I’m unsure whether it would be cringe or clever if McDonalds went all in on the No Kings protest, claiming that they misunderstood the concept and thought it was against Burger King.
corporate success for companies as huge as McDonald’s or Coca-Cola rely on the broadest appeal. that means being politically agnostic. aligning with anyone would alienate at least some of their customer base and cost them tremendous amounts of money. so they just stay as neutral as possible.
Politically agnostic out in public, politically fascist in the sheets.
See also: the owner of Chipshol (related to Schiphol, the airport), who donated millions to the fascist party, despite donation restrictions being active.
Big business tends to be on the other end of the political spectrum
Civil unrest is the one situation where corporations hope everyone forgets they exist.
This would be the most American thing possible.
The success of the protests would be measured by how much profit they created.
Businesses would buy fire insurance, then give Molotov cocktails to rioters in front of branch locations trying to unionize.
Megaphone speeches would include messages from the sponsors.Surely that would have to be changed to “No Burger Kings”. Wouldn’t have the same impact.
“No Kings but the Burger King™” could get traction.
Would you buy burgers from burger king if they sponsored people yelling outside abortion clinics?
Sponsoing protests would be a great way to lose half your customers. You won’t make up for it by selling more burgers to the protesters sympathisers.
Just like Michael Jordan said: “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”
because then they would be punished by the trump administration. he would have govt agencies cone up with reasons to investigate them, take away their tax breaks, etc.
the point of a company is to make money, that’s it.
I question the sincerity but its grassroots and no one is looking for corpo sponsorship. They could anonymously donate if they want and its important to them.
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You think any corporate board is gonna voluntarily paint a target on their back like that?
Or: look at the currently unfolding ramifications of Anthropic telling the pentagon to piss up a rope when they tried to order Anthropic to remove all the guardrails from Claude.
“piss up a rope” is an expression i haven’t heard yet, it’s mine now :-)
Perhaps this community should be renamed…
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calm down, cartman
