{"id":85319,"date":"2023-06-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85319"},"modified":"2023-06-08T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:34:14","slug":"there-is-no-target-but-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85319","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Target But Target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To: Target Corp<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporouis Peasant<br>Re:  Your Descent Into Totalitarianism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Target,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started boycotting you a couple weeks ago, over the whole &#8220;grooming little kids&#8221; thing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth be told, it&#8217;s been pretty easy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it just got easier:<\/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\">\u201cYou still have to do it to do this job\u201d \u201cThis isn\u2019t for everyone\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Target?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Target<\/a> Kiera Fernandez (Chief Diversity &amp; Inclusion Officer and VP of HR) tells all of the Target employees to accept DEI or find a new place to work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/13P6FuyvmC\">pic.twitter.com\/13P6FuyvmC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MythinformedMKE\/status\/1662165786167738369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d be creeped out of a company required employees to be Christian conservatives &#8211; but nobody, not even the dreaded Chik-Fil-A, actually does that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forcing political compliance on employees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another reason Minnesota needs to suck it up and elect an actual Attorney General. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; not spending a dime with you for the duration.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the duration?   That&#8217;s up to you.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The only significant difference between working for Target and joining a cult is that Target doesn&#8217;t kill you if you try to leave (<em>Yet<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking something more like the French  Catholics chasing the Huguenots out of the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Target CorpFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporouis PeasantRe: Your Descent Into Totalitarianism Target, I started boycotting you a couple weeks ago, over the whole &#8220;grooming little kids&#8221; thing. Truth be told, it&#8217;s been pretty easy. And it just got easier: I&#8217;d be creeped out of a company required employees to be Christian conservatives &#8211; but nobody, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85335,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85319\/revisions\/85335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}