Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts

The "anti-woke online marketplace": https://www.publicsquare.com/blog/culture/parallel-economy-meaning
Hahahahaha. That’s hilarious and a good idea. Since it seems you have to pay to be put on this site, you know they’re genuine entries.
Sounds more like a scam to bilk their base out of even more money, which is on-point.
Reminds me of an old scam where you got a letter saying you were one of the smartest people in the country, and they wanted to include you in their book of smartest people. Except you had to pay and buy a copy of the book to be included.
(Something like that, anyway. If anyone recalls the details more clearly, please share).
So many times I’ve thought fuck it, why don’t I get in on the grifting? Damn conscience getting in the way of potential riches.
The whole vanity publishing industry works like that. Yes, there is such an industry. There's a highly accurate, slightly satiric and utterly confusing book about it, named "Il pendolo de Foucault" by Umberto Eco. (Probably something like "Foucault's Pendulum" in English). If it weren't that excessively long and the plot less complex I'd highly recommend it.
Who’ who
This was the one we would get in the mail once every couple of years. They come and go under different ownership, but it will never die for human vanity is a renewable resource.
I used to get letters from Who's Who among American High School Students. Wikipedia has a write-up about that category of questionable practice.
I've used similarly-titled books from the late 1800s/early 1900s for research, but nowadays we have the Internet.
This happened with my sister and I think it was for poetry. At least, the version of it my parents fell for was for poetry writing. They might have run this scam for any number of things for all I know