July 4: Virtue signals on twitter about America being on "stolen land" (lol fuck off), draws ire of conservatives, Unilever parent company drops $2 Billion in market cap amid possible boycott https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-boycott-calls-unilever-stock-falls/
July 6: Ben Cohen arrested at a Free Assange rally in Washington DC hosted by Code Pink https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-arrested-during-dc-protest/
July 8: Indian chief contacts B&J letting them know that his tribe was from the land their headquarters is now on, and is happy to take the land back (no answer so far) https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/ben-jerrys-hq-is-on-native-american-land-vermont-chief/
I honestly don't think I've ever seen a petard-hoisting this fast before.
I was watching Archcast yesterday and I think it was Vee that said it best, you have companies that will pander to the left like your EA, Ford etc. Ben and Jerry's is a leftist company that just happens to make ice cream.
They've ALWAYS been pandering to leftist ideology, it's just that they happened to sell ice cream that was good (which helps a lot that there a lot of fat leftist women and ice cream helps soothe the pain of being a lonely bitch).
It's so easy make your own let alone competitors available that there's no need to put up with their bullshit to buy their products and luckily that train of thought is getting more mainstream.
That was my first thought. Why would conservatives boycott them now? They've always done virtue signaling campaigns.
I think after Budweiser, conservatives realised 'wait? Just not buying their products is enough to hurt them? Just switching my buying habits is enough?' and they've adopted that tactic ever since.
If this happened last year, the Budweiser boycott and the ones like them wouldn't have been as effective. But with ESG running out so much that Blackrock is distancing themselves from it, it's like the worse time to pander to the left when they are starting to experience the pendulum swing and there's no longer the safety net of venture capital that they NEED a consumer base to survive.
Blackrock isn't distancing themselves from ESG.
They're trying to rename it because they know it's unpopular, but it's still full steam ahead.
Bingo. This is a typical tactic of trying to get the results you want with as little backlash as possible. They’ll keep changing the name until everyone forgets a social credit score exists or there’s very little news about it. You’ll still hear about it from Glenn Beck, because he was one of the first to report on ESG, but you won’t hear about it on any other major right wing news outlets because nobody will care by then.
I think the Budweiser event was so powerful it created a social graph for these kinds of boycotts.
People you don't know really well like a coworker say they're boycotting Budweiser, but you didn't know how they felt about this specific issue or boycotts. That creates a social link where you know you can tell them directly about Ben and Jerry's and other things like that.
Without Budweiser you wouldn't bring up B&J, but now you can tell them B&J is also up to no good and so the momentum behind a boycott grows faster and easier than before.
Leftism only got as far as it did by making people too scared to be honest with each other. Because if you let someone know you aren't comfortable with Pride Parades waving dongs in kids' faces you might get destroyed socially.
Now people are realizing they aren't alone, that they actually can say these things and aren't evil for doing so. Its undoing the isolating effect the Left has been pushing for decades.
Critical mass maybe, I think the success of the Bud Light boycott made a lot of normally fatalistic people realize that voting with your wallet can actually do serious damage. But then again it's only been a few days, could be the market knee-jerk reacting to the mere idea of a boycott.
Yep. If I was going to boycott B&J, I would have had to actually buy B&J. I never have because I have always considered them overhyped and overpriced, and I can get ice cream that taste better and is cheaper from store brands or local brands (where I live, the most popular being the stuff made by the university Dairy Science program).
I remember they getting some icecream with BLM or diversity a while back and the owners had TDS. They also had a campaign for Bernie? A bit fuzzy on the details but if you look in to their promotional icecreams you will find all the leftist crap.
And don't forget the Late Night Show hosts.
Being more left wing in the day, they do make good ice cream. Their Stephen Colbert ice cream wasn't too bad.
However, they actively fund Leftist organizations, legal defense funds, and other such programs to support Leftist terrorism, rioting, political pressure, and more. They typically make wildly retarded political statements on twitter even defending race riots and more. But the real problem is that they are a source of income for the Left to parasitize.
It's called "a front business". Lucky Luciano owned a candy shop for the same purposes: laundering illegal money into legal ones while using it as a cover for his illegitimate businesses.
Agreed. This is an enemy faction, not a corporation.
It's also why I don't think boycotting will work. If every single conservative or normie boycotted them, they'd release a special ice-cream flavor called: "Kill Yourself Trump-tard" It would have a picture of Trump with a micro-dick being beheaded by a disabled black woman wearing a shirt that says "protect trans kids". Inside would contain a frozen pile of human shit. Yes, at least the initial wave would be sent to grocers because the health department would look the other way.
They don't need, nor want our money, except to buy ammunition to shoot us with. We are not people to them. We are not human. We are enemies, and we are outside their moral framework. Anti-moral actions against us are categorical moral imperatives.
Hopefully they lose money, but that's not going to actually dissuade them. We'd need to actually arrest them for something. My money is on the likelihood that Ben, Jerry, or both have committed sex crimes, like most Leftists.
As I said, there's enough fat depressed leftist women around, drowning their loneliness in cookie dough ice cream that they'll be fine in that department
What it COULD affect is where they are sold as they sell a lot in blue areas, in red areas, they may no longer be stocked as why have a brand taking up space, ESPECIALLY ice cream where there's not just self space but expiry dates and costs of preserving it with refrigeration, when you can replace it with a brand that sells.
No they haven't, they were very much against the Scottish 'IndyRef' independence referendum in 2014 leading to many Scots boycotting them.
Happened with quite a few companies back then, and the MSM coverage at the time was what bluepilled a lot of Scots about the biases at the BBC, which many others in the UK later learned when their own interests were suddenly on the receiving end of the propaganda.
To be fair wasn't that pre-brexit? I can see a leftist argument for them remaining in the UK at the time since Parliament was majority in favour of the EU
It was the rise of UKIP that forced a referendum vote and before the result they were extremely confident they would win and silence UKIP and Farage forever...
Not just good, but basically the only one in its market. Because most icecreams in grocery stores are either simple flavors, or extra super fancy pants but still simple flavors.
BNJ is the only one selling specialty flavors with specific bits of candy and other things added on a mass scale, where otherwise that one you like would be Coldstone/etc. only.
That's what has kept them afloat this long. They have no real competition, which has also made it very easy for them to feel invincible enough to be this openly political.
True but fortunately with how easy ice cream is to make at home with appliances, you can do better easily.
Just keep it simple with stuff like oreos, cookie dough, 3 different types of chocolate at once, gummy bears etc. You go too far and use the kind of sweets they have in the UK and especially Scotland and you'll have diabetes with a week!
The majority of foods are easy to make at home, people are paying for the time and convenience to not do that. Never bank against people's desire to not put in effort, and especially time into their food.
Also I put gummy bears in my ice cream bowls, fight me. Makes both better.
Nah I agree with you about the ice cream and gummy bears, I was just thinking if you mixed ice cream and Scottish tablet if your heart would stop due to the amount of sugar taken at once...