halcyoncmdr

I wonder which way many of these new voters lean. Willing to bet on the general direction of the group as a whole. There's always outliers, but I'm pretty confident on this one.

The "issue" is that after receiving backlash for their public support of Trump, they publicly tried to state that it's not an issue because they also have people that support Biden... then the official company account is responding to pro-Trump posts on social media with heart eyes emojis.

It proves the original response they made trying to reduce the backlash from their political commentary, with subsequent reduction in sales and massive negative publicity, was only a platitude. They fucked around, found out, released a half-assed response to try and reduce the damage... and now apparently think it's been long enough that people forgot so they're publicly posting shit supporting Trump again. They're now being called out for the blatant lie to try to save the company.

Also, what is a “sticker mule”?

A company that sells things like custom stickers. One of many similar companies. They don't produce a unique product, it just happened to be a company that was a decent price, fast, and reliable. No issue until they themselves decided the right thing to do was to have the company wade into politics supporting a massively controversial person... for whatever stupid reason.

For further context, I recommend reading some articles about the original email. A few quick ones pulled from Google randomly since I know most people won't bother to search on their own, but may click a link provided.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2024/07/19/sticker-mules-political-stance-undermines-workplace-inclusion-and-customer-trust/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/sticker-mule-trump-2024-email-productive-discourse-expert.html
https://slate.com/business/2024/07/sticker-mule-ceos-pro-trump-maga-email-surprised-employees.html

They stopped his vehicle after he fled the scene and have him in custody according to the CBS article I read a while ago.

Technically, the color has always indicated the opposite of the expected default.

Passive indicators on switches like this historically have used the color to signify when something is disabled, because normally you expect that thing to be enabled. Look back to old devices with mute and disable switches like the old iPhones, Palm devices, etc. and the color always signified the thing being disabled. The default state is enabled, and the switch is disabling it.

Active indicators like LEDs being used on devices to indicate things like the mic or cam being on are generally newer. But even going back to things like the red recording lights, that's because the expected default state was off, and the indicator was showing it was in a secondary state.

The color in both cases indicates the thing being controlled is in a secondary state, but the expected default state is different in the two scenarios.

I assume that's what they were referencing. Trump has mentioned Taylor several times in the past, and none resulted in a response like this.

She may not have publicly endorsed anyone if Trump had not retweeted that clearly fake shit implying that Swift was endorsing him. Not responding at all to something so egregious would be seen by many as an implicit endorsement.

NY style pizza also isn't anything particularly amazing. New Yorkers are just louder about it, like with everything they do.

Considering tomatoes aren't even from Europe the Italians can think whatever they want about pizza, they're not experts, they're just as wrong as everyone else.

Yes it is.

I'm willing to bet your property has a driveway open to the road right?

What if the property is entirely surrounded by a fence, including the driveway from the road? How would someone knock on the door to ask permission for something? Or to leave a note, if someone is not home? Which is literally what these kids were doing.

There's no excuse to raise a weapon towards an unidentified person on your property without even attempting to talk to them first. Period. They clearly were not a threat at the time.

You ever look at a booking photo on an article and just think, "that is exactly what I expected the person to look like"?

With massive decisions like this that fundamentally screw up the company's perception by clients, the CEO isn't the only one to look at, they're just the scapegoat.

Always need to see what happened with the rest of the Board of Directors. Are those the same people? The CEO works for the Board.