• frickineh@lemmy.world
    146·
    9 months ago

    Anyone who genuinely loves sneakers is gonna look at those tacky pieces of shit and pass immediately.

      • Finalsolo963
        11·
        9 months ago

        I mean, yeah, if I I were into collecting sneakers and had the money, I’d totally do it for the meme.

        Maybe auction them off once they sell out and donate the proceeds to some lgbt/minority/feminist org?

        I mean, fuck it, most revenue he’s going to make off of them was around half a mil anyway iirc.

        • Bipta@kbin.social
          80·
          9 months ago

          What good is auctioning them off to help people’s rights when you help Hitler 2 ascend to crush all people’s rights?

          Your comment is disappointing as hell to read.

          • Finalsolo963
            1·
            9 months ago

            I was operating off of the (now shown to be correct) assumption that they would sell out anyway because he has enough braindead followers to buy up the limited quantity of sneakers, and/or the whole thing is a scam to bypass some campaign finance law or another, and the actual impact of the decisiontof an individual to buy them would be negligible.

  • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
    87·
    9 months ago

    As Newsweek points out, the “Never Surrender High-Tops” are shiny gold high tops with an American flag on the back, and have since sold out on the website they were promoted on.

    Two words Money Laundering

    • You999@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      9 months ago

      Wouldn’t that be a pretty terrible way of laundering money though since inventory and sales are pretty easy to verify? Like how would one inject dirty money that would wouldn’t be blantly obvious?

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
        11·
        9 months ago

        You overpay for a trash product not because you’re willing to buy the product at that price, because you believe that is what it is worth, but because an investigator can’t prove you were just doing it to transfer funds.

        For another example, all these political talking heads pumping out a ghost written book no one will read that sell out immediately and make the best seller list because a PAC buys all the copies.

        I don’t think that’s what’s happening here though. A thousand sneakers at $400 isn’t hard math, and while that’s a lot of money on a personal level it’s nothing to a man that just ate a $300 million fraud judgement.

      • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Nice try FBI, but you’re not getting me to confess.

        All kidding aside. Everything Trump does is the terrible way of doing things.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    20·
    9 months ago

    Why isn’t he marketing to us Jews? I want two-for-the-price-of-one pennies!

    When I see how many of my relatives are actually considering voting for this monster, the question answers itself. I’m simply stunned seeing Jews defend a man who openly supports Hitler.

    • kaitco@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      Well, the shoes are gold, so I think they were doing their best to appeal.

      And, I’ve got a cousin who is amped for Trump and calls Musk a genius (I’m black, so it hurts even more).

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        4·
        9 months ago

        You’re not wrong. I can’t help but imagine myself singing “If I Were a Rich Man” in those shoes.

        Just like I assume you can’t stop wanting to watch The Wiz while wearing them. Or, you know, whatever is Fiddler on the Roof for black people.

        In case it needs to be said: sooooooooo much /s

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 months ago

      Don’t feel bad. Unless you’re trump or ivanka, he has no loyalty, so anyone voting for trump is having the leopard eat their face.

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        Look, I’m all for people feeding their faces to leopards. The problem is that they leave their freaking front door open and then their leopard starts eating everyone’s face in the neighborhood. Some people just aren’t happy until the leopards have nothing left to feed on.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      They look like they got taken out of a time capsule from the 80’s. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see Kid and/or Play rocking something like that back in the day.