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I guess this is what is meant by “the jokes just write themselves”. Check out the “victory” diary that Maggie Gallagher just posted on the NOM (National Organization for Marriage) blog.
NOM and allies have been thrashing the weeds for almost two weeks now trying to get people to pledge to “Dump Starbucks” because Starbucks has joined the ever-lengthening list of businesses that support Washington’s marriage equality law. And 25,000 signatures is all they have to show for it.
In the mean time, over 460,000 people have signed the Thank Your Starbucks note over at SumOfUs.
25,205! Victory at DumpStarbucks.com!
April 1, 2012 at 3:45 pmThanks so much to each one of you who helped us meet our goal of 25,000 petition signers by the end of this week at DumpStarbucks.com! The fight for corporate fairness–and marriage–has just begun!
Related:
* NOM’s “Dump Starbucks” Boycott Flops, Shows NOM’s Poor Judgment
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Corporate marriage? I know that they are supposed to be people now but that’s just odd. Oh wait, she just doesn’t know how to properly compose a sentence so that it doesn’t mean something entirely different than what she wanted to express. My bad.
Corporate marriage? No wonder there are wingnuts who want to ban divorce.
Spin, Maggie, spin. The Schadenfreude is about to overwhelm me.
(I really try to be charitable, but with people as deliberately vicious as Gallagher, Brown, Perkins, and the rest of the “will bash for cash” crowd, sometimes it’s beyond my reach.)
so 25,000 reactionaries who wouldn’t set foot in an American coffee house signed a petition. They probably drink that Socialist Canadian Coffee, Tim Horton.
On that page, found John’s post interesting: 500,000 people visit Starbucks, “No new customers.” Now 25,000 less people visit the place.
Where’s the factual support for this assertion? Oh, that’s right, none needed. Saying it makes it so.
Yeah, right.
According to JMG, they never announced a numerical goal in the first place when they started their failed boycott, so the 25,000 goal figure is just so much hubris.
Like drawing a circle w/bulls-eye around the bullet holes, after you’ve fired the shots.