Which is better: Support the local business with a trans flag, or support the billion dollar company?

[Rodeo Roadrunner]

I had this thought when I was out browsing some local used bookstores. One in particular had a gay rainbow flag hanging up, along with a trans flag. The employees there that I saw looked relatively normal (ie not a tranny), and they had a decent selection. But I tend to not want to support a business that goes against my politics, especially one that actually advertises what their politics are in the store. So, I could buy a book from them, supporting a local business and local business owner, and ignore their blatant political messaging. Or I could just buy it online from Amazon or the like, and buy from a globohomo company. Generally, I want to support a local business over buying online from globohomo, and sometimes you can avoid doing so at businesses that are LGBTQ affiliated (there are plenty of used bookstores for example) but where I live, there is a fantastic acoustic instruments store, that has some truly incredible guitars (including vintage and rare guitars that are close to a hundred years old) and they have a gay flag in the window. That is a case where one of, if not the best local option for a particular product, is somewhat affiliated with LGBTQ politics. and there isn't another local option that is on the same level.

So I suppose the question could be rephrased to something like "At what point do the openly shown political beliefs of a local business become obnoxious to the point of shopping with globohomo instead of local?"

 

[Doktor Grimm]

The bookstore could be exclusively staffed by trannies and it still wouldn't matter. If you are so caught up in some retarded culture war that you're willing to contribute to Jeff Bezos' hooker fund instead of supporting your local community, you might as well skip the middle man & suck him off yourself.

 

[The Gene Genie]

"At what point do the openly shown political beliefs of a local business become obnoxious to the point of shopping with globohomo instead of local?"

To me, when the product is inextricably linked from the beliefs. So like if this bookstore in your OP was only selling niggerfaggot intersectional transfaggot bullshit books, and maybe like one shelf of real books, then it would be an avoid and ideally seek somewhere else local.

The thing is that this is a false dichotomy. All of these transnational corporations are 100x worse with this niggerfaggot politics than the local bookstore could ever be. The local bookstore with the tranny flag might be more vocal and in-your-face about their beliefs but their ability to leverage that on others is limited. As we've seen for the last ten years, these companies are willing and able and frequently do put vast sums of money into these social causes. Which YOU fund by using their services.

 

[Alex Yiik]

Would you prefer an individual who hates you or a machine who is indifferent to you?

Snuff 'em out. TTD.

 

[Tanuki Mixed Nuts]

I reject your options and instead go to a thrift store or some second hand seller.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The local bookstore with the tranny flag might be more vocal and in-your-face about their beliefs but their ability to leverage that on others is limited. As we've seen for the last ten years, these companies are willing and able and frequently do put vast sums of money into these social causes. Which YOU fund by using their services.

That's just scaling in effect. If you were concerned about trash, a supermarket is going to generate more garbage than your local 7-Eleven, but that doesn't make 7-Eleven "cleaner" in trash production or pollution. On a 1 to 1 level, Amazon is harmless compared to your LGBTQ-centric local retail store, and while Jeff Bezos looks and acts like IRL Lex Luthor, I guarantee you that he's more amicable and level-headed than some of these small business owners.

You can look at any A&N thread about some small business run by women/blacks/troons who run a hilariously incompetent operation and are horrible, horrible people.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

There is a third way. Not buying anything.

 

[cybertoaster]

The megacorp makes the gay and trans flag the little business puts on display.

 

[Safir]

Purely as a thot experiment, all else being equal, buy from Amazon. It's like voting for a politician, who might or might not be a pedo or shaking hands with pedos, vs voting for your local child rapist who openly tries to feel up your child.

HOWEVER
Do not buy books or musical instruments from Amazon, for your own sake, you're going to get trash.
If you don't care that you get a trashed paper book, you don't need a paper book, pirate it, get a chink reader.
If you need, like, a 1938 Hohner Organetta, think of it as rescuing a historical treasure and go to the troons.

 

[Hateocracy]

Those aren't the only two options and I reject the proposal that merely two options exist.

I will support the local business without a Rainbow flag in their window. Of which, around here anyway, there are plenty.

 

[stupid frog]

The megacorp makes the gay and trans flag the little business puts on display.

Borrow the book from z-lib.

 

[dreamworks face]

I mean you could either buy from amazon... or you could buy from someone who bought a bunch of books off amazon, put price tags on them, and arranged them in a store.

"Buy local" when it comes to bookstores is fucking retarded.

 

[オプセック]

The bookstore could be exclusively staffed by trannies and it still wouldn't matter. If you are so caught up in some retarded culture war that you're willing to contribute to Jeff Bezos' hooker fund instead of supporting your local community, you might as well skip the middle man & suck him off yourself.

Nah, that tranny shit is just too sick. Jeff is just a billionaire doing hookers and coke, after all - as long as he isn't going to epstein island? Who cares!
But I made the mistake of checking the tranny threads recently and what they do to these kids, holy fuck - the whole idea has to be purged and everyone who spreads it.
And @cybertoaster already said how it is: Doesn't matter anyhow.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

That kind of question may be a slightly interesting hypothetical, but it's like asking "would you rather eat solid shit, or runny diarrhea" while ignoring the totally shit-free ice cream within reach. The Internet makes it really easy to find businesses that don't hate you or fund your destruction in any way. There are even apps and websites like Veebs and Public Square that can help you find something local that aligns with a certain set of values and sometimes in your area.
In a gun to my head and have to choose situation, I guess, maybe the local tranny book store, assuming they have what I want (but straight to Amazon if they don't have it in stock right that minute).

 

[Easterling]

Its funny, I never find gay shit in the bookshop I go to but the place only sells second hand and typically really old tomes. Find yourself a chuddy bookshop that deals in real knowledge OP.

 

[Bloitzhole]

If you can't stomach the notion that a person who owns a business who, like you, is a multifaceted human being with ambitions, dreams, fears and a diverse range of experiences that make up a complicated background, might not share your exact worldview in every minor detail (or you are utterly culture war brained) to the point where this becomes an active consideration in your decision to buy something at that place versus a billion dollar behemoth, you're probably not really suited for living with other people in general.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Would you prefer an individual who hates you or a machine who is indifferent to you?

Snuff 'em out. TTD.

That's like choosing between cholera or gonorrhea as Julian Assange might said.

 

[GratsTheat783]

Go to the local one only if you absolutely have to, otherwise try and find a different store.

 

[Slap47]

Who has the lower price?

 

[umseriously]

I would go shop at Amazon tbh. Fuck trannies.