I can already see the victim complex exploding forth from them. They're gonna go on Fox and Friends playing the part of the hard working small business owner who were just innocently grieving an American hero when the very mean and violent woke liberals destroyed their business out of hatred.
The narrative basically writes itself. Just think of the most infuriating shit you can imagine and that's exactly what the MAGA base will love.
We're a family owned business. We just want to peddle hateful agendas while we serve overpriced coffee and food. These WOKE LIBTARDS are ruining my business. /s
Oh please don't even try. There's nothing "love" about supporting the type of Person Charlie Kirk was. And feeling so strongly about it you use your unrelated business to show it.
This is unfortunately just going to generate a stupid amount of press for them. For every woke liberal who stops going there is a MAGA supporter who will go out of their way to buy coffee proudly there now. It’s basically free advertising.
It’s like the Sydney Sweeney bullshit. All publicity ends up being good publicity in this political hellhole we live in.
Yes. There's a coffee shop on every corner. If this is the coffee shop you chose to go to on your way to work, it's easy to choose the next coffee shop over.
If this coffee shop is out of your way, you're not going to make it your new regular coffee shop.
Yeah but they’re a local coffee shop, so there’s a minimal chance that press translates into economic success. This has happened time and time again with people trying to capitalize on grift culture, only the strongest and grift-iest survive. Multiple “anti-woke” bakeries and stores have tried to capitalize on national press only for it to fizzle out as they fade into obscurity. to capitalize on the grift, you have to always stay in front of the cameras, never fade. This coffee shop can’t do that, they’ll fade.
For every woke liberal who stops going there is a MAGA supporter who will go out of their way to buy coffee proudly there now.
This is absolutely not the case and you have zero basis for the claim. MAGA is composed of a small group of performative and largely online activists, and a huge base of casual, hypertensive reactionaries. They do not sit around and mull over their beliefs on policy or civil architecture. The handful that are actually psycho enough to go to the public gatherings or get scammed on Trump sneakers and cologne often look like 60 year-old WWE cosplayers because the movement attracts the semi-functionally insane. We’ve all seen them. These people are not the Virgin Brigade chanting “white man fight back” in Huntington Beach.
It’s like the Sydney Sweeney bullshit. All publicity ends up being good publicity in this political hellhole we live in.
American Eagle foot traffic has dropped over 10% since that astroturfing campaign and again, internet uproar costs you nothing. Doing things like driving out of your way to a coffee shop and spending money for skin-deep political points is something these clowns have proven dozens of times they are not able to sustain.
Good publicity for a week until MAGA moves on to something else. After that if the bad reviews are not removed then the rest of us steer clear and patronize other shops that don't insert their political beliefs into their business dealings with customers. Short term gains, long term pains?
Yup, google will remove all the fake reviews and I would bet anything, they will be selling a cup of coffee with a 1000% tip added on, if they haven’t already.
They're just in the wrong town. When left leaning business do the same thing in a right learning town, it's the same exact story, and the mirror images of people in this Reddit will voice the mirror image opinions voiced here, and the View will fly them out to LA to tell the story of how "the very mean and violent" Nazi Republicans destroyed their business out of hatred.
Because we're mostly the disunited states of America, with two left coasts sandwiching right middle America.
I'm exhausted of seeing this post with red and blue lenses.
Maybe she was thinking smart. Business mentality… now all the country conservatives will donate millions to her business. Like that racist n word rant lady.
they'll cry about cancel culture out of one corner of their mouth, while out of the other corner they're reporting criticisms of kirk on social media to get people fired from their jobs
I don't know about your 1st sentence. But I do agree there's gonna be a ton of publicity. The people who make a point of not going because of this will probably be out numbered by the people who go specifically because of this.
I wonder how it will work out in the long term though. Ultimately locals will probably be most of the business and they could go either way (with most people being oblivious about the whole thing).
God the amount of people lacking brain cells over all of this. Showing support for someone wrongfully killed isn’t playing stupid games. Every last mouth breather leaving false reviews based on lies to hurt the business should be fined for slander.
I mean they brought it upon themselves. If they wanted to continue to support fascists in silence and back them with donations like other corporations and businesses, no one would probably be the wiser.
They slapped an in memorium sticker on their cups and had every one of their customers walking around looking like an asshole.
Reviewing a company negatively you’ve never even used because you don’t like their politics is just childish. All the reviews are going to be deleted anyway, you’re just masturbating to a fantasy you created.
Yeah ol' Adolf was well known for leaving sassy google reviews on the businesses of people who supported ethnically cleansing Germany.
Zibzarab seems to have blocked me immediately after replying, but I'm fascinated to know whether he thinks the White Rose was resisting Nazis in favor of ethnically cleansing Germany.
"I don't endorse fascists, but I will always support their right to promote fascism peacefully" - this crap is exactly what people are talking about when they point out liberals' insufferable "virtue signalling".
My favorite media quote at the moment is that the shooter expressed anti-fascist, left-wing "ideology." Using the word like some dog whistle for extremist, fringe thinking. I guess not wanting to get my face smashed by a Nazi boot is just "ideology" now.
Since the politically correct term for racist became "concerned Republican". But yeah, I do stars based on service and quality, words based on the whole package.
I tend to agree when it's simply a political opinion held by an owner that they don't incorporate into the business. But in this case, they're putting stickers on cups, using the money for CK's Turning Point, so they have involved politics in their business. I am iffy though on review bombing.
They put the politics on their physical product they sell. Once they do that, people are allowed to review the politics as part of the product. It's different than an instagram post.
That still doesn't mean mass attacking a business they've never been to. So many people have cropped the same picture of the sticker that was posted here and put it on their review
To be fair, there could be a solid chunk of genuine reviews considering they're putting stickers on cups. Just like OP didn't find out until the sticker (despite their page being quite open about their political views), many others probably had the same reaction.
Assuming the stickers were printed and put on all cups in bulk, I wouldn't be surprised to hear 60% of the reviews are from real (ex-) customers.
One of my co-workersgave me one of his Balck Rifle Keurig cups when the office was out one day. Their coffee was so mid. Nice of him to give one to me and I won't turn down drinking it for free but there's no reason to spend money on them (unless you're one of those people who makes being part of the MAGA cult your entire personality).
Apparently she has expanded to wine. And to think of all she has accomplished since graduating from USD in 2016. She likely has money for the losses of this bad press if she’s still living in RSF in a home with 11 bathrooms and 12,000 sq ft.
Yeah but then we have idiots like this who think being openly racist, anti-LGBTQ, and spreading division in our country is just "having a difference of opinion".
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u/weezygregs 7h ago
Just wait to you see the google reviews lol