I can't boycott no harder, we haven't purchased a name brand in weeks!
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Nikes are bar none the worst shoes people try to have me repair. They are made from shitty criminally overpriced plastic and foam that decomposes and falls apart in the box let alone after someone wears them
Republican are the ones that burned Nikes for sponsoring Colin Kaepernick....

Imagine how many copies this sold
Like, four?
They’re not well known for buying books.
Reading them, no. But fuckers love buying them and handing them out. Nothing a conservative uncle loves more than sliding a copy of Atlas Shrugged across the table and saying "Read this if you want to learn about Real Communism, kid".
Yep, they were the wokiest of the woke before woke was woke.
I know you said pro wings what are there any other brands you recommend? Is adidas any better? Been putting off buying new sneakers since Isreals genocide because every brand I looked at seemed to have some sort of ties.
Are you simping for a company?
Here's the thing.
Nike might continue to commit attrocious shit, but you know what?
it ain't his fault
Is it yours? Can we partly blame you? That's unfortunate.
I don't care what Nike thinks. It's your concience. Are you going to contribute to their efforts and enable them or aren't you?
Just like your downvote ratio.
Why are old republicans so fucking weird looking.
While Knight is generally reluctant to give interviews, he spoke with the New York Times in October 2022 regarding his support for Republican candidates. He argued Oregon's government had drifted too far to the left and described himself as "more conservative than Nike," responding to criticism of him backing an anti-abortion candidate which apparently contrasted with the company's image of supporting progressive social justice causes.[109] Nike itself donated $75,000 to Drazan and Johnson's Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek, the eventual winner of the election. - WIKIPEDIA
Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.
One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have...odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.
You can't even find people like that in a big city.
He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these "too much money" guys?
"a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share."
Fixed the headline
They have severe OCD Hoarding Disorder, and they have a serious compulsion to hoard money, even when they have far more than they or their descendents can ever spend.
If this was someone hoarding anything else at that level, cats, rusty cars, newspapers, junk, etc., the government would step in, remove their treasure, and get that person the mental help they require. We should do the same with Financial Hoarders - detain them and get them the mental health care they require, and remove their hoard that is making life difficult for their neighbors. If they were hoarding cats, we'd put them up for adoption, so their financial hoard should be redistributed to the citizens.
Because otherwise there would be a small risk that money would go to taxes instead and help people who need it.
What're you saying? You don't think these billionaires need their money?!?
This is exactly why we shouldn't have billionaires. It's literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what's left but to spend it on manipulating other people.
After the recent election? You can kiss that fucking money goodbye. Have fun losing big.
Psssttt....Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc...
The people i know who wear nike, only wear nike. It's like a weird cult. I met two women this year who said they would NEVER wear anything else.
The weird, cultlike pseudo-romantic obsession people develop with brands is, frankly, deserving of medication for their mental derrangement.
Nike isnt even that good!
The last time I owned a pair of Nikes, they literally fell apart and were ruined by getting caught one time in the rain.
Imagine what these replica brands could achieve if they made their own stuff and people weren't married to the brands
So you are saying that you need medical scanning devices to make sure that a person wearing what looks like Nikes is not a fascist.
Some people buy products without looking too closely at the politics of the manufacturer. I would say that's how most people buy things.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you're living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you're contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another. Turn your justifiably angry energy upwards, not at your fellow working class brothers and sisters.
Do you seriously believe that anybody would be crazy enough to check other peoples clothes with a medical scanning device? Thank you.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another.
When you know that an action supports fascism you do not do it and you warn others about it. Pretending to support fasism, is at least in this case really stupid.
So Nike sells limited edition sneakers that sell for far above retail in after market sales. That's where medical device imaging is coming in. It's weird but no weirder than like, beanie babies were. If you didn't know that now you do.
You also catastrophically missed the point. Getting pissy because you see somebody wearing any particular brand is pretty ridiculous. All of them are supporting the regime in one way or another, you are, simply by existing and contributing labor to society. You can't pinpoint a fascist by their Nike's anymore than you could pinpoint one by literally any other shoe. Unless they happen to be police tactical boots (which are often made by Under Armor).
Holy crap do I really need to use the /s behind the first comment. I thought it was so bloody obvious, that it did not need to happen. The idea to walk around town, scan people sneakers and if they are legit Nike call them fascists. To me that idea is just so insane that it is funny.
At the same time, there are companies, which are worse and it is worth boycotting them. If you do so, then stand by that and do not buy some fakes. Seriously imagine trying to convince some guy that Nike sucks, while wearing full fake Nike gear. That is again a funny idea to me.
You didn't take away the point SippyCup (I think) wanted to make.
Most of us live in a world where we have to go to a grocery store and buy food. I cannot possibly be expected to research the CEO of every product I buy and even if I did, my choices are limited to what is available in my store(s).
When I learn of a company doing bad things, I shun them. But there are also conglomerates like nestle that own half the brands in my local store and I can't really avoid them. I "have to exist in this system whether [I] like it or not."
Sippy was not supporting buying nike or supporting fascism, but was instead telling you to not blame your peers in the "lower classes" for the issue -- those who might buy a shoe without knowing the CEO is fascist, or in some cases still buying crackers from a company they do know is fascist because they have no choice.
Instead, be mad at the fucking fascists. "Turn your justifiably angry energy upwards..." is the part of the quote above that you seem to have missed.
No, I'm saying if you like the look of the shoes, but don't want to give money to a shitty company, pirate them via illegitimate copies.
Again
Prohibit billionaires
Cap all netwoths at 10-20 million dollars per person, tops.
Companies should not be worth more than 1 billion dollars, cap it.
Anything over that has automatically 100% go to taxes
Well end up with -instead of one trillion dollar compant- tens of thousands of centillion dollar worth companies, you know, those that aren't too big to fail and that won't need bailouts
Well end up with a government that gets so much tax income that it can afford free education, free healthcare, hell, UBI even.
Noone will be super rich and or powerful ever again, no one will be able to usurp all resources for themselves.
Humanity spent 2000 years on perfecting the "0.1% must get as Uber rich as possible" and we got it down to an art to concentrate as much wealth as possible with as little people as possible. It is NOT normal, it is NOT acceptable, ajf it has to stop NOW! It's destroying our world, literally, as these assholes are the main drivers behind climate change.
Here I am making sure to use as little water as possible and all of my life long work gets thrown into he garbage because miss multimillionaire needs to do grocery shopping with her fucking private jet.
While on this bandwagon, ban all private jets, even for politicians. Maybe maybe we can keep a few as a sort of air ambulance or something z that should be fine, but all the rest, BAN IT. Same for theega yachts, outright world wide ban.
It is bizarre to me that most people just act as if all this is perfectly fine and acceptable. There is no right, no reason why anyone should have a higher net worth than (say) 10 million, so why do we allow this to happen in the first place?
Haven't we learned anything?

MFW I don't buy Nike shit anyway
Got it. Brand is dead to me.


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