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originally posted by: ancientlight
I was just thinking. The whole Budlight , and now Miller lite beer , and Addidas, etc all jumping on the woke bandwagon.
it's like the big mega corporations : blackrock/vanguard are herding their customers to a smaller and smaller selection of products.
With them owning all these brands, if we boycot half, it means we start buying the other half , and then the same happens with the remaining half .
Until we're left with just a few products. To them it makes no difference as they own it all anyway.
This could be their plan. If you look at old Soviet store images , it was just a few product options.
Why they would want this, I'm not sure. Could be cheaper, easier that makes sense. Also to demoralize. And as the changes happen so gradually many wouldn't even notice till it's too late.
Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.
originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: ancientlight
I see us going the other way and creating space for the (in American) mom and pops that where destroyed by the mega corps,
so in that regards its like watching the fall of the various east India companies.. when toys r us failed here what sprang up in every town was the little toy shops toys r us killed off.. we are fast approaching that return in other areas.. and i for one welcome it as it made life interesting and each town less of a universal clone..
originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: JohnTitorSociety
spot on..
Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.
as is this.. each generation is the same and we follow the same trajectory, teachers, media, marketing ect think they can program kids to be a mini me loyalists and each gen they fail.. my teachers where all 60s student tankies instead of creating mini me marxists they created a bunch of capitalists the same will be true now.. they'll get the verbal agreement then the kids will do their own thing and in the meanwhile these corps lose their brands bread and butter they need to survive.
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: JohnTitorSociety
spot on..
Adidas is unsurprising. Tennis shoes are targeted at youth market, if the consumer metrics say 20% of zoomers ID as queer, Adidas is going to run with that even though they are likely to find, over time, that their marketing data was garbage, teens are nearly impossible to accurately poll, and that nearly all of that “target market” was a passing fad concentrated in a handful of cities.
as is this.. each generation is the same and we follow the same trajectory, teachers, media, marketing ect think they can program kids to be a mini me loyalists and each gen they fail.. my teachers where all 60s student tankies instead of creating mini me marxists they created a bunch of capitalists the same will be true now.. they'll get the verbal agreement then the kids will do their own thing and in the meanwhile these corps lose their brands bread and butter they need to survive.
We are missing the the mark.
We have served our purpose. We did an excellent job of producing and raising their desired and targeted prize.
We are useless and of no use to them now, so they don’t care what we think, say, or want. They want the children. We have made a new generation of lost children that are crying to be led. They are leading them into a new world. A world were we will be the misfits, and will not go, and will not be accepted if we tried to go. The clock is ticking. Tick tock.
It is what it is, and we have to take responsibility for our part in the grand plan. After all, they would never have been able to do it without us. It is only a matter of time. Tick Tock.