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A plea for solidarity with people who don't order stuff at Starbucks
PJ Media ^ | April 18, 2018 | David Goldman aka Spengler

Posted on 04/18/2018 8:50:59 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan
High-quality Italian coffee (for example Illy or Lavazza) is widely available in American supermarkets

Get some cans of those, and a decent quality espresso machine (say Breville, $200+) with a frother, and even if you are a Starbucks addict, you'll never step foot in there again. FAR superior.

21 posted on 04/18/2018 9:27:20 AM PDT by montag813
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To: euram

I think it was a set-up, and I bet it was financed either by BLM or Soros, somehow. “Sit there/ don’t leave/ up the ante- be belligerent/ make them arrest you. We’ll start a BLM protest the very next day. We have the PR ready, the signs are being printed, and we have other grad students who need money ready to go into the stores and scream and shout.’

I mean, the pattern is pretty old by now and awfully redundant.


22 posted on 04/18/2018 9:28:47 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: C19fan

So now a business is a free space for all . Hey if you arne’t buying anything - go some place else. They have to pay rent, electricity, water, sewer, employees, taxes. So they are now supposed to let the homeless camp in their stores????? It’s the same dang rule for any color of skin pigmentation. If you want to use the facilities, buy something.


23 posted on 04/18/2018 9:30:59 AM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: cyclotic

LOL. This reminds me of a story.

Not long ago I went into a local sub shop (not a national chain like Subway). At this place you have the option of ordering your sub on either whole wheat or white/French bread.

This particular location, in a very liberal city, had mostly Millenials working there who had numerous tats and piercings.

In a rather loud voice I said, “I’ll have a number 10 on ‘white’”.

Trigger!!

For the next minute and a half this female Millenial snowflake kept repeating my order out loud, “One number 10 on FRENCH!” “Here’s a number 10 on FRENCH!”

I kept an eye on my sub as it was being made just so there were no “additives” to my sub. But man, I was dying of laughter. She was so triggered it was absolutely hysterical.


24 posted on 04/18/2018 9:31:40 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: SharpRightTurn

“Starbucks ... coffee is disgusting. .... Rather than subject their employees to the ritual farce of sensitivity training, the company should spend money on high-quality coffee beans, and roast them lightly rather than burn them into acidic volcanic ash.”

BTTT


No kidding. The first time I had it, I thought that maybe I got a bad batch. It took me 3 more times to figure out that I’d rather push toothpicks into my eyes than drink that disgusting swill.

Besides, even if it was decent or good, I wouldn’t patronize those liberal f&*^tards. I’d go for ANYTHING from the Black Rifle Coffee Company https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/


25 posted on 04/18/2018 9:33:40 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: C19fan

Henceforth Starbucks will be open to black men congregating there without buying anything, at least anything from Starbucks. Perhaps Starbucks can try to levy a % charge on drug transactions. The shootings and stuff will just be part of the cultural Ambiance. The implications here is that Starbucks doesn’t stay viable.


26 posted on 04/18/2018 9:33:52 AM PDT by arthurus (B)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Codeflier

LOL, I took your advice, ProtectOurFreedom, and you are right...the last paragraph particularly!

His comments about craft beer sound kind of snobby...I don’t really care for the taste of beer itself, but I enjoy it as a social drink...something to have in the hand and give you a small buzz.

My palate never grew to appreciate it...or wine...or scotch, though I drink plenty of those!


27 posted on 04/18/2018 9:34:54 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: cyclotic

I’m not a fan either - when I’m with someone else and have to go then just like you I refuse their choice of words and order a medium or large black coffee....just a drip coffee people in a large cup ... this isn’t hard....

I find McDs and Dunkin’ Donuts to be much better then Starbucks and much better value... cost wise.


28 posted on 04/18/2018 9:35:24 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: C19fan
My favorite coffee is Sumatra dark roast (black, no sugar, of course). The two brands of it that are available in my local supermarket are Starbucks and Peets.

I don't like Starbuck's self righteous PC virtue-signalling, but I must say that the Sumatra dark roast is the best coffee out there. It makes Dunkin' Donuts coffee taste like crap.

I can't believe so many Freepers complain about Starbucks coffee -- have they no taste buds? I'll bet they drink their coffee with cream and sugar, anyway. So great coffee is wasted on them. Pussies.

Just sayin'.


29 posted on 04/18/2018 9:37:39 AM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: C19fan

The answer to Starbucks coffee?

Lot’sa cream. Lot’sa sugar.


30 posted on 04/18/2018 9:39:34 AM PDT by moovova
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To: The Antiyuppie; Lumper20

If I need to use a restroom, I usually try to buy something, even a pack of gum. But as I get older...when the bladder comes-a-knocking...I am not beyond going in and making a beeline to the head. And then I even buy something on the way out.

But I have no problem with any place specifying that you don’t occupy space unless you are a customer. And while it is true there are some places that would have no issue with non-customers milling around, I have seen from personal experience there are some places that have to actively discourage it because the courtesy is abused by people...especially in busy places.


31 posted on 04/18/2018 9:40:19 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: C19fan

The CEO of Starbucks (Schmidt), told me not to come to his stores if I were a Christian.

So I don’t go to Starbucks.

5.56mm


32 posted on 04/18/2018 9:48:58 AM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: Obadiah

That’s awesome.

I’d step it up and say that you you’re allergic to the French wheat and must have white bread.


33 posted on 04/18/2018 9:55:12 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: euram
Like most negative interactions blacks entitled leftists have, they brought it upon themselves.
34 posted on 04/18/2018 9:57:24 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: rlmorel

I’m on the road for work a lot. I’d get fat if I bought something every gas station I stopped at.

Starbucks, Panera and McDonald’s proclaim themselves as a de-facto community center. That includes the bathroom’s.


35 posted on 04/18/2018 9:58:08 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: cyclotic

I understand. That wasn’t at all a knock on anyone. It is just how I conduct myself.


36 posted on 04/18/2018 10:04:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: C19fan

I get a little tired of people telling me what I should like.

Sometimes I’m in the mood for some “roasted to ash” coffee.
I don’t care for “hoppy” beers. However there are some craft brews that I like. That’s one of the joys of trying different mico-brews. Though on occasion I’ve been seen drinking Coors Light.
I’ve been known to put a bit of ketchup on a steak, cooked medium-well.

I guess the difference between the author and myself is I won’t tell him that he’s drinking his coffee too mild, his beer too malty, or even that his steak is raw.


37 posted on 04/18/2018 10:09:30 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Only kidding.)
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To: rlmorel

I often do too, but certainly not every time.

I generally will stop at places I do buy from. I buy a lot of gas at WAWA gas stations, so even if I haven’t bought gas, the chain gets thousands of dollars from me a year, enough to justify a flush or two.

I don’t buy communist gas from Cigto, so I also don’t stop there for anything else.


38 posted on 04/18/2018 10:10:36 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: cyclotic

Yes...we have used McDonald’s as a “rest stop” for years...sometimes we buy something


39 posted on 04/18/2018 10:10:52 AM PDT by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: C19fan

Cool! Why pay for internet now? I can go to Starbucks down the street and hang out all day and night with my laptop. I don’t even have to buy anything. Great business model!


40 posted on 04/18/2018 10:17:07 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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