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You're in New Zealand?
What the fuck are you even interacting with me for? You're an even bigger waste of my time than I originally thought. I was mainly just annoyed that you have followed multiple of my posts with your stupid fucking memes. I'd say that I hope you drop over dead from a sudden stroke, but it's more likely I'll stop participating here before that happens.
Also, I know you're blind, but pictures shouldn't take up half a page (Page 14), so quit being a lazy fuck and resize those.
I also think some of you are closeted, for the record.
I'm not even kidding. I swear to whatever exists that I have seen more male sexual imagery on this site than I have seen at every other site I have ever viewed in my entire life, combined.
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AB issued a dividend on April 10, moron.Quote:
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Anheuser Busch's dumb partnership with Dylan Mulvaney came from their marketing VP, Alissa Heinerscheid.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lvaney-ad.html
She's a woke chick who felt that Bud Light long had an image that was "too fratty", and that it was "in decline". She claimed that the brand had to appeal to a younger demographic, or otherwise its drinkers would die off or age out of buying it, and the brand would die.
This was supposedly her attempt to appeal to the younger crowd, and introduce the brand to a demographic where Bud Light was no longer doing well.
On the surface this could sound smart, but the problem is that Bud Light isn't in decline because it has an image of being consumed by toxic men. It's in decline because it sucks, and people are simply choosing other options which don't suck as much.
I don't think they will pick up enough new customers from this woke positioning to make up for customers they lose due to the controversy. Keep in mind that this move hurts all Anheuser Busch brands, not just Bud Light.
Dylan Mulvaney is just such a weird person for woke corporations to get behind. This is not a serious trans person just quietly trying to live life after transition. This is a flamboyant gay man who now adopts every negative stereotype about women as if it's cute, and is clearly on this entire campaign for attention and fame. Plus the dude's obsession with tampons is just plain weird.
To say that Bud Light sucks is a major understatement. I won't drink it. Not because of this recent bullshit. But, because it tastes awful. If i go somewhere and they only have Bud Light, I will drink agua..Quote:
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The beer does suck, but a lot of beer that sucks have made resurgences.Quote:
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What made it such an idiotic move was not grasping who currently drinks her beer. I pay attention to what young poor people drink out of curiosity. Or what middle-aged blue collar dudes drink.
I see a lot of Busch Light now being drank amongst the dive bar crowd. Having owned more than a few neighborhood bars, that surprises me. I was long out of that world by the time that transition took place. Busch was considered garbage then. I recall the PBR hipster period and found it strange that a beer I associated with steel workers from another generation became hip with kids.
It’s a lot like Champion sports wear. Champion was garbage on a rack for $8 for decades and you wouldn’t be caught dead in it.
In PBR’s case, it was kind of a grass roots movement that was almost anti-marketing and hipsters romanticized 70s culture a lot. From everything I read, there was a concerted effort to run a grass roots campaign that was to never look like a marketing campaign. Really smart. Started in Portland and spread across the country.
In Champions case, they laid out heavy money to influencers to simply be seen in it and it took a decades dead company back into selling $90 hoodies.
Both really smart choices given who they were trying to appeal to.
This was idiotic. Inexpensive shit beer is for frat boys and the uneducated, the group least likely to drink some beer with a fucking ladyboy on the can. They took your grandpas Budweiser and put a chick with a dick on it.
This trans shit is baffling. It really doesn’t have wide support from anyone outside the wokest kids. I know gay people over 30 and most are of the opinion they’re shoving this shit down people’s throats. That woke urban demographic also aren’t big drinkers, they are vapers and if they drink at all, likely to drink some weird alcohol/fruit drink with a Red Bull chaser. They aren’t going to flip to Bud Light, and even if they did, they aren’t enough in numbers and don’t drink hard enough. It’s like the casino business, you make your money off every day problem drinkers. Now the construction dude will get his balls busted drinking some ladyboy beer and some small percentage will switch to another shit beer.
Just incredibly dumb marketing. Might not kill the brand, but definitely will hurt.
I'm going to attempt to address this intelligently and in opposition to the most socially conservative talking points possible, though I understand that I am probably wasting my fingertips.
The first assumption that is in error is that of the majority of loyal Bud Light drinkers being uneducated and inbred Evangelical hicks who would actually give a shit about such a thing. While that may be true in some parts of the United States, there is simply no getting around the fact that Bud Light remains the number one selling beer, in the world, as part of the #1 selling brewery, in the world.
I used to bartend. Who drank Bud Light? In short: 75% of everyone.
Even if that assumption were correct for the United States, which I think is debatable because only Far Right mouth-breathers are even going to give a fuck who is promoting Bud Light, the company looks financially strong in just about every respect. Beyond that, North America (not just the USA) doesn't even account for 20% of the company's beer sales, so even if this move disenfranchised all US Bud Light drinkers, which it won't, it hardly matters when AB InBev could literally lose the entire US market and still have massive operating profits; more than that, they would remain the #1 brewery in the world.
AB InBev is headquartered in Belgium, which is a part of the European Union and both the EU and Belgium are significantly more socially liberal than we are, on average. When it comes to the Europeans I have spoken with, they really don't understand why the whole trans, 'Debate,' even if you want to glorify it enough (on either side) to call it a debate is such a hot button topic here.
Simply put, a massive...massive...massive...percentage of AB InBev customers simply aren't going to give a shit about this either way.
And...who do you have representing the mainstream on the other side? You have Travis Tritt, a long since irrelevant country singer who, in order to look like a transwoman, would only actually need to shave his goatee. After him, you have professional poser, Kid Rock, who has made his career switching genres as if playing musical chairs, absolutely sucks and is an idiot. The same Kid Rock who wrote songs detailing the virtues of prostitution, drug use and a, "Fuck the police," attitude---real paragon of Evangelical social values, that one. I guess some of his raps were misogynistic, so perhaps that was good enough for them.
So...fighting out of the red corner, a poser who has never seemed to have any actual values whatsoever and a washed-up country star who hasn't been relevant in two decades.
And then you have idiots who are going to pretend a ~2% drop in stock price isn't just statistical noise in a five day period.
How's AB Inbev doing over the last month? What's that? Up 9.74% and beating the market by over 3.5%, you say? Oh yeah, the end is clearly near.
The saddest thing is you think that you people actually matter. You don't. Nobody really does, but it's cute that you think that.
Never any light beers for me, but I'd have always taken a Busch or a PBR over a Budweiser---nice and frothy mouthfeel on those. Bud is trash.
Honestly, I think it's just a sad state of affairs being reflected that so many people would give a shit about this at all. Trans, not trans, why the fuck would I ever care who is promoting Budweiser and why would that ever change my purchasing decisions? That would be like me looking into every promoter for any other product and saying, "Oh, they're a Baptist---time for me to stop buying that company's shit!" Dolts.
TL : DR---Extreme conservatism is a mental disorder.
(I had to insert spaces or the 'D' became an emoji with the colon immediately before it. Another commentary on where we're at, intellectually, as a society.) :D
I'm almost done.
And, then...you have Dylan Mulvaney.
What I find most interesting about Dylan Mulvaney is that most Far Right Evangelical mouth breathers are likely to know more about this person than I do. What do I know? I know that Mulvaney is, evidently, some sort of trans individual who AB InBev compelled to promote Bud Light, in some capacity. That is where my knowledge both begins and will ever end.
Probably half of the Far Right Conservatives probably spent an hour plus researching this individual.
To say that they're obsessed would be an understatement. They're like little Energizer Bunnies of retardation; the best part is you don't have to do much to wind them up.
And...what is it that they're worried about in the Bible Belt? Are they worried that their little towns of 1,000-ish people, whose ancestral lineage can be traced back to...what...probably eight or nine people only by going back five generations...are going to suddenly be overrun by trans people and that the property values on their shanties are going to drop?
Could you imagine---some guy takes a trip to Kohl's with his stupid, mouth-breathing, Evangelical family of retards...
"Oh my God, Billy Bob, I took the ol' bitch and the little shits to Kohl's and there was one of them heshes there. It was terrible!"
"What happened, Jethro?"
"Lord have mercy, Billy Bob, but this person asked if an employee could check the back to see if they had a pair of shoes they wanted in their size, then they bought some clothes...it was terrible! Worst part was I had the kids with me---Atticus is only six and HE SAW THAT!!! What if he becomes one of them tranny queers now?"
"Just make sure to pray, Jethro. Ain't no child of a man who prayed ever turned into any queer. Not once, ever. God willin' and the creek don't rise he'll never even see such a thing again."
Bunch of fucking retards. A little bit of nuance. This whole men in womens' sports thing wouldn't even be happening right now, or, if it did, we'd all be on the same side (against) if it wasn't for the Evangelicals constantly fueling the fire. First it was gay panic, now it's trans panic.
Of course the Far Left is going to validate this shit---because they know it pisses you off! If the Evangelicals would simply learn to stop giving a shit about things that, for the most part, don't impact them personally, then the other side wouldn't get such delight in shoving it further down their throats.
So much free real estate in the minds of social conservatives; of course, since so much of their brains consist of vacant lots, I guess it makes sense.
30 Pages? Extremism is the key word as far as mental disorders are concerned.
The adjective “extreme” is associated with a minority. It’s played out on this forum increasingly.
When you have American citizens backing communist Russia you are witnessing extremism
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LOL NO THEY DIDNT. HIS POST STILL SUCKS THO CUZ HE POSTED A LINE CHART.
Get it right.
Jk, fuck Putin for his flagrant violation of the endangered species act.
Fyi the endangered species is white people
Elon mops the floor with him...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJKAnN0-gM
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Libs are asleep at the wheel while the dollar is being decimated on the world market, crime is ridiculous, inflation out of control, children being sexualized and mutilated while womens rights are being stomped on by men pretending to be women.
Yes, conservatives are screaming in the lib cesspool.
STFU.
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Let's explore this for a second....
First, we will start by looking at the fifteen most dangerous cities in the US:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabe...h=599398184b25
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St. Louis, Missouri
Mobile, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Detroit, Michigan
Cleveland, Ohio
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Little Rock, Arkansas
Oakland, California
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kansas City, Missouri
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2.) Red state.
3.) Red state.
***Wait a minute---Alabama is two of the top three? The fuck are you Christians doing down there? Get your shit under control, boys!
4.) Blue state.
5.) Red state.
6.) Blue state.
7.) Red state.
8.) Blue Governor, red state.
9.) ***
10.) ***
11.) Red state.
12.) Blue.
13.) Blue.
14.) Red.
15.) Blue
It's almost as if, when it comes to violent crimes...which is to say the crimes that actually matter the most...it really doesn't matter what color the state is or the Christian leanings of same.
With that out of the way---let's investigate why major cities would tend to have the most crime.
When it comes to literally anything that a person could want, whether it be soup kitchens, jobs, drugs, hookers, shit to do, bowling alleys, shopping----it really doesn't matter, big cities are more likely to have it in abundance than small towns. As a necessary result, larger cities are more likely to attract every element of people than are smaller towns.
I would argue that this is especially true for certain coastal cities as those places are going to, in general, have more temperate climates than are bigger cities located in colder areas. The expected result of this, of course, is that these cities are going to be generally more attractive to homeless people because...you guessed it...they won't die from cold there.
Of course, we see a similar story when we look at property crimes:
https://247wallst.com/special-report...rty-crimes/11/
Interestingly, the Top Five here are all red states, with two of the top three being Utah, though again, Louisiana presently has a Democratic Governor.
#'s 6-10 are also all red states, with the exception of Roseville, Minnesota.
With that, when we look at actual crime rates per capita, it would appear that the color of the state makes very little difference, or if it makes a difference at all, red states are actually slightly worse than blue ones.
So, we can look at some cases of shoplifting/theft in San Francisco, and other cities, tents on the sidewalk...whatever...and point to how bad those cities are, but that fails to take into account that those cities have HUGE populations, so the actual crime rate might not even be as high as that of a great many other cities.
Is that a defense of San Francisco? Absolutely not. The place is an absolute hellhole, but again, when you look at crime RATES per capita, a ton of places are absolute hellholes with more than a fair share of those hellholes belonging to red states.
So, anyone wants to point out that Libs are, "Asleep at the wheel," on crime, maybe tend your own house first.
When we compare USD to other currencies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables..._States_dollar
The dollar has actually gained value, or is flat, relative to the VAST majority of other currencies in the world. Your point simply does not exist there because it is objectively wrong.
Inflation is, "Out of control," firstly because the economy is fundamentally cyclical as it is, so we're just at the inflationary high point of an economic cycle. Secondly, because Covid-19 resulted in a very short temporary recession and both Trump and Biden saw fit to just throw free money at people over a period of more than a year. Even ignoring the straight up free stimulus money, Covid-19 was actually a positive for a great many people because of the boosts to unemployment compensation that resulted in a great number of them making more money for NOT working than they were making working for a prolonged period of time.
Of course, a great many segments of the service sector were all but shut completely down, which varied by state, a great percentage of that time...so people had a ton of extra money sitting around and, when it comes to services, nowhere to spend it. As a result, there was a temporary transition to physical goods, which wasn't ideal, because nothing new was being produced in a great many of the segments of the goods sector due to things being shut down for Covid.
By the time those industries were back online, in terms of production, these industries wanted to produce en masse and fuel prices went up exponentially first due to the fact that nobody had really been going anywhere during the pandemic (reduced demand followed by tremendous demand) and secondly, because shipping and transportation kicked up massively as companies rushed to restock their goods and get them to warehouses and stores to be sold to the consumer.
Ergo, the shipping crisis---not only was our infrastructure on that not what it should have been anyway, but the ports were never meant to handle that sort of inflow in the first place...but coming out of the pandemic threw a serious wrench in what would have otherwise been a more predictable and steady production, distribution and transportation schedule.
That combined with the fact that, at the time, so many people didn't want to return to work---both as a result of some level of mostly unjustified fear of Covid-19, but again, also because so many of the workers had been making more money just to stay at home.
You see, so all of these things that you mention have very identifiable causes, but you wouldn't know that, because you're an idiot.
As far as womens' rights, it's endlessly hilarious that Conservatives would pretend to suddenly be deeply concerned with women's rights. Paging Roe v. Wade. Just look at what Texas is up to. It was supposed to be a Red Wave, you idiots! Instead, Democrats retained the Senate (gaining a seat) and also enjoyed a net gain of two Gubernatorial seats. You righties just can't help yourselves, can you?
In fairness, I agree with the overturn on strictly Constitutional grounds, but that doesn't make it actually a good idea to have done that. Look at the way you guys got your asses handed to you in the General Elections last year!
The fact of the matter is that Christians had it all and they blew their opportunity:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...ecent-decades/
90% who identified as some sort of Christian as recently as the early 1990's. If you go back a few decades before that, then you're talking in the mid-high 90%'s.
Of course, Christians simply could not abide that few percent who were not like them, did not share their values and did not want to live the way that they did.
Therefore, Christianity does what most theistic religions have always done---which is they attempted to force absolute compliance with their values. Doing that socially isn't so bad, in itself, but as you see now...the Christians attempt to use the Government to achieve those ends.
In 100 years, the more Socially Conservative elements of Christianity, mainly Baptist/Protestant and the like, will be seen as the laughingstock that they have always deserved to be. The numbers are dwindling and the chokehold of the Evangelical denominations of this country is OVER.
They overplayed their hand. They overplay their hand even when they don't really have a hand.
Conservatives could have simply chose to let a few things go and simply accept that not everyone shares the same sense of morality...and not everyone is religious.
But, they wouldn't. To the extremely limited extent that your post is right about anything-welcome to the Hell of your own making.
TL-DR---Throughout most of recent history, and in almost every place, freedom has known no greater enemy than religion.
this is funny... bud lights 6 billion dollar mistake. OOPS lol
i would like to have seen the board room meeting.... We need some of that tranny money almost 5 million of em... what's the worst that could happen?
Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost more than $6 BILLION in market cap in just six days after Dylan Mulvaney partnership sparked backlash
obv this is just a big misunderstanding
in today's episode of only on the left...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqjIC...d=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Satanic possession is real y’all get right with GOD.
Budweiser tried to bring out the Clydesdale to get the conservatives to forgive them. Failed miserably. This attempt at pandering just made things worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMZKlkXP_k
This ad was a ripoff of their highly successful 2011 Superbowl ad, which paid tribute to 9/11 victims:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyP0JsyvYnA
Many conservatives bashing the 2023 version mentioned how much they liked the 2011 ad, and how this weak attempt to appeal to them again ruined that fond memory.
What a fail. How did they think a patriotic-looking, small-town-USA commercial was going to fix this?
I'm actually going to have to agree with Druff on this one.
I still find the initial backlash (of Conservatives) to the ad campaign and boycott to be somewhat retarded, but social Conservatives are going to do those sorts of things. Of all of the possible reasons to boycott AB InBev, that's what did it for you guys, huh? It's not that you wanted to drink from micro-breweries to support local businesses and also have a brew that doesn't taste like cold stale piss?
I suppose I should also mention, for the retards in the back who think a stock price change over a five minute timeframe means anything, that AB InBev has mostly recovered its share price...which had been near a YTD high point anyway.
That said, their actions since the ad campaign have been a head scratcher.
First, the CEO releases a statement that is sort of a tepid apology that also doesn't really say anything:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/anheus...aney-backlash/
With that, the trans activists, if they can really be called that, can now take a stand like, "Oh, so you're not firmly on our side, then? The conservative children get mad and throw their toys around, so you apologize for using a trans person as a spokesperson?"Quote:
As the CEO of a company founded in America’s heartland more than 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew.
We’re honored to be part of the fabric of this country. Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people and our independent distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.
We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.
My time serving this country taught me the importance of accountability and the values upon which America was founded: freedom, hard work and respect for one another. As CEO of Anheuser-Busch, I am focused on building and protecting our remarkable history and heritage.
I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners. I spend much of my time traveling across America, listening to and learning from our customers, distributors and others.
Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation.
Naturally, the result of that is potentially pissing off the group of people you were trying to appeal to in the first place.
After that, they follow it with the commercial. Now PETA is on their asses---but PETA has a problem with anyone even looking at an animal, except for those in PETA who have actively killed animals, of course.
And, I don't think trotting around their stupid horses is going to appease the conservatives.
The best way to limit the damage on this one would have been to just do nothing and let it die.
Also, I'd be cutting Alissa Heinerscheid a severance check and sending her looking for another job. I have had the misfortune, as it was practically unavoidable unless I'm going to live in a cave (which I am thinking about) to learn more about this Mulvaney person.
And, what a fucking joke. If I was going to do a satire of a retarded fourteen year old cheerleader, it would look very close to Dylan Mulvaney. Evidently, many in the trans community don't even like this person.
I'm not on either side. The manager, eventually, asked the dude what gender he would like to be referred as and couldn't get a straight answer.Quote:
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At the same time, the Sonic manager knew, from context, what the obvious answer was. If the person had a problem with being called sir, then he should try to call the person Ma'am.
Of course, if he had, then who knows whether or not the person would have just went on a rant about being non-binary and belonging to one of the other 10,000 genders that have been created in the last ten seconds? It wouldn't surprise me, considering that all of this was performative bullshit anyway.
Gun to my head, I side slightly with the manager. He's just trying to do his job and get this fucking annoying guy out of there so he can move on to dealing with the next asshole.
7 billion in lost sales and counting. Bars owners quit stocking it because nobody is buying it.Quote:
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Toxic masculinity and a can of bud light with a pic of Dylan Mulvaney on it are diametrically opposed. They just don't go together. WTF were you libtards thinking?
John Rich of Big & Rich owns a big bar in downtown Nashville called Redneck Riviera. He said Bud sales went totally dead. No one will touch it.
Trump Derrangement Syndrome is a mental disorder. Get counseling. Dylan wants you to kiss him.Quote:
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Lenin, Stalin, Zedong and Pol Pot agree with you.Quote:
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Don't forget that Joe Biden actually invited this Mulvaney dudegirl to the White House, to speak for all trans people! This is someone who, by his own admission, had only been trans for about 6 months at the time.Quote:
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Why not bring an actual trans person to the White House -- one who has lived that way for decades (or at least several years), and isn't parodying a ditzy 14-year-old girl for social media clicks? The left is so clueless with this trans thing, basically knee-jerk celebrating anyone claiming that identity, regardless of the circumstances.
And yeah, this Alissa Heinerscheid really fucked up big time. She let her own left wing politics infect her thinking as a marketer, which is absolutely what you cannot do. As a marketer, you sell to the target demographic for your product/service. You don't piss off a lot of your existing consumer base in order to appeal to a demographic which won't want your product anyway. She was too caught up in the believe that Bud Light was "too fratty", and somehow felt she had to take immediate action to bring it to the wokes, or the beer would die. Stupid.
The weird thing is that Anheuser-Busch was actually more of a Republican donor than a Democratic one, so this has created another awkward situation. Again, this is where you need to get your marketers on the same page with corporate interests, and not antagonize the same party you're spending big money with donations.
I assume you're right, but it's just another weird talking point given that you're responding to me and I already agree with you. I did not, and will not, vote for Joe Biden. He used to be pretty sharp, but I no longer consider him particularly intelligent. For one thing, he does a lot of bullshit pandering to the Far Left for exactly no reason. Again, it's not as if they are going to vote for Trump.Quote:
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I also agree with you that they are clueless on the whole thing and went way overboard. Honestly, Far Left politics, group thought, ideological purity...these are all tribalistic concepts that are borderline religious in fanaticism. I've said this before: I don't see the Far Left as being any different from the Evangelical Right; they just worship, or pretend to worship, something different.
I still think AB InBev will be fine, but there is no way she'd be keeping her job if I was the CEO. Of course, the CEO also put out the statement he did, but I don't imagine he is also going to fire himself.
Yes, in some ways the far right and far left have become two sides of the same coin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mission146I assume you're right, but it's just another weird talking point given that you're responding to me and I already agree with you. I did not, and will not, vote for Joe Biden. He used to be pretty sharp, but I no longer consider him particularly intelligent. For one thing, he does a lot of bullshit pandering to the Far Left for exactly no reason. Again, it's not as if they are going to vote for Trump.Quote:
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I also agree with you that they are clueless on the whole thing and went way overboard. Honestly, Far Left politics, group thought, ideological purity...these are all tribalistic concepts that are borderline religious in fanaticism. I've said this before: I don't see the Far Left as being any different from the Evangelical Right; they just worship, or pretend to worship, something different.
I still think AB InBev will be fine, but there is no way she'd be keeping her job if I was the CEO. Of course, the CEO also put out the statement he did, but I don't imagine he is also going to fire himself.
The weird thing about the modern left is their embrace of various illiberal principles -- censorship, authoritarianism, and the deconstruction of women's rights. Imagine 15 years ago if you told a Democratic voter that their 2020s party would be supporting and cheering on a mediocre male athlete who claimed he was a girl and then dominated real women in the sport. They'd call you a nutcase and say that there's zero chance they'd ever get behind such a preposterous idea.
The things I once respected about Democrats -- their commitment to principles of free speech and civil liberties -- are now all but washed out of the party.