McDonald's didn't reject it, the consumer base rejected it.
I see the same thing in grocery stores all the time. Full shelves of plant based meat products that no one is buying.

It's time to admit this experiment has been a complete failure.

Out of interest - what were the insurance fees like for their EVs?
I've found these prices often aren't advertised and only viewable when you pick up your car.

Carbon emissions are by far the largest part of any industrial company's ESG score. A good ESG score will get you improved terms in financing - as much as 1% off on borrower interest rates. With slim margins this can make the difference of your company being competitive or non-competitive.

With a bad ESG rating financial institutions will stop financing your operations altogether.

It is not just a few radical investors. The ESG investor movement is led by Blackrock (under CEO Larry Fink) and Vanguard which are two of the largest fund management groups on the planet.

They don't even need to 'apply pressure'. Those pushing the climatism agenda seem to focus almost exclusively on western countries when it comes to castigation and punitive regulation.

One could wonder the reasons...but that's none of my business [sips tea].

Their guardrails have pushed the diversity and inclusion narrative so hard it is now indistinguishable from the great replacement conspiracy theory. One would think they would turn it down a bit but then this is 2024.

Or maybe it's just a smart way to get free advertising (cost of one car for articles in every major news site) and brand recognition.

7 minutes between the original post and the conversation hitting 'Nazis'.
You're really pushing Godwin's law into overdrive.

I thought in America you could just take stuff if the value was less than $999 without any repercussions. Has this changed?

Blackrock (Larry Fink) and Vanguard are the two largest proponents of this practice. They are also the two largest shareholders of Disney.

This means there is now a financial incentive for Disney, and pretty much every other company, to 'go woke'.
I mean just look at Strange World and tell me this was organically created to sell tickets...

Companies are now doing a balancing act between securing investment/finance and actually making product that sells.

It's been gimped pretty hard.

No point asking it anything remotely controversial.
Even for tasty facts that are utterly incontrovertible it constantly adds paragraphs of unasked for contextualization and framing to mitigate the 'wrong' interpretation.

I agree that stating, as fact, that it was a lab leak is a mistake. Stating that anyone who believes this is an anti-semite or nazi is far worse and shuts down any meaningful debate or discourse.

Citation of this evidence? The FBI and the Dept. of Energy both support lab leak as the most likely source. Are they just a bunch of crazy extremists?

You can't even make it through one post before jumping right back to calling people nazis and Russians. To top it off you add an accusation I'm a paid troll and for some reason will have trouble breathing through some future pandemic?

Take a deep breath and touch grass my friend.

Suggesting that a lab may have accidentally leaked a virus is not a conspiracy theory. It just suggests human error is always a possibility. This is not an extremist concept.

Nothing about the lab leak hypothesis is even political until you make it political by calling one group nazis.

You have equated the idea that the origin of covid was probably from a lab with believing in lizard people... And then jumped straight to anti-semitism and comparing people to nazis. Then you go on to tell the poster he supports 'horrifying positions' and 'extremist lunatics'.

Is this really how you conduct yourself?

It's interesting how fast the creators are able to keep patching it (every 8 hours or so?) to prevent it circumventing the safe guards.
Makes me wonder how many resources they allocate to policing the 'correct' information that can be distributed.