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Is it just me, or does Hobby Lobby seem to go out of their way to remind their customers that their values aren't the same as the customers? Seriously, they sho

• gorkonsine 9y ago
  Their customers are obviously perfectly happy to patronize them regardless of this.
  • MrZongle2 9y ago
    Source?
    • Brendinooo 9y ago
      https://www.forbes.com/companies/hobby-lobby-stores/ https://www.forbes.com/companies/hobby-lobby-stores/ Not definitive proof of anything, as they could be losing money, but that's a big enough number to suggest that plenty of people don't know, don't care, or know but don't care about their extracurricular activities.
• Chaebixi 9y ago
  > Is it just me, or does Hobby Lobby seem to go out of their way to remind their customers that their values aren't the same as the customers? Seriously, they should go out of business. It's probably just you (or more precisely, those like you). It's quite possible that your values are not typical of their customers, or their customers don't care about the values of the owners of the craft store they patronize.
  • moomin 9y ago
    True enough, but I always got the impression their customers would skew liberal. But that might be my liberal assumptions about who does craft projects showing through. :)
    • gorkonsine 9y ago
      Oh, no. Hobby Lobby's customers are typically conservative suburban Christians. Liberals with any political awareness at all would know very well of their contraception case at the SCOTUS, and go to Michael's instead. There's no shortage of middle-class evangelical Christians in suburban areas who are perfectly happy to patronize Hobby Lobby and support their political efforts.
      • s73ver 9y ago
        Maybe those people need to be made aware that Hobby Lobby did this. And that it could have contributed to the rise of ISIS.
        • TheGirondin 9y ago
          No one in the US has contributed more the rise of ISIS than Democrats. The current situation in northern Iraq is exactly what was predicted would happen if the US withdrew before the Iraqi government was stable enough. In response, Democrats said that the anti-government AQ forces were "freedom fighters" and said that what happened there was "none of our business." This is the "peace" Democrats wanted.
          • lostlogin 9y ago
            You are taking way too short a view of this. Perhaps invading was the wrong decision. Or was not taking Saddam down earlier in war 1.0 the wrong decision. Or was funding Saddam for years the wrong path? The current situation is a culmination of (at a minimum) decades of failure by many countries.
          • wavefunction 9y ago
            I'm curious what responsibility you lay at the feet of Republicans who invaded and destabilized Iraq for manufactured reasons?
          • dragonwriter 9y ago
            > No one in the US has contributed more the rise of ISIS than Democrats The invasion of Iraq and the bungling of early phases of the occupation are the main reason AQI, as such, existed and began the process by which it metastasized into ISIS. While some Democrats do near some responsibility for that as enablers, they weren't the ones directing the relevant policies.