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conservatives bullied the company for its inclusive policies for close to three weeks
Ooh, were they bullied for an entire three weeks, during Pride month? Poor babies!
Continue never spending a dime there, got it.
Yeah this gonna be easy to support
Yeah, I'd happily boycott them, but apparently I'm not rural enough to even have one close by.
Still, I wish all those queer farmers the best of luck. Fuck bigots.
These queer farmers
"Got a nice lookin' crop o' queer this year, Merle."
"Yep, plus we got 12 acres o' weird in the back 40."
Hell I put 60 dicks in the dirt last Tuesday and the got damn cum beetles eat em up already. Make me so mad, I could spit stead of swaller
ITT: people who dont buy tractors
Tractor Supply sells much more than tractors though
They sure do, but it's all overpriced.
I think you are forgetting that there are a lot of hobby farms that were using TS to get their chickens and feed. Lots of gay hobby farms. These people were the profit margin for TS.
Lots of gay hobby farms.
I know you didn't mean it that way but I kinda want to see what that would look like.
To be fair, that's the case in the VAST majority of Lemmy threads..
If there ever needs to be a ramen boycott, our voices will be heard!
My family literally bought some construction supplies from them a couple of weeks ago. It's still unused, so we're taking it back for a refund, and currently boycotting.
Never was it that easy for me to take a stand. None of my money will ever go to Tractor Supply.
(I never even heard of them before and had to google if we have them here. They are US only)
If you don't shop there to begin with, continuing to not shop there isn't boycotting.
So I have to start shopping there before I can boycott it? Sounds counterproductive.
I'll take up smoking and then give that up!
Well yeah, I'm not a farmer. I don't need to shop for seeds and tractors and other farmer shit. But if I did I wouldn't buy it from them. So maybe it's not a boycott. Call it what you want.
God fucking damnit. TSC is the closest ag supply to our new play farm. They're high compared to Rural King or a co-op, but they're convenient. Fuckers.
How many openly queer farmers and ranchers are there? Does sexual orientation have any relevancy at tractor supply? I use a co-op most of the time because tsc is overpriced on majority of stuff
I don't think large-scale farmers are shopping at Tractor Supply. Outside of emergency situations.
However, rural homesteaders suburban "backyard farms" certainly do. And there's a lot of queer and allied gardeners and backyard farmers.
There are, also, a lot of queer farmers (raises hands emphatically). More than you might think, apparently. I have other options but I have spent a lot of money there because it was convenient - in the same area as a farmer's market we used to sell at.
It's funny though how you discount small-scale farms. 89% of farms in the US are considered small-scale.
I wonder how many of these companies that choose to participate and welcome diversity, or choose to reject it, do so only for optics and economics. What does Tractor Supply actually believe about the different groups affected by this decision? Do they even care?
They're a corporation. Of course they don't care.
To paraphrase Mark Stanley, corporations only have three rules: get the money, get the money, and get the money.
Don’t think they do things like supporting Pride because they care; it’s only a sign that they want to appeal to the broadest audience possible. But, in that same vein, when they’re supporting a topic is a good sign of is the majority of society’s feelings on the subject.
Polls can be gerrymandered to hell and back, talking heads on the news can make all kinds of claims. But since corporations chase money above all, they spend a lot of money getting very accurate ideas of what our society likes/dislikes.
Think about it. 50, hell even 30 years ago, no corporation worth their salt would have claimed to be in favor of Pride, because it would have been suicidal for the business. Society’s majority take on LGBTQ+ back then ranged from hate and disgust to ‘eww, fine, but not in public!’
Now, corporations fly the Pride flag all over the place. It definitely shows that society is much more supportive of LGBTQ+ and minorities.
If it's a publicly traded company the answer is that they likely don't believe in anything. They just do whatever the leadership believes would generate most profit, since that is what shareholders (usually) care about most.
If appearing to support progressive goals gets people to spend money in the store, then that is something that makes sense for a company like this to do. But if they stand to lose more money than they gain, for instance through boycotts, they will drop the pretence pretty quickly.
Personally I see the stance such companies take more like a reflection of general acceptance in society as a whole. If a company promotes progressive values then that would indicate that society as a whole is on average leaning more progressive.
Similarly, if companies stop supporting these values that indicates a worrying trend with regards to societal acceptance.
Just don't fool yourself into thinking that the company itself (as an entity) really believes in anything.
(Note: This doesn't hold for companies that aren't publically traded. If there are no stockholders to please the leadership can let their personal view affect the company's policy quite a bit)
Probably all of them. Not that I really care. It's enough that companies are doing the right thing, if they want to secretly do the wrong thing it is their concern. Sincerity is for lovers not for business relationships
Easy, lol.
Ah shit. The local TS is the only place that reliably stocks the duck feed I use. Other feeds don't give my birds the exact nutrition they need, and my one bird needs the right nutrition because she's prone to vitamin issues. -_-
Done! I went there exactly once and never went back because their prices are fucking ridiculous. You're welcome queer farmers.
Guess I'll be looking for spare parts for my beam emitters elsewhere, then
Yeah sounds about right. All Christianity can do is bully.
Let me state some basic facts from the perspective of a small farmer. I see here so many odd notions about why TSC's stance seemingly doesn't matter much. Too many buy into the stereo type of rural = straight, white, male and that somehow small farms that might tend to shop more at TSC don't count for much.
What a moment for the small local agricultural supply stores to get some pub and show their hometown roots over the nameless corporate coprolite that has overtaken an entire nation's value system.