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[dherblay]

Yesterday's icon made me expand my wishlist. Making complex animations would go a lot easier if only I had my own East Asian sweatshop. After all, the producers of Futurama have their Korean animators, and they're able to get forty-five frames of a scene; by myself, I can manage only twenty-two. Yes, I definitely will be looking into this unfair

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[cwx]

But for some reason, it is extremely popular among pretentious undergrad and grad students to "take a stand" against Wal-Mart for those exact reasons, and then proclaim that "Target is great," therefore basically leaving the vague impression that Target must be different but never explicitly saying that it is. The result of this ends up being slightly akin to that of the Wal-Mart brainwashing videos, in that I've started to decide that Target is magically better somehow. Well, I'm sure they are better than Wal-Mart but that's just not that hard to do.

[dherblay]

I think, I think, that a boycott of Wal-Mart can be justified on anti-censorship grounds, that Wal-Mart refuses to stock the lad mags and Parental Advisory stickered CDs that Target gladly sells, but that's about the only politically salient difference. Personally, I think people should just be happy to say "Target is cleaner and has nicer stuff." That, at least, is down to what my boycott of Wal-Mart comes.

[cwx]

There are a few things I've heard that make me feel like I can say that Wal-Mart is worse about labor in a "lesser of two evils" sort of way. I know they were having people work off the clock, and they are hoping to basically crush all the real (very unionized) supermarkets eventually with their Superstores. I think in the long run Target couldn't be as much of a force for evil even if they really tried.