Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors
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@Horace I wasn't writing from the Daily Wire's perspective, I was writing from my own.
No doubt many people will make money off the carcass of the country as they help rip it apart. (exhibit 1, the media)
@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@Horace I wasn't writing from the Daily Wire's perspective, I was writing from my own.
No doubt many people will make money off the carcass of the country as they help rip it apart. (exhibit 1, the media)
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer. I suggest you are mostly reacting to other factors destroying the culture and taking this opportunity to rub the conservative side’s nose in the mess. But using this as an example is a swing and a miss IMO.
Education is extremely important.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I like the shut up and shave logo…
Except if you watch the guys video that's not what the company is about. It by and for conservatives. What he's doing is an order of magnitude worse than what Harry's did (which was already idiotic and performative).
It kind of reminded me of that stupid Cadillac advert going on about how Europeans are lazy and real Americans spend their lives working until they bleed from the anus, and so deserve a really big fucking ugly car as a reward for their miserable existence.
On the scale of antisocial cultural behavior, I would hope we can all agree that economic bullying by cancel culture is worse than identifying a group of people to market to, and telling them clearly that they are being marketed to.
@Horace said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
On the scale of antisocial cultural behavior, I would hope we can all agree that economic bullying by cancel culture is worse than identifying a group of people to market to, and telling them clearly that they are being marketed to.
There's levels..
For example, to be honest I don't have much of a problem with complaining about companies who refuse to supply cakes for gay weddings. I think the refusal is asshole behaviour - intolerance masquerading as religious belief. Enraging the woke mob isn't something I approve of or support, but complaining about something that upsets people should be ok.
Trying to drive people out of business for advertising on a website you don't agree with is a different order of magnitude, and unacceptable.
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I cringe every time we take another step towards red corporations and blue corporations. We need more DMZs, and the ones we have are eroding.
@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I cringe every time we take another step towards red corporations and blue corporations. We need more DMZs, and the ones we have are eroding.
What are some companies you'd classify as "red"? Fox News?
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@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@Horace I wasn't writing from the Daily Wire's perspective, I was writing from my own.
No doubt many people will make money off the carcass of the country as they help rip it apart. (exhibit 1, the media)
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer. I suggest you are mostly reacting to other factors destroying the culture and taking this opportunity to rub the conservative side’s nose in the mess. But using this as an example is a swing and a miss IMO.
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer.
I suppose with a sufficiently banal euphemism it doesn't seem like a problem. Obviously no single company deciding they are in business to service Red (Blue) America isn't culture destroying, its the general trend and where it would lead.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I cringe every time we take another step towards red corporations and blue corporations. We need more DMZs, and the ones we have are eroding.
What are some companies you'd classify as "red"? Fox News?
@Klaus said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
What are some companies you'd classify as "red"? Fox News?
Well the media is ideological so it's the most obvious example. What I really dread is a world where (say) blue folks have Uber and red folks have Lyft, etc. It just doesn't lead to a good place at all.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
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Like I have been saying, if you don't like [whatever provided by someone else], build your own [whatever].
That said, the guy in the video says Conservatives have been losing. So here's a question for all those who self-identify as Conservatives here: Do you agree that Conservatives have been losing? If so, why do you think that? Is it because Conservatism itself is just no good anymore, is it because Conservatives have been doing things wrong, or is it just divine will that Conservatives lose?
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I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer.
I suppose with a sufficiently banal euphemism it doesn't seem like a problem. Obviously no single company deciding they are in business to service Red (Blue) America isn't culture destroying, its the general trend and where it would lead.
@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer.
I suppose with a sufficiently banal euphemism it doesn't seem like a problem. Obviously no single company deciding they are in business to service Red (Blue) America isn't culture destroying, its the general trend and where it would lead.
It wouldn't lead there. And in fact that's not even what cancel culture does. They target companies for destruction if those companies don't toe the leftist pop cultural line, and that is an actual problem, rather than a fantastical slippery slope having to do with target demos overlapping with political demos. Target demos will exist and they will sometimes overlap with political demos. That is not a problem per se.
I am sure Jeremy's razors, like all other companies, even self-professed woke ones, are happy to serve holders of any ideology. as long as capitalism reigns, there will never be red or blue companies, excepting companies that sell political bias explicitly.
Education is extremely important.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
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Like I have been saying, if you don't like [whatever provided by someone else], build your own [whatever].
That said, the guy in the video says Conservatives have been losing. So here's a question for all those who self-identify as Conservatives here: Do you agree that Conservatives have been losing? If so, why do you think that? Is it because Conservatism itself is just no good anymore, is it because Conservatives have been doing things wrong, or is it just divine will that Conservatives lose?
@Axtremus said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
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Like I have been saying, if you don't like [whatever provided by someone else], build your own [whatever].
That said, the guy in the video says Conservatives have been losing. So here's a question for all those who self-identify as Conservatives here: Do you agree that Conservatives have been losing? If so, why do you think that? Is it because Conservatism itself is just no good anymore, is it because Conservatives have been doing things wrong, or is it just divine will that Conservatives lose?
I've written thousands of posts here on this topic, but I see my education has gone wasted on some. These sorts of comments only galvanize me to continue teaching.
In a nutshell, attempt to learn what culture is, what cultural ideas are, and the degree to which they dictate the opinions and attitudes of the masses. You, personally, might reflect on the differences in worldviews between the average Chinese person raised in China and the average American. What accounts for that difference? Is one set of attitudes or values more true, or more good, than the other?
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This is an early example and an extreme one, at least based on his video manifesto. I can think of a couple others, some artisanal spice dealer we talked about here and a few odd sole proprietor restaurants that have made the news.
They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer.
I suppose with a sufficiently banal euphemism it doesn't seem like a problem. Obviously no single company deciding they are in business to service Red (Blue) America isn't culture destroying, its the general trend and where it would lead.
It wouldn't lead there. And in fact that's not even what cancel culture does. They target companies for destruction if those companies don't toe the leftist pop cultural line, and that is an actual problem, rather than a fantastical slippery slope having to do with target demos overlapping with political demos. Target demos will exist and they will sometimes overlap with political demos. That is not a problem per se.
I am sure Jeremy's razors, like all other companies, even self-professed woke ones, are happy to serve holders of any ideology. as long as capitalism reigns, there will never be red or blue companies, excepting companies that sell political bias explicitly.
@Horace said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
as long as capitalism reigns, there will never be red or blue companiesWell, capitalism is primarily a conservative free market philosophy, so that isn't really true.
Companies may pretend to be leftist, whilst simultaneously raking in vast amounts of cash, but it isn't really the case.
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This is an early example and an extreme one, at least based on his video manifesto. I can think of a couple others, some artisanal spice dealer we talked about here and a few odd sole proprietor restaurants that have made the news.
@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
This is an early example and an extreme one, at least based on his video manifesto. I can think of a couple others, some artisanal spice dealer we talked about here and a few odd sole proprietor restaurants that have made the news.
I am sure a maga hat would have gotten one kicked out of a restaurant or two in San Francisco back in the day, depending on the mood of the manager working at the time. But let's not lose sight of the pop cultural giddy hatred orgy that gave rise to that.
Jeremy's, on the other hand, is not going to refuse to sell to someone who has the wrong bumper sticker. Neither is any large company.
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Supposedly they improved the razors…
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What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
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What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
Guys with beards still use razors…
The Brad
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
Guys with beards still use razors…
@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
Guys with beards still use razors…
I haven't used a "razor" since 1997.
Now, shavers, of course, are a different story.
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@jon-nyc said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
I am having a difficult time imagining a business targeting a certain demo as an anti social culture destroyer.
I suppose with a sufficiently banal euphemism it doesn't seem like a problem. Obviously no single company deciding they are in business to service Red (Blue) America isn't culture destroying, its the general trend and where it would lead.
It wouldn't lead there. And in fact that's not even what cancel culture does. They target companies for destruction if those companies don't toe the leftist pop cultural line, and that is an actual problem, rather than a fantastical slippery slope having to do with target demos overlapping with political demos. Target demos will exist and they will sometimes overlap with political demos. That is not a problem per se.
I am sure Jeremy's razors, like all other companies, even self-professed woke ones, are happy to serve holders of any ideology. as long as capitalism reigns, there will never be red or blue companies, excepting companies that sell political bias explicitly.
@Horace said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
long as capitalism reigns, there will never be red or blue companies
You could call it capitalism or profit motive, that should prevent a red or blue company.
But we have seen so many examples of red and blue companies.
Some companies are Red or Blue because that is there customer base and profit source. NPR and the NRA are two easy ones to name. MSNBC and Fox News are two others.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
Guys with beards still use razors…
@LuFins-Dad said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
What's really odd is that both of those fuckers have beards.
Guys with beards still use razors…
Well they're not using them very effectively.
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@Renauda said in Give your money to the god-king - Jeremy's Razors:
Never heard of Jeremy’s Razors.
How do they compare to Mach 3 blades?
I'd heard that the previous ones weren't very good, but you could at least cut yourself to shreds secure in the knowledge that you're not supporting some woke corporation. Presumably the knew ones are far better since they're no longer made in China. I note that he didn't say where they are made - some Googling indicated Korea and Vietnam, so that will make all the difference I'm sure.
At one point I switched from the Gillette to Harry's, and found those quite good. Mostly I use an electric nowadays.
