56 points

How evil do you have to be to be too evil for Walmart?

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Crazy how people like you think Walmart is any more or less evil than the average for-profit corporation.

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They’re definitely more evil than average, the average is just also pretty fuckin’ evil.

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How are they more evil than average? What does Walmart do that Target, Whole Foods, and Kroger does not?

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I bet it’s more like peer pressure. If everybody else is doing it then they feel they should too to avoid backlash. They don’t care about musky’s rants or how right wing xitter has become.

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Lmao, oh, my, no… this isn’t a moral stance they’re taking… hehehe… oh, sigh

No, they’re protecting their profits. At least some of their customers object and it might affect Walmart’s bottom line, so that’s why they’re pulling their ads. They don’t give a shit about the content on Twitter, or they would have stopped advertising there long ago.

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2 points

That’s the point of a business.

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31 points

Walmart does what is good for walmart profits.

Having walmart adds placed next to Nazi shit is not good for walmart profits. (and then the public finding out, which is the real problem)

So walmart pulls adds from twitter.

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Has there been any analysis on what impact Musk’s clear attempt to sabotage Twitter has on electorate engagement in elections?

Because here’s my thought: X is becoming a right-wing extremist echo-chamber. A safe space for bigotry. So while reasonable eyes leave, the mold festers largely unchecked.

So going to past elections, was Twitter a greater driver for turning out Democratic voters, or Republican ones? I am genuinely curious.

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I feel like that’s what’s happened with school boards and other such. The reasonable people who used to be in charge were badgered until they gave up in disgust and now all the fuckfaces took over.

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The exact same strategy has been and continues to be at play with election officials at every level of government. So many election workers have been harassed so much that especially in lieu of the pay and lack of security they don’t consider it worth it. So then naturally the nazis fill these spots.

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Except in the last local elections most of that was undone because the voters are starting to listen. I just hope we aren’t to late. We did well in 2018, 2020, and 2022 2023 if you look at the histories of such things.

I do feel we are really trying hard to keep our democracy but at this point in time I feel one bad midterm or presidential election will be our downfall.

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I do feel we are really trying hard to keep our democracy but at this point in time I feel one bad midterm or presidential election will be our downfall.

That’s basically where we are though. We let it get so bad that now if we take our eyes off the ball they’ll end up destroying democracy. Thank God we’re finally pushing back, but we really should have done this stuff a couple decades ago.

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26 points

I hope MAGAs try to cancel WalMart next…

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They’re going to run out of options

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40 points

I hope both Twitter and Wal Mart fail.

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What in the world would ever make you think Walmart would “fail”?

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5 points

Probably one where Amazon overtakes them.

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0 points

0% chance of happening. Amazon is on the downturn, Walmart is not.

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6 points

Nah, America’s gonna wake up and overthrow our oppressors any day now.

Surely before they destroy the environment beyond hope of redemption.

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28 points

I mean to be fair they only said they hope.

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Apply the same critique to anything someone hopes.

I hope Santa brings me a bike this year!

I hope my cancer goes into remission.

I hope I get to see them in heaven someday.

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Why would you want the grocery store with the best deals and largest presence outside of major cities to fail?

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Because, while they do provide low prices to consumers. They are absolutely evil to their employees. And source inventory from extremely evil companies (i e. Slave and child labor)…

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What about Target, Whole Foods, Kroger, etc? Are they exempt from what you’re accusing Walmart of?

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They pulled ads back in October, according to their statement in the article, so it seems to me like this is more a sign of how big companies are no longer seeing X as being worth the money to advertise there.

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And it has literally nothing to do with ethics and is profit driven. The entire point of advertising is to make money.

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Is this like the opposite of “go woke go broke”? It sure seems like you lose more money being a hate monger as a public company, or maybe that’s just Musk?

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Red states are the poorest. “Get woke go broke” was always bullshit.

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And the fact that they did this in October and no one noticed until now says they made the right choice. They weren’t getting enough eyes on their ads anymore and quietly dropped them.

I bet a lot of the companies that dropped advertising on X were already planning to do so before Elon opened his big mouth.

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