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Twitter is exposing all the companies/execs/workers which support conservative politicians. (Taco Bell, In N Out, KFC, Coachella, Equinox, and more)

Do you care about the donations made by brands you use?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1,260 72.6%

  • No

    Votes: 197 11.4%

  • I care but won’t change consuming behavior over it

    Votes: 278 16.0%
  • Total voters
    1,735

BAD

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Oct 25, 2017
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This college student sort of got the ball rolling in my feed:


Which led to promo of this app that tracks brands and their political donations (it kind of annoyingly doesn't take sides but oh well, we stan Vote With Me for standing up for something):

Goods Unite Us - Open Politics by Goods Unite Us Inc.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goods-unite-us-open-politics/id1295147058


Some celebs have jumped in:


So what brands do you know are supporting bigots?

EDIT: Let me add this post since it's fair to note employee culture here
Squirrel Killer said:
Just as a point of order, keep in mind that these contributions are aggregated from the FEC data, which reports donors' occupations and employers. As OpenSecrets says:

The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
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That's how you get, for example, "Chick-Fil-A" donating $3,518 to Trump, $3,134 to Sanders, and $2 to Nanette Barragan. In fact, if you dig in to the data, all but $10k of "Chick-FIl-A's" 2016 donations were from individuals. And if I'm reading the FEC report on the "Georgians First Fund" correctly, that $10k appears to be a PAC for Dan Cathy that didn't actually distribute any of it's money to candidates.
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Dark Knight

Dark Knight

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I go to literally none of those places, thankfully.

Surprised at coachella lol
 
WoahW

WoahW

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Oct 27, 2017
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Is anyone shocked major companies are backing someone giving them huge tax breaks and shit like really? I don't think the companies are racist they just like the money they get to stash away
 
Mcfrank

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BAD said:
This college student sort of got the ball rolling in my feed:


Which led to promo of this app that tracks brands and their political donations (it kind of annoyingly doesn't take sides but oh well, we stan Vote With Me for standing up for something):

Goods Unite Us - Open Politics by Goods Unite Us Inc.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goods-unite-us-open-politics/id1295147058

Some celebs have jumped in:


So what brands do you know are supporting bigots?
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It is pretty impossible to avoid every doing business with a company that has shitty people in leadership.
 
Box

Box

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm not helping trump by buying a Big Mac in the UK am I? That's going to be a serious internal conflict if so!
 

Zelas

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Oct 25, 2017
6,020
I care but i'd be surprised if most do considering the support Chik fil A still receives not just as a donor, but as an active participant against LGBTQ folk.
 
Commedieu

Commedieu

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Nov 11, 2017
15,025
taco bell!?!?!

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Servbot24

Servbot24

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Oct 25, 2017
43,041
I'd like to boycott them but I already never use them. Fast food is trash, eat some carrots and almonds instead.
 
Inugami

Inugami

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Oct 25, 2017
14,995
This just proves that A: Corporations will shill for anyone willing to give them tax breaks and B: Because of A, we should not be allowing corporations any say by donating to politicians.
 
Wraith

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Hey, while everyone seems to be on this Equinox thing, it might be a good time to mention that one of Trump's largest financial contributors is the chairman of Marvel Entertainment (Isaac Perlmutter)..... jussayin.
— Armie Hammer (@armiehammer) August 9, 2019
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Marvel Entertainment, chaired by Isaac Perlmutter, runs the Television, Comics, Animation and Games divisions. (A separate entity from Marvel Studios, which handles the films (and a few upcoming TV series).)
In August 2018 non-profit news organization ProPublica reported that Trump had informally authorized three members of his Mar-a-Lago club to direct policy at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and issue instructions to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peter O'Rourke. Perlmutter was named among the three.[22] The author of the article obtained "hundreds of documents" through the Freedom of Information Act that show the three were in daily contact with the agency, "reviewing all manner of policy and personnel decisions" and that "they prodded the VA to start new programs, and officials travelled to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to hear their views."[22]
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He has continued donating, recently giving $360,000—the maximum amount—to Trump's reelection campaign. He has also appeared with Trump at press conferences and at the U.S. Central Command Headquarters.
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Perlmutter and his wife have donated almost $600,000 to Trump's presidential campaign in 2019, according to Federal Election Commission records. The Perlmutters also regularly donate to conservative causes.
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And this was weird:
Perlmutter takes great pride in never having given an interview over his entire career despite being in the public eye due to his many court battles and bankruptcy fights.[3] He has rarely been spontaneously photographed.[3][21][17]
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captive

captive

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WoahW said:
Is anyone shocked major companies are backing someone giving them huge tax breaks and shit like really? I don't think the companies are racist they just like the money they get to stash away
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That's great, when Republicans were dog whistle racist. Now they're full blown white nationalists.

If I was VP level at any of these places I'd be like yo, there's more people that don't support these things than do, let's market to that affect. We can afford to lose them.

I'd then be fired but at least I said it.
 
Darryl M R

Darryl M R

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm not a customer at the current companies listed, but I also understand that if an industry monopoly for your area supported this administration, then you don't have a lot of choices.
 
Sidebuster

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I was like, "Yup, I'll not buy from all of those." Then I realized that all my local farmers are Trump supporters as well. So... Is there even a point? I don't know what I could do?
 
P-Bo

P-Bo

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Goddammit Wendy's.

No surprise about Perlmutter. Guy sounds like scum from what I heard.
 
Inugami

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Commedieu said:
and that these companies donating to fascism and white supremacy.
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Oh they certainly are, but it's 100% (okay, maybe 90%) a side thing for them. If Warren ran on a platform of zero taxes for corporations because "they make jobs" they'd jump just as fast over there. It's cut and dry, they view these donations as an investment that will allow them more profits in the long term.

It's just as gross, and the results are just as bad... but it's less directly motivated by hate than say, Chik Fila when it donates to anti-gay 'charities' since that is 100% their only function, and there is no direct benefit to their business.
 
zou

zou

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Assigning individual contributions to their employer is bullshit and completely meaningless.
 
Zojirushi

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Everyone should use this as an excuse to finally stop spending money on shit Marvel movies lol
 

SwimmingCampaign

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Sidebuster said:
I was like, "Yup, I'll not buy from all of those." Then I realized that all my local farmers are Trump supporters as well. So... Is there even a point? I don't know what I could do?
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You're not going to beat Trump or the Republicans by boycotting him, no. The best case scenario, you might get enough people to boycott that maybe a couple of those corporations stop donating to Trump directly, but you probably can't stop them from donating to Republicans entirely.

Meanwhile, even if you don't put your dollars towards them, you're just as likely going to be putting money towards another corporation that's doing something equally fucked up, like exploiting foreign labor and resources in completely egregious ways.
 
StarCreator

StarCreator

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Of the initial list Wendy's and Waffle House were the only ones I visited with any amount of frequency. I've been trying to make my own meals lately and I guess I have all that much more reason to keep it up now.
 

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Most of these will be easy enough to walk away from except for Marvel and Pizza Hut. I'm still yet to find someone who out pizzas them.
 
gcubed

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zou said:
Assigning individual contributions to their employer is bullshit and completely meaningless.
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I came to see if this is what happened, and agree that if this list is that, it's stupid. If it's founders, etc then yes I see... But just employees is meaningless, stupid and dangerous
 
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