MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Announces He's Launching 'MyStore,' a Patriotic Rival to Amazon

[HumblePi]

Why would the first amendment end at the point of speech that you disagree with?

Surrounding the constitutional right to be free from government prohibitions of speech are all sorts of laws involving private property, contractual obligations, good faith, fair dealing, etc. If lies or conspiracies that are antithetical to free and fair elections are spread, the result is distrust of our electoral process and weakening of democracy. Our democracy cannot survive if it rejects evidence and supports conspiracy theories.

Just as an example. Imagine if people continued to believe such things as Hussein was conspiring to attack the United States with 'weapons of mass destruction'? That was a conspiracy theory that was initiated and pushed by the Bush Administration and look where that got us. You can guarantee we would not be much of a democracy if years later we believed that North Korea was conspiring to attack the US, along with Russia, Iran, etc. All conspiracies by the US government that thankfully people in general did not accept. Had they accepted them, we would be in the middle of WW3 and you can guarantee our democracy would be at stake.

A conspiracy theory isn't a 'theory' if it's based in fact, everyone knows that. Having the right to propagate lies under the shield of the First Amendment is, particularly by those who know they are lies, placing this country in a position of having to prove that every conspiracy theory is false rather than the conspiracy theorists having to prove it's true. Overall, false claims of a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza place in D.C., or that Seth Rich was murdered by a secret cabal run by Hillary Clinton, brings danger to the lives of others as evidenced in the pizzagate conspiracy where a man believed the lie, went with an assault rifle intending to 'free' the children enslaved in the basement and willing to kill anyone who got in the way.

 

[BlueTex]

Actually, it applies directly to the the CEO as it impacts the investors.

Is that what you were reaching for?

If yes, sales increased AFTER his comments that incited the calls for boycott and the drive to initiate and then execute the BUYcott.

His fiduciary responsibility was thus fulfilled.

Your wishing that sales increased is amusing... The board of Goya was pretty clear..

 

[code1211]

Surrounding the constitutional right to be free from government prohibitions of speech are all sorts of laws involving private property, contractual obligations, good faith, fair dealing, etc. If lies or conspiracies that are antithetical to free and fair elections are spread, the result is distrust of our electoral process and weakening of democracy. Our democracy cannot survive if it rejects evidence and supports conspiracy theories.

Just as an example. Imagine if people continued to believe such things as Hussein was conspiring to attack the United States with 'weapons of mass destruction'? That was a conspiracy theory that was initiated and pushed by the Bush Administration and look where that got us. You can guarantee we would not be much of a democracy if years later we believed that North Korea was conspiring to attack the US, along with Russia, Iran, etc. All conspiracies by the US government that thankfully people in general did not accept. Had they accepted them, we would be in the middle of WW3 and you can guarantee our democracy would be at stake.

A conspiracy theory isn't a 'theory' if it's based in fact, everyone knows that. Having the right to propagate lies under the shield of the First Amendment is, particularly by those who know they are lies, placing this country in a position of having to prove that every conspiracy theory is false rather than the conspiracy theorists having to prove it's true. Overall, false claims of a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza place in D.C., or that Seth Rich was murdered by a secret cabal run by Hillary Clinton, brings danger to the lives of others as evidenced in the pizzagate conspiracy where a man believed the lie, went with an assault rifle intending to 'free' the children enslaved in the basement and willing to kill anyone who got in the way.

All of that is wonderful.

NONE of it has anything to do with Mike Lindell's First Amendment rights.

I agree with you that our government is populated by and run by liars and thieves. They often cause horrible miscarriages of justice and sometimes even wars.

I find it interesting that when Mike Lindell also agrees with you that the government is run by liars and thieves you object.

Your suspicion of the government's actions and motives seem to be dependent on which political party they end up delivering benefit to.

Why is this?

 

[code1211]

Your wishing that sales increased is amusing... The board of Goya was pretty clear..

I never had a Goya Brand ANYTHING in my house before the boycott, and now they are there all the time.

A good product sells itself when you've got a spokesperson like AOC!

Goya Foods CEO calls Ocasio-Cortez 'employee of the month' as sales surge amid Trump-induced backlash — but there is more to the story

Goya faced criticism from Latinos after its CEO praised Trump. But while some vowed to stop buying the brand, conservatives pledged to purchase more.

www.businessinsider.com

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Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "employee of the month" on a podcast Monday and claimed that the congresswoman's criticism of the brand, following the executive's positive comments about President Trump, had actually increased sales.

"We never got to hand it to her, but she got employee of the month for bringing attention to Goya and our Adobo," Unanue said on "The Michael Berry Show" on Monday.

"When she boycotted us, our sales actually increased 1,000%," Unanue said. "Our Adobo sales did very well after she said 'make your own Adobo.'"
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[Metric Mouse]

This is going to flame out as hard as David Hoggs pillow company he started to put My pillow out of business.

Will likely last longer, though.

 

[Allan]

Frankspeach - still offline.

 

[HumblePi]

Surrounding the constitutional right to be free from government prohibitions of speech are all sorts of laws involving private property, contractual obligations, good faith, fair dealing, etc. If lies or conspiracies that are antithetical to free and fair elections are spread, the result is distrust of our electoral process and weakening of democracy. Our democracy cannot survive if it rejects evidence and supports conspiracy theories.

Just as an example. Imagine if people continued to believe such things as Hussein was conspiring to attack the United States with 'weapons of mass destruction'? That was a conspiracy theory that was initiated and pushed by the Bush Administration and look where that got us. You can guarantee we would not be much of a democracy if years later we believed that North Korea was conspiring to attack the US, along with Russia, Iran, etc. All conspiracies by the US government that thankfully people in general did not accept. Had they accepted them, we would be in the middle of WW3 and you can guarantee our democracy would be at stake.

A conspiracy theory isn't a 'theory' if it's based in fact, everyone knows that. Having the right to propagate lies under the shield of the First Amendment is, particularly by those who know they are lies, placing this country in a position of having to prove that every conspiracy theory is false rather than the conspiracy theorists having to prove it's true. Overall, false claims of a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza place in D.C., or that Seth Rich was murdered by a secret cabal run by Hillary Clinton, brings danger to the lives of others as evidenced in the pizzagate conspiracy where a man believed the lie, went with an assault rifle intending to 'free' the children enslaved in the basement and willing to kill anyone who got in the way.

If you are unable to recognize how conspiracy theories can systematically diminish and ultimately destroy democracy then there's no use trying to explain it to you. At least 35% of the people in this country do not trust our elections, our members of Congress or our Dept of Justice. That's proof enough that democracy is failing. And why? It's because of false conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact or logic.