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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

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[–] [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.

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[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really funny how they always talk about cancle culture but they are always the ones calling for boycotting.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they didn't have projection, hypocrisy, and a perpetual victim complex would they really be MAGA Republicans anymore?

It's unreal how the "Party of Personal Responsibility" is chock full of people who NEVER accept the consequences of their actions...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not entirely true. I boycott places I don't agree with all of the time. Be it religious views that affect policy, political views, or a range of others things, there's almost always an alternative that I'd rather give my money to.

Is it a boycott if it's just me participating?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

No, it isn't just you. "Cancel Culture" is another of those pejoritive terms the right is so fond of. Making decisions about where to spend your money based on the behavior of the companies is a one of the few ways we have to influence corporations (and politicians).

The extreme right seems to have given up o boycotts and moved on to direct physical attacks as their preferred methods of influence.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lindell was ordered to pay $5 million to a man who won a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest at his 2021 “cyber-symposium” where he challenged experts to examine his data, which he claimed proved Donald Trump really won the 2020 election.

It didn’t, and one expert who looked at the data demanded the prize.

Lindell refused to pay, so the case went to court, where he lost.

🤣

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What's even better is that the guy in question - Robert Zeidman - is, in fact a Trump supporter. But as a data analytics engineer, he wasn't able to fool himself with bullshit data.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah I seem to remember an NPR interview he did where they gave him "the packets" they captured of a malicious actor communicating with voting equipment and the files were Word documents that somebody typed a bunch of gibberish into and renamed the file extension.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, “cancel culture” from the “go woke go broke” crowd.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"They did cancel culture on us." LOL Just pictured him with his hands in his pockets and kicking dirt while saying it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It reminds me of the famous Napoleon quote.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro, you used your pillow sales to try and incite insurrection on the thinnest of bullshit data. The fact that the vast majority of folks with sense thought maybe you shouldn't have pillow sales to fund terrible ideas anymore is kinda on you.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone who has received one of his pillows as a gift, it does not surprise me in the least that the company is going under. Aside from his crazier than a shithouse rat politics, the lumpy sacks of industrial waste he passes off as pillows are the most uncomfortable thing I've ever laid my head on.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Awful news to receive right when Seth Meyers is on a strike.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1st thing that came to mind! Bummed we don't get to hear Seth's impersonation.

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

Really has been rough to have so much bad shit happen for the former president and not hear Seth or Colbert be able to enjoy it. Honestly 45 is so lucky the writers strike happened when it did. Hopefully it resolves before primary season heats up

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lindell was consequencelled

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not cancel culture if everyone is just tired of your bullshit.

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[–] thal3s 37 points 1 year ago

“I do every customer like my only customer and every employee like my only employee,” he told the station.

JFC he can’t even speak English.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

LESS COCAINE MEANS EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If those computers that he's selling have hard drives in them, I'd be shocked if you couldn't recover something wild

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The correct response to this is:

Lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hilarious. And the lawsuit hasn't even happened yet, has it?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, one has. He had his cybersecurity symposium, where he showed the “evidence” that the election was stolen, and offered a $5 million prize to anyone who could prove him wrong. A cybersecurity expert took one look and showed him that his “evidence” didn’t say anything close to what he claimed and wanted his 5 mil. MyPillowFool refused to pay, security guy took him to court and won. Fool had to pay.

He still has the Big Daddy 1.3 billion (With a B) Dominion lawsuit pending though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fun part is that the cyber security expert is actually a Trump voter and was excited to vindicate the election meddling story.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I will drink a Bud Light to celebrate.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, cancel culture was basically invented by the Christian right. Yet they have the audacity to complain about it!?

Their double standard is sickening.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Ya mean I can't just say whatever?" -Mike Lindell

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

More like poor brand management. One of Mike's fans(seriously they wanted to tell me all about him) told me he was a reformed crack addict.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I've seen of him, he's definitely not reformed.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure the story I heard is that one time while doing a lot of blow, he apparently scrawled "My Pillow!" on every surface in his kitchen (or bedroom? I forget). When he woke in the morning, he took it as a sign to start a pillow company and "find Jesus".

But I can't find a source for that story at this point, aside from saying he was a cocaine addict - that is pretty well documented.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Who would have thought supporting a failed attempt at a dictatorship would be so unpopular?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Okay, I gotta ask this...

Does anyone else wonder why this guy sounds so incredibly constipated when he talks? It sounds like he's pushing soooo incredibly hard while trying to get the words out!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Resting cocaine voice.

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[–] julietOscarEcho 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do we have selfawarewolves yet?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

If it were cancel culture he would have gone out of business during COVID.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

People who cry the loudest about cancel culture hate it because it works. Sorry. Maybe don't act like a clown and people won't shun you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Actions have consequences. Go figure.

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