I'm working on a couple of side projects and I'm wondering what people here would say should be the deciding factors in whether or not to support a business. For example:
Pros:
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Pro-free speech
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Against compelled vaccination
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Against illegal immigration
Cons:
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Supports leftist policies
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Requires masks
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Requires employee vaccination
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Requires customer vaccination
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Pro-censorship
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Against election security
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Pro-illegal immigration
For the purposes of the initial project, I'm interested mostly in looking at political factors. That is to say, it's not intended to be a comprehensive review site (which I do intend to come later), but a simple reference.
It's sort of complicated. If we are talking physical businesses, customer vaccines, masks, and extremely in your face leftist policy support (like rainbow flags, BLM signs) are huge cons. Pros being as simple as not doing those things. Asking me to wear a mask is a good way to get me to go somewhere else.
Product-wise, censorship is my #1 con and is going to be the closest to making a company a no-go. I lump most of the rest like employee vaccinations, pro-illegals, etc. into leftist policies. They aren't inherently a no-go, but they are a huge point of judgement. Pros would be standing up to censorship, keeping politics out of it, independent non-conglomerate owned companies, and for things I want to last a long time I avoid China. I don't really care for places that are in your face right wing politics either, just stay out of it.
Female CEO, celebrated women's day, donated to feminist causes...
Good value for money in a product or service I want, with good support if the purchase requires it. A company that recognizes me as the paying customer and doesn’t back talk or play bullshit games.
*packaging or advertising that promotes white genocide or feminism is instantly a product I do not want.
Don’t give a single shit about anything else. Sue me.
best business takes no stance on any direction; dont go on tirade about what can be said, dont voice opinion on vaccines, dont voice opinion on immigrancy, dont voice opinion on anything even remotely political
only truly focus on fact that you are business, your sole goal should be to sell products/services, and your customers are ones who pay for product/service you offer, and you should focus on getting more customers by focusing on what you can offer to em in terms of product/service/price