Realistically, most boycotts do not result in the entire business shutting down. If there is a specific target, such as corporate support for a particular position, the corporation will drop it before it shuts down altogether.

This! It’s no different than religious people who get mad when you say happy holidays instead of Merry Christmas. Let people express sentiments in their own way. It rubs me the wrong way a bit when people say “you’ll be in my prayers” or “pray for me” but all they’re saying is “I wish you well” and “wish me luck” in…

There is a difference between corporate donations, which can be addressed, and donations from individual employees, which realistically cannot. CFA is the former.

I have the fortune of being over 100 miles from the closest chick-fil-a and have no idea if I’m missing out on anything. Hobby Lobby is another story, but those f*ckers aren’t getting my business no matter how big their selection is.

I mean, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a boycott, especially when it’s an issue close to you. The difference between your example and, say, Chick-Fil-A, is the amount of money going into everything. An employee of a local Chick-Fil-A store likely wouldn’t make enough to give any substantial donations; $10…

Oh yeah, sure the NDAs were never meant to be used to intidimidate anyone - they just allow Mike Garbage Isabella to collect $500k for every violation of the agreement, including the employee telling their intimate partner or therapist about the egregious harassment they experienced.

But definitely that’s totally…

In a statement, Isabella says that the NDAs “were established six years ago to prevent any news about our restaurant openings from leaking to press before we were ready to announce it. NDAs were absolutely never used to intimidate employees.”

Some of the groups CFA donated to are arguably worse than Westboro.  Westboro is a petty shitty church that everyone hates and has no influence on politics here or anywhere else in the world.  CFA’s choice in anti-LGBT charities has routed money to Nigeria, where being gay is a literal death sentence.

One just opened up near me, but I’ll never eat there. Ever.

When I used to work at Home Depot, the store manager used to make the same speech about customer service. He would compare going to the drive thru at Wendy’s, where they just hand you your food and only give you a standard greeting at best, and Chik-Fil-A, which was super amazo customer service time. He would always…

I want to make it clear I wasn’t attacking you for choosing to eat at CFA, and given their increasing profits you’re absolutely right that this boycott either backfired or did absolutely nothing. But for me, giving an organization money, even if it’s a tiny amount of a much larger sum,  when I know that it will be…

It’s not just opinions. When I give people money, and they in turn give that money to causes I vehemently oppose, I’m knowingly giving money to those causes. I’m not okay with that.

Our motto in TX for the next few months:

My sentiments exactly. It would take a pretty magnanimous (and very public) retraction of their past donations to hate groups before I’d even consider setting foot in a Chick-fil-A again. I know damn well they’re not going to lose any sleep/market share over not getting my business, but just as what they do with their…

At a minimum, if they make it competitive enough it would force the GOP to pour money into Texas to keep it thereby denying them they money for some other race.

I genuinely didn’t know how this chain was pronounced years ago, and resorted to calling it “chick filla.” I am so in the habit, I probably mortify good families in public by calling a chicken joint a lazily pronounced “chick filler” way too often.

“If you try enough impossible things, eventually you succeed at one of them.”

Do you consider donating millions of dollars to anti-LGBT organizations to be a wild overreaction? You’re free to eat there or not as you please, but for me personally I have no desire to give their business any of my money (not that they need it) because of the actions they’ve already taken.

... and all they had to do to succeed was let the world know how much they hated the gays~!

Unseating Cruz is absolutely a long-shot, but the thing about long-shots is that they pay off now and then if you play enough of them. And wave elections almost always include a few “Whoa - how the hell did that happen?’ results.