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> Cancel culture is pretty interesting.

What does "Cancel Culture" mean to you?

To me, cancel culture is a behavior where individuals, countries or corporations decide to cut ties or refuse to do business with other individuals, countries, or corporations, usually informed by some popular opinion. It's a form of collective action.

The popular opinion doesn't even need to be correct, it just needs strong emotional appeal that motivates people to cancel.

You might be looking for the word "boycott", like old people used to call it.

You're probably right that the country "USA" doesn't get "sanctioned" much since they're the super power. Instead they use their power to punish other 'bad' performers. That said, Russia's government is totally worth 'cancelling' right now. Maybe the USA should have gotten some more push back for their failed wars, but Russia sure deserves it for this war; it's even more egregious than Iraq/Afghanistan.

And what would be an example of a non-cancel culture, going by your definition?

I think you've got too big a bucket for cancel culture.

I find it hilarious that you consider, "companies stopping their Russian operations due to economic sanctions since they started a literal war" and "haha Russia is canceled" are even remotely the same thing.

Like you think in our capitalist hellscape that Coca-Cola virtue signaling "we don't like Russia, amiright?" is worth the billions in revenue they're gonna miss from this?

It doesn't mention anywhere in the press release that Coca Cola was forced to pull out of Russia due to sanctions. This makes it seem like a voluntary action.

It IS virtue signalling. KFC and Pizza Hut have decided to continue their operations in Russia. If it was "because of sanctions", they would have pulled out too.

> KFC and Pizza Hut

Yum! Foods, aka Pepsi

That was 25 years ago. Yum is it's own independent public company now.

So is Alphabet. They're still Google.

Same as those brands are still PepsiCo.

Alphabet wholly owns Google, it's subsidiary. Yum is no longer a subsidiary of PepsiCo as of 25 years ago. PepsiCo divested their entire stake. They just have a lifelong contract to supply the restaurants with beverages. Yum operates independently and according to it's shareholders, doing what's best for its own business even if it comes at the expense of PepsiCo. They have no other relation for almost 3 decades.

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