Coke, MLB and Georgia...

[Dan Druff]

I've read this 3 times and can only understand the second half of it. I think dwai is right, you probably were at a Portland George Floyd celebration party.

But LOL @ thinking corporations are acting this way in order to disassociate with conservatism. Did you ever see Coke as a Republican drink? Was Delta a Republican airline? Was MLB a Republican sport?

No... they were all apolitical, and completely stayed out of political matters unrelated to their industries.

Why would any smart company want to piss off nearly half their customer base? They don't. They only took the positions they did because it was the lesser of two evils. If they didn't "speak out" against the Georgia law, they knew the media and the woke left would endlessly push the message that they're evil and racist, and they figured that would be more damaging than pissing off conservatives.

Pretty sad that you're so in favor of this thought policing.

Not *over a dumb baseball exhibition, my bad.

I don't care about it, and clearly it doesn't piss off half their customer base, only triggered internet guys.

Have you stopped guzzling liters of Coke over it?

They're moving away because it's a long term +ev move, not because MAGA twitter erupted.

Baseball too is evolving to not die of extinction.

Get used to this feeling, champ.

Pretty sad how delusional you are. You really see this as a cultural revolution against conservatism. In reality, it's a fascist attempt by the political left and the mainstream media to enforce a uniform "acceptable" way of thinking.

If corporations decide they feel strongly about a certain political message and disseminate it, that's one thing. If they really want to stay out of politics, but are browbeaten by the media and woke left to make political statements they don't really believe, that's a big problem.

The general message being pushed is that it's now unacceptable to engage in wrongthink. It's no longer okay to just sit on the sidelines. If you don't actively participate in disseminating the woke left message, the media and the social media left are going to punish you.

These corporations are taking these woke positions out of fear, not out of a desire to disassociate themselves with any particular segment of their market.

I know it's easier to take the naive Portland view and not accept the fact that your party is engaging in fascist thought policing, but that's honestly what's happening here.