Have You Boycotted a Business for Political Reasons?

Started by Admiral Yi, July 02, 2014, 01:14:24 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Business to include individuals, like actors and writers.

Yes
15 (34.9%)
No
26 (60.5%)
durka durka durka
2 (4.7%)

Total Members Voted: 43

Print
Go Down Pages1 2 3 4 5
User actions

The Brain

#1
July 02, 2014, 01:26:49 PM
Not that I remember. I don't seek out Communist newspapers and similar but that's not so much a boycott as a case of not being interested in what they have to say. As for actors etc they are mostly Commies or worse so boycotting isn't really an option. Locally famous Swedish actor Sven Wollter (King Hrothgar in 13th Warrior to you foreigners, not the best movie he's been in) is a blood red insanocommie (regular Communist party is too right wing for him), but I have no problem paying for and enjoying his work.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Valmy

#2
July 02, 2014, 01:29:12 PM
I tend to avoid all businesses owned by people from Oklahoma or Arkansas.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#3
July 02, 2014, 01:31:51 PM
Can't think of any.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Norgy

#4
July 02, 2014, 01:32:32 PM
Yes. McDonald's. Exxon. BP. Shell.

garbon

#5
July 02, 2014, 01:32:39 PM
No, I don't think I ever have. Only businesses I've every boycotted is because they've annoyed me but wasn't on political (or even religious) basis.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Barrister

#6
July 02, 2014, 01:48:46 PM
Yes, I would go out of my way to avoid purchasing gas from Petro Canada, out of my belief that the government had no business owning an oil company.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Viking

#7
July 02, 2014, 01:53:03 PM
No specific boycotts. However I avoid doing business with the present and former monopolies wherever possible.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Grey Fox

#8
July 02, 2014, 01:56:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 02, 2014, 01:48:46 PM
Yes, I would go out of my way to avoid purchasing gas from Petro Canada, out of my belief that the government had no business owning an oil company.

That's funny, I go out of my to avoir purchasing anything at Petro Canada right now but it's mostly over them harassing me.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

merithyn

#9
July 02, 2014, 01:59:23 PM
Yes, several.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

crazy canuck

#10
July 02, 2014, 01:59:52 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 02, 2014, 01:56:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 02, 2014, 01:48:46 PM
Yes, I would go out of my way to avoid purchasing gas from Petro Canada, out of my belief that the government had no business owning an oil company.

That's funny, I go out of my to avoir purchasing anything at Petro Canada right now but it's mostly over them harassing me.

Its no longer a crown corporation so I doubt BB is still boycotting.

Neil

#11
July 02, 2014, 02:03:51 PM
Absolutely not.  There are many things that factor into my purchasing decisions, but politics hasn't managed to get in there yet.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

derspiess

#12
July 02, 2014, 02:07:28 PM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

#13
July 02, 2014, 02:10:44 PM
Spicey is going to reverse boycott all of them.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

#14
July 02, 2014, 02:11:03 PM
I honestly don't think so.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
Print
Go Up Pages1 2 3 4 5
User actions