70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @AT1ST @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl the terms used by people of colour themselves may not have the same meaning when used by others.

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
Now you are using fascist and CIA propaganda, the executions ordered by staling are about 800k most of them fascist/nazis and bourgeois

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @AT1ST @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl
I'm Mexican with known African ancestors. Where should I send a letter to get permission to use certain words?

[tml@mementomori.social]

@RedKoba @quixoticgeek @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl Please continue digging your hole, this is exciting.

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @TwoClownsEating @michaelgemar @amydiehl As a fellow Spanish speaker: we do not claim this asshole.

While he's right that it's a normal word in Spanish for the color, anyone with a basic level of English literacy understands the implications it has outside of it and would refrain from its use unless it's _very_ justified.

Hell, even in Spanish it can have some racist connotations. Its use by this individual was very deliberate and has earned him a block.

[lionesslady@mindly.social]

@amydiehl welp, there's another reason to stop going to Starbucks. I normally don't, except as a treat or on a long drive, but this makes me want to take it further off the list. Stupid corporations playing stupid games... ugh.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl I was actually using numbers from Wikipedia...

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@tml @quixoticgeek @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
No arguments Sir? Poor victim of propaganda

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl so how many deaths is it ok for a nations leader to be responsible for? Might I suggest the number should ideally be zero. Capital punishment is bad. Genocide is bad. It's 2026, I can't believe I'm having to say this.

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@amydiehl @samiamsam those execs must stay awake at night thinking of new ways to be petty little pricks

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@amydiehl The best time for Starbucks' workers to join a union was years ago. The second best time is now.

[hoare_spitall@mastodon.world]

@amydiehl I was only once persuaded by family to join them in a Starbucks. I asked for a small, plain black coffee. I was told we have only large. I asked how big is 'large', and was duly shown the cup. I said 'I will not drink out of a piss pot' turned around and left, with the family reluctantly behind me.
The family have never forgiven me.
Starbucks? I couldn't care less.

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
I love Wikipedia, but that calculation includes things like dekulakisation, which was a man-made starvation caused by landlords preferring to let people starve to death rather than lose their wealth.

Wikipedia is good source but not bulletproof

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@amydiehl

"Smile-More" forced labor.

Starbucks is wunna those things most humans have determined should exist no matter how much they profess to hate going in every. Fucking. Day. Sometimes thrice.

They can absolutely be closed for good by the same people.
Coffee tastes better when you support a local business.
Starbucks cups make your hand look like it's holding a politician's dick to me. No matter what's written on them.

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
No one, but there is people that the world is a better place if they are dead, Staling do a lot of things wrong but send landlords and facist a forced work camps wasn't one of them

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl it's all on Stalin's balance sheet. He killed millions. This is the popular consensus of historians. I would suggest it's time to find a better roll model. Maybe one who's not considered a genocidal dictator.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl and who is it to say who lives and who dies ? Who gives who the right to have someone killed ?

[flippac@types.pl]

@MisuseCase @amydiehl That was straight from TGIF of old

[redkoba@mastodon.social]

@quixoticgeek @tml @monokeros @ianto_jones @michaelgemar @amydiehl
Who have the power is who decide and

Quoting Mao:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"

The question is, which are tools they use to decide, is greed, personal interest or historical and material analysis

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@RedKoba and Bascule said "knowledge is power". Bulwer-Lytton said "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Violence begets violence.