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I don't understand how these business owners could do something like this. How can they be intelligent enough to run a business and yet not smart enough to figure out that it might be a very bad idea to tell their (potential) customers that they support a particular brand of U.S. politics?
I can see it if they are in an area that is 90% MAGA, but even then, why miss out on the 10% that aren't?
TikTokers & Redditors Weaponize “Anti-Woke” App to Boycott Pro-Trump Businesses (Humanist Report on YouTube, May 2, 2025 - 10:43 min.)
Leftists on social media are spreading the word about an app conservatives have been using to support right-wing businesses. The app, called Public Square, provides users with a map of conservative businesses in their area, but anti-Trump TikTokers and Redditors have encouraged people to use the app to boycott said businesses. In this video we’ll talk about this social media movement, how businesses are responding to it, and who’s behind Public Square.
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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts (yahoo!news/Huffpost, April 26, 2025)
A few years ago, Jeff was working for a California bank that asked him to look into getting the business listed on a website called PublicSquare.
The bank’s leaders were big supporters of Donald Trump, and PublicSquare was an ideal place to advertise it: Its website, which bills itself as “the anti-woke online marketplace,” is a hub of tens of thousands of businesses nationwide that want people to know they align with MAGA views and oppose so-called “progressive priorities” like women’s reproductive rights and diversity initiatives. In order to list your business on the website, you first have to confirm that you will “respect the core values of PublicSquare” and agree not to “support causes that are in direct conflict with our core values.”
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Jeff, a regular user of the social media platform Reddit, started noticing people in his San Diego community posting messages desperate for ways to fight back against Trump’s recklessness. Some called for boycotting MAGA-friendly businesses but didn’t know how to identify companies that support Trump’s views. So Jeff, who had extensively researched PublicSquare at his previous bank job, tossed in a note about it.
“MAGA has made it easy for all of us to avoid their businesses,” he wrote under his Reddit name, Hour-Abbreviations18. “A couple years ago, they introduced a website – publicsq.com — to promote MAGA businesses. We can use that same tool to make informed purchasing decisions.”
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Safe-Keeper said:
Did I post this vid from Parkrose Permaculture about how Arkansas is struggling as a direct result of voting for Dump?
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The video in question mentions both the impact of tariffs and cuts to US Aid (which limits the ability for farmers to sell their produce) and Trump's inaction over certain disasters (flooding and tornadoes).

But one problem actually solves the other. If people see their farms flooded, then they won't have to worry about selling their stuff because their crops would have been wiped out.

See? Trump is a visionary. He managed to fix one problem with another.
 
dann said:
I don't understand how these business owners could do something like this. How can they be intelligent enough to run a business and yet not smart enough to figure out that it might be a very bad idea to tell their (potential) customers that they support a particular brand of U.S. politics?
I can see it if they are in an area that is 90% MAGA, but even then, why miss out on the 10% that aren't?
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My partner uses this app to figure out what businesses we are avoiding for sure. There are quite a few in the Portland area.
 
Segnosaur said:
The video in question mentions both the impact of tariffs and cuts to US Aid (which limits the ability for farmers to sell their produce) and Trump's inaction over certain disasters (flooding and tornadoes).
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Shooting themselves in the foot to pwn the libs.
Same as Ukraine aid. Made in the USA, creating jobs and local income.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Shooting themselves in the foot to pwn the libs.
Same as Ukraine aid. Made in the USA, creating jobs and local income.
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That seems to be a theme we see a lot from conservatives. Money that the government spends is money that is simply gathered from taxpayers in large denomination bills and set on fire, to no public benefit. It's all waste you see.

Meanwhile, tax cuts are consequence-free money.
 
I was curious about Public Square so I just checked the website, though it doesn't have the extreme language noted above, and in an article I read last week (do I need to find the Android app?).

A bit disappointed, though not entirely surprised, that my little coastal Oregon area has near no presence on the site. A church, a travel agency and a realtor... that's it.
Of course I've lived with Trump flag studded pick-up truck parades and cars literally, yes... literally, COVERED in T and MAGA stickers for all these years, and I don't expect this demo to be all that computer savvy anyway.
But still, only three businesses?
Maybe I do need to investigate the app.
 
Norman Alexander said:
One of millions of US small businesses Trump has wiped out, no doubt.
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I guess most of these small business owners don't really know or remember that Donald Trump built his real estate business by employing smaller businesses to do the actual construction and then not paying them. When they sue him for payment, it's cheaper for him to pay lawyers to stonewall them in court than to pay them for work done. Trump has no love whatsoever for small businesses. They always were, and remain, his preferred prey.
 
JayUtah said:
I guess most of these small business owners don't really know or remember that Donald Trump built his real estate business by employing smaller businesses to do the actual construction and then not paying them. When they sue him for payment, it's cheaper for him to pay lawyers to stonewall them in court than to pay them for work done. Trump has no love whatsoever for small businesses. They always were, and remain, his preferred prey.
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And he has done it again. In this case, all he wanted from them was their votes. And now he stiffs them by ruining their livelihood.

Maybe one day they might listen and learn... One fine day...
 
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