Levi Strauss Joins In Anti-Gun Nonsense

[Chucktshoes]

2 hours ago, DaveTN said:

Breaker Breaker one nine, Chucktshoes, got your Calvin Klein’s on?

Of course. I mean after all, nothing comes between me and my Calvin’s. 

[Ronald_55]

14 minutes ago, Chucktshoes said:

Of course. I mean after all, nothing comes between me and my Calvin’s. 

Waaaaaaay too much info......

Now we call you Commando Chuck....

Edited September 6, 2018 by Ronald_55

[Chucktshoes]

10 minutes ago, Ronald_55 said:

Waaaaaaay too much info......

Now we call you Commando Chuck....

this reminds me of a story. I had a trainee who was a bigger dude and he always wore sweats and much to my dismay went commando. This wasn’t information I sought out, but anyone who watched him get out of a truck was aware of this fact. Driving all day tends to make one’s butt sweat, a lot. One day I had to have an uncomfortable conversation with him about the need to go buy some cotton undies because he getting his ass sweat all over my damn seats. He was either going to fix that issue or I was going to fix it by leaving him on the side of the road. 

[res308]

6 hours ago, DaveTN said:

Breaker Breaker one nine, Chucktshoes, got your Calvin Klein’s on?

Hey ten four on the skinny kleins n penny loafers. Hittin the big road with no socks n shiny side up n I'm out. C'mon back

[martin5]

I wear mostly dickies cargo pants or bdu's sometimes Levi's. I drive a Peterbilt and a dodge truck. No skinny jeans for this fat a**

[Chucktshoes]

The current state of affairs. 

[Moped]

5 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:

The current state of affairs. 

At least you don't wear yoga pants... right?

[Chucktshoes]

1 minute ago, Moped said:

At least you don't wear yoga pants... right?

Even I have my limits. 

[Erik88]

5 minutes ago, Moped said:

At least you don't wear yoga pants... right?

Yoga pants are my favorite invention of all time. 

[Moped]

Just now, Erik88 said:

Yoga pants are my favorite invention of all time. 

Only when they are on shapely women!

 

[deerslayer]

I'm no fashionista, but GAP 34/32 non-skinny jeans work quite well with an inside-the-waistband holster.  

[Garufa]

I stopped buying Levi’s after discovering the Academy Magellan brand jeans.  Superior in every way and half the price....$17.99 last pairs I bought.

Edited September 7, 2018 by Garufa

[Fourtyfive]

Sears Huskey’s, that’s the real man jean. 

[Garufa]

15 minutes ago, Fourtyfive said:

Sears Huskey’s, that’s the real man jean. 

I’ve gone a long time without having to think back to my tubby-ass fifth grade days and having to wear those awful things when all cool kids were wearing Levi’s with bell bottoms that covered the feet.  Thanks for the memory, not.

[Ronald_55]

2 minutes ago, Garufa said:

I’ve gone a long time without having to think back to my tubby-ass fifth grade days and having to wear those awful things when all cool kids were wearing Levi’s with bell bottoms that covered the feet.  Thanks for the memory, not.

Never think you had it the worst. About the same age my Mom bought me 5 sweatsuits to wear to school. The sweatshirts and pants matched in color. Maroon, forest green, red, navy, and black. They were not even the elastic waist type, these had strings. I had to constantly keep pulling them up. I pretty much resembled a fat blob of a single color. I wore those from the fall all the way until it was too hot to in the summer. 

[diamondback]

I always preferred wranglers anyway. 

[volshayes]

Just in case you didn't know, that would include no Dockers, too.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20181019/for-levi-s-freedom-isn-t-fashionable

For Levi’s, Freedom isn’t Fashionable

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Americans eager to take political direction from a multinational pants manufacturer were in luck this week. On Tuesday, PRWeek, a public relations trade publication, published an interview with Levi Strauss & Co. Chief Communications Officer Kelly McGinnis and Everytown for Gun Safety Public Affairs Director Stacey Radnor. The interview shed further light on the apparel giant’s partnership with billionaire gun control financier Michael Bloomberg’s front group and their well-choreographed efforts to attack Americans’ right to keep and bear arms.

Last month, the NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert drew attention to Levi’s (which also owns Dockers) decision to abandon its rugged all-American image by donating more that $1 million to gun control groups Everytown and Giffords (formerly Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Legal Community Against Violence). In addition to its financial contribution, the company joined the Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety, whose stated goal is to use member companies’ “market footprint… employee networks, [and] public communications platforms” to advance Bloomberg’s gun control agenda.

In the PRWeek interview, McGinnis framed the San Francisco-based company’s participation in the gun debate in moralistic terms. According to America’s new self-appointed moral arbiter, Everytown’s efforts to restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans “squared with [Levi’s] core values of empathy, courage, integrity, and originality.”

McGinnis also linked the company’s attack on a cherished American freedom to the firm’s increasing emphasis on the global, rather than American, marketplace. The Levi’s flack told PRWeek, “our consumers are getting younger and more than half our business is outside the U.S., and this issue is not controversial with those groups.”

The piece also detailed the highly-choreographed nature of Levi’s latest foray into gun control. When asked by PRWeek, “What did you learn from advocacy groups?,” McGinnis explained that the gun control organizations worked with Levi’s on how best to manipulate their target audience. McGinnis stated,

Messaging, and that the sensitivity of every word matters, understanding how people read between the lines and take every word literally. Understanding how language has been used on the issue for decades and the signals related to word choices…. We had to be inclusive, understanding, and deliberate about how we channeled our support.

In praising Levi’s support for gun control, Radnor told PRWeek, “Levi’s sent a clear message that it’s not acceptable to stand idly by, there’s significant momentum on the issue of gun safety, and we can all be part of the solution.”

Despite Radnor’s enthusiasm for the purported “momentum” around gun control, Levi’s should know that the politics of gun control is a bit like their own industry. Support for gun control and the various policy prescriptions offered by civilian disarmament advocates, much like fashion trends, go in and out of style.

For instance, shortly after the high-profile shooting in Parkland, Fla., interest in gun control spiked. A Gallup pollfrom March found that 13 percent of Americans considered guns and gun control to be the most important problem facing America. Proving that gun control is so last season, by September the fad was over and interest had dropped to 2 percent.

Gun control advocates’ current obsession is with enacting a ban on the commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms they mislabel “assault weapons.” Berg expressed his support for a semi-auto ban in a September op-ed. According to Gallup polling, support for a ban spiked to 48 percent in 2017 following a high-profile shooting. Polling from October shows that current support for a ban is back down to 40 percent, near its all-time low. Moreover, the unmistakable trend since 1996 shows that Americans are increasingly finding such bans passé.

A total ban on civilian ownership of handguns was quite stylish last century, with support measured at a high of 60 percent in 1959. Today, publicly supporting a handgun ban is a faux pas, with support for the measure at 28 percent.

Levi’s own relative indifference to gun control from the early 2000s to 2016 coincided with a period in which the Democratic Party found the entire issue unfashionable.

Interest in gun control and its different policy interventions comes and goes, as does the ever-changing assortment of anti-gun groups supporting them. In contrast, NRA and our grassroots coalition of gun rights supporters work year in and year out towards a broad but simple goal: protecting Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. These potential customers will remember Levi’s actions long after the current orgy of corporate virtue-signaling fades. Freedom is timeless, it’s always in style.

 

[Garufa]

1 hour ago, volshayes said:

Just in case you didn't know, that would include no Dockers

Are Dockers still a thing?  

[volshayes]

5 hours ago, Garufa said:

Are Dockers still a thing?  

When you're old as I am everything is still a thing.  You don't care what people think about what you wear anymore.  Whatever it is will eventually come back in style and then you'll be groovy again.

[Omega]

Well, this anti-gunner corporation has gone all in.  These companies need to be put in their place.  They social warriors take over decent companies and turn them against half their customers, WTH? 

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/levi-strauss-end-gun-violence/WS

 

Levi Strauss CEO Goes Full Anti-Gun, Paying Employees to ‘Volunteer’ for Gun-Control Organizations

by JORDAN MICHAELS on SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh bravely took a stance this week against the “gun violence epidemic.” (Photo: Levi Strauss)

In the best attempt to date to unseat Edward Stack as the nation’s Virtue Signaler in Chief, Levi Strauss’s CEO Chip Bergh bravely announced this week his company’s support of “youth activists” working to end the “gun violence epidemic” in America and encouraged other “business leaders” to do the same.

“As business leaders with power in the public and political arenas, we simply cannot stand by silently when it comes to the issues that threaten the very fabric of the communities where we live and work,” he said in a recent op-ed published by Fortune. “While taking a stand can be unpopular with some, doing nothing is no longer an option.”

Naming his brand among the “pioneers of the American West” and the “great symbols of American freedom,” Bergh outlines three ways he’s hoping to restrict the constitutional rights of his fellow Americans.

First, he plans to establish the Safer Tomorrow Fund, which will dole out $1 million in “philanthropic grants” to “nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence in America.”

Next, Bergh and his company will join Everytown for Gun Safety’s new Business Leaders for Gun Safety coalition. Roughly paraphrasing Everytown’s website, this group is working to join banks and other businesses doing their darndest to bankrupt gun companies and marginalize gun owners.

Finally, Bergh hopes to incentivize his employees to join him in his righteous crusade. Levi Strauss will double its usual employee donation match to anti-gun organizations and pay employees for sixty working hours per year (5 hours per month) to volunteer for the same organizations.

“We’re encouraging our employees to use their time to make an impact,” he said.

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We are stepping up our support for gun violence prevention in multiple ways. 

 

Bergh assures his readers he doesn’t want to repeal the Second Amendment or suggest that gun owners aren’t responsible. He’s a former Army officer, after all, and he took an oath to support and defend the Constitution.

Those constitutional rights don’t apply to everyone, of course. Bergh quotes retired four-star general Michael Hayden, who said in a promotional piece for the Giffords Center that “some people… should never have access to any weapons.”

In a dramatic conclusion, Bergh explains that Levi Strauss has “never been afraid to take an unpopular stand to support a greater good,” highlighting his company’s support for integration before the Civil Rights Act and for same-sex couples all the way back in the 1990s.

“While each one of these stands may have been controversial at the time, history proved the company right in the long run,” he says, courageously. “And I’m convinced that while some will disagree with our stand to end gun violence, history will prove this position right too.”

Levi Strauss may have been at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement, but they’re hardly the first company to take a stand against Guns: The Great American Evil. Following the Parkland massacre, a variety of companies, including Walmart, Bank of America, Shopify, and Dick’s Sporting Goods, announced policies designed to curb the Second Amendment rights of their customers and business partners.

Edited March 9, 2019 by Omega
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[jpx2rk]

20 minutes ago, Omega said:

Well, this anti-gunner corporation has gone all in.  These companies need to be put in their place.  They social warriors take over decent companies and turn them against half their customers, WTH? 

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/levi-strauss-end-gun-violence/WS

 

Levi Strauss CEO Goes Full Anti-Gun, Paying Employees to ‘Volunteer’ for Gun-Control Organizations

by JORDAN MICHAELS on SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh bravely took a stance this week against the “gun violence epidemic.” (Photo: Levi Strauss)

In the best attempt to date to unseat Edward Stack as the nation’s Virtue Signaler in Chief, Levi Strauss’s CEO Chip Bergh bravely announced this week his company’s support of “youth activists” working to end the “gun violence epidemic” in America and encouraged other “business leaders” to do the same.

“As business leaders with power in the public and political arenas, we simply cannot stand by silently when it comes to the issues that threaten the very fabric of the communities where we live and work,” he said in a recent op-ed published by Fortune. “While taking a stand can be unpopular with some, doing nothing is no longer an option.”

Naming his brand among the “pioneers of the American West” and the “great symbols of American freedom,” Bergh outlines three ways he’s hoping to restrict the constitutional rights of his fellow Americans.

First, he plans to establish the Safer Tomorrow Fund, which will dole out $1 million in “philanthropic grants” to “nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence in America.”

Next, Bergh and his company will join Everytown for Gun Safety’s new Business Leaders for Gun Safety coalition. Roughly paraphrasing Everytown’s website, this group is working to join banks and other businesses doing their darndest to bankrupt gun companies and marginalize gun owners.

Finally, Bergh hopes to incentivize his employees to join him in his righteous crusade. Levi Strauss will double its usual employee donation match to anti-gun organizations and pay employees for sixty working hours per year (5 hours per month) to volunteer for the same organizations.

“We’re encouraging our employees to use their time to make an impact,” he said.

View image on Twitter

We are stepping up our support for gun violence prevention in multiple ways. 

 

Bergh assures his readers he doesn’t want to repeal the Second Amendment or suggest that gun owners aren’t responsible. He’s a former Army officer, after all, and he took an oath to support and defend the Constitution.

Those constitutional rights don’t apply to everyone, of course. Bergh quotes retired four-star general Michael Hayden, who said in a promotional piece for the Giffords Center that “some people… should never have access to any weapons.”

In a dramatic conclusion, Bergh explains that Levi Strauss has “never been afraid to take an unpopular stand to support a greater good,” highlighting his company’s support for integration before the Civil Rights Act and for same-sex couples all the way back in the 1990s.

“While each one of these stands may have been controversial at the time, history proved the company right in the long run,” he says, courageously. “And I’m convinced that while some will disagree with our stand to end gun violence, history will prove this position right too.”

Levi Strauss may have been at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement, but they’re hardly the first company to take a stand against Guns: The Great American Evil. Following the Parkland massacre, a variety of companies, including Walmart, Bank of America, Shopify, and Dick’s Sporting Goods, announced policies designed to curb the Second Amendment rights of their customers and business partners.

Sounds like a business plan to capture the attention of future buyers of their products.  If all the young snowflakes keeping shooting each other, they won't have any customers to buy their products.  JMO

[OLDNEWBIE]

Hard to avoid all the anti-gun corporation sellouts but Levi's and dockers I can avoid. Never been a label minded consumer anyway. Wranglers are cheaper and do the job as well as other no-names.

These unicorn and fairydust utopian anti-gun.......Make me want to vomit

Edited March 9, 2019 by OLDNEWBIE

[Grunt67]

On 9/5/2018 at 1:28 PM, Omega said:

I used to buy Levis, but they became overpriced and jumped into the modern bandwagon with the styles.  I usually get Wranglers or Lee jeans now, and those I get when on sale.  Another company which feels they can come out ahead, personally I don't think this will help their sales slump.

Same here. Totally agree. I use Wrangler, sometimes Rustler. I rarely ever participate in a fashion show anyway, LOL

[hipower]

Members Mark from Sam's Club. Yeah, probably from China. But at around 14 bucks a pair, and good sturdy material. Wearing them now. They wash out nicely. Has a good feel to them.

[Moped]

Rural King for me.  Like $9 a pair. Been pretty good so far. Phsst to fashion.