Whatever you do, don’t burn it: that’s just putting extra money in that traitor’s pocket. He’s already been paid. Make him provide the goods.
I do like the idea of donating it to a prison relief group, in hopes that where the pillow goes, the CEO soon follows.
This sounds good, especially the far away as possible part. They are nice pillows so it would be a good gift to a shelter or non-profit rehousing prisoners, etc.
ACLU because they lead the way fighting the good fight for the other three. She’ll sputter for years (besides, give them her email address, she’ll get stirring newsletters from them for decades).
You’re evil.
I like that.
This is a really good suggestion. Making an equivalent donation to a group that you find worthwhile and she finds unobjectionable sends the message that you are rejecting the gift, but robs her of the ability to feel like she’s dragging you down to her level in the way a donation to a left-leaning political group would.
That is evil.
I like it.
Here’s a solid non-profit supporting ex-prisoners successfully reestablishing homes after release. Have the pillow(s) sent to them and a released prisoner will be able to have something nice and hopefully a good nights sleep. I donate to them and have visited their distribution center-lots of furniture and ex-prisoner guys moving it around so they also can get work references. Trustworthy non-profit.
As others have said, destroying (or simply not using) the card is a win for Mike Lindell. He’s already received the money from your sister. If you don’t use the card, it becomes pure profit for him.
The best course is to either donate the card directly or use it to buy something which you donate to a good cause. This will funnel some portion of the money away from Lindell and towards a good cause.
It’s interesting how apt a metaphor this situation is for the right wing movement. Mike Lindell didn’t take any of your money. It was your sister, a conservative, who sent him some of her money. She was willing to give money to Mike Lindell in order to attack your beliefs. She’s the only one who came out behind in this whole situation but she thinks she won.
Or, you know, just get the damned pillow and enjoy it. My wife bought me one of those a few years ago, and it’s the best piloow I’ve had in a long time. And thank the person who gave you the gift certificate, because it was, you know, a gift. Talk of getting back at her for the crime of not being like you seems… churlish.
Besides, if I were to stop buying things made by people whose views differ from mine, I’d have to start with all those cheap Chinese goods I love, because a lot of them are made with forced labor and sold by communists. The owner of MyPillow isn’t even remotely comparable to Apple and Google, who have many of their parts made in slave labor camps in China, and who have helped China build its state panopticon for controlling its citizens.
So start tossing those phones, or maybe stop trying to inflict politics on everything.
The OP asked. We answered.
By the way, did you create your post with any device with even a single component created with said purported slave labor?
If so, toss it out the window. You’re now limited to dead tree newspapers tossed onto your porch by child labor on foot.
I say donate it along with an address and letter of support to the Mormons
Just buy a pillow and sleep on it.
After ten or so years the ravages of old age will deal with the pillow far more cruelly than you ever could.
You don’t know my sister, but of course I thanked her and I love her very much. I will enjoy my gift by donating it to Goodwill.
I think donating the equivalent value to a local woman’s shelter in her name for her upcoming birthday is a beautiful idea.
It’s called “the market’s power to regulate companies who step out of the mainstream of moral or social views”, Sam. You may have heard of some of the people who claim to be in favor of that.
He’s a raging Trumpanzee. He was spotted going into the White House a few days ago carrying notes that mentioned martial law and replacing the head of the CIA. Like Trump, he believes the election was fraudulent and that Joe Biden didn’t win it.
You’re making two different (and almost contradictory) bad arguments.
Your second paragraph is the simply the flaw of making the perfect the enemy of the good. Just because we can’t avoid giving money to bad people doesn’t mean we shouldn’t avoid it when we can. The fact that I can’t stop hunger in the entire world doesn’t mean I’m not going to help out someone who is going hungry. You do what good you can.
Your first paragraph, on the other hand, reduces the difference between the OP and their Trump supporting sister to merely “not liking their views.” It’s a common tactic to try and reduce moral differences to mere taste issues, downplaying their importance.
The OP is not refusing a gift because of mere taste issues, but because their moral values do not allow them to accept the gift in question. And the reason for the talk about those donations is that it’s likely (though not definite) that the sister was doing the exact same thing. Think about it–they got a gift certificate from a prominent Trump supporting organization. They didn’t give money or a regular gift card, or just buy an actual gift. They gave a gift that makes a point about who you support, to someone who you know does not share that support.
Sure, maybe they don’t know that MyPillow guy is such a big Trump supporter. They don’t know his contributions to the sedition situation. Maybe it’s just a shop they use and they like, so they wanted to give it to the OP.
But, if not, then they just did the exact same thing you’re saying the OP shouldn’t do. They gave money to the organization that supports Trump (who OP does not support), and then gave that as a gift to the OP. Hence the recommendation the OP give money to an organization that she does not support, and give that as a gift to her.
Since it’s a longer post, I’ll summarize. Your first paragraph minimizes morality to taste issues, and ignores that the OP can’t enjoy those pillows due to their values. And your second and subsequent posts make the perfect the enemy of the good, and would result in no one ever doing a good deed ever.
Most excellent reference.
I’m surprised so many people like the pillows. Before I’d heard anything about his political views, I’d heard a lot of complaints. That the pillows were poor quality (just cheap chopped up industrial foam), and the return policy was borderline fraudulent. It would also help their company statistics – if it’s too expensive to return, you’ll just keep it and maybe bitch about it. So, the pillows would have a high no-return rate.
claims to believe
Wait, so MyPillow Guy is a crook and a con man? That is SO disappointing! I’m shocked, and I’m going to have to re-evaluate everything I believe in!