Time to get some coffee and doughnuts
It would suck to be a diehard MAGA supporter, all these American brands that you constantly need to boycott. For the team that hates cancel culture, there sure is a lot of cancel culture to keep up with.
You say that as if it isn’t even harder for us leftists trying to boycott Nestle (and all its subsidiary brands!), Coke (ditto), the entire fossil fuel and plastics industries, etc.
Meanwhile, it’s simple for the MAGAs since it’s all performative bullshit anyway: they just have to avoid the particular brand name that pissed them off (e.g. boycotting Bud Light by switching to Michelob, ignoring that it’s made by the same company).
Various people boycott Coke for a bunch of different reasons (on both ends of the political spectrum, ranging from “supporting Israel” to “being woke”), but what I was thinking of when writing that is how an acquaintance boycotts them for murdering union organizers in Colombia a couple decades ago.
The list is long enough that it has it’s own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola
They are acting like Dunkin made demands of the platform and tried to secretly influence them to censor their right wing podcasts. They didn’t. Rumble reached out to Dunkin, at least twice it seems, begging for ad dollars, and they said “no”. They gave an honest, fair and reasonable justification, that they didn’t want their non-political national brand associated with extremely politically decisive right wing media, but said that if they change they will reconsider in the future. The right are butthurt because they are seen as bad for normal national brands to be associated with, which of course makes those brands evil woke brands.
This is a literal 1:1 analog of a dude constantly asking out a girl, and she says that she doesn’t date men who wear MAGA hats and fly Confederate flags on their truck because it wouldn’t sit well with her friends and family, but she’s open to dating him if he ever stops those things. And so he calls her a stuck-up woke bitch who only fucks soyboys and wouldn’t know a real man if she saw it. And then he blasts her on social media and all of his friends decide to harass her and try to get her fired from her job. It is literal the EXACT SAME THING AS THAT.
they didn’t want their non-political national brand associated with extremely politically decisive right wing media
Worth noting: Dunkin is owned by Inspire Brands, who went out of their way to toot their own horn about how they were successful in lobbying to kill inclusion of a minimum wage hike as part of COVID relief:
https://www.newsweek.com/this-fast-food-giant-bragged-about-killing-15-minimum-wage-1579273
So they’re perfectly happy to take political positions; they just recognize these platforms are even more radioactive than bragging about opposing living wages for their workers.
Further, Inspire is owned by Roark Capital – a company literally named after an Ayn Rand character. That’s how far out in the loonie bin these folks are. And the MAGAs are too far over the line even for them, lol.
So they’re perfectly happy to take political positions
That was quite the dick move, but genuinely asking: why is that move considered political? I’d say it’s an evil corporatism move.
why is that move considered political?
Political lobbying is kind of inherently political, no? They weren’t passive observers or commentators; they hired lobbyists to influence the legislative outcome.
Actively working to shape the legal structure of the country to better suit their company is politics. It’s different from culture war politics, but it’s still politics.
If anything, economic politics are what traditionally drove a lot of the political divide in this country. That’s taken a back seat to a degree, but it hasn’t made it not political.
Smells like bullshit to me. Why would an ad agent give an explanation of rejection to a request for advertising? Do they do this? If so, why do they do this?
But remember, advertisers boycotting XTwitter is horrible and illegal and mean and against the First Amendment.
I live in Massachusetts. There are a lot of working class people that support Trump in our state, but if you ask them to choose between Dunks and Trump, it’s not gonna end well for Trump.
“Dunkin Donuts about to become maga free zone that serves food and drink”
