Ask Unilever.
https://www.benjerry.com/about-us/how-were-structured
I love this bit...
“We’re guessing most of you know by now that Ben & Jerry’s is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, but we’re betting you’ve never met our independent Board of Directors…”
SNORT.
The corporate tools should STFU.
Protest POTUS 47 by not buying anything from Ben & Jerry’s for the next four years.
(And leave a bunch of negative reviews on all of their pages)
They’re still pushing this? They’re persistent liars or insane.
Someone please show them a definition of fascism and explain it requires socialism or some other kind of absolute centralized government. Deregulation and weakening the government is the opposite.
Take your damn ice cream and ...
“Anti fossle fuels”? How do they ship their ice cream?
Two stupid New York hippies who moved to Vermont, along with many other New York stupid hippies.
I say load up a grocery cart full of the their frozen crap and leave it in an aisle.
I hate that their ice cream is so damned good.
they had their chance.
their product is now POISON.
Ben and Jerry’s? I had forgotten that they even used to be a thing. Didn’t they hate Bush or something 20 years ago?
Are those stinky, light in the loafer, idiot beatniks going to make a celebration ice cream in commemoration about the inauguration?
Are they venturing in, oh, say..... INSURRECTION territory?
https://web.archive.org/web/20151102014649/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 12-29-2004
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The word fascism (uncapitalized) has come to mean any political stance or system of government resembling Mussolini's, as further discussed below....The word fascism has come to mean any system of government resembling Mussolini's, that exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual,
uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition,
engages in severe economic and social regimentation.In an article in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana, written by Giovanni Gentile and attributed to Benito Mussolini, fascism is described as a system in which "The State not only is authority which governs and molds individual wills with laws and values of spiritual life, but it is also power which makes its will prevail abroad.... For the Fascist, everything is within the State and... neither individuals or groups are outside the State.... For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative."
Mussolini, in a speech delivered on October 28, 1925, stated the following maxim that encapsulates the fascist philosophy: "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato." ("Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State".)
As a political science, the philosophical pretext to the literal fascism of the historical Italian type believes the state's nature is superior to that of the sum of the individuals comprising it -- individuals exist for the state, rather than the state existing to serve them. The resources that individuals provide from participating in the community are conceived as a productive duty of individual progress serving an entity greater than the sum of its parts. Therefore, all individuals' business is the state's business, and the state's existence is the sole duty of the individual...
Today, very few groups proclaim themselves as fascist, and the term almost universally is used for groups for whom the speaker has little regard, often with minimal understanding of what the term actually means. The term "fascist" or "Nazi" is often ascribed to individuals or groups who are perceived to behave in an authoritarian manner; by silencing opposition, judging personal behavior, or otherwise attempting to concentrate power. More particularly, "Fascist" is sometimes used by members of the Left to characterize some group or persons of the far-right or neo-far-right, or the far left activists as a description of any political or cultural influences perceived as "non-progressive," or merely not sufficiently progressive. This usage receded much following the 1970s, but has enjoyed a strong resurgence in connection with Anti-globalization activism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081217050436/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" 12-2008:
Fascism is an authoritarian or totalitarian nationalist ideology,[1][2] which is primarily concerned with notions of decline or decadence, and which seeks to solve such problems by achieving a millenarian national rebirth, exalting the nation or race above all else, and promoting cults of unity, strength and purity.[3][4][5][6][7] Fascists typically seek to form a mass movement of militants who are willing to engage in violence against their perceived enemies.[8] Fascism opposes international socialism, communism, conservatism, democracy, individualism, liberalism, materialism, pacifism, laissez faire, and political pluralism.[9][4][3][10][11][12][13][14]
{Antifa anyone?}
https://web.archive.org/web/20100408231819/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 4-8-2010
Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy.[5][6] Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum,[7][8][9][10][11][12] although some scholars claim that fascism has been influenced by both the left and the right.[13][14]Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[15] They claim that culture is created by collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus rejects individualism. [15]
In viewing the nation as an integrated collective community, they claim that pluralism is a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety.[16][17] They advocate the creation of a single-party state.[18]...
Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness and opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement.[19] Fascists reject and resist autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the fascists' nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated.[20]
Fascism (/fæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism[1][2] that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, fascism originated in Italy during World War I, combining more typically right-wing positions with elements of left-wing politics,[3] in opposition to liberalism, Marxism, and traditional conservatism. Although fascism is often placed on the far-right on the traditional left–right spectrum, a number of academics have said that the description is inadequate.[4][5] {the two sentences were later deleted.}Fascists sought to unify their nation through an authoritarian state that promoted the mass mobilization of the national community[6][7] and were characterized by having leadership that initiated a revolutionary political movement aiming to reorganize the nation along principles according to fascist ideology.[8] Fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism and militarism. Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation,[6][9][10][11] and it asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations.[12]
https://web.archive.org/web/20041229090736/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 11-02-2015
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The word fascism (uncapitalized) has come to mean any political stance or system of government resembling Mussolini's, as further discussed below...
Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism[1][2] that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, fascism originated in Italy during World War I, in opposition to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism. Fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.[3][4] Fascists saw World War I as a revolution. It brought revolutionary changes in the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilian and combatant. A "military citizenship" arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war.[5][6]
The war had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines or provide economic production and logistics to support those on the front lines, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens.[5][6] Fascists view World War I as having made liberal democracy obsolete, and regard total mobilization of society under a totalitarian single-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.[7] Such a state is led by a strong leader — such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party — to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.[7]
Fascism rejects assertions of violence automatically being negative in nature and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation.[8][9][10][11]
https://web.archive.org/web/20241227120710/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 12-27-2024
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism,[4][5] fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.[6][5][7]Fascism rejects the view that violence is inherently negative or pointless but rather views imperialism, political violence, and war as means to national rejuvenation.[11][12] Fascists often advocate for the establishment of a totalitarian one-party state,[13][14] and for a dirigiste economy (a market economy in which the state plays a strong directive role through economic interventionist policies), with the principal goal of achieving autarky (national economic self-sufficiency).[15][16] Fascism's extreme authoritarianism and nationalism centres around the own group, but that can manifest as a belief in Manifest Destiny, revival of historical greatness (like Mussolini seeking to restore the Roman Empire) or in case of Nazism, racial purity or a master race which blended with some variant of racism or discrimination against a demonized "Other", such as Jews, homosexuals, transgender people, ethnic minorities, or immigrants. These ideas have motivated fascist regimes to commit massacres, forced sterilizations, deportations, and genocides.[17][18] During World War II, the genocidal and imperialist ambitions of the fascist Axis powers resulted in the murder of millions of people...
{Notice the change here to an unequivocal assertion from that of 2010: "Scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right of the conventional left-right political spectrum,[7][8][9][10][11][12] although some scholars claim that fascism has been influenced by both the left and the right."...
Some opposition groups have adopted the label anti-fascist (often shortened to antifa) to signify their stance.[20]
How to know someone is likely a fascist, according to some varied Wikipedia definitions of it over the years:
Do they support:
(From WP 2004]a system of government that exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual?
violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition
engages in severe economic and social regimentation
the State being an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative."
all individuals' business is the state's business, and the state's existence is the sole duty of the individual...
calling people Fascist to characterize some group or persons of the far-right or neo-far-right, o as a description of any political or cultural influences perceived as "non-progressive," or merely not sufficiently progressive.
Or do they support:
authoritarian nationalist ideology which is primarily concerned with notions of decline or decadence, and which seeks to solve such problems by achieving a millenarian national rebirth, exalting the nation above all else, and promoting cults of unity, strength and purity
And or do they support:
a mass movement of militants who are willing to engage in violence against their perceived enemies.[8] Fascism opposes international socialism, communism, conservatism, democracy, individualism, liberalism, materialism, pacifism, laissez faire, and political pluralism. . [WP 12-2008]And or do they believe:
that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.that culture is created by collective national society and its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and thus rejects individualism.
that pluralism is a dysfunctional aspect of society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the nation in its entirety and advocate the creation of a single-party state.
in forbidding and suppressing openness and opposition to the aforementioned state and movement, and reject and resist autonomy of cultural or ethnic groups who are not considered part of the totalitarian nation and who refuse to assimilate or are unable to be assimilated. [From WP 4-8-2010)
And or do they: :
seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy;rejects assertions of violence automatically being negative in nature and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. (from https://web.archive.org/web/20041229090736/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 11-02-2015
And or do they believe :
in a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
And at are also opposed to,
anarchism,
democracy,
pluralism,
egalitarianism,
liberalism,
socialism,
Marxism, And are defined as being at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum?
(https://web.archive.org/web/20241227120710/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 12-27-2024 )
If you are confused, not to worry. WP is here to help, warning in 12-27-2024, that fascism, can manifest as a belief in Manifest Destiny, revival of historical greatness (like Mussolini seeking to restore the Roman Empire) ... blended with some variant of racism or discrimination against a demonized "Other", such as Jews, homosexuals, transgender people, ethnic minorities, or immigrants. These ideas have motivated fascist regimes to commit massacres, forced sterilizations, deportations, and genocides..resulted in the murder of millions of people...
Just do not bring up abortion, even in any case and at any time, the demonization and persecution of any of who oppose LGBTQA!+++ and the whole of WOKEism, the lust to control industry and home, the ease of imposing restrictions on freedom of association and movement, and indoctrination of children via wokeducation.
Aren’t they the ones that cut down have the rain forest, so they could make environmentally friendly paper cartons ,to ship their cow fart methane generated ice-cream?
I was a big fan of Cherry Garcia. Haven’t touched it in a couple decades.
Ben and Jerry’s is a perfecct reverse barometer. If they are against something, it must be good. And vise-versa.
Charge them with insurrection and terrorism and ban that Company from the US Stock Exchange .
Watch those learjet socialists disappear.
It looks like Insurrection is back on the menu, boys
B&J have been hard-core leftist from day one, and their ice cream is no better than Big Food ice cream, being filled with artificial thickeners and other additives from day one just like the rest to cheap out on the amount of butterfat in their ice cream ...
the only ice cream free of artificial thickeners and other additives is Haagen Daz ... costs more, but is worth more ... don’t waste your discretionary calories on eating crap ...