“Cancel culture” lmao. Dude used his position as a pillow salesman to spread conspiracy theories and now has to bear the consequences.
“Let he who has not spread lies that instigated an attempted fascist coup throw the first pillow.” -Jesus
It’s “free market”, which is different from capitalism. Capitalism needs a free market to function fairly (and it’s just a prerequisite, not a guarantee), but a free market doesn’t need capitalism.
Really funny how they always talk about cancle culture but they are always the ones calling for boycotting.
If they didn’t have projection, hypocrisy, and a perpetual victim complex would they really be MAGA Republicans anymore?
It’s unreal how the “Party of Personal Responsibility” is chock full of people who NEVER accept the consequences of their actions…
That’s not entirely true. I boycott places I don’t agree with all of the time. Be it religious views that affect policy, political views, or a range of others things, there’s almost always an alternative that I’d rather give my money to.
Is it a boycott if it’s just me participating?
No, it isn’t just you. “Cancel Culture” is another of those pejoritive terms the right is so fond of. Making decisions about where to spend your money based on the behavior of the companies is a one of the few ways we have to influence corporations (and politicians).
The extreme right seems to have given up o boycotts and moved on to direct physical attacks as their preferred methods of influence.
Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a man who won a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest at his 2021 “cyber-symposium” where he challenged experts to examine his data, which he claimed proved Donald Trump really won the 2020 election.
It didn’t, and one expert who looked at the data demanded the prize.
Lindell refused to pay, so the case went to court, where he lost.
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What’s even better is that the guy in question - Robert Zeidman - is, in fact a Trump supporter. But as a data analytics engineer, he wasn’t able to fool himself with bullshit data.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I’m an aerospace engineer and I know MAGA aerospace engineers and if Trump were to say something along the lines of “we’re gonna cut the cost of designing an aircraft by loosening the safety requirements”, they would be able to articulate exactly why we shouldn’t do that. Their inability to translate that into things like deadly virus precautions is another matter but when they know he’s wrong, they know.
It’s just that so so so few of them could even pass a GED…
I learned there’s an actual phenomenon called, Gell-Mann Amnesia, that speaks to this phenomenon.
Man, I wish I could say the same about medical device professionals. I left this job but I was a sr engineer under a manager who has been working in med devices for 30+ years.
Back when the whole hydroxychloroquine thing was being spouted by Trump, manager who has TONS of experience about why the FDA does testing and safety testing in medicine, would regularly tell us that we should demand our doctors give us hydroxychloroquine and we should take it along with multiple vitamin D pills a day, etc. he would tell us how he’d NEVER been sick despite us all knowing he was the type who came in constantly with a cough/sneeze fit.
He also had a bunch of idiotic takes on the 2016 election (I escaped before getting to hear his 2020 versions).
He was a shitty manager but the FDA thing was the one area where I was like “damn you’re even idiotic in our area of expertise”. He wasn’t the only one there who was a MAGA dope either unfortunately
That sounds like you’re saying the MAGA aerospace engineers couldn’t get a GED…
Ah yes, “cancel culture” from the “go woke go broke” crowd.
“They did cancel culture on us.” LOL Just pictured him with his hands in his pockets and kicking dirt while saying it.
