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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be in a union

make a woke video how you shit on conservative doodoo heads

buy stake in your company

???

:iww:

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

"Capitalists will sell us the woke we hang them with"

[–] axont@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is still the funniest boycott of all time. Budweiser has tents at pride fests for 20 years and chuds never cared

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Gay guys boofing Bud light in leather gear: I sleep

A trans lady that is excessively happy all the time gets a single bud light can with her face on it: real shit

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

It really does highlight how fucking evil these fucks are that a Trans person being happy was enough to launch a nationwide boycott.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Longer than that. Bud has been a gay beer since Coors had a polygraph test for employees that, among other things, asked if employees were gay.

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is so unhinged I had to look it up and sure enough it's both true and substantially worse than I imagined

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

The founder really tried to live up to his name of Adolf Herman Joseph Coors.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the strangest part of the whole Bud thing and why they fired people over it. Every gay bar, queer event that I've been to has Bud Light everything. They've been sponsoring us for decades and every frothingfash thinks this is something new or somehow over the line. They do the same with cishet places as well. Just ridiculous over it.

Bet that can is a priceless artifact now though.

[–] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Why do they call it "Bud light" anyway, does it have reduced alcohol or something? Is there a "Bud strong" advertized to like, the Army reserve? Please explain these Americana details to me fellow light-bear

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

"Light" in American beer parlance means it's lower in calories and alcohol content. They came about initially because there were a lot of reactions to changing diets for Americans. Lots of stuff happened at once, like a very powerful dairy lobby, increase in high fructose corn syrup, big pushes to gain weight basically. A lot of Americans actually took notice and started developing modern diet culture, and part of that was cutting out beer. Companies responded by offering beers lower in calories. They stuck around because they're less bitter.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yea there's a regular budweiser comes in a red can. Bud light is so much more popular most people refer to the twp as bud and bud heavy. Light beer has slightly lower alcohol percentage and slightly less calories because the goal of them is that you can drink 20 of them at a barbecue even if you don't like beer.

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago

Watch me turn $100 into $105

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pose as a conservative influencer, short a stock, expose them for being woke, profit. Buy the dip, wait for the controversy to blow over, profit twice.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Hey now they didn't say anything about farming govt subsidies

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

~~wait for the controversy to blow over~~

short a new stock and move the "discourse" to that

[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

10/10 DD I will be adopting this strategy going forward.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

There's a nonzero chance that the campaigns are organized by people shorting these companies to begin with.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I did it with Disney a bit. Bought some shares at ~$78 when the frothingfash was at it's peak [redacted] and sold for $95 when Kang the Domestic Abuser got shitcanned. Didn't get rich, but a half priced Steam Deck OLED is nice.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It would probably be nice if you don’t use “REEE” anymore

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the sensibilty on that one now?

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's very clearly making fun of autistic meltdowns

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Clearly? I always thought it was just 4chan and twitch frothingfash chuds melting down not autists, let alone not ever hearing about autistic "meltdowns" as a thing. Thanks for the education.

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Works even better if you're a chud influencer or the company "Wokeing it up" as you can also make money by short selling the outrage dip.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Isn't that illegal? :pondering-the-line:

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Shockingly no, insider trading applies to "material, nonpublic information" about the company and its economic actions. If you're trading based on advance knowledge of a subscription price hike or a change in recipe, that's insider trading. If you're trading based on people getting mad for literally no reason or a company's continued compliance with a law or social norm, that's not insider trading.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

No, shorting a stock, yelling "hey everyone, you should all boycott this company because of vibes," and then profiting when people inexplicably listen to you is legal.

Nah it even theoretically benefits the market's information/price discovery in capitalist theory. "Activist short sellers" stand to make a lot of money by exposing unknown true negative information about a company. Straight-up lying is prohibited as securities fraud, and ultimately if you publicize something untrue or unimportant ("woke" accusations) the price will return to normal as the market recognizes the information was BS. So there's a bunch of firms that essentially exist to scrutinize the finances and activities of other companies, and if their "audit" finds a problem they get paid and offender gets punished.

(The line between straight-up fraud and overenthusiastic PR for fluff is not clear.)

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Damn sounds foolproof

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok this is a good idea. What company are they currently outraged at?

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago (5 children)

why wait for them to be mad, let's all make twitter accounts and invent right wing outrage for shitty companies

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

googling "does the SEC know how to find hexbear dot net" right now

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

SEC has been defunded for years

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Coin-telpro kelly

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

look for ads with interracial couples involving white women. Also just general LGBT anything, but especially T

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's just bog standard conservativism.

A better bit would be to go online and say we made money shorting the stock of the companies that woke hunters get mad about, and donated it to gender affirming care clinics and planned parenthood or whatever. Like anytime we donate to a charity say we made the money shorting Disney or Budweiser stock.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Wsb ahh comment

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally all you would have to do is find a product with more than 4 colors on it and say it's a gay pride version.

He'll you could probably take a picture of a freezer full of different Gatorade and say they're woke.

[–] buh@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago
[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

I might actually start investing with this advice, it's foolproof!

[–] StewartCopelandsDad@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let the record show I had this idea May 31st and then didn't do anything about it. Price is up 18% since then, but most of that started in November so I would have lost money on short-term calls anyway.

conservatives are gonna forget about them in a year, tops

6 months isn't bad. I think the play is LEAPs or literally buying stock on margin, plus whatever short you can cobble together for the rest of the industry.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I'm an investor now ritzy-marx

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