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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I know none of you have stayed in a Trump hotel in the last 10 but have any of you ever? Are they nice?
Where I stay in Chicago is across the street from the Trump hotel and watching people walk in I’m sort of sickened by them. I get poor people thinking he’ll help them financially, or at least get the trans off their daughter’s b-ball team. But wealthy people staying there are making a pretty clear greedy statement. Or is there a reason to hold one’s nose and check in?
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The one in DC that the Trump Org sold, and which I believe it operated, was supposed to be really nice. Rooftop bar, particularly.
Picking your hotel or car by politics is IMO silly. I think JB Pritzker is a buffoon presiding over a state which is the poster child for mismanagement. Should that factor in my selection of a Hyatt? I think Musk is an unhinged child-man. Should that stop me from buying a Tesla?
If people like to engage in performative behaviors, okay. Have at it. In regard to Tesla, the boycotts actually appear to be having some effect. But usually, it's mindless "feels" for one's own sense of self-righteousness. Or something a whiffle intellect can post on IG.
A better response is perhaps donating money or time to Fire.org, or the ACLU, which appear to be the only people waging an organized campaign against Trump's war on free speech.
Or maybe also ask your asshole right wing friends who railed about cancel culture while Biden was in office but aren't saying anything now what's got their tongues? Whole lotta Trumpers seem to understand free speech as free for
me, not for thee. Cancelation by deportation is no different in effect from cancelation by social and legacy media manipulation. You're just driving Orwell's car to the nadir instead of Huxley's.
