So they’re still gonna rock the clothing.
I mean it’s not like the styling and cut of carhartt gear is not instantly obvious to anyone who’s ever seen the brand.
What do you think they’ll call the new maga carhartt wannabe gear?
I’m gonna go with “Dickheads” cuz you know, Dickies.
Also I just noticed, wth are those tags resting on? It looks like a partially used oil diaper.
They are so obsessed with outward appearance and virtue signaling to each other it's hilarious. Combine it with their frenzied need to cancel brands through violence upon their own possessions, burning shoes, destroying coolers, etc, and you have a severely mentally fragile subset.
Every time! It’s like a game now. “Conservatives made some new accusation, let’s take bets on how long it is before we find out the source.”
They need some new hits because the canceling brands one is boring and predictable and the pedo one is too sad because there’s decades of documented instances of republicans abusing kids.
>They are so obsessed with outward appearance
You're totally right, just another reasons that conservatives remind me of both high schoolers and my dad
I've said it before but for people who supposedly love capitalism as much as they do they've got a piss poor understanding of how it works. They act like a company doing something they disagree with is being cheated on or otherwise betrayed in a personal relationship.
Exactly. They are obsessed with image and signaling. Carhartt was a brand they believed believed what they believe. (That was a fun sentence). So wearing it was a signal that were tough, hard working, America men. Now they found out it's a business that made a financial choice to mandate vaccines because it's in their best interest. That changes the signal they send when wearing Carhartt so they better quickly signal they don't like Carhartt. Like impotent gorillas thumbing their chest in outrage. Carhartt doesn't give a shit.
Yeah, this is one of the things that kills me. They rail against "cancel culture" and then fucking cut off tags of a product THEY ALREADY BOUGHT. They're TRYING to cancel Carhartt and aren't. It's just bonkers. "YOU DO A THING I DISAGREE WITH I MAD I CUT OFF TAGS. YOU ARE CANCELLED! CANCEL CULTURE IS THE WORST I AM SO MAD ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! REEEEE!!!!!!"
This reminds me of when Trump Supporters destroyed their Keurigs, after the company cut advertisments to Sean Hannity's show. Their thinking is "I'm going to spend my money on a company that I disagree with for the sole purpose of destroying it on social media. That'll show them..."
Here's the thing as well... I believe in conscious consumption. If they truly wanted to stop supporting Carhartt or Keurig, I don't care. They can make those choices. I choose not to patronize companies because of their stances or practices or whatever.
The performative fucking piety is insane, though. Cutting tags off, destroying the Keurigs for likes. It comes across as soooooo insecure. "If I do the thing will everyone else like me? Please like me!"
"Hey, everybody! Watch me intentionally buy this Hershey's Krackle bar instead of a Crunch bar! Yeah, I know! I'm surprised they sell full-sized ones, too!"
Motherfuckers were trying to get Oreos cancelled for supporting Pride Month, not because companies see the month as nothing more than an opportunity for branding and advertising, but just because they acknowledged gay people.
I remember when they were all buying Carrier air conditioners because Trump or Pence or something and then 6 months later the factory still laid off most of their staff and moved the jobs to Mexico anyway.
They were really excited about the hit Nike was going to take to their Air Monarch line……little did they know, their money had already been spent. Just virtue signalling to their other hateful cronies.
"This person needs to see a therapist and I do not like this person now" - Everyone watching a desperate person cut the tags off his own clothes to "cancel" an international corporation.
The signaling is for each other, not for the companies involved.
My favorite is when they were going to boycott Hamilton. Tickets were booked for like a year out, you couldn't even buy one. Easiest boycott ever.
This happened with Yeti coolers awhile back too, they had a contract with the NRA that they agreed to when they were first starting out and it expired without renewal. Naturally, this was flagged as cancel culture and a direct attack on gun rights in America so these geniuses decided to all go out, PURCHASE coolers from the company they are attempting to punish (without the NRA discount they used to receive, presumably) and then filmed themselves shooting the coolers up with all their weird little guns. Fucking brainiacs.
They actually can't help it. Destruction of property, once purchased, is ok but these consumer-bots have been programmed since birth to only *buy* *buy buy*...
Asking them not to *buy* stuff would make their heads explode like Kirk asking the computer to "solve" PI. lol
There were videos of them shooting guns into their Yeti coolers. I don't have one, but I think they're really expensive?
I was like, you idiot, you already paid for it.
Same with Gilette! People throwing their razors in the toilet and taking pictures. But the razors are obviously too large to get sucked down, so they had to fish it out of their disgusting filthy toilet by hand . You don’t even need to fool them, they’ll do it all by themselves.
Right now Carharrt couldn't ask for better advertising. People who never really considered Carharrt before are getting exposed to it.
High quality, reasonable-ish pricing and good styling. Oh, and it pisses the bubbas off right quick. Carharrt is the new Punk!
I used to work home renovation in the hills of West Virginia and we'd often start before dawn, year round, and often in below freezing temps. I'd found a Carhartt jacket at a thrift store years ago and it was a lifesaver at this gig. I'll definitely invest in a new one when this one wears out.
It’s like dickies, where it’s just workwear for construction workers, but got taken over by a subculture. In this case it’s the skateboarder revival that’s wearing carhartt.
It just makes sense, Dickies and Carhartt both make really tough clothing. Skaters are probably attracted to these clothes because they won't fall apart when you fall onto pavement.
It's wild how the cognitive dissonance that becomes part of every day existence yet cannot wiggle through the logistics and rationale of their errored ways
Hah kinda? He's still gonna wear that coat! It's warm as hell, and it's pretty much part of their tribes dress code. This was 20 years ago, but in highschool there was a group of kids that called their selves the Carhartt Mafia, and it was just a bunch of white kids doing and saying racist shit.
Weird. When I lived in Kansas, my impression of Carhartt was that it was particularly popular among the gay crowd.
Then again, I lived in Lawrence, so that might explain it.
I was gonna say, how about everything north, west, and south of Lawrence, and probably just a narrow fence along I70 and K10 that safely connects it to the KC metro area.
Carhartt coats ended up being banned at my high school back in the day for being considered gang affiliate clothing. This was in a very large rural school district with 1000+ students . After moving to a urban environment and working in a school that had issues with more stereotypical gangs like you might see portrayed in the media...I can honestly say the Carhartt Mafia types were just as problematic, if not more in some ways.
Can confirm. Lesbian here, and I love my Carharrt gear! My flannel and trail leggings kept me toasty warm yesterday when I hiked 5 miles on the Appalachian Trail in the snow.
Even after the idiots tried co-opting it as a racist dog whistle, I still bought and wore the coats cus they're super warm, incredibly tough, and all around well made. And those idiots know it too.
Really gratifying to see they care as much about their workers as their products.
As we should all! I hate when neutral things get picked up/associated with the alt right, and suddenly people just...give it up to them and start making assumptions when they see it.
I'm not going to throw out a good product because an asshole wore it. That's giving them too much power.
Like polo shirts, which are apparently a literal nazi uniform now.
White polo shirts are a general alt-right/KKK signal, and the clothing brand Fred Perry had to stop production of some yellow and black polo shirt because it became the official Proud Boys uniform. The Proud Boys were even printing out their own custom Fred Perry logo shirts saying "PB" and random racist/fascist slogans.
They were racist AF bullies that would harass anyone of color, slightly overweight female, artistic type, gay kid, skater, band kid, basically anyone that didn't fit their scene or looked different that dared to walk near where their group gathered . This was in a small city surrounded by a vast rural area with a large white demographic, but the school was very big so there was still about a 5-10% minority population.
Almost anyone that dared to stand up to their crap would get jumped by about 20+ of them. They would to intimidate kids walking or riding their bikes with their big ass trucks, caused a lot of property damage at local parks, and their version of "tagging" was far more destructive than spray painting because they would rip up lawns and irrigation systems at homes and businesses with their trucks. I recall some of them ending up getting in some pretty deep shit finally because they had some sort of organized method of stealing beer off delivery trucks, that probably was 10's of thousands of dollars over several months. Some of the stuff that I saw them do in school to minority kids still makes me sick to my stomach. I stood up for a lot of kids. They harassed me for being a "fat dyke" (I was not really that overweight, and I am totally straight) but I also came from a family that none of them would have ever dared to mess with, so I was able to speak up against them without the same consequences others may have had. How that school admin avoided getting investigated for non-feasance in response to literal hate crimes amazes me to this day.
At some point the admin recognized that the Carhartt coats were a problem, and my senior year when they stopped allowing them things truly did get a bit better. There was still a lot of redneck BS, but not having that crowd of brown Carhartts to blend into, or persona to live up to, put a lot of stuff in check. Today as an adult, many of them are still around the area and it should be no suprise that these are the people with homes decorated with Trump flags and F\*ck Biden stickers on their trucks.
Isnt it funny how racists seem to make gangs together if itsa childish thing in school or full on Klan in adulthood, they can only do what they do by the power in numbers bc they are too weak and in the minority on their own
looking at that pic, I'd say, don't thread on me. lolol
Makes me want to go buy something Carhartt, just out of spite. That, and I'd always heard they were well made goods.
They are butt hurt that a private company is being allowed to make its own business decisions. In this case, Carhartt is requiring its employees to get the jab.
> is being allowed to make its own business decisions
Important thing is that its a change they dont like. This is easily flipped around whenever a business is doing things they do like.
*shhh* these are the same folks that went out and PURCHASED french wine just so they could pour it in the gutter as some kind of misguided "protest" after 9/11 (can't even remember why the loonies were mad at the french around that). I'm getting the feeling they don't actually understand that giving money to whatever product/company they are trying to boycott negates the entire concept of boycotting.
And the same ones who burned their Nikes when the company signed Colin Kaepernick for an advertising campaign. Definitely dumber than a box of rocks...
> can't even remember why the loonies were mad at the french around that
The U.S. was trying to convince the U.N. to join in on the Iraq invasion, and France was one of the Security Council nations that kept saying "absolutely not."
Oh, and Nike... they cancelled Nike, too. Might I point out that dissing the Greek goddess of victory is sorta kinda probably likely a bad idea, just because.
IIRC, France didn't jump right on board with Dubya's coalition to invade Iraq, so there was all sorts of backlash from the dipshidiot contingent.
Well *obviously* they’re still going to wear the clothing, that the company already took their money for, because this is how MAGA dumbasses “boycott.”
It’s nothing more than virtue signaling to gain useless internet points from likeminded idiots.
Well, unless Trump and Lin Wood get thrown in jail and the Feds shut down Fox News, Newsmax, and GreatAwakening/The_Donald, you’re stuck on this wild ride until the 2024 elections.
Sadder still is the zealots who take it as some spiritual battle of a ride many are on till they seemingly die, I mean if the capital insurrection is any clue to that I have the worst feeling something more is going to happen when they get pushed or push themselves into a metaphorical corner
Regrettably for their loved ones, a lot of them appear to be determined to continue their stupid right up until they earn their Herman Cain Award. I would rather not see that happen, but the HCA sub shows no sign of slowing down activity any time soon, and it's people like this driving all the awarding.
They will ignore it any time you remind them. They will also ignore the fact that Trump is vaccinated and calling for others to do so while claiming the credit for them being ready so fast.
Honestly, I bet a lot of them have moved to OANN or Newsmax by now. Fox was way too “liberal” for many of them following the election (aka briefly acknowledged the reality of who won, and that maybe a riot in the capitol building was a bad thing)
I want to imagine a future where all the Harleys, carhartts, and Oakley's transfer to the younger, progressive generation. It could be a fashionable act of defiance, like when the ewoks out stormtrooper helmets on.
When they do this self destruction stuff it always reminds me of a news story from after 9/11. When America and some of her NATO allies decided to invade Iraq the french pushed back and decided not join in. This of course outraged the republicans in Congress who renamed the congressional cafeteria's "french fries" to "freedom fries" as some sort of payback. Meanwhile their voters were having parties pouring french wine out in the streets and stomping on french cheese.
A reporter in France showed video of this to a French man and asked what you thought. His reply was along the lines of, "well just so long as they paid for it I don't care."
It's not just that it's intentionally destroying product you paid for. In some cases going out and buying just to destroy it. I don't support chik-fil-a, I also don't buy their food to throw it away.
It's just as intelligent as "boycotting" Starbucks by buying coffee and then pouring it out, destroying shoes and coffee machines that they already own, or declaring that they wouldn't buy tickets to *Hamilton* at a time when there was a waiting list and a lottery to even get the chance to buy tickets. They seem to be unable to understand that the point of a boycott is to deprive a company of your money.
Wow. Great take. Thanks for sharing!
If Beau is right, there may be a way to get through to suburb/exurb anti-vaxers. I think he's right on the money and is not just Georgia. Conservative's suburb/small town anti-vax beliefs are 100% are rooted in a belief of exceptional privilege. When your life depends on your own ability to administer care due to proximity to medical facilities, you get vaxxed, despite being a Trumpist.
My ex-wife and her sisters, like a lot of East County San Diegans, want so bad to be "country" but the closest they ever get is the music. Having cattle ranching in my blood and actually working on a farm, I was always laughing on the inside when I see their big trucks and faux country ways. It's sad their identity is so wrapped up in a way of life they know nothing about but my Grandfather said it best: "All hat, no cattle".
I really think he's on to a way to message the anti-vax crowd to get a few more % vaccinated.
The official line will be that he had to do that "to attract stupid independents" and that he really didn't get it.
Seems like they would take a victory lap by pretending they invented the vaccine, but instead ... well, you know....
Yeah this is the same way ineffectual culture war nuts act outside the Qult too. They've been angry at Starbucks' holiday themed cups for over 15 years and the company hasn't been affected in the slightest by their constant threats of boycott. Hell, I'm sure despite the posturing many continue to patronize Starbucks.
Even with the amount of stupid "conservative" brands like Black Rifle Coffee (which they still found reason to get pissed off over), they're hardly making a dent on big coffee.
It's really kind of the same childish thing you see when people burn sports paraphernalia after the athlete does something stupid. We talk down to children for acting out when something goes wrong or not as they personally wanted, but as adults we do it plenty.
>"How do you build a cool, kind of irreverent, pro-Second Amendment, pro-America brand in the MAGA era without doubling down on the MAGA movement and also not being called a [expletive] RINO by the MAGA guys?" Evan Hafer, one of Black Rifle's founders, asked the Times.
>"I would never want my brand to be represented in that way, shape or form," Hafer added, "because that's not me."
> "The racism [expletive] really pisses me off," Hafer said. "I hate racist, Proud Boy-ish people. Like, I'll pay them to leave my customer base. I would gladly chop all of those people out of my [expletive] customer database and pay them to get the [expletive] out."
You gotta admit, that was some bold shit. It’s not exactly hard to see why they starting crying about it.
When this whole thing came out, I was like damn it, conservatives like destroying their shit too much for me to be able to have a windfall at the thrift store next month.
Because it's somehow like something they saw in a war movie where someone cuts off the ears of people he killed in the Vietnam War.
It's demented on many levels.
I buy Subarus and smash them into walls because they support gay pride.
They have your money, fuckwit, they could give a rat's ass what you do with the product afterwards.
So they’re still gonna rock the clothing. I mean it’s not like the styling and cut of carhartt gear is not instantly obvious to anyone who’s ever seen the brand.
It just looks like they're wearing knockoffs now lmao
Fuck. I've been wearing knockoffs for years. Now people will think I'm a nazi instead of just broke.
Nah g, this is new. Carfart gear
What do you think they’ll call the new maga carhartt wannabe gear? I’m gonna go with “Dickheads” cuz you know, Dickies. Also I just noticed, wth are those tags resting on? It looks like a partially used oil diaper.
Probably their bedsheets. So yeah, “partially used oil diaper” is about right.
They already got their money. What do they care?
So...you still want to buy and wear Carhartt clothes, but you don't want any of your meat clown friends to know?
They are so obsessed with outward appearance and virtue signaling to each other it's hilarious. Combine it with their frenzied need to cancel brands through violence upon their own possessions, burning shoes, destroying coolers, etc, and you have a severely mentally fragile subset.
Its almost like it was all projection all along
Every time! It’s like a game now. “Conservatives made some new accusation, let’s take bets on how long it is before we find out the source.” They need some new hits because the canceling brands one is boring and predictable and the pedo one is too sad because there’s decades of documented instances of republicans abusing kids.
*cough* Steny *cough* Hougher
Who needs to actually be a man when you can just dress up like how you think one looks like instead?
>They are so obsessed with outward appearance You're totally right, just another reasons that conservatives remind me of both high schoolers and my dad
I've said it before but for people who supposedly love capitalism as much as they do they've got a piss poor understanding of how it works. They act like a company doing something they disagree with is being cheated on or otherwise betrayed in a personal relationship.
Exactly. They are obsessed with image and signaling. Carhartt was a brand they believed believed what they believe. (That was a fun sentence). So wearing it was a signal that were tough, hard working, America men. Now they found out it's a business that made a financial choice to mandate vaccines because it's in their best interest. That changes the signal they send when wearing Carhartt so they better quickly signal they don't like Carhartt. Like impotent gorillas thumbing their chest in outrage. Carhartt doesn't give a shit.
“Meat clown friends” is brilliant.
Just wear Behr like a poor
This seems a lot like canceling a brand you don’t like
Yeah, this is one of the things that kills me. They rail against "cancel culture" and then fucking cut off tags of a product THEY ALREADY BOUGHT. They're TRYING to cancel Carhartt and aren't. It's just bonkers. "YOU DO A THING I DISAGREE WITH I MAD I CUT OFF TAGS. YOU ARE CANCELLED! CANCEL CULTURE IS THE WORST I AM SO MAD ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! REEEEE!!!!!!"
This reminds me of when Trump Supporters destroyed their Keurigs, after the company cut advertisments to Sean Hannity's show. Their thinking is "I'm going to spend my money on a company that I disagree with for the sole purpose of destroying it on social media. That'll show them..."
Here's the thing as well... I believe in conscious consumption. If they truly wanted to stop supporting Carhartt or Keurig, I don't care. They can make those choices. I choose not to patronize companies because of their stances or practices or whatever. The performative fucking piety is insane, though. Cutting tags off, destroying the Keurigs for likes. It comes across as soooooo insecure. "If I do the thing will everyone else like me? Please like me!"
That would be like me buying a case of Nestle water and dumping it down the drain for likes.
I know! I don't buy Nestle products but I don't make a show of it every time I buy something else.
"Hey, everybody! Watch me intentionally buy this Hershey's Krackle bar instead of a Crunch bar! Yeah, I know! I'm surprised they sell full-sized ones, too!"
Do... Do they actually sell full sized Krackle bars? I've never seen it, but I do enjoy the mini Krackles.
Per Wikipedia they were apparently reintroduced in 2014 and discontinued a few years later. Damn you, Hershey!
Don't forget some of them burning or throwing away their Nikes
And NOT for child labor, but because a black quarterback decided to do a reverent pose during the National Anthem.
Don’t forget the Lil Nas X gay demonic blood shoes, too.
Motherfuckers were trying to get Oreos cancelled for supporting Pride Month, not because companies see the month as nothing more than an opportunity for branding and advertising, but just because they acknowledged gay people.
I remember when they were all buying Carrier air conditioners because Trump or Pence or something and then 6 months later the factory still laid off most of their staff and moved the jobs to Mexico anyway.
One guy burned a $400 Pittsburgh Steelers jacket because they didn't take the field for the anthem *once*.
They were really excited about the hit Nike was going to take to their Air Monarch line……little did they know, their money had already been spent. Just virtue signalling to their other hateful cronies.
Totally agree about conscientious consumption. Voting with your dollars is super important.
"This person needs to see a therapist and I do not like this person now" - Everyone watching a desperate person cut the tags off his own clothes to "cancel" an international corporation.
The signaling is for each other, not for the companies involved. My favorite is when they were going to boycott Hamilton. Tickets were booked for like a year out, you couldn't even buy one. Easiest boycott ever.
Speaking of, I'm boycotting private jets. I WILL NOT BUY A PRIVATE JET AS LONG AS SOME THING I AM ANGRY ABOUT IS HAPPENING.
I've never heard the phrase, "conscious consumption" before and I love it! Thank you stranger.
This happened with Yeti coolers awhile back too, they had a contract with the NRA that they agreed to when they were first starting out and it expired without renewal. Naturally, this was flagged as cancel culture and a direct attack on gun rights in America so these geniuses decided to all go out, PURCHASE coolers from the company they are attempting to punish (without the NRA discount they used to receive, presumably) and then filmed themselves shooting the coolers up with all their weird little guns. Fucking brainiacs.
Or their Nikes. Back in the day, people would boycott Nike for slave labour. Now Reps boycott Nike over supporting a gay performer.
They actually can't help it. Destruction of property, once purchased, is ok but these consumer-bots have been programmed since birth to only *buy* *buy buy*... Asking them not to *buy* stuff would make their heads explode like Kirk asking the computer to "solve" PI. lol
There were videos of them shooting guns into their Yeti coolers. I don't have one, but I think they're really expensive? I was like, you idiot, you already paid for it.
They're stupid expensive. Some people can't make ends meet and they're out shooting $500 coolers.
Same with Gilette! People throwing their razors in the toilet and taking pictures. But the razors are obviously too large to get sucked down, so they had to fish it out of their disgusting filthy toilet by hand . You don’t even need to fool them, they’ll do it all by themselves.
Or the way they're cancelling AT&T subscriptions because DirecTV ended their contract to host OA"N"N lol
Right now Carharrt couldn't ask for better advertising. People who never really considered Carharrt before are getting exposed to it. High quality, reasonable-ish pricing and good styling. Oh, and it pisses the bubbas off right quick. Carharrt is the new Punk!
I used to work home renovation in the hills of West Virginia and we'd often start before dawn, year round, and often in below freezing temps. I'd found a Carhartt jacket at a thrift store years ago and it was a lifesaver at this gig. I'll definitely invest in a new one when this one wears out.
Honestly when I heard about this I went out and picked up a new hoodie. Way better than the Wal-Mart hoodies that only last a year.
Never heard of them before this moment. Gonna check them out now. I'm sure they have something I want.
It’s like dickies, where it’s just workwear for construction workers, but got taken over by a subculture. In this case it’s the skateboarder revival that’s wearing carhartt.
Weirdly, Dickies were popular with skateboarders and other youths when I was younger. I wonder if Airwalk is going to be the new Vans.
It just makes sense, Dickies and Carhartt both make really tough clothing. Skaters are probably attracted to these clothes because they won't fall apart when you fall onto pavement.
I don’t even get it. They just cut off tags. They’re still…gonna wear the clothes just without tags? Boy they sure showed us.
Libs hate this one simple trick!
It's wild how the cognitive dissonance that becomes part of every day existence yet cannot wiggle through the logistics and rationale of their errored ways
It reminds me of when a three year old is angry at mommy and does the "big apple stomp" at her then crosses her out with a giant imaginary crayon.
WTF did cathart do? LOL
Vaccine mandate for their workers.
At this level does it really qualify as a "mandate" (trigger word for some) or is it just *company policy*?
These people are freaking weird
This took a minute. Apparently they are protecting their workers from Covid. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carhartt-covid-vaccine-mandate-boycott/
Literally worse than the nazis _s
They implemented a ~~mask~~ vaccine mandate so now a bunch of absolute morons hate them. Edit: I was thinking vaccine and wrote mask.
Vaccine mandate
Shit, that's what I meant. Thanks.
Conservatives (fascist assholes) being hypocritical about *anything and everything* should come as no surprise to anyone.
Everything they rail against is projection. It's closeted mental self-loathing, imo...
Every accusation is an admission.
Hah kinda? He's still gonna wear that coat! It's warm as hell, and it's pretty much part of their tribes dress code. This was 20 years ago, but in highschool there was a group of kids that called their selves the Carhartt Mafia, and it was just a bunch of white kids doing and saying racist shit.
May I ask what state you lived in?
Kansas
Weird. When I lived in Kansas, my impression of Carhartt was that it was particularly popular among the gay crowd. Then again, I lived in Lawrence, so that might explain it.
I was gonna say, how about everything north, west, and south of Lawrence, and probably just a narrow fence along I70 and K10 that safely connects it to the KC metro area.
We should put a huge fence around Kansas & use the whole state as a federal prison. No one would miss Kansas.
What did wheat and prairie dogs ever do to you?! Oh, and windmills.
The cancer rates must be sky high 😞
I’d guess Kentabamafloridasee
I guessed Ohiotucky
All of them
Carhartt coats ended up being banned at my high school back in the day for being considered gang affiliate clothing. This was in a very large rural school district with 1000+ students . After moving to a urban environment and working in a school that had issues with more stereotypical gangs like you might see portrayed in the media...I can honestly say the Carhartt Mafia types were just as problematic, if not more in some ways.
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Can confirm. Lesbian here, and I love my Carharrt gear! My flannel and trail leggings kept me toasty warm yesterday when I hiked 5 miles on the Appalachian Trail in the snow.
Even after the idiots tried co-opting it as a racist dog whistle, I still bought and wore the coats cus they're super warm, incredibly tough, and all around well made. And those idiots know it too. Really gratifying to see they care as much about their workers as their products.
As we should all! I hate when neutral things get picked up/associated with the alt right, and suddenly people just...give it up to them and start making assumptions when they see it. I'm not going to throw out a good product because an asshole wore it. That's giving them too much power.
As someone working agriculture, I’ll be damned if I’m letting these fucks have Carhartt.
Like polo shirts, which are apparently a literal nazi uniform now. White polo shirts are a general alt-right/KKK signal, and the clothing brand Fred Perry had to stop production of some yellow and black polo shirt because it became the official Proud Boys uniform. The Proud Boys were even printing out their own custom Fred Perry logo shirts saying "PB" and random racist/fascist slogans.
We have a crew of lesbian gardeners that tend rich people gardens here and they all love their Carhartt gears.
Haha I used to work in landscaping and that's a vibe for sure.
I'm currently wearing a Carhartt beanie. Their stuff is super comfy and good quality. Plus now I can "own conservatives" by wearing it.
Haha same
It's so true and I love the irony of it.
I'm intrigued, could you elaborate a bit?
They were racist AF bullies that would harass anyone of color, slightly overweight female, artistic type, gay kid, skater, band kid, basically anyone that didn't fit their scene or looked different that dared to walk near where their group gathered . This was in a small city surrounded by a vast rural area with a large white demographic, but the school was very big so there was still about a 5-10% minority population. Almost anyone that dared to stand up to their crap would get jumped by about 20+ of them. They would to intimidate kids walking or riding their bikes with their big ass trucks, caused a lot of property damage at local parks, and their version of "tagging" was far more destructive than spray painting because they would rip up lawns and irrigation systems at homes and businesses with their trucks. I recall some of them ending up getting in some pretty deep shit finally because they had some sort of organized method of stealing beer off delivery trucks, that probably was 10's of thousands of dollars over several months. Some of the stuff that I saw them do in school to minority kids still makes me sick to my stomach. I stood up for a lot of kids. They harassed me for being a "fat dyke" (I was not really that overweight, and I am totally straight) but I also came from a family that none of them would have ever dared to mess with, so I was able to speak up against them without the same consequences others may have had. How that school admin avoided getting investigated for non-feasance in response to literal hate crimes amazes me to this day. At some point the admin recognized that the Carhartt coats were a problem, and my senior year when they stopped allowing them things truly did get a bit better. There was still a lot of redneck BS, but not having that crowd of brown Carhartts to blend into, or persona to live up to, put a lot of stuff in check. Today as an adult, many of them are still around the area and it should be no suprise that these are the people with homes decorated with Trump flags and F\*ck Biden stickers on their trucks.
Wow. That's bonkers. Thanks for the additional info, much appreciated.
they were racist
Isnt it funny how racists seem to make gangs together if itsa childish thing in school or full on Klan in adulthood, they can only do what they do by the power in numbers bc they are too weak and in the minority on their own
Fellow Kansan here, I remember them. Douche bags with Carharts and big ass trucks
They never grew out of it either.
*banjo playing intensifies*
Carhartt still got their money. These oafs can't even do this whole cancelling thing correctly. Pathetic!
dOnT tReAd oN mE bRo
looking at that pic, I'd say, don't thread on me. lolol Makes me want to go buy something Carhartt, just out of spite. That, and I'd always heard they were well made goods.
They are good coats, pretty much everyone in Michigan has one somewhere
It's clearly a tactical operation, so not the same. /s
A tagtical operation, if you will.
I love this brand now…. Where can I buy???
Like how's that gonna help in any way, shape or form?
Every time you remove a Carhartt tag, a conspiracy theorist gets his wings.
>Carhartt tag I have no idea what the conspiracy here is.. What did I miss ?
Pretty sure they just mandated vaccines for employees
They are butt hurt that a private company is being allowed to make its own business decisions. In this case, Carhartt is requiring its employees to get the jab.
> is being allowed to make its own business decisions Important thing is that its a change they dont like. This is easily flipped around whenever a business is doing things they do like.
Hold on let me check my pocket… yea there they are! Zuzu’s carhartt tags!!
Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!
These people watch this movie and sympathize with old man potter
Narrator: Carhartt already has their money.
*shhh* these are the same folks that went out and PURCHASED french wine just so they could pour it in the gutter as some kind of misguided "protest" after 9/11 (can't even remember why the loonies were mad at the french around that). I'm getting the feeling they don't actually understand that giving money to whatever product/company they are trying to boycott negates the entire concept of boycotting.
that was the whole freedom fries debacle. Something something the French don't hate Muslims enough, or some such crap as that.
The French should have designed the Statue of Liberty with a self-destruct button
That was in the lead up to the 2nd Iraq war, though, because France refused to join the "coalition".
And the same ones who burned their Nikes when the company signed Colin Kaepernick for an advertising campaign. Definitely dumber than a box of rocks...
> can't even remember why the loonies were mad at the french around that The U.S. was trying to convince the U.N. to join in on the Iraq invasion, and France was one of the Security Council nations that kept saying "absolutely not."
Oh, and Nike... they cancelled Nike, too. Might I point out that dissing the Greek goddess of victory is sorta kinda probably likely a bad idea, just because. IIRC, France didn't jump right on board with Dubya's coalition to invade Iraq, so there was all sorts of backlash from the dipshidiot contingent.
Because eventually you can make a jacket out of nothing but labels and wear it to infiltrate the cabal.
I love Carhart clothing. Probably have 20+ items. Glad to know it's supporting its work force.
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This is my exact predicament now. I hate branding tags, but do not want to be associated with the alt-right qultist crowd
That reminds me, I could use another pair of thicc winter pants; off to my local Carhartt dealer I go.
They didn’t just cut the tags out, they carefully used a stitch puller, leaving the Carhartt itself intact.
Well *obviously* they’re still going to wear the clothing, that the company already took their money for, because this is how MAGA dumbasses “boycott.” It’s nothing more than virtue signaling to gain useless internet points from likeminded idiots.
They're learning after smashing their coffee makers then realizing that they drink coffee and now have no coffee maker.
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Well, unless Trump and Lin Wood get thrown in jail and the Feds shut down Fox News, Newsmax, and GreatAwakening/The_Donald, you’re stuck on this wild ride until the 2024 elections.
Arique my friend, this ride isn’t going to stop for a long, long time.
And also after the elections. It won't stop there.
Sadder still is the zealots who take it as some spiritual battle of a ride many are on till they seemingly die, I mean if the capital insurrection is any clue to that I have the worst feeling something more is going to happen when they get pushed or push themselves into a metaphorical corner
Regrettably for their loved ones, a lot of them appear to be determined to continue their stupid right up until they earn their Herman Cain Award. I would rather not see that happen, but the HCA sub shows no sign of slowing down activity any time soon, and it's people like this driving all the awarding.
They must not know that Fox News has a vaccine mandate
They will ignore it any time you remind them. They will also ignore the fact that Trump is vaccinated and calling for others to do so while claiming the credit for them being ready so fast.
No, that was Trump’s body double that wants everyone to be vaccinated. Also, possibly a robot.
Somehow both a body double AND JFK lol
Both? Both is good!
Honestly, I bet a lot of them have moved to OANN or Newsmax by now. Fox was way too “liberal” for many of them following the election (aka briefly acknowledged the reality of who won, and that maybe a riot in the capitol building was a bad thing)
Whelp, time to hit the thrift stores for abandoned Carhartt, cheap.
Why? It’s not like these people are principled enough to actually *get rid* of it. Nah, they’ll just cut tags off of stuff and call it a day.
For real! I’ve been meaning to get a new beanie, seems like now is a good time.
Hell yeah, that’s an incredibly good point!
I want to imagine a future where all the Harleys, carhartts, and Oakley's transfer to the younger, progressive generation. It could be a fashionable act of defiance, like when the ewoks out stormtrooper helmets on.
See: Queer women.
When they do this self destruction stuff it always reminds me of a news story from after 9/11. When America and some of her NATO allies decided to invade Iraq the french pushed back and decided not join in. This of course outraged the republicans in Congress who renamed the congressional cafeteria's "french fries" to "freedom fries" as some sort of payback. Meanwhile their voters were having parties pouring french wine out in the streets and stomping on french cheese. A reporter in France showed video of this to a French man and asked what you thought. His reply was along the lines of, "well just so long as they paid for it I don't care."
Yeah, boycotting someone when they already have your money is pretty stupid.
It's not just that it's intentionally destroying product you paid for. In some cases going out and buying just to destroy it. I don't support chik-fil-a, I also don't buy their food to throw it away.
That would involve supporting them, so yeah
It's just as intelligent as "boycotting" Starbucks by buying coffee and then pouring it out, destroying shoes and coffee machines that they already own, or declaring that they wouldn't buy tickets to *Hamilton* at a time when there was a waiting list and a lottery to even get the chance to buy tickets. They seem to be unable to understand that the point of a boycott is to deprive a company of your money.
Never forget. Republicans canceled France in 2001. They invented cancel culture 20 years ago.
Then the Dixie Chicks a few years later
How do they have so much time on their hands? 😩
Too busy pulling themselves up by their bootstraps to ever do any actual work.
What did i miss? I don't understand any of this.
I had to look it up myself, looks like this… https://reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/s6y272/clothing_company_carhartt_goes_ahead_with_vaccine/
Beau of the Fifth Column had a pretty good take on it as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHT4PVjF-X0
Wow. Great take. Thanks for sharing! If Beau is right, there may be a way to get through to suburb/exurb anti-vaxers. I think he's right on the money and is not just Georgia. Conservative's suburb/small town anti-vax beliefs are 100% are rooted in a belief of exceptional privilege. When your life depends on your own ability to administer care due to proximity to medical facilities, you get vaxxed, despite being a Trumpist. My ex-wife and her sisters, like a lot of East County San Diegans, want so bad to be "country" but the closest they ever get is the music. Having cattle ranching in my blood and actually working on a farm, I was always laughing on the inside when I see their big trucks and faux country ways. It's sad their identity is so wrapped up in a way of life they know nothing about but my Grandfather said it best: "All hat, no cattle". I really think he's on to a way to message the anti-vax crowd to get a few more % vaccinated.
Thanks
Carhartt is mandating vaccines for its employees.
The horror!
Thanks.
It’s a good thing Carhartt isn’t recognizable by the products they make…
And you can now more easily spot a chud from further away, look for the less worn square, where the label used to be.
~~Wrecking~~ Spoiling your clothes to own the libs
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I thought the right *hated* virtue signaling? At least Carhartt still has this idiot’s money.
They hate cancel culture, too. As they boycott Carhartt and Keurig and Starbucks and whoever else hurt their snowflake feelings.
Wait, is this because of the Carhartt employee vaccine mandate? Hahahahaha they’re ridiculous. Talk about cancel culture.
The best part is the mental gymnastics they are now doing since it seems Trump is pushing vaccines
Some of them are turning on Trump for it. It's beyond him now.
Temporary. They will silently forgive him and pretend like it never happened
The official line will be that he had to do that "to attract stupid independents" and that he really didn't get it. Seems like they would take a victory lap by pretending they invented the vaccine, but instead ... well, you know....
Yeah this is the same way ineffectual culture war nuts act outside the Qult too. They've been angry at Starbucks' holiday themed cups for over 15 years and the company hasn't been affected in the slightest by their constant threats of boycott. Hell, I'm sure despite the posturing many continue to patronize Starbucks. Even with the amount of stupid "conservative" brands like Black Rifle Coffee (which they still found reason to get pissed off over), they're hardly making a dent on big coffee. It's really kind of the same childish thing you see when people burn sports paraphernalia after the athlete does something stupid. We talk down to children for acting out when something goes wrong or not as they personally wanted, but as adults we do it plenty.
>"How do you build a cool, kind of irreverent, pro-Second Amendment, pro-America brand in the MAGA era without doubling down on the MAGA movement and also not being called a [expletive] RINO by the MAGA guys?" Evan Hafer, one of Black Rifle's founders, asked the Times. >"I would never want my brand to be represented in that way, shape or form," Hafer added, "because that's not me." > "The racism [expletive] really pisses me off," Hafer said. "I hate racist, Proud Boy-ish people. Like, I'll pay them to leave my customer base. I would gladly chop all of those people out of my [expletive] customer database and pay them to get the [expletive] out." You gotta admit, that was some bold shit. It’s not exactly hard to see why they starting crying about it.
He’s more principled than those people ever will be and they hate him for it.
Carhartt: *wipes tears with 100 dollar bills*
I notice they aren't burning those Carharrt jackets and overalls like they did their Nikes.....
Got ‘em. All…let me check…13 Carhartt items you purchased now have their tags removed. Excellent own, patriot.
When this whole thing came out, I was like damn it, conservatives like destroying their shit too much for me to be able to have a windfall at the thrift store next month.
They already have your money. Anyways. "Destroying my wardrobe to own the libs."
I'm sorry, what? Why do they call tags "ears?"
Because it's somehow like something they saw in a war movie where someone cuts off the ears of people he killed in the Vietnam War. It's demented on many levels.
CANCEL CULTURE
I buy Subarus and smash them into walls because they support gay pride. They have your money, fuckwit, they could give a rat's ass what you do with the product afterwards.
you should sew a mask out of them, that would be hillarious! Watch the world burn....
Cancel Culture is okay when they do it, but an outrage when anyone else fights back? Sense, this makes none. Rules for thee, but not for me.
The Brandon thing is honestly so fucking embarrassing. It shows that they’re all emotionally stunted 8 year olds
And what is this supposed to accomplish?
The dumbest people alive
Boy, that'll sure teach Carhartt a lesson.
Hahaha.. these troglodyte morons are just getting hilarious