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[Official] Snowflake cause of the week

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by CCorn, Feb 26, 2021.

  1. CCorn

    CCorn Member

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    I don’t have time to look into it. I see the usual snowflakes crying on my Facebook feed. This time about Coca-Cola. What’s got their Trump panties in a bunch?

    @dachuda86 @bigtexxx @BobbySura69 could you enlighten me?

    @MojoMan might have a political cartoon.

    Might be a good idea to pin this thread so we can learn about what’s making them red faced in the future.
     
  2. Buck Turgidson

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    Too much good Mexican Coke being smuggled across the southern border, it's putting a financial strain on the cornsizzurp industry.
     
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  3. ThatBoyNick

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    Fixed
     
  4. SamFisher

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    Just turn on CPAC it's a festival of hypersensitive whining babies even by their normally batshit standards
     
  5. Astrodome

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    To be less white is: to be less oppressive, to be less arrogant, to be less trusting, to be less defensive, to be less ignorant, to be more humble, to listen, to believe. , break with apathy and break with white solidarity
     
  6. deb4rockets

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    Trump will save the day. Now there will be more sugar cane Coke in the USA for twice the price!

    There are always fun facts to find when you follow the money trail behind Trump's demands or policies. Here's one about one of Trump's big donors in the sugar cane industry....

    Jose Fanjul and his family own a sugar harvesting and refining empire, including a majority stake in Domino Sugar. Since the 1980s, the sugar industry has enjoyed billions of dollars in annual subsidies from the federal government, which guarantees high prices for domestic sugar. This makes sugar farming much more profitable than other kinds of farming and forces American consumers to spend twice as much for sugar compared to other countries.

    In November 2022, a subsidiary owned by the Fanjul brothers in the Dominican Republic, Central Roma, was banned from importing sugar after the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) found evidence of "the use of forced labor in its operations." In its investigation of Central Roma, the CBP found indications that the company engages in "abuse of vulnerability, isolation, withholding of wages, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime." Federal law prohibits the importation of goods produced by forced labor. Central Roma said it "disagree[d] vehemently with the decision" and hopes "to work collaboratively with CBP to resolve this matter."

    Jose Fanjul employed Chloe Hardin Black, "a long-time white nationalist and the wife of a notorious former Klan leader," as an "executive assistant." Black was married to "Don Black, a former Alabama Klan chieftain who is famous among white supremacists for his creation of Stormfront, the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world." Before that, she was married to neo-Nazi and former KKK grand wizard David Duke. (Fanjul's wife even used Black as a public relations contact for a charter school seeking to help "impoverished migrant workers and their families.") After Black's white nationalist connections received substantial attention in the national media, a spokesperson for Fanjul told the New York Post that Black "remains presently employed by the company, and that is all we're going to say." - Google Search

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    Trump administration quietly lifted ban on sugar company part-owned by South Florida family

    In 2024, the Fanjul Corp. gave a $1 million donation to Make America Great Again, a political action committee supporting Trump, as well as a $413,000 donation to the Republican National Committee

    https://www.wlrn.org/business/2025-...-on-dominican-sugar-company-over-forced-labor
     
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  7. Ottomaton

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    The funny thing is in the acidic environment of the coke bottle, the sucrose in the mexican coke breaks down to fructose and glucose in ratios very similar to HFCS in about 6 weeks.

    Mexican coke ends up at a 50%/50% ratio while HFCS is like 55% fructose 45% glucose. By the time you get your hands on mexican coke, the cane sugar has basically degraded to HFCS.
     
  8. Space Ghost

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    ye, the HFCS debate is highly overrated. Its the subsidies and quantity in food that is the issue.
     

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