{"id":10961,"date":"2019-09-27T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:50:43","slug":"voting-with-your-dollar-things-making-me-mad-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2019\/09\/27\/voting-with-your-dollar-things-making-me-mad-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting with Your Dollar: Things Making Me Mad Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s another Friday in the world which means I\u2019m prettayyy prettayyy pissed off about something! Here are some things I hate.<\/em><\/p>\n Previous editions:<\/em><\/p>\n KICKSTARTER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to my pal Rachel from the greatest internet group OF\nALL TIME, the PPK, for bringing this issue to my attention. So, you know how\nduring the Industrial Revolution, workers \u2013 from babies to oldies \u2013 were worked\nto the bone, often killed due to dangerous practices, never given days off,\nfired if they were hurt or sick, and generally always suffering because there\nwere no laws and so factories were run the Wild West? Well, naturally, the\nadvent of modern labor law began during the Indy Rev as workers sought better\nconditions, the right to form and join labor unions, and a general agreement to\nnot be docked pay if they had to sweep the cotton bits from under the enormous\ndeath machine while it was still on (although that was mostly for kids) (this\nis a true thing I learned about in Manchester\u2019s science and industry museum! is\nhorrifying!). These laws are vital, as you know unless you are literally a\ncorporate overlord longing for the good old days but then seriously what are\nyou doing on this page, as is the freedom to form and join unions in order to\nachieve stronger bargaining power and legal rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unions are necessary in a capitalist society, but Kickstarter is like mmm I don\u2019t know, those late 19th<\/sup>-early 20th<\/sup> century times were really fun for a lot of people. Due to the company\u2019s preoccupation with I don\u2019t know, manufacturing for war time and ladies beginning to show their ankles, Kickstarter has gotten into some union busting. The company is in an ongoing unionization effort, and two employees involved in the effort were recently fired. They think it\u2019s because of the union activity, while Kickstarter says it\u2019s for performance issues. And yeah, maybe it was, but that doesn\u2019t explain why Kickstarter still doesn\u2019t recognize its employee union, or why, when asked, the company stated it would not voluntarily recognize the union. I mean, wtf guys! Did Sally Field make those placards and win an Oscar for nothing? FOR NOTHING, PEOPLE? How dare you ignore her! <\/p>\n\n\n\n I know that past editions of the What\u2019s Pissing Me Off Today post have been like \u201cdon\u2019t shop at this place! They\u2019re mean! Don\u2019t give them money! I hate them!\u201d but I can\u2019t really do that for this one. What am I gonna say, don\u2019t support interesting indie projects or small businesses who may need the site for fundraising? I mean, suggest one of the many other sites to them, but Kickstarter does have the most name recognition. I\u2019m extra mad because the people who use Kickstarter shouldn\u2019t suffer (probably). So maybe if you are looking to raise funds, just don\u2019t choose them. And also, in general, don\u2019t support union busters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n LAURA INGRAHAM\u2019S ADVERTISERS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I hate that I\u2019m talking about such a garbage person on my\nhappy site but her brother made me. So Laura Ingraham is a Nazi monster, as we\nall know, such a Nazi monster (or\u2026Nazster?) that her own brother has disowned\nher in a series of truly incredible tweets. What a Thanksgiving it\u2019ll be this\nyear! He can come to mine! The companies that continue to advertise with her\nare of course also Nazsters who do not, I repeat really do not, understand the\nfirst amendment, and who have been profiled in the past when e.g. she went\nafter young activist David Hogg. She\u2019s even shittier now than she was before,\nso here are her advertisers as of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n South Beach Diet: LOL I remember when this was big when I was in high school and we made one of their cookie recipes, it was literally just egg whites and peanut butter and stevia mixed and then baked. PASS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fungi-Nail: Of course her viewers need this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rohto: Yeah I need eye drops too but I\u2019ll get them from someone else chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SeroVital: These are like weird vitamins and HGH? Um. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NFL Network: We already know they are misogynist and racist monsters jfc they are THE WORST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Waterpik: These fuckers too lazy to floss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stamps.com: Every podcast is now cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coravin: None of her viewers have ever had to save a bottle of opened wine, gimme a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Takl: This is the worst brand name I\u2019ve ever heard and people literally can\u2019t even say mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roman Pharmacy: This is my FAVORITE one on the list. You could not ask for something more perfect for Fox viewers. It is 104% perfect. So this is a health app, for men, that gets them medical service through the app so they don\u2019t have to leave their homes\/basement dungeons and actually go see a doctor. Oh the toxic masculinity in so much of this. And don\u2019t with the \u2018well some people are too ill to leave the house.\u2019 The main service, and what their media coverage is mostly about, is for erectile dysfunction meds. It is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Energizer: fuck that bunny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bausch & Lomb: They test on animals anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sandals Hotel\/Resort: YA BASIC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheex: Is this when you eat at a Sheetz and then sheetz yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Safelite Auto Glass Co: Checks out. I bet they are all terrible drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nutrisystem: \u201cEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n USAA: The extra A is for Asshole<\/p>\n\n\n\n MyPillow: This is another favorite of mine. Their twitter is overrun with supporters congratulating them for sticking with their fight for freedom and pledging to buy their pillows in THE NAME OF FREEDOM. People are so FORKING STUPID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lifelock: That\u2019s what her viewers are suffering from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n StarKist: tuno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WeatherTech: These people care about their cars almost as much as their guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HomeToGo.com: For people who want to travel but like not really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ClearChoice Dental: I mean at least some of them go to a dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tecovas: They make leather cowboy boots. It\u2019s all like a stereotype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prevagen: This supplement claims to help memory loss. God her viewers are old. Just take algae-based omega 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carfax: sell dem cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elite Singles Dating Service: BUT YOU HATE THE ELITE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Zebra: Terrible name for car insurance! (Great name for a striped horse.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eli Lilly & Novo Nordisk: They do love Big Pharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What a bunch of idiots we share this planet with! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe next time we can do a list of companies I love! Optimism! (Except there\u2019s No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism\u2026so really I\u2019d just be recommending that you watch The Good Place (BSE)). What\u2019s on your list this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s another Friday in the world which means I\u2019m prettayyy prettayyy pissed off about something! Here are some things I hate. Previous editions: One Two Buckle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellany"],"yoast_head":"\n\n