Yeah this gonna be easy to support

Hell I put 60 dicks in the dirt last Tuesday and the got damn cum beetles eat em up already. Make me so mad, I could spit stead of swaller

Tractor Supply sells much more than tractors though

I think you are forgetting that there are a lot of hobby farms that were using TS to get their chickens and feed. Lots of gay hobby farms. These people were the profit margin for TS.

To be fair, that's the case in the VAST majority of Lemmy threads..

So I have to start shopping there before I can boycott it? Sounds counterproductive.

Well yeah, I'm not a farmer. I don't need to shop for seeds and tractors and other farmer shit. But if I did I wouldn't buy it from them. So maybe it's not a boycott. Call it what you want.

I don't think large-scale farmers are shopping at Tractor Supply. Outside of emergency situations.

However, rural homesteaders suburban "backyard farms" certainly do. And there's a lot of queer and allied gardeners and backyard farmers.

They're a corporation. Of course they don't care.

To paraphrase Mark Stanley, corporations only have three rules: get the money, get the money, and get the money.

Don’t think they do things like supporting Pride because they care; it’s only a sign that they want to appeal to the broadest audience possible. But, in that same vein, when they’re supporting a topic is a good sign of is the majority of society’s feelings on the subject.

Polls can be gerrymandered to hell and back, talking heads on the news can make all kinds of claims. But since corporations chase money above all, they spend a lot of money getting very accurate ideas of what our society likes/dislikes.

Think about it. 50, hell even 30 years ago, no corporation worth their salt would have claimed to be in favor of Pride, because it would have been suicidal for the business. Society’s majority take on LGBTQ+ back then ranged from hate and disgust to ‘eww, fine, but not in public!’

Now, corporations fly the Pride flag all over the place. It definitely shows that society is much more supportive of LGBTQ+ and minorities.

If it's a publicly traded company the answer is that they likely don't believe in anything. They just do whatever the leadership believes would generate most profit, since that is what shareholders (usually) care about most.

If appearing to support progressive goals gets people to spend money in the store, then that is something that makes sense for a company like this to do. But if they stand to lose more money than they gain, for instance through boycotts, they will drop the pretence pretty quickly.

Personally I see the stance such companies take more like a reflection of general acceptance in society as a whole. If a company promotes progressive values then that would indicate that society as a whole is on average leaning more progressive.
Similarly, if companies stop supporting these values that indicates a worrying trend with regards to societal acceptance.

Just don't fool yourself into thinking that the company itself (as an entity) really believes in anything.

(Note: This doesn't hold for companies that aren't publically traded. If there are no stockholders to please the leadership can let their personal view affect the company's policy quite a bit)

What local agricultural supply stores? I’m only half joking (I live close to one) but there aren’t a ton left