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[–] [email protected] 193 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Cancel culture" lmao. Dude used his position as a pillow salesman to spread conspiracy theories and now has to bear the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Let he who has not spread lies that instigated an attempted fascist coup throw the first pillow." -Jesus

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Fuck around, find out" - Lincoln

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Let he who is without a glass house cast the first stone at two birds. -Oliver Wilde

[–] vaultdweller013 4 points 1 year ago

"They fucked around, now they bouta find out" - General Sherman

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 7 points 1 year ago

"be the pillow you want to see in the world" ~ Sigmund Freud

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how not ordering product from him is an "attack"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I learned a fun new word for it. It’s also called “capitalism”.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's "free market", which is different from capitalism. Capitalism needs a free market to function fairly (and it's just a prerequisite, not a guarantee), but a free market doesn't need capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the clarification!