I feel like the obsession with brands in the US is weird. Like okay, some brands make good products but that doesn’t mean that the company is worthy of love or anything, you should just expect the company to make a product that fits your wants/needs. I don’t sing the praises of toilet paper brands, I just use whatever’s available. It’s like brands must affirm a set of values for some groups to be worthy of anything even if the brand in question makes terrible products or is otherwise just a horrible company.
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He probably doesn’t wipe his own ass because that could be gay
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I hope all these right pandering companies are enjoying the fickle love of abusers.
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As someone who has lived just about exactly half my life in the US and Canada, I think I’m in a position to address this.
Corporations in the US hold an immense amount of power. Much more than any governments, in many ways. This is very different from Canada, and presumably other commonwealth countries as well. Here in Canada, I interact with and hear from various levels of local government in my daily life far far more than any corporations. When I lived in the US, I was sort of vaguely aware that local governments existed, but you never really saw or heard from them in any meaningful way. However everything you do every day in the US is controlled in some way by what corporations are doing. Corporations run everything because services are all privatized, everything is a national chain, and every decision made by them affects you in palpable ways.
Because corporations wield so much power, it’s normal for Americans to talk about them a lot, and it’s why their values matter. It’s an “obsession” because it has to be. It’s like the US version of civic involvement.
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I think part of why I don’t think about brands is the fact that I grew up poor. Getting anything new was special to me. And even when my parents got good paying jobs, I didn’t always get the latest or greatest thing on the block. So I guess maybe that lack of attachment to any particular brand outside of videogame consoles makes it weird for me to see folks fawn over brands.
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That’s because corporations are people.
You know, Government of the People, by the People, for the People.
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That was one of the weirdest US Supreme Court rulings ever.
Youv’e misspelled “worst”.
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The restaurant claims that’s not who they’re named for. They claim it’s Popeye Doyle. It’s later marketing with the cartoon character makes that claim dubious, but that’s the official story.
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