of the slower moving and/or less profitable brands. Iger has put one third of Disney up for sale in an effort to sell off enough subsidiaries to raise cash to keep their core products intact. Keep at it! It is working but it takes a considerable bit of time to cause long term damage to these massive corporations. Taunt anyone you see drinking Bud Light and inform as many people as you can to make them aware that buying other Inbev brands is just as bad as buying BL. The power of the purse is real and we are about to see it in action on a scale that has never been seen before. So, the news on disney is slower, but it's been a fairly steady drip-drip I've been keeping up with the lowlights here: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Disney-going-to-get-it-s-financial-teeth-knocked-out-7-17-Iger-puts-1-3-of-disney-up-for-sale--/5-2649974/?page=1 They've also lost a billion on the eight movies up to or just before indy and the depends of destiny, they went from ... what, 13bn to 4bn (I believe profits?) from 2019 to now, and they are staring down the barrel of a minimum of a forced 9bn dollar bill later this year. They're in a bad spot. Disney+ is losing billions per year which is mind-boggling since they have a huge catalog of shows and movies Some articles rumor that Iger is about to sell off some of their TV and streaming assets and maybe the whole thing (Apple being mentioned). 5-8 yrs ago they were making so much money I don't think they could top it if they had a mint printing it. Funny thing on avatar. Apparently they aren't allowed to really get in on the profits from that. Not the same way as they have with other films. I don't know the exact details. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:28:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You strike me as a guy who was a gamer and not terribly involved in politics who got ... "wilded" by the game journos and reacted by becoming politically aware. Is my guess far off? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: FlashMan, you have been Geralted. You are now in the company of some of the best social philosophers in ARFCOM. https://media.tenor.com/Ic7HkzSJnV8AAAAC/witcher-the-witcher.gif [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" You strike me as a guy who was a gamer and not terribly involved in politics who got ... "wilded" by the game journos and reacted by becoming politically aware. Is my guess far off? A bit, but there's a neat easter egg in there I was someone who - when all the people my age went gaga for Jon Stewart, I could sit there in silence and not laugh. Leftie hack. "He's a comedian!" Well, yes, also, he's a left wing activist. I remember trying to explain, "Yes wikipedia is biased toward the left, why did Obama's wiki page suddenly have all mention of certain things scrubbed after he won the primary in 2008? Pages of right wing figures have ridiculous things that stay no matter what?" "Yes snopes is biased, seriously read some of these?" "Yes Google is biased - look at the google doodles. Look at the days they find important, and the ones they don't. Watch how they disappear Breitbart from results for hurting their feelings, but leftie news outlets stay no matter what they get wrong, or what they claim" People would laugh at me for saying stuff like this ^ years ago, that we allll know to be true now and accept to be true, and it's a mainstream view. There's a lot of us on this board who lived that, I'm one of them for sure It was amazing to watch the media machine feed a new issue/policy stance/"bad guy" group (usually us or a hobby we like, etc), fed into the stamping machine.BOOM, here is your stance on the issue, now go attack your cousin at the BBQ for disagreeing on _______. Over, and over, and over, on issue after issue. When it came for the video gamers (who were, tbh, often default-lefties the way many young people are) and it redpilled a fuckton of them, I jumped in my chair. They came for a group with the stamping machine and a bunch of them woke up immediately TBH I felt like the french guy in The Patriot following along with them  And times,  IMHO they were the Trump kids making Pepe memes They were reposting the embarrassing forbidden emails, that some of the older folks saw, carrying it around the media firewall trying to protect Bill Clinton's side-piece I was absolutely fascinated watching that one, gamergate What gives me hope for the future, lockdowns and jab mandates red-pilled the fuck out of a bunch of today's 20 year olds. Bonus: They're repulsed by the purple-haired mountain-panda-kin, and these are the people who are more likely to reproduce (didn't take literal castration hormones.) |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:36:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A bit, but there's a neat easter egg in there I was someone who - when all the people my age went gaga for Jon Stewart, I could sit there in silence and not laugh. Leftie hack. "He's a comedian!" Well, yes, also, he's a left wing activist. I remember trying to explain, "Yes wikipedia is biased toward the left, why did Obama's wiki page suddenly have all mention of certain things scrubbed after he won the primary in 2008? Pages of right wing figures have ridiculous things that stay no matter what?" "Yes snopes is biased, seriously read some of these?" "Yes Google is biased - look at the google doodles. Look at the days they find important, and the ones they don't. Watch how they disappear Breitbart from results for hurting their feelings, but leftie news outlets stay no matter what they get wrong, or what they claim" People would laugh at me for saying stuff like this ^ years ago, that we allll know to be true now and accept to be true, and it's a mainstream view. There's a lot of us on this board who lived that, I'm one of them for sure It was amazing to watch the media machine feed a new issue/policy stance/"bad guy" group (usually us or a hobby we like, etc), fed into the stamping machine.BOOM, here is your stance on the issue, now go attack your cousin at the BBQ for disagreeing on _______. Over, and over, and over, on issue after issue. When it came for the video gamers (who were, tbh, often default-lefties the way many young people are) and it redpilled a fuckton of them, I jumped in my chair. They came for a group with the stamping machine and a bunch of them woke up immediately TBH I felt like the french guy in The Patriot following along with them https://64.media.tumblr.com/31799a8b3af496d54258a08e5d1cf0cb/tumblr_inline_op53e2Mqi81rofjpu_250.gif And times, https://i.imgflip.com/5o094j.jpg IMHO they were the Trump kids making Pepe memes They were reposting the embarrassing forbidden emails, that some of the older folks saw, carrying it around the media firewall trying to protect Bill Clinton's side-piece I was absolutely fascinated watching that one, gamergate What gives me hope for the future, lockdowns and jab mandates red-pilled the fuck out of a bunch of today's 20 year olds. Bonus: They're repulsed by the purple-haired mountain-panda-kin, and these are the people who are more likely to reproduce (didn't take literal castration hormones.) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: FlashMan, you have been Geralted. You are now in the company of some of the best social philosophers in ARFCOM. https://media.tenor.com/Ic7HkzSJnV8AAAAC/witcher-the-witcher.gif [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" You strike me as a guy who was a gamer and not terribly involved in politics who got ... "wilded" by the game journos and reacted by becoming politically aware. Is my guess far off? A bit, but there's a neat easter egg in there I was someone who - when all the people my age went gaga for Jon Stewart, I could sit there in silence and not laugh. Leftie hack. "He's a comedian!" Well, yes, also, he's a left wing activist. I remember trying to explain, "Yes wikipedia is biased toward the left, why did Obama's wiki page suddenly have all mention of certain things scrubbed after he won the primary in 2008? Pages of right wing figures have ridiculous things that stay no matter what?" "Yes snopes is biased, seriously read some of these?" "Yes Google is biased - look at the google doodles. Look at the days they find important, and the ones they don't. Watch how they disappear Breitbart from results for hurting their feelings, but leftie news outlets stay no matter what they get wrong, or what they claim" People would laugh at me for saying stuff like this ^ years ago, that we allll know to be true now and accept to be true, and it's a mainstream view. There's a lot of us on this board who lived that, I'm one of them for sure It was amazing to watch the media machine feed a new issue/policy stance/"bad guy" group (usually us or a hobby we like, etc), fed into the stamping machine.BOOM, here is your stance on the issue, now go attack your cousin at the BBQ for disagreeing on _______. Over, and over, and over, on issue after issue. When it came for the video gamers (who were, tbh, often default-lefties the way many young people are) and it redpilled a fuckton of them, I jumped in my chair. They came for a group with the stamping machine and a bunch of them woke up immediately TBH I felt like the french guy in The Patriot following along with them https://64.media.tumblr.com/31799a8b3af496d54258a08e5d1cf0cb/tumblr_inline_op53e2Mqi81rofjpu_250.gif And times, https://i.imgflip.com/5o094j.jpg IMHO they were the Trump kids making Pepe memes They were reposting the embarrassing forbidden emails, that some of the older folks saw, carrying it around the media firewall trying to protect Bill Clinton's side-piece I was absolutely fascinated watching that one, gamergate What gives me hope for the future, lockdowns and jab mandates red-pilled the fuck out of a bunch of today's 20 year olds. Bonus: They're repulsed by the purple-haired mountain-panda-kin, and these are the people who are more likely to reproduce (didn't take literal castration hormones.) I'm just the dork whos parents listened to rush when he first came on (and I did after that for most of my life) and I got to read a lot of stuff that was conservative. It was something else watching gamergate. Already being pretty politically aware, pretty early in it I thought to myself that the gamers were about to get politics shoved down their throat and they wouldn't quite know how to handle it, but that they'd reflexively lash out against ars technica, kotaku, and all those trolls attacking them for no good reason. I'm sure the chan culture was around at least in some form than, but it was like watching that whole group get born. Or supercharged with fresh blood. IDK why, but your writing style reminded me of them, but with several years more polish. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:36:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:43:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:45:07 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:49:45 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. ... and collected on the first page, multiple times, in the spoilers. Given how I've seen you act with other posts I don't trust your motivations ... if you didn't post the way you do I would have just directly answered you. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:51:40 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: ... and collected on the first page, multiple times, in the spoilers. Given how I've seen you act with other posts I don't trust your motivations ... if you didn't post the way you do I would have just directly answered you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. ... and collected on the first page, multiple times, in the spoilers. Given how I've seen you act with other posts I don't trust your motivations ... if you didn't post the way you do I would have just directly answered you. No problem. I’m clearly joining this thread too late. I didn’t see see any mention in the page one spoilers of how they could win you back, but maybe didn’t read closely enough. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 10:52:15 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This ^ is such a normal and commonplace thing now, watching "big institutions" effectively lie to people/obscuring what's really going on, for any number of things. All while pretending to tell the truth, and screeching at people (or suing them) who get close to the truth hidden beneath the smoke screen. Worse: They saw what was under it, and said it out loud, and other people heard it. At this point on one end of the spectrum, we have the people who just cling to Official_NarrativesTM like Linus hugging his blanket, no matter how nonsensical or absurd. We have friends whose minds sort of broke, and have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole Most of us are somewhere in between. At this point, we're all trying to re-map reality, full well knowing how normalized dishonesty is now |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 11:04:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm just the dork whos parents listened to rush when he first came on (and I did after that for most of my life) and I got to read a lot of stuff that was conservative. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: FlashMan, you have been Geralted. You are now in the company of some of the best social philosophers in ARFCOM. https://media.tenor.com/Ic7HkzSJnV8AAAAC/witcher-the-witcher.gif [gravely whisper] "Flash is a wise fellow, and GD should pay attention to his insights" You strike me as a guy who was a gamer and not terribly involved in politics who got ... "wilded" by the game journos and reacted by becoming politically aware. Is my guess far off? A bit, but there's a neat easter egg in there I was someone who - when all the people my age went gaga for Jon Stewart, I could sit there in silence and not laugh. Leftie hack. "He's a comedian!" Well, yes, also, he's a left wing activist. I remember trying to explain, "Yes wikipedia is biased toward the left, why did Obama's wiki page suddenly have all mention of certain things scrubbed after he won the primary in 2008? Pages of right wing figures have ridiculous things that stay no matter what?" "Yes snopes is biased, seriously read some of these?" "Yes Google is biased - look at the google doodles. Look at the days they find important, and the ones they don't. Watch how they disappear Breitbart from results for hurting their feelings, but leftie news outlets stay no matter what they get wrong, or what they claim" People would laugh at me for saying stuff like this ^ years ago, that we allll know to be true now and accept to be true, and it's a mainstream view. There's a lot of us on this board who lived that, I'm one of them for sure It was amazing to watch the media machine feed a new issue/policy stance/"bad guy" group (usually us or a hobby we like, etc), fed into the stamping machine.BOOM, here is your stance on the issue, now go attack your cousin at the BBQ for disagreeing on _______. Over, and over, and over, on issue after issue. When it came for the video gamers (who were, tbh, often default-lefties the way many young people are) and it redpilled a fuckton of them, I jumped in my chair. They came for a group with the stamping machine and a bunch of them woke up immediately TBH I felt like the french guy in The Patriot following along with them https://64.media.tumblr.com/31799a8b3af496d54258a08e5d1cf0cb/tumblr_inline_op53e2Mqi81rofjpu_250.gif And times, https://i.imgflip.com/5o094j.jpg IMHO they were the Trump kids making Pepe memes They were reposting the embarrassing forbidden emails, that some of the older folks saw, carrying it around the media firewall trying to protect Bill Clinton's side-piece I was absolutely fascinated watching that one, gamergate What gives me hope for the future, lockdowns and jab mandates red-pilled the fuck out of a bunch of today's 20 year olds. Bonus: They're repulsed by the purple-haired mountain-panda-kin, and these are the people who are more likely to reproduce (didn't take literal castration hormones.) I'm just the dork whos parents listened to rush when he first came on (and I did after that for most of my life) and I got to read a lot of stuff that was conservative. That guy was amazing. Absolutely amazing, we're absolutely blessed to have had him It was something else watching gamergate. Already being pretty politically aware, pretty early in it I thought to myself that the gamers were about to get politics shoved down their throat and they wouldn't quite know how to handle it, but that they'd reflexively lash out against ars technica, kotaku, and all those trolls attacking them for no good reason. I'm sure the chan culture was around at least in some form than, but it was like watching that whole group get born. It absolutely was! IMHO a lot of the "B-tards" of 4chan went into politics. Many of them were Trump guys in 2016. One even shouted "PEPE!" at a Hillary Clinton rally. I had an ultra political relative telling me that HC speech was the moment she was turning the corner, that it was over for Orangeman and the right. I kinda smirked, apolitical internet-hooligans thinking conservative politics are "fun" (they had one of their own prank an American Aristocrat), we have an internet groundgrame. Or supercharged with fresh blood. IDK why, but your writing style reminded me of them, but with several years more polish. I can see that, I get that I have a lot of forum miles on me if we're being honest. I can absolutely see where my posting style/internet communication choices have a, for lack of a better way of phrasing it, an "internet person" accent Sort of like southerners have the drawl. I sometime enjoy translating into "4chan" to make our younger GDers laugh I had a college roommate who was obsessed with 4chan, he'd read off the funniest green-texts Some of those were so funny, I'd cry laughing  |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 11:07:46 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We now live in a low trust society. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This ^ is such a normal and commonplace thing now, watching "big institutions" effectively lie to people/obscuring what's really going on, for any number of things. All while pretending to tell the truth, and screeching at people (or suing them) who get close to the truth hidden beneath the smoke screen. Worse: They saw what was under it, and said it out loud, and other people heard it. At this point on one end of the spectrum, we have the people who just cling to Official_NarrativesTM like Linus hugging his blanket, no matter how nonsensical or absurd. We have friends whose minds sort of broke, and have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole Most of us are somewhere in between. At this point, we're all trying to re-map reality, full well knowing how normalized dishonesty is now  We sure do ETA: Know what I find neat though? Enough of us can see through this chaos now We've been sitting here accurately predicting the cope-pieces of the press, the shaming pieces, the denials, all of it Instead of trusting the journalists, we trust eachother. Our little community here is making sense of this mess, and I can't help but feel good about that part  
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Posted: 7/18/2023 11:47:58 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Congrats Harvard marketing degree on the epic success Considering they have retard legacy and affirmative action students as their base it is not surprising. |
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Posted: 7/18/2023 11:56:30 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Never? The customers Bud abandoned didn’t quit drinking beer. They moved to other brands that want them. Those beer makers are still going to need ingredients. They don't use rice. That is a bud thing. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 2:04:27 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We now live in a low trust society. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This ^ is such a normal and commonplace thing now, watching "big institutions" effectively lie to people/obscuring what's really going on, for any number of things. All while pretending to tell the truth, and screeching at people (or suing them) who get close to the truth hidden beneath the smoke screen. Worse: They saw what was under it, and said it out loud, and other people heard it. At this point on one end of the spectrum, we have the people who just cling to Official_NarrativesTM like Linus hugging his blanket, no matter how nonsensical or absurd. We have friends whose minds sort of broke, and have gone down the flat earth rabbit hole Most of us are somewhere in between. At this point, we're all trying to re-map reality, full well knowing how normalized dishonesty is now To be uncharacteristic ... We aren't. Not yet, at least. We are definitely far lower trust than we used to be, even in just my lifetime. My category for low trust societies is what little I know of the topic from the soviets and from waht you see in the ccp. Low trust is when you reflexively train your kids from the youngest age that there are things you cannot ever *ever* say in public. When you are careful what you say to your kids in the home, even. When you never, ever stick your neck out, in any conditions. When your basic default is to try and avoid saying or doing anything you don't have to, because you do not have any trust that it wont be post-facto illegalized. Low trust is when this is so ingrained into your society that toddler age kids can be kidnapped from their families off a crowded street in broad daylight and not only will nobody help, they try to suppress their urge to even look and they hurry to get away. (This was tested by people on the chinese mainland and you can find the videos). I don't think we have the slightest idea how bad endgame of low-trust society is. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 2:16:31 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No problem. I’m clearly joining this thread too late. I didn’t see see any mention in the page one spoilers of how they could win you back, but maybe didn’t read closely enough. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. ... and collected on the first page, multiple times, in the spoilers. Given how I've seen you act with other posts I don't trust your motivations ... if you didn't post the way you do I would have just directly answered you. No problem. I’m clearly joining this thread too late. I didn’t see see any mention in the page one spoilers of how they could win you back, but maybe didn’t read closely enough. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=19#i104767212 HEY AB: wanna fix it? You now have no choice. Either choose the sith emperor and go fully to the dark side, and wind up living hated and loathed by everyone - side with blackrock, and sexual anarchy, and "we're coming for your kids" - or utterly disown the dark side, call it what it is, than prove to everyone you really believe it by consistently for the rest of your lives acting like someone who believes what they are saing. Even when nobody's looking. Or just keep sitting on the judas chair, praying the weight doesn't get to be too much. It's your choice. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=17#i104726834 Hopefully it's bad enough to lose them retail space and more. They deserve it. They won't even admit they were and are wrong to be involved in that stuff, much less quit it with the racist stuff that wink wink nod "doesn't" happen in hiring and firing and the pursuit of obviously wrong ratings protection schemes. Etc. Riddled all throught the thread. In short: realize it's wrong. Believe it is. Fess up that it was wrong, because you publicly said it was right. Do what those beliefs require. Even when nobody's looking. Instead, they are trying to straddle the fence. I guess hoping to win both sides back - corporate equity index either stripped their rating or downgraded it, sexual anarchy bars are unhappy with them, because they did anything besides call us all scummy bigots and tell us "bite my rump." |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 2:19:46 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=19#i104767212 HEY AB: wanna fix it? You now have no choice. Either choose the sith emperor and go fully to the dark side, and wind up living hated and loathed by everyone - side with blackrock, and sexual anarchy, and "we're coming for your kids" - or utterly disown the dark side, call it what it is, than prove to everyone you really believe it by consistently for the rest of your lives acting like someone who believes what they are saing. Even when nobody's looking. Or just keep sitting on the judas chair, praying the weight doesn't get to be too much. It's your choice. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=17#i104726834 Hopefully it's bad enough to lose them retail space and more. They deserve it. They won't even admit they were and are wrong to be involved in that stuff, much less quit it with the racist stuff that wink wink nod "doesn't" happen in hiring and firing and the pursuit of obviously wrong ratings protection schemes. Etc. Riddled all throught the thread. In short: realize it's wrong. Believe it is. Fess up that it was wrong, because you publicly said it was right. Do what those beliefs require. Even when nobody's looking. Instead, they are trying to straddle the fence. I guess hoping to win both sides back - corporate equity index either stripped their rating or downgraded it, sexual anarchy bars are unhappy with them, because they did anything besides call us all scummy bigots and tell us "bite my rump." Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Have they fired that Bitch of Marketing yet? As a “frat boy”, I gotsta’ know She's on .... how to say it ... unofficial totally not fired no way nu-uh ... permanent leave. @BernerLover CEO responsible for all this mess is 1000% not backing down and is trying to ride the fence and thinks that's viable. I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? You mean, should I quote myself from this thread multiple times? Why are you even asking? Oh, sorry if you’ve already mentioned, it’s 24 pages long. I’ve just read the last few posts. ... and collected on the first page, multiple times, in the spoilers. Given how I've seen you act with other posts I don't trust your motivations ... if you didn't post the way you do I would have just directly answered you. No problem. I’m clearly joining this thread too late. I didn’t see see any mention in the page one spoilers of how they could win you back, but maybe didn’t read closely enough. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=19#i104767212 HEY AB: wanna fix it? You now have no choice. Either choose the sith emperor and go fully to the dark side, and wind up living hated and loathed by everyone - side with blackrock, and sexual anarchy, and "we're coming for your kids" - or utterly disown the dark side, call it what it is, than prove to everyone you really believe it by consistently for the rest of your lives acting like someone who believes what they are saing. Even when nobody's looking. Or just keep sitting on the judas chair, praying the weight doesn't get to be too much. It's your choice. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Bud-down-even-more-UPD-7-17-Down-23-6-over-july-4th-/5-2644017/?page=17#i104726834 Hopefully it's bad enough to lose them retail space and more. They deserve it. They won't even admit they were and are wrong to be involved in that stuff, much less quit it with the racist stuff that wink wink nod "doesn't" happen in hiring and firing and the pursuit of obviously wrong ratings protection schemes. Etc. Riddled all throught the thread. In short: realize it's wrong. Believe it is. Fess up that it was wrong, because you publicly said it was right. Do what those beliefs require. Even when nobody's looking. Instead, they are trying to straddle the fence. I guess hoping to win both sides back - corporate equity index either stripped their rating or downgraded it, sexual anarchy bars are unhappy with them, because they did anything besides call us all scummy bigots and tell us "bite my rump." Thanks |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 5:10:39 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 5:14:58 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. That is what I believe as well. But I respect hearing different opinions on it. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 9:18:06 AM EDT
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Watch Charles Barkley’s expletive-filled message to ‘rednecks’ who boycott Bud Light
Charles Barkley sent a strong message over the weekend to those boycotting Bud Light. A video on TikTok, via @NBA24Highlights, showed Barkley at a California bar where he bought a round of drinks before he presented a PSA, Barkley style. “Hey, let me tell you something,” he started, per Mediaite. “All you rednecks or assholes who don’t want to drink Bud Light, (expletive) y’all. Hey, y’all can’t cancel me!” It appears he got a mixed review from the crowd. “Hey, I ain’t worried about getting canceled because let me tell you something, if y’all fire me and give me all that money, I’m gonna be playing golf every (expletive) day. So listen, as I said last night, if you’re gay, God bless you. If you’re trans, God bless you. And if you have a problem with them – (expletive) you,” Barkley said. https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/watch-charles-barkleys-strong-message-to-rednecks-who-boycott-bud-light-you-cant-cancel-me.html Video at link. If suburban white guys would turn off the pro-sports ball this shit would go away. We prop up those who hate us. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 10:38:25 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If suburban white guys would turn off the pro-sports ball this shit would go away. We prop up those who hate us. Absolutely this. It sucks away hours of time and billions of dollars, and fans have nothing to show for it. The fans haven’t done anything, improved themselves in any way, or received anything. They just spend time and money on people who hate them and everything about them. I really just don’t understand why people keep watching grown men play children’s games (and often paying for the privilege). If you love the game, get out and play it with a local team. |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 11:00:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Absolutely this. It sucks away hours of time and billions of dollars, and fans have nothing to show for it. The fans haven’t done anything, improved themselves in any way, or received anything. They just spend time and money on people who hate them and everything about them. I really just don’t understand why people keep watching grown men play children’s games (and often paying for the privilege). If you love the game, get out and play it with a local team. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If suburban white guys would turn off the pro-sports ball this shit would go away. We prop up those who hate us. Absolutely this. It sucks away hours of time and billions of dollars, and fans have nothing to show for it. The fans haven’t done anything, improved themselves in any way, or received anything. They just spend time and money on people who hate them and everything about them. I really just don’t understand why people keep watching grown men play children’s games (and often paying for the privilege). If you love the game, get out and play it with a local team. You are completely right about this. But most of same logic in your first paragraph also applies to posting on Arfcom |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 11:14:53 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don't believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I'll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say "that's cool, all good, let's all go back to drinking Bud Light"? No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 12:43:51 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was someone who - when all the people my age went gaga for Jon Stewart, I could sit there in silence and not laugh. Leftie hack. "He's a comedian!" Well, yes, also, he's a left wing activist. I remember in college when the daily show with thar douche was becoming popular. Couldn't stand him then and my opinion of him has only worsened over the decades |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 12:47:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I don’t believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I’ll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say “that’s cool, all good, let’s all go back to drinking Bud Light”? No, it's not a boycott. They have been permanently canceled. There is no way to undo what has been done. It is as permanent as cutting your dick off. Agreed. People will realize there is better beer out there, not just craft beer, and not go back |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 11:14:22 PM EDT
[#41]
https://www.westernjournal.com/lone-member-splits-beer-compliance-board-says-bud-light-violated-code-marketing-minors/
Lone Member Splits with Beer Compliance Board, Says Bud Light Violated Code by Marketing to Minors Now, a dissenting vote in a review board that monitors beer industry marketing has accused it of doing something even worse — and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday was making sure Americans know it. First, the good news for the beleaguered beer brand. According to Newsweek, a 2-1 vote of the Beer Instittute’s Code Compliance Review Board found that Bud Light had not violated marketing codes through its partnership with the now-notorious “transgender” influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The bad news is, that one vote against Bud Light could hurt. ... But the losing vote — cast by former Tennessee state Judge Paul Summers ... As Summers wrote, according to the committee’s news release: “The entertainer enjoyed being accepted by young children. The actor celebrated the 365 days of ‘Girlhood.’ An actor, entertainer, or social media influencer, Mulvaney appeals to persons below the legal drinking age with a ‘special attractiveness.’ Mulvaney is especially attractive to young teens and girls; is often recognized as preadolescent; and caters to very young people. [Anheuser-Busch] knew all this, or the company’s leadership should have known.” Please note the ... (ellipses). This article is not easy to TL : DR shorten. See and read the original. I have given a very truncated summary. Here is the senate discussion of the finding: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/7/former-state-judge-and-ag-sides-with-sen-cruz-on-bud-light-s-controversial-dylan-mulvaney-campaign Here is the board's finding, with the judge's dissent: https://www.beerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CCRB-Dylan-Mulvaney-Complaint-Packet-with-Decisions-7.18.23.pdf From the linked board paperwork and finding: Context- Nature of Complaint: Senators Cruz and Blackburn allege that by affiliating with Dylan Mulvaney, a social media influencer, Anheuser-Busch Companies violated the Beer Institute Advertising and Marketing Code Section 3(c)(i) and Buying Guidelines prohibiting marketing to individuals younger than the legal drinking age. Dissenting member's full statement in the fold: Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 7/19/2023 11:26:12 PM EDT
[#42]
How about providing alcohol to minors? Tack that on. Presuming the can wasn't empty.
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Posted: 7/20/2023 12:18:45 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't believe there is anything they could say to make people happy. Once a lynch mob is fired up, guilt or innocence is irrelevant, they are going to hang someone. But I'll ask the question: is there anything the CEO could say or disclose that would make you say "that's cool, all good, let's all go back to drinking Bud Light"? But then, I'm the forgiving type. |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 7:06:12 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Seppuku with no kaishakunin and with an apology written in his own blood as a rhyming haiku would be acceptable. But then, I'm the forgiving type. Attached File |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 10:33:23 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/20/2023 10:38:08 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup. Then Lucas got greedy and inserted the ridiculous, toy friendly, fuzzy midgets in episode 6.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: IIRC this is also why lucas took a % off the toy sales and was considered a genius for doing so. Then Lucas got greedy and inserted the ridiculous, toy friendly, fuzzy midgets in episode 6. Ka=ching! Brilliance! (for selling toys to tiny people- and nerds) |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 10:47:39 AM EDT
[#47]
Last year's press release for second quarter earnings was July 28.
I bet we're getting close to some information? I don't know who Zack is, but he expects earnings per-share decrease of over 8% year over year. https://www.zacks.com/stock/research/BUD/earnings-calendar It's a start. |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 11:32:36 PM EDT
[#48]
Desantis is going after AB for putting funds at risk.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets Florida Governor Ron DeSantis instructed the State Board of Administration (SBA) to launch a inquiry of the global equity assets that it holds with Anheuser-Busch InBev following the fallout the company has faced after one of its top brands, Bud Light, engaged in paid marketing engagement with a controversial transgender influencer.
DeSantis sent a letter to SBA Interim Executive Director Lamar Taylor highlighting the nearly 30 percent loss in sales the company saw during the month of June. The SBA is an asset management organization responsible for investing Florida’s state and local government assets. “As sales of AB InBev products within the U.S. continue to precipitously decline, reports are now emerging that large American mainstays like Costco will be pulling Bud Light from the shelves,” the 44-year-old Republican presidential candidate wrote. “Clearly, the Board’s mismanagement — as well as its failure to remediate the problem and repair its relationship with millions of disaffected American consumers — has led to this impasse and will continue to financially harm the SBA and other shareholders.” DeSantis said it was critical that the SBA remain committed to its legal obligations to “prudently manage the funds of Florida’s hardworking law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and first responders in a manner that focuses on growing returns, not subsidizing an ideological agenda through woke virtue signaling.” “I therefore request that you immediately initiate a review to examine how AB InBev’s conduct has impacted and continues to impact the value of SBA’s AB InBev holdings,” the governor said. “It appears to me that AB InBev may have breached legal duties owed to its shareholders, and that a shareholder action may be both appropriate and necessary. To protect SBA and the retirees of Florida from losses attributable to AB InBev’s disregard of those duties, all options are on the table.” |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 11:47:51 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Desantis is going after AB for putting funds at risk. https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets Florida Governor Ron DeSantis instructed the State Board of Administration (SBA) to launch a inquiry of the global equity assets that it holds with Anheuser-Busch InBev following the fallout the company has faced after one of its top brands, Bud Light, engaged in paid marketing engagement with a controversial transgender influencer. DeSantis sent a letter to SBA Interim Executive Director Lamar Taylor highlighting the nearly 30 percent loss in sales the company saw during the month of June. The SBA is an asset management organization responsible for investing Florida’s state and local government assets. “As sales of AB InBev products within the U.S. continue to precipitously decline, reports are now emerging that large American mainstays like Costco will be pulling Bud Light from the shelves,” the 44-year-old Republican presidential candidate wrote. “Clearly, the Board’s mismanagement — as well as its failure to remediate the problem and repair its relationship with millions of disaffected American consumers — has led to this impasse and will continue to financially harm the SBA and other shareholders.” DeSantis said it was critical that the SBA remain committed to its legal obligations to “prudently manage the funds of Florida’s hardworking law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and first responders in a manner that focuses on growing returns, not subsidizing an ideological agenda through woke virtue signaling.” “I therefore request that you immediately initiate a review to examine how AB InBev’s conduct has impacted and continues to impact the value of SBA’s AB InBev holdings,” the governor said. “It appears to me that AB InBev may have breached legal duties owed to its shareholders, and that a shareholder action may be both appropriate and necessary. To protect SBA and the retirees of Florida from losses attributable to AB InBev’s disregard of those duties, all options are on the table.” This pleases me and are positive points in the Desantis column. |
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Posted: 7/21/2023 12:10:59 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Desantis is going after AB for putting funds at risk. https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets Florida Governor Ron DeSantis instructed the State Board of Administration (SBA) to launch a inquiry of the global equity assets that it holds with Anheuser-Busch InBev following the fallout the company has faced after one of its top brands, Bud Light, engaged in paid marketing engagement with a controversial transgender influencer. DeSantis sent a letter to SBA Interim Executive Director Lamar Taylor highlighting the nearly 30 percent loss in sales the company saw during the month of June. The SBA is an asset management organization responsible for investing Florida’s state and local government assets. “As sales of AB InBev products within the U.S. continue to precipitously decline, reports are now emerging that large American mainstays like Costco will be pulling Bud Light from the shelves,” the 44-year-old Republican presidential candidate wrote. “Clearly, the Board’s mismanagement — as well as its failure to remediate the problem and repair its relationship with millions of disaffected American consumers — has led to this impasse and will continue to financially harm the SBA and other shareholders.” DeSantis said it was critical that the SBA remain committed to its legal obligations to “prudently manage the funds of Florida’s hardworking law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and first responders in a manner that focuses on growing returns, not subsidizing an ideological agenda through woke virtue signaling.” “I therefore request that you immediately initiate a review to examine how AB InBev’s conduct has impacted and continues to impact the value of SBA’s AB InBev holdings,” the governor said. “It appears to me that AB InBev may have breached legal duties owed to its shareholders, and that a shareholder action may be both appropriate and necessary. To protect SBA and the retirees of Florida from losses attributable to AB InBev’s disregard of those duties, all options are on the table.” Oh damn! Odds the Bill_Kristol types will drop the articles talking about how DangerousTM this is?  Something about "our precious norms" or whatever? (while the left, tired of getting people fired for 11 year old joke tweets that were funny - is now getting around to de-banking people of course). |
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