Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
  • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    Go fash, lose cash.

    Complete tangent:

    “PublicSquare is basically the Green Book, but for conservatives,” this TikTok user, who goes by dapper.delinquent, says in his video. “The Green Book was a book passed around Black communities that was a list of stores and businesses that were safe for Black People to use. PublicSquare is the same thing for conservatives.”

    If you make an analogy, then have to explain the thing you are comparing the first thing with, what is the point of the analogy?

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Damn a restaurant I like is on this stupid site. It’s surprising because most of the stuff in my area that’s on here is like realtors, explicitly right wing businesses with patriot in the name, or like when you go in there it’s all thin blue line flags and shit. This is just a normal restaurant with normal decor. I’m not really surprised the owners are apparently Trumpy, pretty much all the business owners in my area are, I’m just surprised to see them on this site

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    21·
    15 hours ago

    wake up honey, new BDS list just dropped.

    but seriously I like that there’s a list of “maga friendly businesses”… because up until now the fascism has been too subtle.

  • brognak@lemm.ee
    502·
    20 hours ago

    I wanted a similar site but to track houses with Trump signs up. Have to upload pictures for the record, and cross referenced with MLS listings/sales so everything is expunged on property transfer.

    No particular reason to keep this info around. Just a curiosity.

      • brognak@lemm.ee
        191·
        19 hours ago

        In my head I called it The Scarlet Letter and the logo was a giant red burning T.

        Not that I have put thought into it or anything 😅

      • brognak@lemm.ee
        561·
        19 hours ago

        My dude, they are black bagging people off the street and now our AG says ICE can walk into your home without a warrant.

        If anything I am behind the curve.

        • Godric@lemmy.world
          527·
          18 hours ago

          Hey bozo, not wanting to normalize creating lists of people based on politics is not “feeling sowwy for Nazis”. Pay the fuck attention, this type of thing in this type of climate doesn’t end well.

          • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            22 minutes ago

            You’re right. We shouldn’t be creating lists.

            Since they’re Nazis, the only thing we should be doing is killing them. Them, and anyone who collaborates or protects them.

          • futatorius@lemm.ee
            13·
            15 hours ago

            When their politics include coming for people like me? Yeah, it’s well past time for lists.

          • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
            115·
            17 hours ago

            Businesses aren’t people and we’re allowed to vote with our wallets if nothing else. Plus, the red hats made the site, dummy. We’re just using the list they gave us.

            • Godric@lemmy.world
              78·
              16 hours ago

              I wanted a similar site but to track houses

              We aren’t talking about businesses. Please read the discussion taking place before commenting in the future, thanks bud

    • cujo255@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      Odd, the Scheele’s by us is not, interesting that a big chain like that would allowed certain locations to sign up for something like that

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Looks like it’s just one particular Scheels that’s on there. I’d guess the franchisee is a dickhead, not the overall corporation (any more than corporations are usually dickheads anyway).

      My local Scheels is not on there. In fact, relatively few local businesses are, which is surprising since I live in a pretty red state (though the city is pretty purple, and only getting bluer as time goes on).

    • EpeeGnome@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      A plausible guess, but the article says he’s on the website’s board of directors.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    96·
    1 day ago

    Well shit. The landscaping company we signed up for this year is a MAGAt apparently. I’ll be shopping for a different company now.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      21 hours ago

      Make sure you tell them why you’re firing them, and post a review on their Google page. Dont mention the quality of the service, just that you dropped them for their treasonous support of MAGA Nazis.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        21·
        18 hours ago

        I’m on the fence about telling them why. I have zero faith that losing me as a customer will make them reconsider their political position even if it would make me feel better. What it may do it make them remove their add from the MAGAt site meaning we lose the warning signal to others.

        As far as leaving reviews pointing out there MAGAness, I’m in a red state and that may help them. They love their martyrs, so I’m definitely skipping that step.

        • segabased@lemmy.zip
          1·
          17 hours ago

          I kinda don’t care about hearts and minds. Let them know you dropped them for that reason, the scorn is enough. They’re allowed to be maga it just can’t be without consequences

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
            6·
            17 hours ago

            I kinda don’t care about hearts and minds. Let them know you dropped them for that reason, the scorn is enough.

            I get where you are but this is contradictory. If we don’t care about addressing mindsets of folks then making my position known is the opposite of that. They likely won’t care, and simply dismiss me as some kind of “woke lib”. So the only benefit to making my feelings know would be to make me feel better.

            They’re allowed to be maga it just can’t be without consequences

            Worse, pragmatically speaking, they might actually benefit if I did that. Yes they lose me as a customer, but that’s happening anyway. Now though, I’ve given them a story to tell. A cross to affix themselves to as they talk about their hardship of a single “woke lib” that drop them. If they even get a single person to accept their story, then they’ll have replace the revenue they would have derived from me and are made “whole”. Worse, they need only circulate the story in the areas we both live in and many of my MAGA neighbors would likely rally around them giving them even more business that before.

            In these circumstances, the consequences for MAGAism for them would be positive as they would (at least for a short time) gain additional business from MAGAness.

            This is one of those hard adult decision where the only move is to not play the game. I drop them as business I patronize and say nothing as to the reason of there MAGAness. I leave their (self inflicted) warning signs in place for others to see as I did, and without becoming a rallying cry which will benefit them.

      • timeghost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        It makes sense, as MAGA are the human equivalent of leafblowers: loud, obnoxious, spew shit for miles in all directions, and serve no discernible purpose except to make the world worse for everyone around them…

  • Null User Object@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 day ago

    As a consumer, PublicSquare’s website is easy to use. You just enter your ZIP code

    Where? In the search box I just get a few products that happen to have my zip code in their description (not as a zip, but as a product number or something). Other comments here mention a map, but I’m not seeing that.

    Edit: Found it. It’s really buried.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2081·
    2 days ago

    lol. This site is comedy.

    A lot of MAGAs registered in my county. A county Trump only got 21% in.

    Why the fuck would you slap a MAGA sign on your business when 80% of your potential customers hate that shit?

    • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
      112·
      2 days ago

      When you’ve convinced yourself that your parties membership is like twice the size it actually is you make great decisions

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        19 hours ago

        They got a majority of votes. Unless you live in a deep blue area it’s likely to get you more customers than it costs, at least for now. Most customers won’t care either way, they’re at your business to buy your goods/services, not as a political statement.

        Those signs will go down fast except for the very political and deep red areas once we’re in a post-Trump world.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      Gotta say, I love the idea of a private company being called ‘PublicSquare’… and the irony of this utterly whooshing over the heads of literally everyone involved.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          18 hours ago

          They would all arrive at the market and insist on being able to open carry slung AR15s, and then be utterly baffled by the concept of a weapons check.

          Like… even in ‘the West’ (yeehaw cowboys West) it was pretty common to have a weapons check at bars… because they quickly learned that if you don’t do that, well, patrons don’t enjoy the risk of getting their balls blown off while trying to throwback a shot of whiskey, because two other idiots nearby got into a fight.

          Literally the fabled Tombstone, AZ, did this, as a city wide ordinance.

          https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

          Gun control is older than almost half the states in the union.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 day ago

      Smart people don’t vote Trump, but that doesn’t mean they’re not jerks willing to take advantage of dumbasses that do.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    2 days ago

    Any way we could keep a historical record of these businesses? I can foresee them doing a full cleansing of their internet presence as they lose business.