Boycott...Target? - Page 5

Kevy Baby · 08-02-2010, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I'm not sure how I feel about the boycott.

I'm sure the boycott is having the same consternation about you as well.

Disneyphile · 08-02-2010, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Perhaps, but it's probably hard to run a viable graphics and video editing business in Amish communities.

And, thus my point about catering to one's own personal morals and ethics to remain happy.

Gemini Cricket · 08-02-2010, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I'm sure the boycott is having the same consternation about you as well.

Well, as a gay, I am participating in a lifetime girlcott.

Chernabog · 08-02-2010, 04:17 PM

Screw target, what about best buy?!?!? I shop there all the friggin time .... *sigh*

However, I do think that Target is deserving of some sh!t slung at them.

Here's a little more on the whole subject on Towleroad. To me it is just like Target supporting a hate group like Focus on the Family, to which I would also stop going there.

As someone commented in one of those threads (at the risk of Godwinning himself, I guess), it would be like sending money to Hitler because he had a robust economic policy, even though you had some problems with his "Jew policy." I have to say I agree, given the nasty things that Minnesota PAC candidate has said.

flippyshark · 08-02-2010, 04:32 PM

Right now, it sounds like Emmer is trailing in the polls. I do wonder if his defeat would have the effect of making this controversy pretty much fade away immediately.

Strangler Lewis · 08-02-2010, 05:03 PM

Say what you will about Hitler . . .

Morrigoon · 08-02-2010, 08:01 PM

... but he made the trains run on time?

€uroMeinke · 08-02-2010, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

... but he made the trains run on time?

I think that was Mussolini

Morrigoon · 08-02-2010, 11:18 PM

Oh damn, you're probably right

Gemini Cricket · 08-03-2010, 05:51 PM

Well, I gave the matter some thought and I have to say that I agree with the boycott. More so because it shines a light on the new law that lets corporations contribute a lot of money to political campaigns. I don't think corporations should pick our lawmakers. That is, if money equals votes which it seems to some of the time. If anything, it'll give Target some bad press and they'll rethink what was done. No, I don't think it will affect their bottom line, but it will make them pause for a sec. Even though I prefer going to Target, I am reaffirmed in my thinking that no corporation is a saint.

08-02-2010, 04:17 PM	#44
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Screw target, what about best buy?!?!? I shop there all the friggin time .... sigh However, I do think that Target is deserving of some sh!t slung at them. Here's a little more on the whole subject on Towleroad. To me it is just like Target supporting a hate group like Focus on the Family, to which I would also stop going there. As someone commented in one of those threads (at the risk of Godwinning himself, I guess), it would be like sending money to Hitler because he had a robust economic policy, even though you had some problems with his "Jew policy." I have to say I agree, given the nasty things that Minnesota PAC candidate has said. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	Right now, it sounds like Emmer is trailing in the polls. I do wonder if his defeat would have the effect of making this controversy pretty much fade away immediately.
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Say what you will about Hitler . . . __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	... but he made the trains run on time? __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Oh damn, you're probably right __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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08-03-2010, 05:51 PM	#50
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Well, I gave the matter some thought and I have to say that I agree with the boycott. More so because it shines a light on the new law that lets corporations contribute a lot of money to political campaigns. I don't think corporations should pick our lawmakers. That is, if money equals votes which it seems to some of the time. If anything, it'll give Target some bad press and they'll rethink what was done. No, I don't think it will affect their bottom line, but it will make them pause for a sec. Even though I prefer going to Target, I am reaffirmed in my thinking that no corporation is a saint.
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