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RE: Elon Musk
July 24, 2025 at 9:28 pm
(July 24, 2025 at 9:11 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (July 24, 2025 at 2:30 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: 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
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RE: Elon Musk
July 31, 2025 at 7:53 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Elon Musk
August 1, 2025 at 11:39 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Elon Musk
August 1, 2025 at 11:54 pm
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Elon Musk
August 2, 2025 at 12:32 am
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RE: Elon Musk
August 6, 2025 at 9:00 pm
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RE: Elon Musk
August 6, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Assuming the nom de guerre "Big Balls" is pretty much asking for a beat-down.
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RE: Elon Musk
August 6, 2025 at 9:19 pm
I bet big balls is the kind of kid who thinks he can get pissy with a carjacker.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Elon Musk
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 pm
(August 6, 2025 at 9:19 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I bet big balls is the kind of kid who thinks he can get pissy with a carjacker.
I bet his Wheaties were running down the inside of his leg when push got to shove.
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RE: Elon Musk
August 6, 2025 at 10:46 pm
Reminiscent of, "We bad, that's right!", from Stir Crazy. 
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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