PMantle
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I will never understand how/why this is a thing.
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I will never understand how/why this is a thing.
What? That people are discerning with their disposable income and often choose to spend it with enterprises, that they think or feel, are in agreement with their principles and ethics?.......or that people buy discs?
Orioles_Lefty
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It's almost like the ideologies of the people they are sponsoring and the recent trans discrimination in disc golf are reflective of the larger culture of disc golf as a business. So it would follow, that if I don't want to support those beliefs and values,, then I don't help them generate profit. I hope DGPT fails. I hope Lonestar fails.
Saying that this shouldn't be a thing doesn't mean you are above ideology. It means you are complicit.
Well.....I guess I also think that there is a pretty wide chasm between spending your money elsewhere and wishing failure upon someone. I don't really wish ill will on those that don't agree with me, lol.
PMantle
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I do not understand what you're saying. And what trans discrimination? I have heard of no such thing. I am complicit in what?
PMantle
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I was talking about buying a disc because someone throws it. Maybe I misunderstood.
Yep, to be fair, any reason that gets me to not spend money is generally a good enough reason for me and my pocketbook.
biscoe
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Tone doesn't come across well in written format so allow me to state it differently: the fact that Lone Star has chosen to support the people they have chosen to support makes it very unlikely I will be supporting Lone Star with my dinero. There are other companies I feel similarly about. This is usually based on some personal interaction I have had with a player but I am willing to make an exception for Nikko and Q Anon neither of whom I personally know.
Even were I not sponsored I personally would not buy a disc to throw because a particular player throws it. I will however buy discs that I have no intention of throwing to support players I know and like.
PMantle
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Cool. I know nothing about that, so I will head home, grab an Old Fashioned and get ready for the big freeze.
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That would be me, what few are in my local PIAS are still sitting there a few months after I did my touchy feelie.
Arisugawa
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M2daRizzle
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Her husband, AJ Carey, is also leaving Innova. Maybe they go to a sponsor as a package deal?
seedlings
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Is anyone rumored to be going TO Innova?
Looks like theyre dropping FPO like crazy! Not sure who all is going to be left after the exodus
They still have their top FPO players. .so the still have one of or the top FPO team
looking at Innovas team page all the players thats going to leave is still on the site. . But innovas webbpage are not known to have fast updates.
TheOtherBill
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Is Johnathon Poole still the Innova team manager? I'm talking about managing the team from the corporate side of things, not Sexton's Team Captain position.
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I think so, but Jeff Panis seems to have pull also.
the1discChallenge
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You get a signature LS disc, I'll buy it, but until then....Same for when Jamie inevitably makes a Moose-stamped Stego.
