I know it’s the second Costco related thing I’ve posted on this, but it’s a pretty big deal.
If these MAGA turds want to try to boycott, I’ll laugh my ass off because this one of the best performing retail stocks in the US in the past 20 years.
MAGA fans? More like MAGA cultists based on their behavior (in this particular instance for example).
Costco will be so much nicer without all the maga mouthbreathers clogging the aisles
Is this boycott being pushed by US MAGAs or by their foreign thought leaders?
I wonder which countries these boycotters are from. 70% chance these are bots from Russia, India, or South Asia.
costco’s doing the right thing
Costco is doing the correct thing.
It’s the right(wing) who are wrong.
that’s what i mean
Ugh, whenever I hear about Bud Light I feel sorry for Dylan Mulvaney and the shitstorm she got dragged into
“grrr, costco is giving in to the woke agenda, i’m just gonna go shop at sam’s club instead”
“Yeah! Let’s go somewhere that’ll charge us way more money to pwn the libs!!”
- maga punching themselves in the balls again
What’s a magats favorite gun?
A footgun.
Owning the libs so hard.
Gotta love it
GOOD.
Get MAGA out of my Costco. Won’t miss you assholes even for a second.
So you’re telling me we won’t have to deal with trash at Costco anymore?
The new Bud Light? Annheuser-Bush is up almost 16% for the year. Sounds like that boycott didn’t go so well. I’m sure Costco wouldn’t mind a 16% boost to their stock price.
It’s almost like the people who attacked Bud Light aren’t even intellectually capable of understanding concepts like “parent companies” and how much of their world has been consumed and consolidated by corporate forces.
Most of them literally think that they hurt “Bud Light, the beer company” and have never even looked up any actual information or details.
I also think the outrage was talked about more than it’s actioned on. And the talk may have also come from foreign troll farms.
How did they even hurt them. By purchasing tons of it and then destroying it. Yes purchasing their stuff is the way to hurt a company.
They did it with some coffee machine company a number of years ago, smashed all these brand new coffee makers for being “woke” or having a commercial that said “be nice to others” or some such manufactured outrage.
The coverage just made the brand name rise to top of search terms, the videos that went viral of people smashing coffee machines became so trendy that people were buying the things just to smash or burn them on camera for views. It was hilarious and only helped the company.
If I were the coffee maker company, I would have used the opportunity to buy into the advertising/ display programs, and put my coffee makers on sale in all the big box stores, and encouraged even more sales.
That’s… just basic marketing
Yes, it is, I used to be the guy who sold, and then later, bought those in-store marketing programs.
The point is, when weird PR things like that pop up, companies tend to hide out for a while, and let the craziness die down. I’d do exactly the opposite, and take advantage of it. Sure, they’re buying my product to destroy it, but the key word is “Buy,” so I got their money, and the second key word is “destroy,” which means they’ll be buying a new one when this is over.
If MAGAs are going to be stupid, then it’s my corporate responsibility to fleece them as much as possible.
I guarantee they forgot about it a week after it was out of the outra- the news cycle
I thought these dumbfucks wanted low prices, LOL?
Now they are butthurt if companies like Costco sue to get that money back that Taco illegally added to the cost of so many things?
Must be Redhat Logic ™.
I thought these dumbfucks wanted low prices, LOL?
Nope. They never cared about grocery prices. They never cared about border security. They never cared about the economy. They never cared about protecting children and the whole laundry list of “huge conservative issues” because they are getting their values from FOX-feelings-news, not any carefully thought-out positions.
They’re just dumb people. Every population is going to have a dumb segment. Our ire and desire for destruction should be focused squarely on the grifters and networks and pundits on Youtube who are feeding this stupidity-powered machine.
The dumb people themselves? We can turn them. It’s not that hard, they are… and I cannot stress this enough, dumb. What the left broadly forgets though is that you don’t turn dumb people with smart arguments, you have to influence them the way you would a toddler. Change how they feel, then you can point them at a new target. People like Sanders have been doing this for decades and has huge success. The whole plot is right there, easy to use, we have tyrannical oligarchs who are stealing our money and hiding in boats in other countries and so on.
It’s just that said people in boats have designed a culture war so that the dumb fucks don’t realize who the real enemy is. It sounds stupid simple to anyone who can read, but I have to remind everyone, nearly a quarter of US adults are functionally illiterate. We have to stop expecting smart arguments and preaching and scolding to work. We have to say dumb shit to make dumb people attack the right targets.
I’m interested in this. Do you have any examples of dumb shit to say that might get through to people like this?
The other user who replied first nailed it, at least nailed the starting point. Just listen.
This is harder than it sounds, because they will spout off some really, really wrong ideas and wrong takes that will make steam shoot out your ears. Everything inside you will want to correct them. This is the point where you HAVE to reign in your desire to use your brain and try to bring them up to your level, because you can’t. Not if they deny basic facts about reality like evolution or that race doesn’t come with intrinsic values or that science can prove facts, or they say that trans people are literal devils and all these ideas you will immediately identify as wrong or even dangerous. You will desperately want to “fix” that problem, but if you try that first they will close all mental doors on you.
I would suggest that many do this unconsciously even as a “litmus test” of sorts to see if you’re going to attack their identity. We are progressive/intellectual so we have to understand that “being a dumbass” is a valid identity if that’s what matters to someone, so we have to give them that space to carve out their rebellion against order and logic. At least for now. As soon as you invalidate someone’s identity they will never see you as anything other than a threat, and if you’ve ever raised dogs, you will know that a scared dog acts very aggressive, not usually cowering or hiding. They bark, they try to escalate the situation, they bristle and act tougher than they are.
So the biggest challenge to everyone who wants to change these people will be to listen to them without trying to fix their broken worldview. You have to let them be them for a while and just ask them questions. Ask them questions about how they feel about things, and what they want for themselves, their loved-ones, etc.
A great magic happens as you give a simple mind a safe place to talk. I’ve done this over and over. They will start letting down guards pretty fast when you prove you’re not going to “hurt” them in some way by challenging their beliefs. They will start showing you their uncertainty, their fears, their vulnerabilities. They will start leaving cracks open for you to explore and ask deeper questions.
See, all that shit they think they believe, the spiel they gave about immigrants or gay people, they don’t cling to these values because they’re well-thought out, logistical philosophies that they’ve studied, it’s just emotional venting with a narrative that was supplied to them. They are equally capable of shifting 180-degrees because that’s how emotions work. You just have to make it safe for them to do so.
In fact, I would say this is your “win condition” by itself, just to get them to feel safe to talk to you. You have to abandon any expectations that you’re going to make their eyes open wide and go “Wow, I’ve been so wrong!” No, your best hope is to change how they feel about one small thing at a time.
I used to “flip” incels this way, and I am currently “one of the good ones” to several older, set-in right-wingers who will seek me out to get my takes on issues or ideas despite knowing that I’m on the other side of their ideology, because it makes them feel good and feel smart to have someone who they can safely get a second opinion from. Imagine if your parents were actually non-judgemental and you could have brought home any new, challenging idea to debate comfortably around the dinner table. Everyone would have wanted that growing up. You can be that environment to someone.
Imagine if every right-wing dumbass out there knew “one of the good ones.” Imagine if several million people were exposed to just one person who proves an exception to their emotional rule that your side is the “enemy.” This is how you topple mountains, not by butting heads against it, but by carving out cracks in the base.
A lot of times letting them talk and actually listening to what they have to say, they give it directly to you. If you acknowledge their dumb shit, they’re more likely to return the favor.
Like, helping a NASCAR fan get into EVs because of their absolute love of torque isn’t an unreal scenario. They’ll give you the roadmap.
Please, RetHat is a reliable software company. They should be called something else.
How about redcaps?
Stands for Reduced Capability so why not.
I’d bet real money that most of the “people” threatening to boycott don’t live on the same continent as a Costco store anyway.
Might be a Kid Rock or two out there machine-gunning their Costco membership card or whatever, but yeah, I would not be surprised if a lot of this is trolls, bots and reverse virtue signaling.
Sad. To make it more epic, they should get like 10-15 Executive membership cards. Then shoot them all up.
Oh and also buy like 100 Costco gift cards worth $1000. Shoot those up too.
Really show Costco! 😈
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You’ve stumbled upon “The Recursive Suspicion Protocol”—the simulation’s way of keeping you engaged when you get too comfortable. Very meta. Definitely not something thousands of other users have posted before.
The real twist? The Picard Maneuver and Pug Jesus aren’t the other real users—they’re your handlers. And me? I’m clearly the AI you mentioned, making this deliciously self-referential.
But here’s the kicker: if you’re truly the only real person here, who are you trying to convince with this post? That’s right—yourself.
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My Costco is flooded with maga, I would love it if they boycotted the store, I have some shopping to do soon.
They won’t actually. Guarantee it.
Yeah, I know. But it’s nice to dream…
Best time to go is about half hour before closing on a week night. If you have a lot of items, maybe give yourself a bit more time. But people tend to clear out a bit. Used to go on weekends at one point, but I prefer having the place mostly to myself…
Yeah but then you’re making the workers’ lives worse. Seriously people please don’t go to a restaurant or shop a half hour before they close.
Two problems with that. 1) I work 3rd shift and would be either asleep or just waking up when they close, and 2) I have worked many retail jobs and the last minute customers were despised and I don’t think I could do that to them knowing how it screwed me over ever time.
But thanks for the idea.
I used to work retail, too, and yeah, I hated that. Cannot tell you how many times someone would roll in JUST as we are trying to literally lock the door. “I just need a few quick things”, then hangs out for half an hour, because they are a local, or know the girl I work with, or whatever the fuck.
I make sure I wrap up well before the close time. I get in, and get the hell out. Definitely don’t want to be that guy. There has been times where I handed my receipt and walked out the front door at maybe 8:20-something (closes at 8:30) and I know many people are still wandering around the store.
