Do you boycott?

  • Thread starter Thread starter donbosco
  • Start date Start date
  • Replies: 88
  • Views: 1K
  • Politics 
Centerpiece said:
I find myself like our Canadian brothers I'm "boycotting" Kentucky Bourbon and Tenn. Whisky.
I like Bourbon, OK, as much as the next guy I guess... but honestly, I haven't been buying a lot of American-made alcoholic beverages for most of my life. But I'm especially tuned into that now.

No Tito's for me, I'm getting only Vodka from Sweden or Finland. The only whisky I get is either Scottish or Irish. Gin I get from England. I get Brandy and Cognac from France. Wine is from Italy or France - nothing from California - but may get a bottle from a local winery owned by progressive liberals. Beer is from local craft brewers whom I know to be progressive and liberal. Other than that? It's beer from England or Germany.

I'm like a Canadian - no booze buying from USA makers/distillers... they're probably all owned or operated by Trumpers anyway. Screw them.
Click to expand...
Why would anyone buy Tito's to begin with other than marketing. They like so many others get their Grain Base Neutral Spirit from a commodity producer and then market it by adding water and price. Vodka is not supposed to taste.
 
PTOHeel said:
Not all US distillers are Trumpers. Mother Earth makes whiskeys and gins. I have some friends in Virginia that do whiskeys and gin as well and they're definitely progressive.
Click to expand...
And I might purchase from them - just like the craft beer and local wineries stipulated in my comment. I’m not cutting out those guys.
But like my Canadian brothers - no bourbon and no Tenn Whisky like Jack etc.
 
Batt Boy said:
Why would anyone buy Tito's to begin with other than marketing. They like so many others get their Grain Base Neutral Spirit from a commodity producer and then market it by adding water and price. Vodka is not supposed to taste.
Click to expand...
Exactly. And I don’t don’t buy Tito’s. Never have. I always get Absolut.
Swedish. I like the Swedes. Got loads of friends and music colleagues from there. Fuck Tito’s. Prolly a Trumper co.

And who said anything about buying Vodka for its taste?
Fuck that.
If the bottle of Aqua Velva falls out of the bathroom cabinet and breaks on the bathroom tile... I pick up the broken bottle, turn it up and strain the broken glass through clinched teeth. Can’t let it go to waste.
 
The problem with boycotting is how interlaced so many things are.

Boycott company A then realize their parent company is in your stock indexes. Boycott company B and figure out that you're company users then for cloud computing or web space. It's really hard to boycott one singular entity. And what's it going to do anyway? I haven't shopped at target since they caved on DEI, I'm sure they have missed my $200 a year.
 
In general I try to be diligent about buying local as much as possible. I know there are levels to it but major corporations are all shitty in their own ways. I’ll go out of my way to avoid some of them but it’s kinda hard to keep track of, as UNCatTech points out.

There are a handful of local businesses where I know they either treat employees poorly, have monopolized certain markets, or have shitty owners that I do outright boycott.
 
Peppers49 said:
In general I try to be diligent about buying local as much as possible. I know there are levels to it but major corporations are all shitty in their own ways. I’ll go out of my way to avoid some of them but it’s kinda hard to keep track of, as UNCatTech points out.

There are a handful of local businesses where I know they either treat employees poorly, have monopolized certain markets, or have shitty owners that I do outright boycott.
Click to expand...
And the opposite-some we are pretty sure are good in all the ways you mentioned-and so we support them
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top