similar to me too 👀

i'm not opposing the idea of buying up small businesses, but i'm wondering about the scale

If you are talking about a counter-culture movement of sorts, to push back at the progressives, that'd be dangerous

buying up lands?

Buying land? Like city blocks?

neithon said he's planning to buy/created small businesses

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I'm just worried about some of this ^^^

@Ranger_720 I thought about building the financial base to oppose the commies by buying small businesses as a group

Like a small business conservative union?

That could be cool

something like that

but are the businesses concentrated in one area or across the country?

Probably both

It could even be an extension of national republican organizations

aimed at funding conservative businesses, especially those that face a lack of funding for their views

i mean, i'm not opposed to it. i think that's a good idea

i can work as a safety net for conservative businesses too

same same, it's more of the implementation

yeah

fair enough

because how do you know which is "conservative businesses"?

people could have a gun store and are still raging progressives

As soon as you set that up, it's going to be "The RNC, Turning Point USA, etc. (whichever group theoretically supports this) is supporting white supremacist businesses"

it might be better if it's supporting small businesses in general imo

<@333424381156130818> but the public doesn't have to know

because small businesses need a safety net anyway, and if the program that helps them lean conservative, they can buy in easier

How would you keep that sort of thing private

^^^ exactly

they can audit and find "systematic racism" or whatever -ism in there

Like incentives for pro-life, etc. advertising?

that would be cool

My biggest issue with that is I don't necessarily think businesses should be vocal in politics

something like that? because i'm thinking like a welfare state. people vote for welfare (ie. the government), which is leaning democrats. if we're running a private welfare support that lean conservative and preach conservative values (explicit or implicit), it will soften people to the idea of conservatism

Isn't welfare something conservatives dislike

depends on the business models, i think. ie. for sports, sports had always been tied to politics

how so

just like athletes' platform power?

okay so what if we buy / build businesses and use the profits for political campaigns / ads?

it's poor word choice, but that's the general idea i'm interpreting from neithon. build a safety net and help small businesses to thrive might not be "welfare" necessarily

sure. black athletes were barred from sports for some time. hitler barred certain countries from the olympic (if my memory is correct)