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Yeah Bud Light is losing big time - sales down over 30% across the board and losing $6 billion (with a B) off their stock valuation in the space of three days - it's recovered a bit now but still way below where it was trading a couple of weeks ago. The slight uplift in the stock is apparently down to bottom feeders in the stock market buying up stock when the value drops, so it remains to be seen how it shakes out over time, but whichever way it goes, they've taken a massive hit, second only to the $8 billion that Gillette lost a few years ago.

I don't know when attacking/insulting your target consumer became an acceptable marketing tactic, but all the companies doing this (I'm looking at you Disney!) are taking huge damage from it, and now that all the venture capital that's been propping up the losses incurred by these ill-advised, anti-customer tactics for years is starting to run out, we can expect to see some very high level casualties over the next couple of months and years...
BUD up 39% in the last 6 months. Not even a noticeable blip over the fake "controversy". But what do I know about investing? It's not like I live on a private Caribbean island surrounded by slavegirls, right???;):cool:

Yes, Turing avoided prison at a great cost that likely led to his suicide. But many gay people are in prison in Russia, Uganda, and many other countries, but I guess that's OK, because they aren't "woke"...
 
Yes, they will be deleting the. I've already started downloading mine so I can move them to another host. I'm going to use "postimage." I've used them in the past and, so far, haven't had a problem with them. Moving everything from one site to another is a pain, but not nearly as much as re-posting everything. I may just start over instead of searching for the post each picture belongs in. To make matters worse, I have several sites I'm going to have to do this in
 
BUD up 39% in the last 6 months. Not even a noticeable blip over the fake "controversy". But what do I know about investing? It's not like I live on a private Caribbean island surrounded by slavegirls, right???;):cool:
Yeah it was doing really well actually until it decided to get trans activist Dylan Mulvaney (a first-order grifter if ever there was one) to do their marketing. After than it just crashed and sure the bottom feeders have given the stock a slight boost in the last couple of days but the brand itself has been severely damaged as a result, and even the most far left media shills have been forced to accept that.

This is a classic example of using the wrong marketing for your target customer, and now they have to learn from their mistake and try to rebuild their brand reputation which may or may not be possible, depending on the sentiment of the customers who have decided to give their money to a different company. Once you lose a customer, it's very, very difficult to get them back, but time will tell. Right now they're suffering because of the boycott (which is having a provable begative effect on the company, regardless of what the shills are suggesting. Whether this effect is permanent or just temporary will become clear in the fullness of time, but right now, the effect is very real.


Yes, Turing avoided prison at a great cost that likely led to his suicide.
It was a shameful period in history :(
But many gay people are in prison in Russia, Uganda, and many other countries, but I guess that's OK, because they aren't "woke"...
I don't know anyone tho thinks that's OK. Just because somebody doesn't agree with current day political agendas does not mean that they are in support of the polar opposite. That is a very dangerous mindset that is sadly all too common these days (I blame the media for this sort of tribal attitude, and what society needs is for people to come together in the realisation that just because we don't necessarily agree about any given issue it does not make us mortal enemies)

The media are NOT your friends. Never have been and never will be. They promote hatred, division and chaos and if ever there was a textbook example of an enemy of the state, then the media would fit it perfectly :(

I'm happy for everybody to express their own opinions rather than be dictated to by a bunch of out-of-touch glorified bloggers with an axe to grind against the entirety of the world. But of course at the same time I expect others to allow me to have my own opinions. You see, we hear a lot these days about freedom of speech, but in practical terms it is all skewed to one side. ie. "It's fine to have an opinion as long as it doesn't offend me" That's incredibly stupid because true freedom of speech is specifically about the right to express views that others get upset about.

Frankly I think getting upset or offended by someone else's opinion is just silly. I get it that you see this in the younger generation that have never faced any kind of real adversity in their lives, and so they have to go looking for issues where there are none, but then overlook the real issues that are going on, usually because the media tells them not to talk about certain things.

Why don't these activist types complain about gay people being treated badly in Russia, China, the middle east and so on? No, instead they insist on telling us that it's only western countries that treat gay people badly, which is not the case at all. It may well have neen in the past, but not for a couple of generations now (Turing, for example, took his own life before I was even born, and by the time I became an adult, being a lesbian wasn't an issue at all (Now here in the UK it took a bit longer before gay men had the same rights as everybody else, but as a gay woman I never felt that my rights were being opressed in any way - of course there are historical reasons for this, mainly because for a long time being a gay man was a crime, but being a gay woman never was, for example)

But I return to my point - why is it that these woke losers shout so loud about the treatment that the LGBT community gets in the west, whereas the reality is that we have the same rights as everybody else these days, yet say nothing about other countries where the community gets treated much more inhumanely? It's like the policeman who insists on harassing someone who parks their car facing the wrong way, rather than going out and arresting real criminals. I guess it's easier to criticise a regime that's not going to punish you for speaking out, which is fair enough but this always results in the wrong target getting hit all the time.

Just my opinion of course - nobody has to agree with it. Opinions are like arseholes. We all have one and most of them stink, but there you go. It is what it is...

And getting back to the Bud Light thing for a moment, I have nothing personally against Dylan Mulvaney - he's a talented grifter, with the ability to use his fake trans status (and yes it is fake - in interviews he's expressed no interest in getting surgery or hormonal treatments but just wants to live as a woman. OK that's fine but then when he says stupid shit like when he states that because he identifies as a woman that makes him a real woman, then I have an issue with it.

I'm with JK Rowling on that one (and no, not because she's a sexy redhead milf)

My biology is not Mulvaney's costume!
 
But I return to my point - why is it that these woke losers shout so loud about the treatment that the LGBT community gets in the west, whereas the reality is that we have the same rights as everybody else these days, yet say nothing about other countries where the community gets treated much more inhumanely?
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any LGBT group in the West that hasn't condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda, Qatar (around the World Cup) and other places. The US provides substantial aid to Uganda and they are working to cut that off. Russia of course is already under sanctions for dozens of reasons. Meanwhile, "anti-woke" figures like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene (if those outside the US don't know who they are consider yourselves lucky) can't stop kissing P*tin's ass...

As for Bud, why exactly would anyone drink or not drink their beer based on them having a transgender person as one of the many people they have relationships with? That seems kinds small-minded to me. But again, what do I know? I tend to drink local microbrews that couldn't afford to have anyone represent them anyway...
 
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Yes, they will be deleting the. I've already started downloading mine so I can move them to another host. I'm going to use "postimage." I've used them in the past and, so far, haven't had a problem with them. Moving everything from one site to another is a pain, but not nearly as much as re-posting everything. I may just start over instead of searching for the post each picture belongs in. To make matters worse, I have several sites I'm going to have to do this in
Is there a comparable site for videos?
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"Woke"? "Fox"? "Commie"? "Left or center"? Frankly, I'm lost. Come on, people, when did this turn into a politics discussion? The thread started as a warning that pictures uploaded to Imgur could be deleted in the near future. I do know... because I'm who opened it :angel2: .

The Internet has a problem because there are two conflicting rights: free speech, and protection of the minor. These struggles are natural in the human condition, and they are healthy if we can face them like adults, respecting others' points of view. I'm an active member of CruxForums, and recently I have published a story that describes how five people are put to death in the most horrible and painful forms. So it is clear, I hope, that I do not condemn its contents. But, on the other hand, if I had children, I wouldn't want them to read CruxForums; at least not until they reached some maturity which allowed them to choose freely, as I do. Does that make me "woke"? I doubt it. I consider myself a classic liberal, and some of my (left wing) friends consider me a conservative. I'm pro free speech and against censorship. Hardly what most people would understand by "woke", whatever it is.

In these days, social networks have made us to politicize everything, to polarize our opinions. Does a Hollywood actor punch a comedian in the face because he was making fun of the actor's wife illness? We politicize it. My herd is right, the herd in the other side is wrong. Always. It's like a trench war, without the possibility of meeting in the middle ground. The Somme Battle, 105 years later. This time, the deaths aren't physical. But the pain certainly is.

I'm sick of that. That's why I have not used Facebook or Twitter for more than a decade. And it would be a pity if this started happening here because of my post.

So, please, can we return to the original topic? How will Imgur censorship affect us? How can we solve it?
 
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How will Imgur censorship affect us? How can we solve it?
Easy - don't use imgur - use motherless.com instead as they still believe in freedom - don't use services that hate you. Imgur have chosen the path of self-destruction, just as Tumblr did. Their time is over. we should let them pass as yet another monument to the futility of puritanism
 
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any LGBT group in the West that hasn't condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda, Qatar (around the World Cup) and other places.
Yes but they spend too much time also criticising the west, where we have far more rights than we've ever had, so it all comes across as a bit disingenuous. While I'm also a member of the LGBT community, I really don't identify with these stupid activists at all. Maybe it's a generational thing - I leave that shit to the youngsters who don't know they're even born...
Meanwhile, "anti-woke" figures like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene (if those outside the US don't know who they are consider yourselves lucky) can't stop kissing P*tin's ass...
LMFAO - You can't seriously call Tucker Carlson "pro-put1n" FFS - I mean I get that the leftoids hate him but come on now... :doh:
As for Bud, why exactly would anyone drink or not drink their beer based on them having a transgender person as one of the many people they have relationships with? That seems kinds small-minded to me.
Yeah you're right, but human nature is often small-minded. It is what it is. None of us have to agree but it's clearly an issue (mainly of failing to understand who your customer is)
 
Yeah, but only because Nintendo were forced to step in to prevent Mario being made into a gay character and Peach being turned into an insufferable mary sue girl-boss (she still is a little bit but not in a way that diminishes the male characters, which is why the far-left clowns in the media are shrieking over it) and forcing the studio to rewrite a lot of the script. As a result, the movie is not woke, and is well on track to take over $1 billion at the box office, in sharp contrast to the increasingly large crop of politically-motivated movies that push a far left agenda, most of which are currently tanking at the box office. It's not often that you're going to see me praising Nintendo, but credit where it's due.
You have some reliable source for these claims?
 
Please, can members concentrate on the question of how best to store and share their images etc.

Speculation concerning the political or ideological motives for the policies of Imgur. Nintendo, etc. etc., is at best pointless, and only likely to stir up arguments that don't belong on CruxForums.
 
Please, can members concentrate on the question of how best to store and share their images etc.

Speculation concerning the political or ideological motives for the policies of Imgur. Nintendo, etc. etc., is at best pointless, and only likely to stir up arguments that don't belong on CruxForums.

Seconded!

I would like to hear pros & cons concerning Motherless.com. I don't like their propensity for displaying whole pirated videos. I think @Bartnel , among others, has been burned there.

I don't consider my posting of 60 seconds of a Makar (or anyone else's) work video pirating. Fair use policy in the US copyright law allows for short excerpts. But I don't know how I feel posting to Motherless because I would be supporting a piracy site.

Thoughts?
 
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Seconded!

I would like to hear pros & cons concerning Motherless.com. I don't like their propensity for displaying whole pirated videos. I think @Bartnel , among others, has been burned there.

I don't consider my posting of 60 seconds of a Makar (or anyone else's) work video pirating. Fair use policy in the US copyright law allows for short excerpts. But I don't know how I feel posting to Motherless because I would be supporting a piracy site.

Thoughts?
I see it as more or less equivalent to the "porn tube" sites like xvideos, pornHub, xhamster, etc. (not that I even look at any of those);). They all live off pirated videos. If the owner of the video complains, they take it down, often to see someone else upload it soon after.

My personal opinion is that CF is at some point going to have to limit posting here to member created material or the costs will become unsustainable. For stuff found on the internet, members can link to the original site and provide a very small number of sample images. And what's wrong with that? If I find an artist I like on site XYZ, I can come here, post a link and say, "Check it out, folks!" and people can comment on the work here without trying to reproduce the original site.

Certainly with literary work, no one would suggest copying stories from elsewhere and pasting them here. A link would do nicely. So why not the same with pics?
 
I see it as more or less equivalent to the "porn tube" sites like xvideos, pornHub, xhamster, etc. (not that I even look at any of those);). They all live off pirated videos. If the owner of the video complains, they take it down, often to see someone else upload it soon after.

My personal opinion is that CF is at some point going to have to limit posting here to member created material or the costs will become unsustainable. For stuff found on the internet, members can link to the original site and provide a very small number of sample images. And what's wrong with that? If I find an artist I like on site XYZ, I can come here, post a link and say, "Check it out, folks!" and people can comment on the work here without trying to reproduce the original site.

Certainly with literary work, no one would suggest copying stories from elsewhere and pasting them here. A link would do nicely. So why not the same with pics?
Well, partly the obvious reason would be suggested by the very occurrence of this sort of thing. "Where else can such art survive?" Of course, that could support greater restriction of topics, but not restriction by creator.
 
Seconded!

I would like to hear pros & cons concerning Motherless.com. I don't like their propensity for displaying whole pirated videos. I think @Bartnel , among others, has been burned there.

I don't consider my posting of 60 seconds of a Makar (or anyone else's) work video pirating. Fair use policy in the US copyright law allows for short excerpts. But I don't know how I feel posting to Motherless because I would be supporting a piracy site.

Thoughts?
All the tube sites are pirate sites by some definition - and a damn good thing too - those guys are providing a valuable public service. Without them we'd all have to pay for our smut and that would never do, would it? ;)
 
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