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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is awesome. Many of them rely on the low prices of walmart to survive. I can't wait for them to punish themselves even harder.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Themselves and Walmart. It's like watching Godzilla fight Mothra, with any luck they'll both lose

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Mothra is a moth

Gamera would fuck them all up. It's a giant turtle with jets! Nothing can stop that.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, I don't actually know Godzilla lore, like at all

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well, you knew Godzilla and Mothra so you are doing something right so far!

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 160 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Owning more wealth than the majority of the country while keeping employees on food stamps is fine. Come after the king, you're cancelled.

I don't see a way out of this idiocracy.

[–] Jeredin@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If it doesn't effect them directly, they don't care - they're privileged and act accordingly. The more money people get, the more they can isolate themselves from others, the less they empathize. Couple that with a relentless propaganda/echo chamber that's always at hand, and the good fight becomes a lot harder. These people are so good at mental gymnastics even when conservatives/MAGA act against their own interests.

They must think, "Then they came for me, And there was no one left, To speak out for me" can't ever apply to them...

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

No, they don't think.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If it doesn’t effect them directly, they don’t care - they’re privileged and act accordingly.

The voters I've seen don't look privileged to me and they seem to be direct out of Walmart videos.

Edit: Proof (I'm warning, you may never be the same after watching this) - https://www.reddit.com/r/the_everything_bubble/comments/1h56ixp/i_watched_it_so_now_you_do_too/

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf, I think she's just an heiress, and I'm not sure if she actually has anything to do with the company beyond that.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

This is what I saw. She also married into the family and inherited her deceased husbands wealth.

Still obscenely rich, but she has nothing to do with the company

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Seems the overton window has shifted far enough to the right that walmart execs are now what counts as the left.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I mean, I'm honestly not surprised. I've been waiting for the billionaire class to rise up against Trump for a while now. If Trump were a competent autocrat, I'd be more worried, since they might all start competing for his favor in order to reap the benefits of crony capitalism. But the honeymoon is over, and Trump is very clearly extremely incompetent and toxic for business. He is scaring and deporting their low wage labor, tanking their stock prices and lowering profits with his tarrifs, and destabilizing potential international business deals with his erratic style of governing. Their increasing discontent with the current administration will drive cooperation rather than competition among them, and they will use their sizeable resources to neuter the administration.

A king can only rule so long as the court supports him.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I might be mixing her up with someone else, but I think she's a progressive activist and has never been involved in running the company. She's not an exec, she's an heiress.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

Shhh, don't let the MAGAs hear this. It's hilarious.

[–] maximumbird@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Funny that MAGA folks are saying to boycott, there’s some rural towns where Walmart is the only thing that they have lol

They’re gonna eat their own faces now and say “I didn’t mean to be a leopard! It was Bidens fault”

[–] arin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans are removed

If only...

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does it say removed for you? I've got the word. Some kind of censor setting?

Im not looking for it, just curious

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

It's lemmy.ml that censors it. I see it just fine here.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thank the mods

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

the only way WM is going to close stores, if the red counties suddenly starts taxing the stores, which they wont.

[–] wraithcoop@programming.dev 46 points 1 day ago

I don't think this will really amount to much. Where else are they going to shop that abuses labor as much as Walmart to keep prices low?

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemm.ee 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They can join me in my almost 30 year boycott of Walmart

[–] rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

Walmart, the biggest corporate welfare queen.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is no Walmart by me. I’ve been to one probably a handful of times in my life and was amazed at the size and the various products they offered. It was an overwhelming experience.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's very convenient and the prices are generally very good. But that's because they use their size to bully the manufacturers into giving them better deals.

[–] rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exactly, also Amazon is the king of these tactics. It is also late-stage capitalism, or better put, crony capitalism. Capitalism is suppose to be about free and open trade, but these predatory tactics make it unfair for competition, especially for medium to small businesses. This is partially why we in the US are in decline....and groceries cost more than they should.

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[–] rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Most of those products coming from China where they pay their lowest 50% a wage that is double what our lowest 50% get.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Good piss them off make them cry just like their orange bitch baby wannabe king.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

If I had a dollar for every conservative who threatened to boycott Walmart, I'd have twenty or thirty grand, easy.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

It hurt itself in the confusion!

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been deliberately dehumanizing Trumpers for long enough that these articles make no sense to me at first. Who cares if a simple creature had an automatic response we've all known was common? "Extra extra! Man dangles carrot, horse tries to get it!" It's a quaint, goofy society that gets excited over that.

I guess trump supporters superficially resemble human beings but I still don't think it's newsworthy for them to repeat the sounds we make. Just say floopergoop dinglewhams are progressive! and now the parrots say they hate the thing you just made up. How long until people get bored of this?

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[–] rodneyck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is a good take on Christy and Walmart and the real reason they are funding the No King events.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Care to summarize so I don't have to get icky from Insta?

[–] yogurt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Conspiracy theory guy that loves RFK Jr. He assumes Christy Walton funds anti-Trump ads because Walmart wants to hire illegal immigrants. Actually she's just a libbed out white woman who lives in southern California and has more money in solar companies than Walmart because most of the Walmart stock bypassed her and went to her oldest son.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I love it when the billionaires turn against each other. It confuses MAGA.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol, they ain’t turning on Wally World. It’s a vital food source for maga. #fakenews

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe they'll starve themselves.

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maga is going to be pissed when they find out their boss is a Democrat.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

maga mostly depend on WALMART for shopping,

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