Customers are furious with Sticker Mule’s pro-Trump mass SMS blast
Sticker Mule loves Donald Trump and doesn’t care if you’re mad.
tl;dr: The CEO said he was pro-Trump and he didn't like the shooting. Certainly not a smart thing to say but not entirely bad, right? Well, he said it to the all the customers via their mailing list.
People are terrified to admit they support Trump.
This really is terrible. People should be allowed to support rapists in positions of authority without fear of being judged. We should all try to be more like the pope.
If you wanna support Trump, go for it. But don't be surprised when you admit it, and your orders drop off a cliff.
Freedom of speech 100% does not protect you from the consequences.
Shame too, I liked their Mule Sauce but it is easily replaced by any other brand.
Free Speech: https://xkcd.com/1357/
What's actually going on is a little bit more subtle, I think.
The people supporting him mostly don't know he's a rapist. They don't know he wants to throw his opponents in prison or kill them. All they see is this incredible opposition to him from people they know, and it just confuses them, because the news they consume doesn't tell them any of that. And so, they don't know what the big deal is, and so they just don't talk about it and plan to vote for Trump sort of quietly.
And, human nature being what it is, if it does come up in conversation, everyone talking to this guy assumes the underlying picture in everyone else's head is equal to the picture in their own, and so of course this person is already aware that Trump's a criminal rapist treasonous shitbag who's dumber than rocks, and just supports him anyway, and so they react with arguing and hostility instead of doing the much harder work of building a shared understanding and engaging in a dialogue that they know isn't going to resolve into anyone's mind changing on the first day.
It's easy to decide that someone's fully aware of the facts and they're just a huge piece of shit with how they reach judgements off the same facts you have, and you need to yell at them. That's rarely how it works though (although, sometimes, yes.) The much more difficult and more successful path is to understand where they're coming from and how they got to their wrong judgement, and try to work with them to help understand things better even if they're being hostile or what they currently think is wrong as hell.
This is my opinion on it
They know and don't care. And even if they're in denial, they continue to deny, despite being proven over and over again. They call it fake news, deep fakes, or just flat out say [a thing that happened] just never happened.
Just watch anything from Pretty Little Liars or Daily Show etc. interviews with people at his rallies.
I don't think ignorance is much of an excuse in the US in 2024. You can just go read wikipedia and its sources.
At this point for anyone older than like 15 it's willful. It's a willful desire to stay in the comfort of your in-group rather than deal with the negative feelings that come from "Are we the baddies?"
I think it’s a bit more cut and dry. This late in the game, nobody that’s going to vote doesn’t already know about Trump and all of his controversies. Whether or not they get the facts from the news they consume, they’ve already been confronted with the ugly truth in some way at some point.
If they are still “not aware” that he’s a rapist, a violence proliferator, a traitor, or a fucking idiot, it just proves they are WILLFULLY ignorant. Which is no excuse.
They don’t get a free pass just because they actively ignore facts. It’s safe to assume they support Trump over literally anyone else specifically because he has these evil qualities.
My fiancé was on the phone with her mother yesterday, explaining Project 2025 to her, and her mother literally said, "Oh, Trump wouldn't go along with all that. He used to be a Democrat, so he's petty liberal for a Republican."
If you decide to not use StickerMule again, as the org I'm part of now has, I'd suggest that rather than simply not using them to login to your SM account, then contact them via their Support interface and ask them to remove your account and all data associated with it or direct them to tell you how you can do it yourself and end by telling them exactly why.
That is an excellent suggestion and sends a very potent and direct message that will be a lot harder to hand wave away. Chances are they'll still try but it will make it harder on them.
I did this as soon as they posted the tweet. They didn't even bother telling me they had done it or acknowledge my message and I just had to try logging in to make sure it actually got deleted. The complete lack of communication makes me even more glad to never give them business again.
I unsubscribed from marketing emails right away, but this is a good idea.
"The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end.”
How can any kindhearted compassionate people ever support a bully like trump?!
That's just physically impossible. Trump is not compassionate, nor kind-hearted.
Corporate mass media does make it possible. There's still plenty of blame on their part for lacking the interest or critical thinking skills to understand why other people are upset. But it is a thing that can exist. That doesn't make it acceptable.
But short of returning the media to a pre 1980 state. Which was still wildly imperfect and heavily propagandized. There isn't a peaceful or obvious solution to this.
kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump
Forget about the content. If any company spam text/emails me about any political bullshit I'll ban/boycott them just for wasting my fucking time. Fuck spammers.
I won't be going back.
I knew nothing about them before this. But I have a number of friends who are independent creators. And this was one of the more talked about thing for the last several days. One of them had never used the company and never will. And the rest have already found less fascist alternatives. So you aren't alone. I feel kind of bad for their non-fascist employees if they actually exist. And I wish them luck on their future fash free endeavors.
Here's a couple of photos from 2005 found on the CEO's public Flickr page:
The CEO is the guy in the middle in the left photo. The photo on the right was taken the same night, possibly by the CEO, but certainly uploaded by him. At the very least he had no problem with posting it publicly, and has decided not to remove it over the years.
It's always projection and a persecution complex. "Stop the insane political hate! I feel endangered! Sieg heil."
It’s always the guys looking like they’d board the Auschwitz trains first who want to be Nazis nowadays.
Where are they in these photos?
As mentioned below the photo:
The CEO is the guy in the middle in the left photo. The photo on the right was taken the same night, possibly by the CEO, but certainly uploaded by him. At the very least he had no problem with posting it publicly, and has decided not to remove it over the years.
As of now, finding the Flickr page is as simple as searching for "CEO NAME Flickr". His name is in the OP article and easily found elsewhere online by searching sticker mule ceo.
“People are terrified to admit they support Trump,” the email read. “I’ve been scared myself.”
Now you know how Democrats feel in red states. How likely do you think it is that a Democrat is going to physically hurt you for your beliefs?
It's the way he used the assassination attempt to endorse Trump. To try and balance things he mentions some people on his staff support Biden but overwhelmingly the letter read as a political endorsement and beforehand they were known as a neutral and reliable business. I have a business and politics are not a part of our marketing, it's too sensitive of a subject.
They were a known Trump supporting business back in 2016. This isn't the first time they've aired their political opinions.
The CEO is a right wing trump worshiper.
Dig into the company's tweet history, and find archived tweets that were deleted for PR/white-washing reasons.
Long history of this stuff.
Don't Worry! All these people upset about the Attempted Assassination were EQUALLY upset when someone attempted to Assassinate Nancy Pelosi or when Trump told people to Assassinate Hilary Clinton or when Republicans SHOT UP SCHOOLS AND KILLED CHILDREN to Stop the Libruls Inside!
Gross.
“The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end.”
Kind-hearted? Compassionate? Maybe two or three in the US that have been totally off the grid fro the last eight years or so.
No one who votes for Trump is kind. No one who votes for Trump is patriotic. No one who votes for Trump is pro-military/veterans.
No one who votes for Trump is worth a shit.
I never heard of them before. Won't be patronizing them now that I have. That's actual Bad Publicity, so it exists.
The market will decide. If they lose sales then maybe they will kick the CEO to the curb. Money talks.
Glad I just stole some vectors from them. I unsubscribed from their emails before this because they were already insufferable.
I bet this wouldn’t have been half as damaging if the CEO didn’t use the damn mailing list. What a fucking idiot. Just share your awful takes on twitter like a normal person and move on.
Here’s to watching their business implode though.
What is it with sticker companies being of asshole pedigree
The only time I used Sticker Mule was when someone (I don't remember exactly) was giving out free unix stickers, so I ordered some. I've been getting promotional emails from them ever since but did not get this, although I don't recall if I ever gave them a phone number when I ordered the stickers.
Really a shame because they make good products and have fast turnaround.
Used them once, would have again, but no longer. Haven't tried these guys yet but someone recommended https://www.vinyldisorder.com/ as an alternative in a different post. They seem well reviewed.