{"id":85194,"date":"2023-05-23T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85194"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T18:31:15","slug":"85194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85194","title":{"rendered":"Untargeted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m not especially big on boycotts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem is, most of the stuff that conservatives are supposed to boycott these days or products, I\u2019ve never used, or companies I\u2019ve never really patronized.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn\u2019t used Gillette razors for years before they beclowned themselves with their anti-masculine ad campaign a few years back. not because they were work, but because they just weren\u2019t very good razors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t had beer in something like five years \u2013 and even then, I didn\u2019t drink American mass-market beer. So Bud Light was irrelevant (and is only beer in the loose possible sense of the term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, given a choice between Starbucks, Caribou, and driving home and making French press, Starbucks always comes in last. Not because of politics, but because it\u2019s the worst value for the dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But after Target\u2019s recent bout of self immolation, I figured that\u2019s a company I can do without.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, self-immolation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you&#39;ve ever wondered if they are going after your children, wonder no more.<br><br>This is your periodical reminder to not shop at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Target<\/a>&#8230; ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NpM5eJ5k01\">pic.twitter.com\/NpM5eJ5k01<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rich Saunders \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RichSau61052334) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichSau61052334\/status\/1660716053712842752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, starting last Friday, that\u2019s exactly what I did; I swore off Target until they come around \u2013 however, long that takes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been three days. I\u2019m still alive. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not especially big on boycotts. Problem is, most of the stuff that conservatives are supposed to boycott these days or products, I\u2019ve never used, or companies I\u2019ve never really patronized. I hadn\u2019t used Gillette razors for years before they beclowned themselves with their anti-masculine ad campaign a few years back. not because they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-first","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85194\/revisions\/85200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}