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Making non-political things political means people aren't looking at other stuff that actually matters. People have a limited attention span, and a limited amount of time to look at things outside work and family. Fill that with bullshit that doesn't matter and they can't stay educated on actual current events.
To distract us from the other bots.
Maybe this article was written by a bot to distract us from the bots talking about other bots. Maybe I'm a bot. Hmm...
The culture war outrage keeps people from thinking about real problems. Instead, they're perpetually angry about shit that has literally zero impact on their lives.
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I love watching companies tear themselves apart trying to appeal to both sides of the aisle.
Eventually, they're just going to have to stop trying and pick a side.
They choose… profit.
The entire thing feels manufactured by design to get people talking about Cracker Barrel.
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A bunch of my friends thought the logo change was dumb, too.
A bit rude to call them bots. ;p
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I hadn't heard of the change, nor the outraged bot army.
How about those Epstein files?
Culture war keeps the rubes fighting the wrong people so that the real villains can keep robbing them.
tl;ds looked like a bot got hold of it
No shit
I saw the logo, thought it was weird, figured they would roll it right back in a week.
Even if it was bots, humans are still unleashing hose things. Someone cared enough to do that.
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Honestly I just thought it was funny they got rid of the cracker and the barrel.
Through the course of the controversy, I learned that the "cracker" was the Uncle Herschel mentioned in the menu a few times. He's a character of theirs, something of a mascot, though a much subtler one than most other restaurant mascots. He's in the art but his name isn't widely advertised. A couple menu items have his name in them (e.g. Uncle Herschel's Breakfast), but the name is not connected to the mascot in the logo.
Oh, I also thought it was funny that they said they changed the logo to be more inclusive (I guess of people who don't look like Uncle Herschel), but they still don't operate in California due to that state's progressive policies, so they can shove their "inclusive" talk. Actions speak louder than words. They do hire women, and people of color, which is a great start for a restaurant so steeped in "Southern values," but you can't say nobody is excluded from the table while excluding an entire state based on the politics of its government. That's just as dumb as rock groups refusing to play whichever Southern state did a stupid thing most recently.
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