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Why did Charlie Kirk have a favorite Starbucks drink and why is anyone pretending that it was a well known fact about him?
Much like how in Nazi Germany, neighbors would report each other to the police over real or invented allegations to resolve personal grievances, chuds are ordering this drink because they are sick with glee at the prospect of provoking a reaction from the woke blue-haired radical communist baristas and getting them fired. Of course that never happened because nobody gives a shit about their discount Horst Wessel, so they had to manufacture it as seen here.
Because they desperately want to be viewed as a persecuted group despite being the ones in charge of everything.
Being persecuted is the ultimate sign of righteousness in kkkristianity
It wasn't really before now but it has been making the rounds the last week ish, these donuts ordering his drink and giving the name Charlie Kirk to- I guess own the lib starbucks workers?
I want someone fired right the fuck now for a staged self victimization or else I'm going to January 6 this Starbucks.
Leftists are so edgy and the actual offensives every time we offend chuds it makes national news.
We literally exist and that’s enough to ragebait 99% of the population, and we make headlines when we insult chuds back. Remember the legendary crashout of ‘ok boomer’ and “gammon”? If we can convince fascists that “skibidi” is a slur for white people, it will make headlines.
Please. I am begging for the left to have its own 4chan or any other cultural mafia, the crashouts will be gold.
I'm begging for left 4Chan
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I know this is a shitpost but I was thinking the other day if there is ever any use for an extendable baton as a self defense weapon and I feel like the answer is no. My understanding is that if its use were legally justifiable then you're already in a situation where you are in grave danger. And the baton would let you hurt someone but not really disable their attack if they were determined to getcha. Whereas pepper spray would temporarily disable them, hard, while also not putting you in legal jeopardy if you were a bit too quick to use it. If I'm wrong lemme know cuz I'm totally the kind of rube who could be convinced to buy an asp or collapsible baton or whatnot.
Also Brace Belden says he carries a sap which is pretty funny and also a point in favor of bludgeoning weapons.
Thr law will never protect and always punish you.
So ask the real question: what's the funniest self defense weapon you could get real utility out of?
I always liked those little self-defense pens
They're basically just a very pointy rod
I could see myself jabbing someone's throat real good and screaming "THE PEN IS MIGHTIER, THE PENIS MIGHTIER!"
Lol that's not where I thought you were going with this, okay uhh how about granddad's sporterized Mauser M18 with a $2,000 scope?
I don't think collapsible batons are very good. Unless the telescopic part is really sturdy and the end of it is really heavy, basically just making it a medieval mace, it's going to be mildly annoying at best, and picking up a random brick off the ground and throwing it would probably be more effective.
My understanding of a lot of that "self-defense" gear is that it is made to trick rubes who are scared of "crime" (
) to buy bullshit that doesn't actually work, but it's ok, because the nightmare scenario Fox news has planted in their heads doesn't actually happen in the real world, so the company doesn't need to be worried about getting sued when their product doesn't work.
Any of that "tacticool" mall ninja shit is never actually going to be effective, you'd be better off carrying either a knife or a gun (as long as it is completely legal of course). I don't know about how effective pepper spray stuff is, but fumbling with a bag and the cap and then making sure you're aiming the spray end at your attacker, all while they're coming at you seems like it would not be very effective either, though with practice and making sure you can stay cool in a crisis and not panic it would probably be fine. That's the biggest part really, not panicking, calmly assessing the situation. Sometimes the most effective defence against a mugging is to just take out your wallet and toss it at them and run away. It sucks, but it's way better than getting stabbed.
Agree on your analysis and assessment of the psychology behind the industry. I have a pepper spray canister with a lil' pocket clip and a top that flicks up with the thumb to access the button so it's fairly accessible. I wouldn't be confident using a blade for self defense. Getting a CCW permit for a firearm is fairly obtainable where I live but I wouldn't be comfortable carrying everyday, having a gun on me would make me so paranoid. Avoiding the situation, escaping the situation, giving up the loot if that means staying safe, absolutely right.
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The fact that you actually pointed to this place and not leftypol is the reason Zinn made that comment lol. 
Man thinks people seriously give a fuck about or know that piece of shits order? Like… seriously? So obvious you wrote it yourself to try and target “woke” (lol) Starbucks.
One time my mom was getting food delivered so I had her put my name in as "the cool edgy one" and it made her laugh super hard. So now I keep doing it. Nobody has seemed to mind up to this point.
"Don't give them a reason!" Crowd–where you at?
Also, as a tea drinker and herbal tea lover–who the fuck orders tea at Starbucks? Their tea is piss water.
Their tea is piss water
yeah that's why he had to douse it in a shitload of honey
Tbf, people also order their coffee.
Yeah it's a milkshake place. Why would you order their hot drinks?
Right wing ragebaiters obviously don't care about what they're supposedly outraged about, when they say they feel sick to their stomach about some nobody on Xitler being mean to Horst Wessel they are obviously sick with glee at the thought of destroying someone's life over it. Chuds have never been this happy and excited in their lives, they crave the feeling of power they get when they call up a business and scream slurs into the phone threatening to shoot up their office unless they fire PigFucker69 from Instagram
the employees know they're being filmed but somehow the chuds still think they can fake this shit
The truth doesn't matter, the point is to accuse their mortal enemies (woke baristas) of lese-majeste publicly in the hopes that it goes viral on Xitler and they they get inundated with death threats. The hogs will have forgotten all about it and moved on to the next target and be too busy sending new death threats to care about any developments on an old case (right wing outrage cycles have the shortest half-life of any known element), and even if they found out they wouldn't give a shit, because all they really care about is destroying the lives of minimum-wage workers because Fox News told them they were involved in a communist plot to destroy America
two honeys in mint tea? bruh
the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink
Yeah I'm sure the underpaid Starbucks barista with a mailing address well outside of Charlie Kirk's asshole decided to call someone a loser on the sole basis of an order similar to his.
"Known to be Kirk's favorite drink"
Known by who? I'm a fan of Robert Englund and I couldn't for the life of me tell you if he's ever had a big mac, let alone if he even drinks tea, and they think someone who isn't even a fan would be up to date with what pretentious drink he's into?
Had the worker actually written loser, it would have most likely be in reference to the person ordering this pretentious drink.
I don't like get this particular brand of conservative rage bait or humor? Like when they go in somewhere and say their name is "Jesus Christ is Lord" (like some Puritan child) and get mad if they dont read the full name out. Or "Donald Trump." Or whatever. Like whyd they pick Starbucks as the conservative epic own space???
They are the most self-obsessed people on earth and have a desperate need to constantly whine about their imagined oppression 24/7. The closest thing to oppression they've ever experienced is the walmart greeter not saying "heil hitler"
because starbucks is for w*men and effeminate liberal men. idk how charlie kirk didn't get canceled for going there and ordering a "mint majesty". then again, i don't know how anyone goes there to drop $15 on sugar and shit water
They are obsessed with being martyrs and being persecuted, but no one is hanging them on a cross, so they have to fake persecution for clout.
Starbucks dominated quick coffee and ran a lot of independent places out of business. For a lot of chuds, it's the only option in their suburban neighborhood or rural area. Where I live we have a Starbucks but no other coffee place outside of a couple of crappy diners. That's one reason, and the other is they don't want to miss out on something like that. They don't want to exclude themselves from treats. They feel entitled to all treats. If they're going to buy a treat, then the workers are their slaves for 5 mins and need to do exactly what they want.
Perennial persecution complex
well every barista is a trans person with blue hair and a septum ring, so they are so owned when they say the dead racists name.
I hope all you heathens are prepared to let Charlie Kirk into your heart. Your eternal salvation depends on it.
The evangelicals are in rapture season again so this is even funnier
If you're still buying coffee at Starbucks, you are a loser.
Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink — from the Starbucks.
I dunno. That sounds awfully woke. Shouldn't a dipshit rightwing podcaster turd be drinking something manly like a coffee drink?
Ah. So the same as when a cup had "pig" written on it by a cop?
And they shut down a Starbucks because they got called a loser? A fucking loser?! Why are the loudest, most obnoxious people so thin skinned? And why do they seem to have such a following?
Do you know what most "healthy" people would do in that situation (had it actually happened?) Just not go back. No performance, no threats, just not go back.
And if Starbucks is so woke this keeps (not) happening, why are they even going to Starbucks in the first place?