Bucked Stars
Irradiated by Stingray
So apparently there was something or other involving a burnt coffee superchain and something about gun folks, and no doubt a plethora of not only “guns r evil ’cause bad” opinions, but for icing on the mocha ventilated, plenty of back and forth on the pro gun side between our own that has slid far enough into stupid that I’m not even going to describe it. I was going to just let this whole thing slide as just too “Really? No, really?” to comment on. But I’ve seen one place too many trumpeting this as a victory to refrain comment further.
Moreover I would’ve bet that the overwhelming and deafening corporate “Meh” from last year wouldn’t lead to a repeat. I forgot that the overlap ratio between internet gun people and borderline-Asperger’s “You’re trolling me, right? No, really this is a troll.”-reaction generators is nearly 1.
So the sum total of all the hoopla for this year’s titanic victory? “LEAVE US THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN CRUSADES, WE MAKE COFFEE.“*
Yeah, we knocked that one out of the fuckin’ park.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
We have been fighting a losing battle for almost 70 years. It is easy to mistake not attacking us for being friendly. I will patronize those who are neutral too. In this case when I crave a bad cup of coffee they will be my first choice.
February 19th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Well… to simplify: one side was demanding extortion money and a policy change outta the company while the other side is happy with a canned response of “leave us out of your fight.”
I did see a bunch of pro-gun folks get too heated, but the bulk I saw seemed happy enough that Starbucks didn’t care and wanted to just take money and sling coffee.
There also is the victory inflation aspect. Where the results of the situation are exaggerated.
February 19th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
And that was a righteous response from any business.
They ain’t a gun store.
Just following the law without GFW embellishments is enough for me.
February 19th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
ProTip:
The point of a “Buycott” isn’t the letter you send to corporate or the soliloquy you deliver to the cashier, but the money you put in the till on the given day.
They may blow off or misinterpret the former, but they’ll grok the fuck out of the latter. Trust.
February 19th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
As long as we’re using the word “fuck”-
For more than fifty blibbling years, lawful firearms owners have been painted by the overculture as untouchables, with precious few positive blibbling depictions. Excuse the blibb out of some of us if we are a little slow at putting out a disciplined message, as if we were actually members of a Leftist political movement, for blibb’s sake.
If we were the sorts to obey a Central Committee, the shooting would have begun twenty blibbling years ago. But we’re not.
I concede that the Starbucks thing looks pathetic, as pathetic as the way I chickened out on gratuitous use of the word “blibb”. I guess I just lack the vorgles.
February 20th, 2012 at 11:23 am
The GFW are not going to your store and buying coffee because of me?
Allow me to buy a cup to make up for that!
And four of my friends will too.
Hey, that’s +4 on your daily sheet compared to just GFW buying coffee, isn’t it?
I support places that don’t blibb me!
February 21st, 2012 at 9:19 am
For me, it’s not so much a victory in that Starbucks continues to follow local laws regarding guns.
The victory is seeing the Joyce-funded, media approved, blood-dancing, centrally organized control freak brigade trying to bully Starbucks, and getting < 200 people to sign on. In response, more than 20,000 of us individual, liberty-loving folk willingly and voluntarily organized to show opposition, and got positive media coverage to boot.
It gives me hope that all is not lost yet.
Incidentally, Google Chrome's spellchecker knows to capitalize starbucks.