Why are old republicans so fucking weird looking.
While Knight is generally reluctant to give interviews, he spoke with the New York Times in October 2022 regarding his support for Republican candidates. He argued Oregon’s government had drifted too far to the left and described himself as “more conservative than Nike,” responding to criticism of him backing an anti-abortion candidate which apparently contrasted with the company’s image of supporting progressive social justice causes.[109] Nike itself donated $75,000 to Drazan and Johnson’s Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek, the eventual winner of the election. - WIKIPEDIA
Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.
One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have…odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.
You can’t even find people like that in a big city.
Havent bought Nikes in awhile. Sadly, kids are still under the impression they are worth something. So you have to fight the brand building at a young age
Meh. This is Oregon. That kind of money may get 1 or 2 more republicans in the legislature. Probably moderate republicans even. But it isn’t going to change much for the state. I don’t happen to buy anything Nike anyway. But overall, we got bigger fish to fry right now.
BOYCOTT CAPITALISM
Evil really makes you look like a corroded ballsack
How does he go from this:
to supporting Trump and Oregon republicans?
It does not computeEasily. People as rich as he is, view people like you and I as a different class of humans (which we are) so the things they tell us to do (like “sacrificing everything”) are not applicable to people from their own class (who sacrifice nothing, except us).
“Billions of you are probably going to die so that we can have everything we want, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make… and really, the planet will be better off with you gone anyway”
Phil was no longer directly involved with the company when this ad campaign came out.
He just used him to sell shoes.
Fuck him. I have not and never will support his brand.
Bribe. That’s called a bribe. Also in an actual developed world, it would be called blatant corruption and treasonous.
In a shocking turn of events, a business executive is scum.
Psssttt…Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc…
Imagine what these replica brands could achieve if they made their own stuff and people weren’t married to the brands
The people i know who wear nike, only wear nike. It’s like a weird cult. I met two women this year who said they would NEVER wear anything else.
A cult…for Nike? Sounds classical
The weird, cultlike pseudo-romantic obsession people develop with brands is, frankly, deserving of medication for their mental derrangement.
Nike isnt even that good!
The last time I owned a pair of Nikes, they literally fell apart and were ruined by getting caught one time in the rain.
So you are saying that you need medical scanning devices to make sure that a person wearing what looks like Nikes is not a fascist.
No, I’m saying if you like the look of the shoes, but don’t want to give money to a shitty company, pirate them via illegitimate copies.
Some people buy products without looking too closely at the politics of the manufacturer. I would say that’s how most people buy things.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another. Turn your justifiably angry energy upwards, not at your fellow working class brothers and sisters.
Do you seriously believe that anybody would be crazy enough to check other peoples clothes with a medical scanning device? Thank you.
We all have to exist in this system whether we like it or not, and unless you’re living 100% off grid in a hovel in the woods, you’re contributing to the slow ascent of fascism in one way or another.
When you know that an action supports fascism you do not do it and you warn others about it. Pretending to support fasism, is at least in this case really stupid.
So Nike sells limited edition sneakers that sell for far above retail in after market sales. That’s where medical device imaging is coming in. It’s weird but no weirder than like, beanie babies were. If you didn’t know that now you do.
You also catastrophically missed the point. Getting pissy because you see somebody wearing any particular brand is pretty ridiculous. All of them are supporting the regime in one way or another, you are, simply by existing and contributing labor to society. You can’t pinpoint a fascist by their Nike’s anymore than you could pinpoint one by literally any other shoe. Unless they happen to be police tactical boots (which are often made by Under Armor).
Holy crap do I really need to use the /s behind the first comment. I thought it was so bloody obvious, that it did not need to happen. The idea to walk around town, scan people sneakers and if they are legit Nike call them fascists. To me that idea is just so insane that it is funny.
At the same time, there are companies, which are worse and it is worth boycotting them. If you do so, then stand by that and do not buy some fakes. Seriously imagine trying to convince some guy that Nike sucks, while wearing full fake Nike gear. That is again a funny idea to me.
You didn’t take away the point SippyCup (I think) wanted to make.
Most of us live in a world where we have to go to a grocery store and buy food. I cannot possibly be expected to research the CEO of every product I buy and even if I did, my choices are limited to what is available in my store(s).
When I learn of a company doing bad things, I shun them. But there are also conglomerates like nestle that own half the brands in my local store and I can’t really avoid them. I “have to exist in this system whether [I] like it or not.”
Sippy was not supporting buying nike or supporting fascism, but was instead telling you to not blame your peers in the “lower classes” for the issue – those who might buy a shoe without knowing the CEO is fascist, or in some cases still buying crackers from a company they do know is fascist because they have no choice.
Instead, be mad at the fucking fascists. “Turn your justifiably angry energy upwards…” is the part of the quote above that you seem to have missed.
Fuck the ducks.
He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these “too much money” guys?
They have severe OCD Hoarding Disorder, and they have a serious compulsion to hoard money, even when they have far more than they or their descendents can ever spend.
If this was someone hoarding anything else at that level, cats, rusty cars, newspapers, junk, etc., the government would step in, remove their treasure, and get that person the mental help they require. We should do the same with Financial Hoarders - detain them and get them the mental health care they require, and remove their hoard that is making life difficult for their neighbors. If they were hoarding cats, we’d put them up for adoption, so their financial hoard should be redistributed to the citizens.
“a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share.”
Fixed the headline
What a piece of shit
Welp, won’t be hard for me to buy Nike shoes ever again. Is uhhh the Adidas founder just as shit too or can I buy those or Puma? I just want some low profile shoes like converse, but that you can actually walk around in all day. I used to wear converse, but those killed my feet and def aren’t shoes for winter either lol.
I like lems for converse type shoes. Roomy and not much cushion, but in a good way.
Just buy some quality shoes. They’ll last. Poor people buy cheap shoes that don’t last long. Hence they have to buy more shoes, thus staying poor because they need do keep buying shoes. Simple economics
It’s almost like poor people buy cheap shoes because they can’t afford quality shoes.
