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BOYCOTT NIKE!

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[–] 166 points 10 months ago (38 children)

Nikes are bar none the worst shoes people try to have me repair. They are made from shitty criminally overpriced plastic and foam that decomposes and falls apart in the box let alone after someone wears them

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (20 children)

    What shoes do you recommend? Looking to get a new pair soon.

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    From my point of view athletic shoes aren't really a thing that can be effectively repaired because even the nice ones use plastics that aren't easy to work with after they've been worn. I can usually do something but its sentiment that keeps them going not quality. But really the lesson I try to teach people is to not give a fuck about the name on the shoe. It vastly more important to know how a shoe is supposed to fit on your foot and that it feels comfortable long term.

    Edit: I will add a few names to avoid pretty much entirely though. Post-1988 Cole Haan (owned by Nike), Louis Vuitton and Ecco

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    To elaborate on the "go for the fit, not the name", there's a common belief that shoes need some time to break in before they feel comfortable. This is only true if you get shoes that don't really fit your foot. There's more to feet variations than just the length. I learned that the first time I got lucky and one of the few shoes I was trying on in my mad dash to get shoes and go do something else asap fit my foot properly. It immediately made me realize that I need patience when getting shoes and to never buy a shoe that doesn't feel great right away.

    If you're going for a designer shoe, I bet the odds of it perfectly fitting your foot are low, unless maybe you have the same foot type as Michael Jordan or whichever athlete's name they are putting on the shoe, assuming that athlete's foot was even part of the design at all. For all we know, they rip those shoes off as soon as the cameras aren't watching because it was purely a marketing thing.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I have a pair of redwings I've had repaired 3x over the last 14 years. They're expensive, but worth adding to the list.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    No one is cross shopping Nike sneakers and red wing boots. That's apples to oranges.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Lemmy try not to give incredibly out of touch fashion advice challenge: impossible

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    About once every few weeks, I'll go visit my local blacksmith and he'll nail a new pair of pair of shoes right on to my giant toenail. Or maybe he repairs the old ones. I'm not too sure, he doesn't really tell me much. He just stands in places that make it really hard to kick him, and I only really wanted to do that the first time because I thought he was trying to steal my feet.

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  • [+] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    How does Puma rate in comparison?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Huh, I would have never thought to ask about most mass produced shoes. I guess my redwing boots are fairly mass produced, and ive gotten those resolved, but even my merril boots I dont think of as being repairable.

    I used to work as a bike mechanic in my teens, and it was pretty standard for shops to have a 'no department store' policy for repairs. We'd chance a tube, but trying true a wheel, or properly set breaks and gear on those soft metal, low presicision components just wasnt worth it.

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    [–] 60 points 10 months ago

    I can't boycott no harder, we haven't purchased a name brand in weeks!

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  • [–] 58 points 10 months ago

    Oh look, yet another example of why we should tax wealth and not work.

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  • [–] 55 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Republican are the ones that burned Nikes for sponsoring Colin Kaepernick....

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Imagine how many copies this sold

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Like, four?

    They’re not well known for buying books.

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    [+] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)
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    [–] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    He sells a running shoe. A shoe folks. Now he thinks he has the ability to shape the worlds future because of all the money he made exploiting the producers of the shoes and gouging the customers of the shoe. What a fucking stretch. What is with these "too much money" guys?

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago

    "a guy who exploits vulnerable workers in 3rd world countries to sell boujee sports wear to Americans makes a truly outrageous donation to ensure he can further inflict harm on the world without having to pay his fair share."

    Fixed the headline

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    [–] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Why are old republicans so fucking weird looking.

    While Knight is generally reluctant to give interviews, he spoke with the New York Times in October 2022 regarding his support for Republican candidates. He argued Oregon's government had drifted too far to the left and described himself as "more conservative than Nike," responding to criticism of him backing an anti-abortion candidate which apparently contrasted with the company's image of supporting progressive social justice causes.[109] Nike itself donated $75,000 to Drazan and Johnson's Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek, the eventual winner of the election. - WIKIPEDIA

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Not just the old ones, many of them in the administration look super strange with even weirder views.

    One looks like they fought a lawnmower at a barbershop and lost, another looks like a fanfic witch from The Matrix, several of them look like cast members from The Witch (movie), others have...odd features that make them look like WW2 villains or slightly methed out. And all of them are batshit insane.

    You can't even find people like that in a big city.

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  • Of course a sweat-shop owner is a republican.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Because otherwise there would be a small risk that money would go to taxes instead and help people who need it.

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    [–] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    This is exactly why we shouldn't have billionaires. It's literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what's left but to spend it on manipulating other people.

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    After the recent election? You can kiss that fucking money goodbye. Have fun losing big.

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    [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    What a piece of shit

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    [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (12 children)

    Psssttt....Nike replicas are so good now that they sometimes use medical scanning devices to try to tell them apart. They look identical down to the correct boxes, security tags, etc...

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Again

    Prohibit billionaires

    Cap all netwoths at 10-20 million dollars per person, tops.

    Companies should not be worth more than 1 billion dollars, cap it.

    Anything over that has automatically 100% go to taxes

    Well end up with -instead of one trillion dollar compant- tens of thousands of centillion dollar worth companies, you know, those that aren't too big to fail and that won't need bailouts

    Well end up with a government that gets so much tax income that it can afford free education, free healthcare, hell, UBI even.

    Noone will be super rich and or powerful ever again, no one will be able to usurp all resources for themselves.

    Humanity spent 2000 years on perfecting the "0.1% must get as Uber rich as possible" and we got it down to an art to concentrate as much wealth as possible with as little people as possible. It is NOT normal, it is NOT acceptable, ajf it has to stop NOW! It's destroying our world, literally, as these assholes are the main drivers behind climate change.

    Here I am making sure to use as little water as possible and all of my life long work gets thrown into he garbage because miss multimillionaire needs to do grocery shopping with her fucking private jet.

    While on this bandwagon, ban all private jets, even for politicians. Maybe maybe we can keep a few as a sort of air ambulance or something z that should be fine, but all the rest, BAN IT. Same for theega yachts, outright world wide ban.

    It is bizarre to me that most people just act as if all this is perfectly fine and acceptable. There is no right, no reason why anyone should have a higher net worth than (say) 10 million, so why do we allow this to happen in the first place?

    Haven't we learned anything?

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Got it. Brand is dead to me.

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    [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    Wow fuck that guy

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    MFW I don't buy Nike shit anyway

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    In a shocking turn of events, a business executive is scum.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Evil really makes you look like a corroded ballsack

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Bruh, I remember a few years ago (before covid) in my deep blue city public school, kids would make fun of you if your wear shoes that aren't nikes, especially like no name brand shoes or even sketchers.

    Like wtf. Its highschool, so immature...

    Some kids even got "designer" shoes or whatever for $500-$1000, like... the fuck?!?

    Its shoes... 🤦‍♂️

    Ugh, kids these days.

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    [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    Fuck him. I have not and never will support his brand.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Wow.

    What an utter piece of human garbage who's doing what he can at the end of his privileged life to harm others.

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