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pretzelcoatl
07/17/23 1:23:23 AM
#51:


The_Popo posted...
I couldnt tell you the last time I had a Bud or Bud Light. Probably at least 10 years. If Im getting cheap, US domestic beer, Im getting Coors.
Ugh, coors. Try Hamm's.
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2001mark
07/17/23 1:23:41 AM
#52:


The biggest item of this ordeal is that it was never even about the Bud Light product itself - the beer inside the cans & bottles.

It was about BL's branding.

Which is hilarious because all Bud Light's success over the decades has been because of its branding - we all know it's just Budweiser Water inside.
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ModernPost
07/17/23 1:36:19 AM
#53:


Requiem posted...
To the people who didn't like Budlight caving, hey, at least the company went to the bat for your cause.
Did they? How so?

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xGhostchantx
07/17/23 1:38:44 AM
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InBev owns too many names for the boycott to have ever been effective. Looking at its stock, it wasn't.

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EthanSilver
07/17/23 1:46:15 AM
#55:


xGhostchantx posted...
InBev owns too many names for the boycott to have ever been effective. Looking at its stock, it wasn't.
Meh, I'm a cup half full sort of guy...

Doubt this was ideal for them. Also doubt this won't serve as a lesson to them and others. Imagine if they didn't have other brands to fall back on?

Either way, a repeat situation because it "doesn't" matter? Don't think so.
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Thermador446
07/17/23 2:37:47 AM
#56:


Corbenik posted...
Anyone actually like budlight?

Corona or Modelo should be the new face of the LGBT beers

those are actually good.

Budlight gives me a headache, well light beers in general do.

Corona is not actually good, your taste glands are malfunctioning.

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Thermador446
07/17/23 2:39:10 AM
#57:


Priere posted...
They should just rebrand to "Chud Light" and put Kid Rock on all the cans.

That should stabilize them. Right?

Worth a shot

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Smashingpmkns
07/17/23 2:42:49 AM
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If I'm drinking gas station beer that isn't a Mickeys it's gonna be Pacifico. Sucks that this budlight shit is over a trans spokesperson and not because people are getting a taste for better beer.

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sfcalimari
07/17/23 2:49:15 AM
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Bud Light will never be anything but redneck garbage beer to me.

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tripleh213
07/17/23 2:50:36 AM
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Lmao

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xlr_big-coop
07/17/23 2:56:34 AM
#61:


Jagr_68 posted...
Pretty hilarious they ruined themselves alienating their core base AND lost goodwill for disengenuously ditching their LGBTQ prop accessory shortly after the fact; leaving them with neither customer demographic.

Big brain business strategies right here.

PraetorXyn posted...
you gotta know your audience.

EthanSilver posted...
Cool, deserved.
These. It's stupid that corrupt companies suddenly care about inclusivity, people went from demanding the 1% to be accountable to suddenly defending their message.

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MabusIncarnate
07/17/23 2:58:38 AM
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Maybe if they shaped the can like a trailer hitch and put a free set of rubber testicles to hang from their pick up it will be less gay and they can redeem sales.

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ForsakenHermit
07/17/23 3:12:51 AM
#63:


Jagr_68 posted...
Downgrading from piss water to leftover dishwater to own the libs.
Seriously, Keystone Light is the one beer I suspect is drunk by more people under 21 than of legal drinking age.

It's crazy how you can't say I don't like Bud Light without someone inquiring if it's for any reason other than taste.

And I'm not exactly a beer snob who thinks that all macrobrews are bad. Granted I prefer a good microbrew most of the time but I still see generic pilsner as having a place in the market. When I'm out I usually go with Blue Light.

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Lordgold666
07/17/23 1:56:30 PM
#64:


Stuff like this are exactly why politics should stay out of business. Youre always going to piss off at least 50% of your customers, its a no win situation

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TheGoldenEel
07/17/23 2:14:03 PM
#65:


Lordgold666 posted...
Stuff like this are exactly why politics should stay out of business. Youre always going to piss off at least 50% of your customers, its a no win situation
See, the problem with this statement is Bud Light didnt do anything political

they just partnered with a person that is part of a group of people one political party hates

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andel
07/17/23 2:16:39 PM
#66:


i don't drink beer anyway. i really don't drink anymore at all but if i do it's tequila or bourbon master race

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Starks
07/17/23 2:17:26 PM
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Bud Light doesn't deserve this but it's hard to stand up for piss.

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Prismsblade
07/17/23 2:30:13 PM
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I was curious why budlight seemed to be getting alot more heat then most other brands in this regard and it may be due to timing.

Since im pretty sure the boycott started not long after the Nashville shooting.

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Lordgold666
07/17/23 2:35:44 PM
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Couldnt have said it better myself

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Kradek
07/17/23 2:36:48 PM
#71:


Starks posted...
Bud Light doesn't deserve this but it's hard to stand up for piss.

They do deserve this, they were a big part of the gay bar community, and thus a big part of the gay community, and they threw away that whole clientele cause of some whiny fascists pissy over a single special can given to a transwoman, they weren't even selling bottles with her face on it. And part of their response was firing everybody in marketing who was part of that. Anybody who gives into the fascists deserves to go out of business.

Prismsblade posted...
I was curious why budlight seemed to be getting alot more heat then most other brands in this regard and it may be due to timing.

Since im pretty sure the boycott started not long after the Nashville shooting.

Right-wingers started trying to "cancel" (curious how this term is never ascribed to right-wing boycotts) them because they made a single special bottle for a transwoman influencer, they weren't even like selling or distributing these bottles. In order to appease these bigots, they fired everybody in the marketing team responsible for it and made this obscene fellatio-esque apology.

Well, bud light has actually been a big part of the gay community for decades due to being a staple in gay bars and so the LGBTQ community along with their allies are now boycotting Bud Light, along with the right-wingers who clearly weren't satiated with BL's firing and apology.

The prudent business move would to have been to just give up on the bigots, because now they've pissed off both sides of the aisle and are noticeably suffering.

To which I say, good, fuck AB.

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TheGoldenEel
07/17/23 2:37:57 PM
#72:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Ok, but its important to note that trans people existing is not political, and its just hateful chuds who view a company acknowledging they exist as such

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BobbaDukes
07/17/23 2:43:21 PM
#73:


Jagr_68 posted...
Pretty hilarious they ruined themselves alienating their core base AND lost goodwill for disengenuously ditching their LGBTQ prop accessory shortly after the fact; leaving them with neither customer demographic.

Big brain business strategies right here.

Yup. Thats what happens when you care more about optics than sales.

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DarthAragorn
07/17/23 2:51:32 PM
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This whole thing is the absolute dumbest shit. They didn't even advertise this shit as far as I know, they just sent some trans chick some beer cans with her face on them? Like without going out of your way to look this up you wouldn't even know it was a thing?

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Kradek
07/17/23 3:03:47 PM
#75:


DarthAragorn posted...
This whole thing is the absolute dumbest shit. They didn't even advertise this shit as far as I know, they just sent some trans chick some beer cans with her face on them? Like without going out of your way to look this up you wouldn't even know it was a thing?

Well, "you" (the average person) may know it's a thing because Republicans lost their minds over it and even politicians started railing against them, to the point of saying it was some "marketing campaign targeting children" because Dylan is trans and Gen z & younger are the most open-minded to accepting transpeople, therefore to them trans support = trying to get to children.

What you're right about is that the average person likely wouldn't know the real reason (which is indeed that Dylan got a single (I think) customized bottle for her that wasn't even available for distribution, so it's not even like they'd be seeing it in stores).

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Heineken14
07/17/23 3:11:04 PM
#76:


YellowSUV posted...
If Budlight was actually good there would be no significant boycott. There are plenty of other brands of pisswater to choose from.


People that drank Bud Light to begin with didn't give a shit about taste. People who drank Bud Light to begin with and were so offended that they sent a trans woman some beer definitely didn't give a shit about taste.

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Heineken14
07/17/23 3:11:43 PM
#77:


Corbenik posted...
Anyone actually like budlight?

Corona or Modelo should be the new face of the LGBT beers

those are actually good.


Funny you say that, as I've seen that spring up for the right wingers that are ditching Bud Light. lol

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daynlokki
07/17/23 3:13:40 PM
#78:


Heineken14 posted...
Funny you say that, as I've seen that spring up for the right wingers that are ditching Bud Light. lol
Pretty sure its made by the same company and just distributed in the US by another lmao.
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McMarbles
07/17/23 3:15:45 PM
#79:


Requiem posted...
Feel like everyone should stop the boycott.

To the people who didn't like the message, hey, Budlight caved in and you won.
To the people who didn't like Budlight caving, hey, at least the company went to the bat for your cause.

Like, I don't understand why anyone is boycotting the product at this point.
Well, its also kind of a crappy beer.

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AloneIBreak
07/17/23 3:21:42 PM
#80:


Corbenik posted...
Corona or Modelo should be the new face of the LGBT beers

those are actually good.
Corona? What did our LGBT friends ever do to you? Shit's gross. You show some damn respect.

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BobbaDukes
07/17/23 3:28:09 PM
#81:


TheGoldenEel posted...
See, the problem with this statement is Bud Light didnt do anything political

they just partnered with a person that is part of a group of people one political party hates

Dylan Mulvaney is a controversial figure whose antics are seen by a not-so-insignificant amount of people (including members of the LGBT community) as a performative parody of womanhood. Partnering with controversial people is risky, especially in these polarizing times.
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Iamdepressed
07/17/23 3:28:11 PM
#82:


Heineken14 posted...
Funny you say that, as I've seen that spring up for the right wingers that are ditching Bud Light. lol
Beer shouldn't be so polarized other than the topic of its taste and quality. Isn't the whole point of alcohol is to get you drunk? I don't buy budlight because I'm a bigot, but rather because the beer taste like piss. So if somebody brings a 30 pack of budlight instead of a 30 pack of a better quality brand, I'm going to complain, but people will think I'm being anti-trans because of it, when I'm really just dissatisfied with the taste.
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TMOG
07/17/23 3:29:36 PM
#83:


Lordgold666 posted...
Stuff like this are exactly why politics should stay out of business.
Trans people have nothing to do with politics unless you're a conservative who wants to genocide them.
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Autocraticus
07/17/23 3:30:06 PM
#84:


I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.
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TMOG
07/17/23 3:32:12 PM
#85:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.
There's a lot of yikes to unpack in this post and I'm honestly not even sure where the appropriate starting point is
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The_X_Dawg
07/17/23 3:37:08 PM
#86:


If I see an 18 pack of BL for $10, you bet your ass I'm buying that shit beer.
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DarthAragorn
07/17/23 3:37:45 PM
#87:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.
Anyone that is not "chronically online" would not have even known this was a thing to begin with.

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daynlokki
07/17/23 3:38:34 PM
#88:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.
How is Dylan getting one six pack with their face on it, and Bud never publicizing it themselves, come to this exactly? Oh ya because Republicans are the ones who actually mass publicized it.
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Kradek
07/17/23 3:39:21 PM
#89:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.

Lol really exposed yourself with that last sentence there.

Bud Light only gave a special bottle to Dylan, they were not distributing any bottles to the masses with her face on it. I actually looked for these special bottles to support their initial decision, and that's when I learned through research that it was not actually distributed to the masses. They were not "putting her" in front of anybody.

The only reason the average right-winger even found out about it is because right-wingers are always looking for reasons to get pissed off and violent over marginalized minority groups that they demonize so the right-wing propagandosphere blasted it full force.

They could have easily have drunk their beer without giving a fuck about Dylan Mulvaney, however their deep-seeded bigotry and seething hatred prevented that because they could not tolerate a reality where BL merely acknowledged the existence of a trans influencer.

Imagine trying to make the other side sound like the ridiculous bad guys on this topic lmao.

Though I guess your username kind of really gives it away since it literally has "autocrat" in it.

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Heineken14
07/17/23 3:43:28 PM
#90:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.


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ModernPost
07/17/23 3:49:24 PM
#91:


Autocraticus posted...
I've got some news for some of you: not everyone is as chronically online as you. They do not want to be any culture war foot soldier. They want to work their job, drink their shit beer, and raise their family. When you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them, they will not respond in kind.
So they do want to be a culture war foot soldier. You just contradicted yourself. Also, what do you mean by "when you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them"? What is a person like Dylan Mulvaney, and how did Bud Light put her in front of them?

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SaikyoStyle
07/17/23 3:53:41 PM
#92:


ModernPost posted...
So they do want to be a culture war foot soldier. You just contradicted yourself. Also, what do you mean by "when you put people like Dylan Mulvaney in front of them"? What is a person like Dylan Mulvaney, and how did Bud Light put her in front of them?
Are you trying to trick him into getting himself banned?

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TheGoldenEel
07/17/23 3:53:50 PM
#93:


Autocraticus posted...

10 active posts 2002 account

probably just purg huh?

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Prestoff
07/17/23 3:59:22 PM
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Well shit, I guess I bite my own words then when I said boycotts of this level doesn't work.

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SaikyoStyle
07/17/23 4:02:46 PM
#95:


Prestoff posted...
Well shit, I guess I bite my own words then when I said boycotts of this level doesn't work.
One should never underestimate the power of weaponized bigots.

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Kradek
07/17/23 4:17:59 PM
#96:


SaikyoStyle posted...
One should never underestimate the power of weaponized bigots.

If it was only them they'd probably be doing ok, even if suffering in sales. Their attempt to appease the bigots, which drove away the LGBTQ community in addition to their allies, along with the bigots still not getting over it it, is what's really having this damaging effect.

They successfully pissed off both sides and we're seeing the ramifications of that.

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creativerealms
07/17/23 4:23:54 PM
#98:


Piss everyone off, go broke.

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Sexypwnstar
07/17/23 4:23:54 PM
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Seems they're saying Budlight went woke and subsequently went broke

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Vegy
07/17/23 4:26:04 PM
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I hope all alcohol go broke

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