I'll never buy a John Deere. Fuck em. I'll buy Kubota or New Holland as my dad did before I ever give them a dime.

lol, this is base obeisance in hopes that their target demographic will forget how hard and long they fought to keep their tractors illegal to repair outside authorized dealers.

No right to repair their PR decisions.

Back tracking on DEI initiatives seemed to work out well for Tractor Supply Co. Let's see how it works out for actual tractors.

Bullied for supporting people’s beliefs.

Already fucked up with the right to repair bullshit

Shit goes down when there’s solar flares

Smells like rotting meat if you ask me

"nothing runs like a deere"

running like a little pussy-ass biiiiiiiiiiitch~

John "You Gonna Use Someone Else, Sucker?" Deere

I'm a lot more surprised they had any of these programs in the first place.

They're also about to make massive layoffs (many employees report not knowing whether they're on the list for next Wednesday (IIRC)), so they apparently aren't doing well as a going concern. I don't know whether there's any connection beyond close timing.

Moline, Illinois-based John Deere added “the existence of diversity quotas ...

Yeah, because those are illegal.

... and pronoun identification have never been and are not company policy.”

@Nougat@fedia.io thinks that never using pronouns to refer to other people (or in reference to @Nougat@fedia.io's self) in any context is silly.