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.
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.