Never buy L.L. Bean again, gotcha.
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To be honest, the people who actually run LL Bean have written open letters distancing them and the company from Linda and her views.
They are (were) stuck with her earning dividends, but she didn't have actual support from or much influence on the company.
She mostly just took dividends, hocked her lobster rolls and created a PR problem for the company.
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They were amazing once, but that was sort of a long time ago now.
They had super high quality with an unbelievably good warranty. Basically, most of the store was buy it for life. They dropped quality and then the warranty followed. Now it's mostly just a familiar name.
Makes sense they're trumptards
List of chairmen
- Leon Gorman (2001–2013)
- Shawn Gorman (since May 2013)
List of CEOs
- Leon L. Bean (1912–1967)
- Leon Gorman (1967–2001)
- Christopher McCormick (2001–2015); first non-family CEO
- Stephen Smith (since November 2015)
This largely lines up with my experience with their quality over time.
LL bean used to be the shit in the early 00s, now it's basically overpriced Walmart garbage
I remember learning about LL Bean from Seinfeld and asking why people like it. Later when I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck and started buying quality goods, I learned that their famous warranty was gone. Which sucks because I'm all about BIFL.
This is why I switched to Patagonia, quality stuff, great customer service, great warranty.
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Yep. Wish I could have gotten in 20 years ago but was broke back then.
That was the lesson in 2017, idk who the heirs are now or what their politics are
I hadn't heard about this one. New Balance was the big one for me since they also heavily donated to Trump.
We need an updated list of those companies. I don’t readily see a current one.
Agreed! Hard to keep that curated and not commented on by every angry person out there.
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I actually hadn't heard about New Balance!
this is the first I’m hearing about LL bean and New balance, after having just bought a LL bean vest, and new balances, feeling like a fool now.
May as well get a MAGA hat at this point /s
Just don’t buy Goya food for dinn- oh you did, didn’t you.
You used to be able to scam LL Bean by buying beat up old shit and taking advantage of their lifetime warranty, but they've limited it now
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Did they? Damn, they're the only shoes I've tried that fit my flat feet.
Try out some urban boots or even just a casual "dress" shoe. In my experience, having the hard, lifted heel makes all the difference in the world to your back and other things. It made my knees better, my feet don't hurt, and I don't deal with daily back pain anymore. I have tennis shoes/sneakers/etc at home but the are only for exercise. For walking around, going to work, etc., it's always a pair of boots.
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She’s dead now though
From the Linda Bean wiki entry:
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation, stated that Linda Bean was a member of the then-35-year-old "shadowy and intensely secretive group" the Council for National Policy; stating what is "most remarkable about the directory is that it reveals how the CNP has become a key meeting place where ostensibly mainstream conservatives interact with individuals who are, by any reasonable definition, genuinely extremist." She was a longtime member, having been invited to join the Council for National Policy established by Reagan's Attorney General Edwin Meese after the Reagan years.
Wow, never heard of the Council for National Policy before, which seems to be the point.
If you ever wondered why the right believes in shadowy liberal cabals, give the Wikipedia article a read...
Members are instructed not to reveal their membership or even name the group.
The CNP has been described by The New York Times as "a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country", who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference.
There's a great book called Dark Money. It doesn't get into CNP (I don't recall it, at least), but it goes into a lot of the GOP megadonors and their shady shit. Probably dated by now, I'm sure shit has changed over the past 7 or 8 years
That looks pretty good. I'm a big fan of the Behind the Bastards podcast, and now that I'm commuting again I've also started listening to their It Could Happen Here one as well and it's amazing how many of these groups exist from the local level on up. They feel like conspiracy theories until you start following legitimate reporting about them. It's not Pizza Gate level crap, this has all been documented for decades. I like learning about it, but damn is it depressing when you see how the world works.
Started by the Regan administration. When the US falls someday, it will be Regan who started it all. What a fucking dickhead.
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The sudden removal of evil is always worth celebrating.
May she be remembered as a villain so as to deter others from following in evil's footsteps.
Hopefully she left Trump out of her will.
I now feel the need to start leaving disgusting things to people I don't like.
"To Trump, I leave the unused roll of TP that feels like sandpaper in the hopes that he will finally cover his shittiness."
(in my defense, the TP was pandemic shortage TP. I'm not even sure it is TP.)
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Haha eat shit fascist.
She was a major opponent of abortion rights, gay rights, and gun control, and even campaigned unsuccessfully for Congress in 1988 and 1992.
What a lovely human being, I'm sure she was a great mother/s
I suppose then that the world is a little better without her in it.
Good stay dead you cunt
Good riddance
Find out how a company donates to political campaigns.
That site is very broken on mobile, at least for me
Same, just a blank screen that says "download the app". Which...no
Rest In Piss
Sounds good.
My condolences to LL. Cool J. She will be miss no more. No more will her musical fruit bring Truth to all of the Trumpfus supporters.
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I hope Trump does not inherit anything from her.
Her departure wasn't soon enough.
This would've been a good one for /c/billionairedown I think, trying to confirm if this shit stain was a billionaire. Either way good riddance you ugly cunt.
Good.
Weird that we're still doing "heiress", after abandoning "aviatrix", "actress", &c.
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