I know it’s the second Costco related thing I’ve posted on this, but it’s a pretty big deal.

If these MAGA turds want to try to boycott, I’ll laugh my ass off because this one of the best performing retail stocks in the US in the past 20 years.

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    I wonder which countries these boycotters are from. 70% chance these are bots from Russia, India, or South Asia.

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    “Yeah! Let’s go somewhere that’ll charge us way more money to pwn the libs!!”

    • maga punching themselves in the balls again
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    I thought these dumbfucks wanted low prices, LOL?

    Now they are butthurt if companies like Costco sue to get that money back that Taco illegally added to the cost of so many things?

    Must be Redhat Logic ™.

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      I thought these dumbfucks wanted low prices, LOL?

      Nope. They never cared about grocery prices. They never cared about border security. They never cared about the economy. They never cared about protecting children and the whole laundry list of “huge conservative issues” because they are getting their values from FOX-feelings-news, not any carefully thought-out positions.

      They’re just dumb people. Every population is going to have a dumb segment. Our ire and desire for destruction should be focused squarely on the grifters and networks and pundits on Youtube who are feeding this stupidity-powered machine.

      The dumb people themselves? We can turn them. It’s not that hard, they are… and I cannot stress this enough, dumb. What the left broadly forgets though is that you don’t turn dumb people with smart arguments, you have to influence them the way you would a toddler. Change how they feel, then you can point them at a new target. People like Sanders have been doing this for decades and has huge success. The whole plot is right there, easy to use, we have tyrannical oligarchs who are stealing our money and hiding in boats in other countries and so on.

      It’s just that said people in boats have designed a culture war so that the dumb fucks don’t realize who the real enemy is. It sounds stupid simple to anyone who can read, but I have to remind everyone, nearly a quarter of US adults are functionally illiterate. We have to stop expecting smart arguments and preaching and scolding to work. We have to say dumb shit to make dumb people attack the right targets.

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        I’m interested in this. Do you have any examples of dumb shit to say that might get through to people like this?

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          A lot of times letting them talk and actually listening to what they have to say, they give it directly to you. If you acknowledge their dumb shit, they’re more likely to return the favor.

          Like, helping a NASCAR fan get into EVs because of their absolute love of torque isn’t an unreal scenario. They’ll give you the roadmap.

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    I’d bet real money that most of the “people” threatening to boycott don’t live on the same continent as a Costco store anyway.

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    How dare Costco try and keep prices low? We want the government to fuck us over!

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        This is one of those images where I don’t know if the person is trolling the redcaps or if they are in so deep that they actually believe this shit.

        Like the “Get a brain! Morans” guy, for instance.

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    Can’t wait for all the videos of people trying to destroy stuff they bought at Costco.

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    Considering I can barely get into the CostCo parking lot for all the people there, I suspect their boycott will amount to little.

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      If we can get them to boycott Walmart too somehow, we can just starve them out entirely. They can’t afford to boycott the best value in town.

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      in a draft of the script for the 2006 film “idiocracy”, it was originally walmart, but changed to costco (which explains the walmart-type greeter).

      oh and i think the theme of 2006 film idiocracy is NOT really “intelligence went down”, that’s to distract people from the real theme which is “corporatism rots the brain”. seriously!

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    Costco’s legal department being the last remainining Constitutional lawyers in America was not something I expected but am not surprised about, either.

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      On top of that, Costco could probably make tons of money because of the tariffs if they wanted to. Any time prices skyrocket, retailers that can afford to give things at discounted prices can make a bundle. When everybody’s prices go up, people lose the ability to shop at more expensive places.

      I think Costco is doing this because they want to continue prioritizing their customers.

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    X commenter Leftyslayer complained, “Costco immediately passed the burden to its customers. They took the profits during the good times and now they screw the citizens during downturn. They have no loyalty to the customer.

    Actually not true (imagine my surprise at an X user being uninformed)

    From another article:

    Millerchip said that while Costco was seeing a direct impact from tariffs on imports of some fresh food items from Central and South America, it decided not to increase prices “because they are key staple items” for its customers.

    Costco has been eating the costs of the tariffs (at least in some cases)

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      …but who am I going to believe? Do I really think Leftyslayer would go on the internet and just lie? I’d have thought Leftyslayer would be even more fair and balanced than fake NBC news. /s