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Republican attorneys general issue warning letter to Target about Pride merchandise

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Seriously.

The attorneys general also said they believed Target's Pride campaign threatened their financial interests, writing that Target leadership has a "fiduciary duty to our States as shareholders in the company" and suggesting that company officials "may be negligent" in promoting the campaign since it has negatively affected Target's stock prices and led to some backlash among customers.

I didn't realize the government needed to step in if a business makes decisions that hurt their profit. That doesn't sound like a free market at all.

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How the beehaw defederation affects us

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Yea, it's going to be a problem if a lot of large instances start defederizing from each other. People aren't going to want to have 4 different accounts to interact with communities they were contributing to before they defederized. Sure you can have 2 gaming communities but if you are on lemmy.world and like beehaws gaming community more you are now stuck with just the one on lemmy.world unless you make a beehaw account.

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Weekly Discussion: How should the furry fandom react to "puritan" reformists? Are these reformists too aggressive and hateful? Do they have a point?

I haven't encountered any of these "puriteens" yet anywhere thankfully, I don't really spend any time on twitter though. My opinion boils down to pretty much what everyone else has said here so far. We don't need a bunch of kids running around trying to tell us what to do and acting like morality police, don't force religious beliefs onto us, etc. As for the risk of being "Called out", just ignore it. Even if they get loud about it. Its just a group of teens on Twitter and in the grand scheme of things their opinion about you means fuck all. They will forget about you and move on to the next thing/person to be mad at in less than a week. As for the fandom as a whole being "called out", I don't think there is much to "call out". Furries have not been well received on the internet for a long time and the go to thing to accuse us of is bestiality so they've already lost the main thing to "call us out" for. I've noticed a shift recently in a more positive direction of the internet's opinions on furries and I don't think a loud group of teens on Twitter is going to sway it back the other direction again.