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Oriental Redneck |
I don't know who is us and we, but I was never a "like" for this company. Q | |||
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Not sure how someone coming up with a "supposedly" funny mishmash "guns and coffee" logo equals support of Starbucks. I see it as no different than the "Major League Door Kicker" logo...doesn't necessarily mean anyone who likes that supports, or even likes, Major League Baseball. Just a pop-culture riff on a popular logo, a lot of the humor is the juxtaposition of guns and that logo...not unlike "Kalashnikitty", doesn't mean everyone who thinks that is funny supports Sanrio Enterprises in Japan. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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| Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock  |
August 2013: "I Love Guns And Coffee" is Bringing Firearms to a Starbucks Near You By Alexandra Cardinale Aug 9, 2013 In an enthusiastic and politically-volatile show of support, gun owners across America plan to go armed into Starbucks coffee shops and buy their coffee as part of an "I Love Guns and Coffee" campaign. People plan on taking a moment of appreciation for the coffee company giant since it allows customers to pack heat when it accords with state law. This is particularly in response to an earlier event where a group of coffee-going gun owners were asked to leave a coffee shop when it was discovered that they were holding weapons, even though they were legally entitled to carry firearms. They later went to Starbucks who allowed them into the building and to have their drinks without any trouble. Following this back-and-forth, multiple anti-gun groups including the Brady Campaign, the nationwide advocacy group supporting handgun control, asked the company to change their policies towards gun owners. In response, Starbucks stated that they did not intent to be involved in this political affair, and since it was all legal activity, continued to conduct business as per usual. ---snip--- I'm sure with enough google-fu, someone could find the original incident. I don't drink coffee, so I have no-skin-in-the-game anyway. Just bringing up the past. James ---------------------------- "Voldemorte himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!" Book 6 - Ch 23 | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
It was a few years ago that anti-gun protestors were planning to boycott Starbucks, so many of us, even those who were normally not Starbucks customers, went to Starbucks that day and paid with two-dollar bills. The two-dollar bills symbolized our support for the Second Amendment. I had gone to the bank prior to that day, and I got a fistful of two-dollar bills, some of which I used at Starbucks. I still have a few left. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Sad. If some millennial would have walked in with a woke shirt the workers would trip over themselves to get them a cup of their overpriced crap. I don’t do business with that place, make my own coffee at home, and if I want coffee on the road I’ll find a Dunkin shop or macdeez. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I prefer McD coffee. And their staff treat everyone like shit, not just cops. Pro tip-pay with plastic. They can't really make change. | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Yeah, I really believe that starbucks will actually conduct and investigation. Like I believe in the tooth fairy. I have drunk coffee in several West European countries, East Germany, several middle east countries, not to mention dozens of airliners, military mess halls, etc. Starbucks has to be the worst coffee on the planet. Even if it were decent, I would not drink it simply because of their asinine actions. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Mickey D's! Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Nosce te ipsum |
Time for a huge class action suit. Does American want or need a huge coffee chain, with their networked weenie politics? Or sue them into oblivion? | |||
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Irksome Whirling Dervish |
Sue them for what? Who are the members of the class and how are members defined? Civil rights? There's no civil rights violation by treating people in uniform like crap. Horrible business decision but not civil rights. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Yep. "Cop" is not a protected class. Just like "gun owner" is not a protected class. Or "conservative" is not a protected class. Federal civil rights violations only apply to discrimination based on specific things like race, sex, religion, age, disability, and veteran status. | |||
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| Nosce te ipsum |
Discrimination. You can be sued for anything in America. If LEOs, as a "class", are being treated differently across the country within SB's, in a detrimental fashion, it seems there is a case for discrimination. | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
True, but you cannot be successfully sued for anything. A suit for discriminating against a non-protected class would not last long. | |||
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Political Cynic |
next time there is a 'service' call to a SB, the cops should show up carrying coffee from DD [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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| Irksome Whirling Dervish |
What kind of discrimination? Uniform discrimination? So if the same person is delayed service while out of umiform is that a form of whatever discrimination you're contemplating? There is no civil rights violation for uniform wear. Period. | |||
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I don't get why "employees" do this. It is not their company, they just work there. Protest in your own time. If you own your own company, then go ahead and reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. If they get into some sort of trouble, who are they gonna call, certainly not the ghostbusters. | |||
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safe & sound |
Can you imagine all of the lawsuits from those in professions that feel discriminated against? Want to have a used car salesman class action? Lawyer class action? Door to door steak salesman class action?
The same reason employees engage in all other sorts of shenanigans. And that's generally exactly why they're employees and not owners. | |||
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I know there was a Huck Finn on Cicero that was a notorious cop and fed hangout. That location is maybe to far south for you.Thread drift , have a detective friend who took the s. Test, she said the process has changed since Eddie got the boot! | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
I'd prefer a place were I can pour my own cup, nobody messing with it behind a counter, that's why WaWa is appealing, for an employee to mess with an officers drink they'd be messing with everyones drink, and it' out in the open with a half dozen blends. Plus every once in a while they have Buck a Cupa Joe day, all sizes one buckareno.... | |||
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Can't do. McDonalds coffee tastes burnt to me. Like char broiled burnt. MIDWEST GUY- I have a Huck Finn on Pulaski, and the one on Archer isn't too far out of my Dist, There's a "Mom & Pop" coffee shop on Archer that I'm gonna hit today. No problems with family owned businesses, especially in that area. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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