Elon Musk

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So simple and predictable too. Stay out of politics and everybody judges your product on its merits. Dive deep into politics and you turn off about 50% of them - regardless of what side you take. Such a no-brainer to not mix business with politics. It's a guaranteed loss.

It depends; and it seems like especially if you're diving into left-wing poltics (and I mean "left-wing" in the loosest way possible, because the right tends to not grasp differences in ideas like Stalinism and saying that maybe putting immigrants into what may as well be death camps is something we shouldn't do), it can work out pretty well for you. Even from the right, at least as long as the right-winger in question doesn't understand things like "if you buy something just to destroy it, they still have your money."

To be fair, when Bud Light, an unreasonably popular brand of beer here in America, featured a transgender model on some cans and in some ads, their core base of Redneckistan alcoholics stopped buying BL and shifted to other watery beers of equally-questionable provenance. Coca-Cola saw something similar happen a few years ago, though not to such an extent, because of their corporate support of equal-rights. Hobby Lobby, Tractor Supply Co, and others as well have garnered conservative consumers who do not want to do business with companies which treat employees decently without regard to race, gender, or sexual identity.

Conservatives are not averse to "cancel culture"; they don't mind mounting boycotts and avoiding companies they don't like. I'm not complaining about that here, either. I'm just pointing out their hypocrisy