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I guess I'll bite the bullet. I think Bud Light is kinda nice on a hot day, maybe by the pool or with grilled food like hamburgers or hot dogs.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I guess I'll bite the bullet. I think Bud Light is kinda nice on a hot day, maybe by the pool or with grilled food like hamburgers or hot dogs. That's what it's for.
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Beer chat: Anecdotal evidence but I can say for certain that on the ground and in the trenches in a blood red county here in NE Florida at least that the stupid Bud Lite bullshit is 100% real and has more legs than we might want to laugh at. I work in a poker room and overhear a LOT of bullshit conversations from people who drink a lot and across a very large spectrum of demographics. There are old rich people with nothing else to do with their money or time, young kids looking for a thrill or an easy buck, poor people seeking to dry hump the American Dream, black, white, Asian, Hispanic, male, female...you name it. Very wealthy business owners who gamble insane amounts of money. Quite the cross section in there. People are absolutely and intentionally ordering Miller Lite beers and eschewing Budweiser, often making jokes about it where they order a Bud Light first and then make a show of changing it to Miller just so everyone can hear it. We make jokes a lot but this type of bullshit undoubtedly permeates mainstream thinking in ways that aren't funny or trivial and it makes me kind of sad sometimes to overhear it. I've seen more empty Miller Lite bottles (and empty wallets) in the last two weeks than I can count and have overheard several conversations centered around it, along with a TON of "we need Trump back/this country is in BIG trouble" bullshit than I care to listen to. Trump hats and Let's Go Brandon t-shirts. These people live and breathe this loving poo poo, inject it into their veins, are easily manipulated and angered, and there are a LOT more of them than we think there are.
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May 21, 2023 00:10
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Yeah, there's no reason to look down on a light beer like that. They have their purpose, they're widely available and inexpensive, and they honestly taste pretty decent. I've seen more and more craft breweries making "American-Style Lager" or "Mexican-Style Lager" for exactly that reason. Is it worth the difference in price? I don't really think so, but if you want to buy local or you're at the brewery, that's another way to go. There's a reason it's a very popular style of beer.
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May 21, 2023 00:11
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Nothing wrong with a cheap, light lager but I do feel Bud Light is the bottom of the barrel. I'd say it's an example of a product's popularity driven more by marketing than anything else.
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Jesus III posted:I like that no one ever admits to drinking Bud and Coors or whatever and they are by far the most popular beer brands. Kind of like no one eating at McDonalds. There are demographics that will drink Bud/Coors more than other demographics. For myself and my friends, we enjoy craft beers and beers that have some interesting tweaks to the general formula. For our parents, many of them will go for a mass-market beer because that's what they grew up with and enjoy. I think for a lot of folks who are younger than 40, craft beers become a lot more accessible and a lot more of a thing in many parts of the country, and so it's a thing that we gravitate toward and enjoy.
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May 21, 2023 01:27
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Jesus III posted:I like that no one ever admits to drinking Bud and Coors or whatever and they are by far the most popular beer brands. Kind of like no one eating at McDonalds. I love drinking bud llight, eating mcdonalds, and listening to Nickleback
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May 21, 2023 02:24
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Yuengling is the only good domestic beer. 
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...! posted:Yuengling is the only good domestic beer. Send them to Illinois
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I spend 15 on a 12 pack one every other month AMA
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Professor Beetus posted:I love drinking bud llight, eating mcdonalds, and listening to Nickleback I judge no man's sick desires.
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Panfilo posted:One story I heard was that Anheiser Busch etc were among the few breweries that survived prohibition and stuff like rice was added to the beer to save money. Perhaps due to inertia light beer was popular with working class people. It's got a lower ABV and people find it milder tasting without leaving them feeling bloated. Here in the UK stella is known as "wifebeater" and is the drink of choice for bright red bald guys looking for a fight
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...! posted:Yuengling is the only good domestic beer. The owner went all in on Trump.
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Murgos posted:The owner went all in on Trump. Yeah, but Hershey got them good
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There are very few corporations that "go woke go broke" can actually apply to, and Bud is one of them. The conditions are pretty specific: Bud was ingrained into CHUD culture without really trying, it was something they'd bought for their entire drinking life without thinking about it, and was easily replaced with an alternative by reaching one arm's length over to the next shelf for Miller. Easy to make a statement when it's so convenient. Other boycotts on all waves of the political spectrum fail when it's obvious a boycott would take even a small amount of effort, either because the corporation is everywhere, the product is too much a part of their lives, etc. CHUDs aren't even boycotting Disney as a whole, they mostly avoid the "woke" movies, i.e. the ones with a side character with two lines that is gay.
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LifeLynx posted:There are very few corporations that "go woke go broke" can actually apply to, and Bud is one of them. The conditions are pretty specific: Bud was ingrained into CHUD culture without really trying, it was something they'd bought for their entire drinking life without thinking about it, and was easily replaced with an alternative by reaching one arm's length over to the next shelf for Miller. Easy to make a statement when it's so convenient. Other boycotts on all waves of the political spectrum fail when it's obvious a boycott would take even a small amount of effort, either because the corporation is everywhere, the product is too much a part of their lives, etc. CHUDs aren't even boycotting Disney as a whole, they mostly avoid the "woke" movies, i.e. the ones with a side character with two lines that is gay. This isn't even necessarily true. Bud's factories were supposedly getting bomb threats from republicans so that's probably why they caved. That, coupled with pulling that stunt right before their quarterly report meant that there was no time for the bounce back which created a false image of successfully boycotting the product in favor of racism, transphobia, and other repugnant things that have no place in America. The proper response should have been to track down the people who made the bomb threats and have them prosecuted, then see which of the usual websites or people that organized this and have legal suits brought against them for damages done due to a shutdown or lack of productivity. This would have given them the high ground and insulated them against any further attempts at terrorism. Instead they caved, and the bigoted throwbacks pretended that doing a terrorism means they won because woke=broke in their broken minds. Archonex fucked around with this message at 19:48 on May 21, 2023 |
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LifeLynx posted:There are very few corporations that "go woke go broke" can actually apply to, and Bud is one of them. The conditions are pretty specific: Bud was ingrained into CHUD culture without really trying, it was something they'd bought for their entire drinking life without thinking about it, and was easily replaced with an alternative by reaching one arm's length over to the next shelf for Miller. Easy to make a statement when it's so convenient. Other boycotts on all waves of the political spectrum fail when it's obvious a boycott would take even a small amount of effort, either because the corporation is everywhere, the product is too much a part of their lives, etc. CHUDs aren't even boycotting Disney as a whole, they mostly avoid the "woke" movies, i.e. the ones with a side character with two lines that is gay. Their control of the CHUD market was hardly due to a lack of trying, Budweiser had spent decades and a hojilion dollars identifying their biggest consumers (working-class white men) and pandering to them in nearly every ad campaign. They're the single largest sponsor of the superbowl and have paid for at least one commercial in all 56 of them. The dumb machismo of beer commercials became a genre in themselves (see Duffman). But because of their success they had entire marketing books written about them and influenced today's commercial formats for brand marketing, by basically writing a comedy sketch and attaching a byline to it. Obviously their marketshare began shrinking due to the explosion of craft beer and hard seltzer options, and they responded by buying up those small breweries. Alright. Then they launched their own hard seltzer line. Great. There wasn't any backlash when their new marketing heads starting clearly directing Bud's commercials towards people who weren't white males, even in the superbowl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMx_f0Mlno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azCNwGnxq0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvuj-OBQCP4 "Easy to drink, easy to enjoy", wow a tagline about the product's actual qualities? It's been decades since they reminded us why light beer became more popular than the calorie-heavy competitors that they defeated (Shaefer's, Shlitz, Stroh's). And that might be a good way to differentiate it from the diceroll experience of trying a local IPA. They were successfully diversifying the audience for Bud Light. And they managed not to alienate their existing consumer base.....until they did. je1 healthcare fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Mar 19, 2024 |
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Don't forget that then they walked their extremely tiny bit of support for one single trans person back following the backlash, because they're stupid, craven assholes, and now they've managed to piss off everyone who feels any feeling either way on the subject of trans people.
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I drink Bud Light at airport restaurants, ballparks, and other "mandatory fun" sorts of situations.
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Ted wants top do a full blown investigation into just why AB would use Mulvaney for marketing under the assumption that they are targetting kids. He has an interview on Fox about it sometime today. https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1659577184405819394
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^^^Oh Jesus Christ^^^ I wish I could tolerate Bud Light so I could go out and buy 3 cases of it and make flags/posters out of the packaging. If I could stand to drink it, I'd order it loudly every chance I could. So weird to me that this is the line in the sand for CHUDS to decide to stop drinking terrible flavorless beer. Well, at least THAT terrible flavorless beer. MAGA's didn't bat an eye when the ALL AMERICAN BEER sold the company to a foreign company decades ago but this is a bridge too far, I tell ya what. I'm telling you, I've heard more Bud Light talk/comments in the last week than I have in my entire life. Reminds me of Hobby Lobby and CHic-Fil-A a little bit. These idiots are completely serious about this stupid bullshit to the point that anyone ordering one in my place of employment will get the side eye at best and a straight up comment on it at worst almost every time. Now there's a stigma attached to it and for the dumbest of reasons. So god damned loving idiotic I find myself questioning my place in this dumb world. 100% calling that Trump will mention Bud Light in one of his speeches/rallies. Also  BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 22, 2023 |
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OgNar posted:Ted wants top do a full blown investigation into just why AB would use Mulvaney for marketing under the assumption that they are targetting kids.
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OgNar posted:Ted wants top do a full blown investigation into just why AB would use Mulvaney for marketing under the assumption that they are targetting kids. They're never going to let this go. They want to keep up the pressure on trans people as much as they possibly can to try to further stigmatize them, because their goal is for all of them to die.
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Jesus III posted:I like that no one ever admits to drinking Bud and Coors or whatever and they are by far the most popular beer brands. Kind of like no one eating at McDonalds. we used to buy a sixer of good beer and a 12er of Bud Light or Mich Ultra. After the good poo poo was gone we no longer cared and hit the Bud/Mich. Hell, The Beast even made an appearance from time to time.
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Ah that conveted untapped Bud lite market: little children who don't drink beer and have no money
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OgNar posted:Ted wants top do a full blown investigation into just why AB would use Mulvaney for marketing under the assumption that they are targetting kids. After someone's daughter attempts suicide because her powerful father's anti-LGBTQ stance/rhetoric/actions make her feel unloved and unsafe in her own home, you'd think that that person would rethink his stance. At the very least you'd think that he would dial down his performative outrage directed at literally every single gay and/or non-cisgender person who dares to exist. Not our Ted! Evil gently caress doesn't care about his own daughter or gun violence victims or anyone else other than himself. Gotta fire up that Republican base!
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So what Ted is saying is that he likes to buy beer for his kids
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It's gonna be some dumbass bullshit about she makes TikToks and AB knew she made TikToks and then sent her some cans and then she made a TikTok and some teens are on TikTok so therefore might have seen it so therefore it is advertising directly to children with the intent to advertise to children. Basically, trans people in public spaces may include minors and so therefore all trans people are targeting minors instead of just simply existing in public spaces the same way everyone else does.
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I already said up thread, it's because she says she's going through girlhood because she's not far enough in her transition journey to say womanhood. Therefore they're marketing to children
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Queering Wheel posted:They're never going to let this go. They want to keep up the pressure on trans people as much as they possibly can to try to further stigmatize them, because their goal is for all of them to die. You're not wrong, but additionally they also see trans people as a wedge they can use to start going after all other queer people again and attempt to delegimitize all non-cis -heteronormative people out there once more.
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OgNar posted:Ted wants top do a full blown investigation into just why AB would use Mulvaney for marketing under the assumption that they are targetting kids. There really is no circle of hell deep enough for these clowns.
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I can only assume he is doing this in Florida where he owns many judges. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1660337723045978113 Which reminds me of Desantis trying to get a judge changed because he would likely lose by that one. You'd think he would have had all Woke judges disbarred in Florida by this point. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1659991168476762113
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Queering Wheel posted:They're never going to let this go. They want to keep up the pressure on trans people as much as they possibly can to try to further stigmatize them, because their goal is for all of them to die. Well not just that. Also to distract from their own bullshit.
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OgNar posted:I can only assume he is doing this in Florida where he owns many judges. also I believe Trump's dumb Twitter clone is headquartered in FL so that's probably why he's filing suit in FL
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Professor Beetus posted:Trump suing WaPo with his "legal team" vs what I assume is lawyer PMC owned by Jeff Bezos is going to be a fun one to watch. I expect it's not a real lawsuit. Its intent is to harass a bunch of people and put out talking points about how Trump is going to own Amazon and WaPo until it's dismissed a year from now for not actually alleging any harm similar to his last defamation suit he filed in Florida. edit: Even better, this might actually be another Nunes defamation suit since he actually president of the "Trump Media" company filing the suit. So, it might actually live long enough for discovery and the WaPo lawyers to prove that TMTG did commit the securities fraud alleged in the allegedly defamatory article. Murgos fucked around with this message at 15:26 on May 22, 2023 |
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