@rjquillin They’ve had several different coffee-with things. I couldn’t tell you much more than that, because as a coffee atheist (I can prove that there is no coffee that I will believe drinkable) I paid unremarkably little attention to the details.
@rjquillin@yakkoTDI That’s just gross. Buying in bulk like that shouldn’t cost so much per drink. Too rich for my blood. Don’t care about politics. Just deals.
When I saw this on sale last time, I didn’t think to read the comment section. Apparently I missed out on people crying.
I find the bag of crap for 50 to be more offensive than a product with a political alignment I don’t like, but then again, I don’t subscribe to the delusion that you can have a morally sound political alignment.
It’s all a game, and you’re a loser if you play it.
As far as buying it goes. I’m really more of a tea guy, so pass.
@AaronLeeJohnson You’re conflagrating two things that shouldn’t be related. Guns and politics. There were 9 people killed at a mall that I regularly visit. Or, should I say, used to regularly visit. It will be some time before we feel safe going there again.
In my state, an entire classroom of 4th graders were gunned down. 9-year-old kids. They watched their classmates get killed in front of their eyes before getting killed themselves.
This isn’t a political thing. This is a gun thing. This is a cultural thing.
No other country that has legal guns has this kind of a problem. Don’t play this off as a Democrat vs Republican thing. That’s too easy. And these motherfuckers – Black Rifle Coffee Company – are playing this off like it’s a male libido thing. Fuck them, and fuck Meh for selling this shit.
@aarond12@AaronLeeJohnson When people use cars and trucks to intentionally kill people, do you think we have a car and truck problem?
When people blow up buildings with fertilizer and diesel fuel do you think we have a fertilizer and diesel fuel problem?
When people use passenger jets to kill 3000+ people, do we have a passenger jet problem?
When people go on a killing spree using knives or machetes or swords, do you think we have a sharp instruments problem?
A gun is a tool. It is neither good nor bad. It can’t kill anyone. The gun isn’t the problem. People are the problem. Mentally ill people, evil people, bad people use the tool to do bad things. Take the tool (gun) away and they will find another tool to do their evil.
And on the flip side, in the hands of good people, moral people, responsible people that tool can be used for good.
Let’s stop talking about guns as if they just randomly fire autonomously and slaughter people.
@aarond12@AaronLeeJohnson@Trinityscrew If people were using passenger jets, or knives, or swords, or nail guns, or fertilizer, or Priuses, or tittlywinks to kill massive numbers of people on a daily basis? We would in fact have a problem with all those things. We would need to start tracking their sale and those that are buying them.
If we had such a problem and a weirdly high number of people who decided to make swords or stealing passenger jets a core part of their “cultural identity” we would refer to those folks as violent extremists and probably want to put them in jail.
Unfortunately when it comes to guns, for reasons that made sense at the time (and are unrelated to the modern age we live in) they were put in the bill of rights (using a poorly worded amendment) so they have a level of legal protection in this country that is problematic. Repeal the second amendment, too many of our fellow Americans have shown themselves to be incapable of living up to the responsibilities that are supposed to come with their second amendment rights.
@joshaw@Trinityscrew Logic? No. We regulate access to cars. We require proficiency tests, insurance, and training. Literally six to nine months to go from a learner’s permit to a license. What a disingenuous argument.
@joshaw@Selethorme Really? Disingenuous? So a person intent on killing as many people as possible with an automobile wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t registered? Or if they didn’t have a license? Don’t be absurd.
And all of the stupidity regarding the gun-grabbing attempts won’t stop bad or mentally ill people obtaining a gun, legally or illegally and killing people with it.
And you can rest assured that if they are intent on killing indiscriminately they will find a way to do it.
Yes, that’s why there’s been a shift in how we handle these and
hijackings.
The extreme reaction to the 9/11 hijackings is a complete joke. It worked on 9/11 because no one on the planes understood what was going to happen. They assumed the planes were being hijacked, not turned into flying missiles. That particular scenario will never happen again. People on board won’t allow it to play out.
As a case in point, the passengers on flight 93 found out what was happening and tried to take the plane back. Sadly they perished anyway, but no one will sit still and wait to die on a plane anymore.
A gun is a tool. It is neither good nor bad. It can’t kill anyone. The gun isn’t the problem. People are the problem<
There’s a nugget of some really basic logic in that statement, actually. Some very primitive “if we boil this down to its basic Lego pieces” logic. Is it accurate to say that a “gun is a tool?” Maybe. But it ignores the fact that the tool being used by the “mentally ill” or “evil people” to do evil things has been refined to do its job better than its competitors (and there have been a lot of competitors in that space). Have we made it harder to hijack a plane to mitigate high casualty events? Yep. That’s why you can’t go into the terminal anymore without a ticket, pat down, removing your shoes, and having a computer inspect your genitals. Have we made it harder to buy diesel and fertilizer together in bulk? You bet.
So why hold the door open to make high kill counts easier? If someone wanted to kill people with a bowling ball, they could totally do it. But after you get past the first, it gets exponentially harder to get to a goal of a high body count.
There are legions of people whose job it is to get rid of regulation and make modern guns more accessible. Then you get the forum warriors like this is a magnet for those who spill their bad takes and terribly short-sided logic bombs that want to justify tragedy with culture. Did you learn those lines on your own, or did you hear it from someone else first? Because it behooves those who want customers, voting blocs, and profit generators to hold that door open at the lowest levels with nebulous ideas of “culture” and novel, but flawed ideas of philosophy.
BRC sucks. Period. It sucks that Meh is giving them oxygen by selling their crap stock. The profit motive of one company doesn’t overshadow the idea that whatever that brand very publicly stands for is now getting dragged along here by Meh. So they can use the tactic of “Oh, it’ll blow over in a day or so, just ignore them” here on the forums or if there is some internal pressure, “Just ignore the drones, hunker down, wait for it to blow over and we’ll all forget about it tomorrow.”
You don’t have to explain anything. We can see what you’re doing, and you already know the routine; know the game plan. Profit motives take president, so spending money, time, and attention elsewhere for us really shouldn’t be surprising.
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew how many of those things do you need to actually drive a vehicle? The vast majority of carjackers don’t have a valid driver’s license, yet they somehow manage to drive many different vehicles. It’s almost as if regulating things, even as strongly as you’ve pointed out we do with vehicles, has no bearing on what criminals will do with those regulated things. All of the gun violence is already illegal. New gun laws won’t make those crimes more illegal, or stop those committing them from doing so. Getting rid of all the guns is a ridiculous and impossible non-solution. The best actual solution is to severely punish those violating the existing laws against violent gun crimes. Ironically, the strongest proponents of reducing gun violence, promote policies that do nothing but increase that gun violence, while further restricting law-abiding citizens. If we could somehow magically make all the guns disappear, violent criminals would find a way to continue their violent ways. It’s a people problem, and those people are not being punished when they commit violent crimes. Punishing those who legally possess and use an item, be it a car or a gun, rather than those who illegally use those items, would seem counterproductive to any rational person, but that’s the “solution” you guys always come up with.
@joshaw@Trinityscrew Do tell, where exactly you think guns come from. Where cars come from. Almost every single gun used in a mass shooting was purchased legally. Most gun crime is committed with legally purchased guns, not weapons smuggled into the country. This argument just really shows you don’t know anything about the issue beyond what NRA propaganda will tell you to repeat back at us. Meanwhile, the data exists. Making it take more time to get a gun, making you have to have a background check for every sale. Taking guns away from domestic abusers. All of it actually works.
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew your fantasy statistics only hold up if you use the left wing media definition of a mass shooting, where innocent white kids are gunned down in a school, or a lunatic shoots up a shopping mall. If you look at actual shootings involving multiple victims, or a mass shooting, the numbers overwhelmingly show that they are committed by black males, mostly against other black males, using illegally obtained and/or modified handguns, and the occasional illegally obtained and/or modified long gun. The vast majority of gun violence in this country is perpetrated by young black men upon other young black men and women. Those same acts of violence ALL violate many laws that are already in place. These violent criminals aren’t turning in their guns, nor are they giving up their lives of crime and violence in response to new gun laws. The extreme ignorance needed to make the argument you’ve presented, in the face of endless evidence to the contrary, is just astonishing. Kudos for your amazing lack of awareness. It’s really something.
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew The sheer number of people that can be killed from a firearm before being stopped, especially in places that are supposed to be safe and secure, is vastly more than a vehicle. This has been proven time and time again; vehicular rampages cause less fatalities than firearm rampages.
I agree mental health is a major issue in our society and no doubt it contributes to gun violence, but when politicians and others in power bring up how “guns aren’t the issue, it’s mental illness,” they also provide no methodology for improving the mental health crisis. There’s no attempt to tackle issues with access, stigma, financial burden, work & school structures, etc. It is only used as an excuse and justification that “firearms aren’t the problem,” rather than an actual belief or call to action. It’s disgusting how people with mental health disorders are used as a scapegoat for the firearms community, furthering the stigmatization of those with mental health disorders by painting the mentally ill as “the mass shooters.” This also increases the likelihood of creating the boogeyman that they say they’re trying to stop.
Another thought, you also mention that guns can be used for good, not just bad. I genuinely challenge you to think of a scenario where a person with a firearm is doing good, while the people they are enacting “good” on do not also have firearms. It seems to me that access to firearms creates its own intrinsic, self-sustaining need for more people to have firearms; if people have access, there will always be “bad actors,” necessitating “good actors.” If there were no firearms to begin with, there would also be no “bad actors” to stop.
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew there are many mass shootings that total over 100 deaths, including in France. Working on averages, firearm massacres cause more death than vehicular massacres. Using one example that doesn’t follow this trend is an exception, not the rule. It comes across as a bad faith argument when a straw man like this is presented.
I will agree (and this is an assumption by me) that vehicles may cause more harm, leading to larger numbers of injured people, but that’s partly due to how effective firearms are at killing and how ineffective vehicles are.
@joshaw@Trinityscrew@warpedrotors Wow. You’re almost a parody of yourself. You went full mask off on that racism, and in so doing really just exposed that everyone calling out BRCC as the coffee of white nationalists is right. So…thanks, I guess?
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew facts aren’t racist. Your inability to see the truth because of some “white guilt” or other such nonsense, doesn’t change that truth.
@joshaw@Selethorme@Trinityscrew oh, and i don’t drink coffee, so deciding I’m a white nationalist for drinking BRCC is quite the stretch, even for someone so blindly committed to accusing everyone else of being a terrible person. If i were to drink coffee, i wouldn’t buy this, for a variety of reasons, none of which involve the race of anyone. I don’t make purchases based on race. I’m sure you make every effort to support “black-owned businesses” though, because you just feel like you have to. There is racism in this scenario, but it’s not coming from my side. Imagine the outrage if people were encouraged to support white-owned businesses. Your immediate jump to “that’s racist” for anything you disagree with may work for the lefties reading your nonsense, but simply screaming racism doesn’t magically make it exist. We can all pretend gangs of white people are shooting each other on a daily basis if you want, or even that white people are committing carjackings in the record numbers that black people are, but that just doesn’t align with the reality of the situation. The only person I’ve ever met who actually buys BRCC coffee is an army veteran who happens to be black. He had the stickers and the coffee mug and everything. I guess he’s a white nationalist in your world though. He also owns one of those scary black rifles. Stop using your feelings to try to create your own facts, because that just makes them not facts, no matter how much you want them to be.
Another thought, you also mention that guns can be used for good, not
just bad. I genuinely challenge you to think of a scenario where a
person with a firearm is doing good, while the people they are
enacting “good” on do not also have firearms.
Any good person with a gun has the ability to intervene and potentially stop any crime regardless of whether the criminal has a gun. And no, I’m not suggesting that the “good guy” blows the heads off of the perpetrators of the crimes. I am suggesting that an unarmed perpetrator will submit to the commands of the good guy or flee. Either way, the good guy wins the bad guy is stopped.
I will leave you with this quote: “An armed society is a polite society.”
ok, let’s forget about the dead elephant in the corner & look at a can of caffeine that tastes like caramelized 30 weight, with as much protein as a couple candy bars.
at $1.25 a can, the only thing I can justify it for is the inevitable drunken crawl out of my trunk after an all-nighter involving tequila & bad choices.
@alacrity@werehatrack And how often the all-nighters occur (especially given their expiry date—you can work with frankenstein’d sugar/dairy, but you don’t wanna roll the dice on the protein, trust me)!
I like these. I didn’t even know there was political controversy with this company before I read comments last time. We bought them at Sam’s the first time we tried them but that was a while ago, so I was glad to see them here. I think they taste better than the Starbucks double shot we were getting on Amazon. They aren’t as sweet and don’t make me feel bloated like Starbucks does. I will likely buy them again.
Meh.com writer:
“Of course, as with all companies who attempt to parlay politics into profit, they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with, and, in an attempt to offend no one, crafted a statement whose spinelessness offended literally everyone.”
FYI Black Rifle Coffee Company was apparently founded by veterans who are proud to have patriotically served their country.
Black Rifle Coffee Company serves coffee and culture to people who love America.
We develop our explosive roast profiles with the same mission focus we learned as military members serving this great country and are committed to supporting veterans, law enforcement, and first responders. With every purchase you make, we give back.
Our History
Founded in 2014 by former U.S. Army Green Beret Evan Hafer, Black Rifle Coffee Company was built upon the mission to serve coffee and culture to people who love America.
Black Rifle stands for more than high-quality coffee. We are a Veteran-founded business operated by principled men and women who honor those who protect, defend, and support our country.
#10,000 Veterans
A large part of Black Rifle Coffee Company’s success is due to the outstanding work ethic and discipline of our Veteran employees. As we grow, we’re committed to hiring 10,000 Veterans to provide opportunities to the military community that helped build us.
As a Veteran-founded and operated company, Black Rifle Coffee also strives to help other service-members successfully transition from the military into entrepreneurship. We provide assistance to Veterans who seek to launch a business of their own, helping more companies like Black Rifle Coffee Company become a reality.”
Do you all think being patriotic is political?
I do NOT understand. Does anyone, ANYONE, dare to step up and explain to this Vietnam veteran why you believe being patriotic is political?
Do you all really think “using” their hard earned histories is being political.
Try telling that to the millions of vets who vote for both parties.
There is no other way to say it. Anyone who believes that has been brain washed.
THAT is disgusting.
Yes, I am unapologetically proud to be an American and I love my country.
Are YOU
Apologies will be accepted from those who have reconsidered.
@eagonwild@jeffreywsnyder Yeah, add Jeffy’s “righteous” apologetic to the “unpolitical” use of murder boy, and I’m pretty sure I wanna see those fuckers go down in flames as they deserve.
I know plenty of vets who’d agree with me, and who wouldn’t fall for this bullshit, so there’s that.
@jeffreywsnyder what a sad, little person - I mean patriot. Being a veteran and/or a “patriot” doesn’t absolve you or anyone else from other poor, uninformed decision making. It’s possible to be a patriot without being an asshole, you just didn’t choose that route.
@jeffreywsnyder@TheStas Hey there, Stasi. That’s funny, because I’ve been paying my taxes for decades, happy to invest resources and effort on behalf of the common good. I exercise my right of assembly and expression in the wake of cops killing another unarmed Black Person (unfortunately a regular occurrence). I show up and speak up at city council and committee and school board meetings. I work with community leaders to try to make this shithole more of what it claims it is—founding words crafted under the shadow of its embrace of slavery, overt racism, genocide, patriarchy, classism. I not only vote, but do what I can to assist folks in exercising the right that conservatives in this country have consistently (continuing in full force in the present day) striven to restrict and throw up obstacles to.
Meanwhile, not only are your people the ones excluding, othering and demonizing according to all manner of identities and labels, but, help me out, wasn’t it the “patriots” who were rubbing their shit on the Capitol walls and attacking cops on January 6? If that’s what it means to “grow up”, I’m quite pleased to remain a commie.
@jeffreywsnyder Dude, politicians sent you halfway around the world to participate in violence to stop communism. You were engaging in a process that changes who wields power and how it’s applied.
I’m sorry. Did I hurt your feelings? Do you need a hug? Are there too many words and “brain hurts bad”? Did you get a shitty education and you’re too goddamned lazy to learn anything beyond your tired cliches and bigotry? Does it bother you when I toss your witless epithets back at you and el jefe? I don’t mean to waste any more time on your bullshit, so don’t worry, you won’t need to respond with anymore complete irrelevancies (at least not in my direction; but I’m sure you’ll feel or create the need to throw your two cents in somewhere).
For the record, not that it’s pertinent, but, as mentioned, nothing else you said is either: My mother’s been dead for close to 47 years, almost longer than she lived. Before she died, when I was 13, she’d already taught me most of what I needed to know to take care of myself. I was out of Dad’s house (I’d wager a better father than you’ve ever known) at 18, before I started college. I don’t much care for SpaghettiOs. Thankfully we don’t all live like you do or have your–what I suppose you flatter yourself by calling them–“tastes”.
You’re quite welcome to fuck off and do your bootlicking elsewhere.
@jeffreywsnyder@joelmw interesting how you conflate “miss me with your bullshit” as “please come and tell me about your parents failures”.
Not sure how you have the audactiy to question someone else’s education based on that alone.
You can fuck right off yourself unless you want to discuss it here in Chicago.
“Third world animals”? @TheStas You’re trash. I’m not one to overdo forum moderation but this is just overt racism and has no business on a mediocre deals forum.
@highonpez yes, treating people based on the content of their character is now racist. Everyone I don’t agree with is a nazi. Welcome to bizarro world 2020’s America
@jeffreywsnyder@Pontiak “scary millennial” is probably the biggest oxymoron I’ve heard in a long time. You probably ought to go look up the difference between “phobia” and “misia” while you’re at it.
@highonpez@TheStas Content of their character? No. It’s just pretty blatant racism on your part. But doubling down with it when xenophobia fits you so well is icing.
@Selethorme so what are you accusing me of? xenophobia or racism? that’s two entirely different things. Also, please don’t bastardize my mother tongue. Phobia isn’t isn’t the suffix you need, it’s misia. No one’s afraid of foreigners. Congratulations, you’re stupid in two languages
@TheStas No, they’re two entirely related things. But good try. Phobia isn’t just a fear, and hasn’t been for a long time. Same reason a Muslim ban is islamophobic even though I’m sure you’re not afraid of Muslims, you just want to hurt them.
I can have zero to 500 mg of caffeine and never notice the difference either way. Wish I did.
Read something recently that caffeine does not actually give you energy but tricks your body into not feeling tired. Except my body. It seems nothing can make me not tired.
@ponagathos I’m the same way…I can drink coffee or a Monster energy right before bed and be fine. Do you have ADHD? I wonder if it has something to do with that. I know someone else with ADHD who is this same way.
@TimW No ADHD. But I have some weird stuff going on. For example, Ibuprofen works way better than opioids for pain relief. Alcohol breaks down fast and usually makes me nauseous before buzzed. Never had a hangover, not that I drink a ton very often.
I have a friend who really likes these and normally pays $3 for a 16oz can at Dollar General. The company may be questionable but the product is good so I’m in for more.
For those reading the comments just to see a flavor review: I bought these last time. Myself, who loves to drink crafted beverages from the coffee shops (meaning I love tons of cream and sugar), thought it was not bad and exactly what I would expect from canned coffee. Quick, convenient, and saves me a ton of money. If I could add anything, it would probably be a bit more cream. My husband, who is a strict black coffee drinker but will occasionally get a mocha coffee from said coffee shops, thought the drink had “too much mocha”. Do with that what you will. Hope it helps!
@nonlion This is a good first draft, but there’s nothing political in this post. When you try again, please make sure to call someone an idiot, bonus points if you’re able to do it in such a way that even people who vaguely agree with you feel that you may be an idiot also despite being on “our side.” In short, this review is ONLY helpful, I’m sure you see the problem there.
I ordered these last time, despite the controversy over the company itself. I needed a new canned coffee thing to take on the go, particularly to replace the last one I had, which was that Rise oat milk nitro (which was quite good.) And frankly, this canned caffe mocha is pretty decent itself.
I think it tastes more chocolate than coffee flavored, which isn’t a pro or con, just an observation. I generally don’t like caffe mocha (I’d go with something like vanilla or caramel over chocolate in my coffee,) but this one is pretty palatable. I’ve been experimenting with adding a little creamer, like an ounce or less, to dilute the chocolate, and I think that brings it closer to how I usually drink coffee.
This stuff does have that kind of creamy mouthfeel that’s associated with beverages that have added protein; it’s my preference not to have that, but it’s not that excessive or off-putting. Adding creamer as above also appears to help dilute it and reduce that sensation. As far as the caffeine is concerned, it generally doesn’t affect me much and so I couldn’t offer an opinion as to whether it’s a sufficient, insufficient, or excessive amount.
Oh yeah, also I think you really have to remember to shake up the can first (and then let it settle before opening) per the instructions on the can to make sure it’s mixed up and not have the chocolate additive all at the bottom; I’ve been forgetting to do this, and also was in the habit of not doing so with that aforementioned nitro coffee for obvious reasons.
I’ve been debating getting more of this, as it’s more or less what I’m looking for in a prepackaged coffee. My preference would be to try a different flavor, though, and my main hesitation is the “best by” date; I’m not sure I’d be able to buy more and use it in a reasonable amount of time before it starts to taste funky, especially considering my remaining supply from the initial order.
@Atomizer Sounds like we got the same memo… Add MORE cream! Lol I fill a cup with ice, sometimes add a few sweetener packets (yes, MORE sweet!) Then pour it, and top with some vanilla creamer (sugar free ha!). It tastes very similar to a Starburnt frappicino in the bottles. I’m hooked.
This will be my third order of these 24 packs. I just finished the first order and cracked open the new box from the last sale. I almost ordered more yesterday for $35. Thank you, Meh for having my back at $30. …Damn it all and keep BRCC the coffee coming! Don’t listen to the haters, I’m hopelessly addicted now.
Well, probably. Maybe time for me to take a break too. It’s easy to say “it’s just politics” when it’s not the people you care about that they’re coming after.
Guna turn off my vmp in any case. It’s been a good run, thanks for the fun while ir lasted.
@bulletfodder@valkyriered To support the goals of the person or people who founded the company, typically. Sometimes those goals are money or money-supported, which appears to be what you’re trying to imply is always the case.
@valkyriered I am not sure I understand. Because Meh is selling the BRCC? Or because they are calling it out? Or because they are selling canned flavored coffee? What integrity issue are you concerned with?
I won’t buy this thing but certainly don’t begrudge meh for trying. Maybe there should be an extra button to the left of the ‘meh’ button that says ‘hard pass’ if they want more fidelity in the data.
I don’t understand why people are mad at Meh for offering this. It’s just coffee. I understand the shenanigans behind the brand. Coffee is simply coffee.
Stop with the whole ‘meh won’t be getting my business anymore because of a single item that they’ve sold twice that I don’t like the brand of’
I think it’s because they’re worried that they’re supporting a company that - according to Wikipedia because like I really have time to validate all these - called Starbucks ISIS for wanting to support refugees (which itself was a dumb publicity stunt by bux), said they were going to hire 10k veterans and have… uh 50 employees total, supporting a bunch of xenophobic political policies publicly, etc.
Black rifle coffee had decided to align themselves with weirdos in a ploty to sell to what they believed were a market that had a fervor and a willingness to throw money down. Then they realized that aligning themselves with weirdos doesn’t actually make them money and backtracked, so everyone was mad.
I think meh should have made it clearer that black rifle isn’t actually making money off this so it’s all pointless to boycott it. But if you squint it looks like they’re supporting an org that most people that care about politics will be mad at might be considered a bad idea
Mybe those that aren’t as politically motivated can find that it’s a good product, and they can make some sales?
I think it’s sad that they had to go to such lengths to clarify their position in the first place. It’s a bad sign in my opinion. I personally cant recall any other time Meh had to be so… serious(?) In their usually silly item message.
The coffee does kinda suck, ive tried multiple and some are okay but are overall Meh (lol)
I’m not going to dig into the politics, but the company was kind of a joke even before they tripped over themselves. I fit perfectly into one of their chosen demographics (mil vet) and thought they were completely overestimated and personally never understood the appeal. They had a bunch of amusing yet egotistical and self aggrandising media posts and that was the extent of it for me.
Anyways. It’s friggin coffee at a deal, not a political statement. Drink it if you need/enjoy it. Or skip this deal and see what the next one is tomorrow, like we all do.
@imnotjames@Stevalicious I for one am not ready to give up on meh, and I appreciate their spelling out their position. I wonder how many folks have said they are. I haven’t seen it, but I didn’t read all of the old shit. I seriously doubt that there are as many folks willing to leave over this as have threatened to leave for all of the flouncers’ other silly reasons.
What’s silly is ignoring the way BRCC has intentionally targeted their advertising and exploited associations folks make with their innuendo. We didn’t invent this shit. They could be a little more brazen, but the way they try to be cute with it is arguably worse and certainly more insidious. Am I not entitled to choose which companies I do and don’t do business with based on their overtly expressed values? They made their play; they’re happy to benefit; they should likewise suffer the consequences of their shitty choices. To literal hell with BRCC. They deserve to be a laughingstock and a byword.
@crabbyman the photos shows the correct dosage for infants is 1 can but they also get unruly when given this product. Will the shock collar approach work for them, too?
i don’t understand why people so hostile towards this. the description makes it pretty clear that they’re fully aware of the controversy, brcc doesn’t benefit from a purchase, and frankly meh just has a bunch of shit in a warehouse they need to shift before it expires and has to be thrown out. i mean, i’m not buying it, i don’t like coffee so i know i won’t get anywhere close to the bottom of the case before january, but i am firmly one of the woke transgender communists that fox news warned you about and i don’t really understand what’s happening here
@caffeineguy@octoturt The distributor that took the hit certainly felt the need to shift the product. Meh? “At this price, we can still make a buck even after we pay FedEx to damage a third of them.”
@Zargov Thanks for the announcement? Your comment makes no sense, but I’m thinking we’ll all be better off without you. So thanks for actually leaving, if that’s what you truly mean to do.
@aperfecttool72 Meh stated Black Rifle took a loss and are making no money on these. It’s a win win for those who dislike the messaging of Black Rifle.
Yeah, I’m not buying it this time either. Hopefully, for Meh’s sake, there are enough people who are ignorant, bad people or need the savings to unclog the Meh warehouse of this stuff now.
What in the actual hell? “morally above board coffee products”? First of all, how exactly is a coffee company moral or immoral, unless coffee itself is evil (which is definitely not true). Second, when did a company being veteran-founded and run make it offensive? We’re offended by veterans now, and those that employ them?? Wow, meh. Just wow.
@troy Appreciate the response, but I think the description strays pretty solidly from “explaining the discourse” territory, to “ensuring our audience knows we despise this company just as much as our apparently more verbal customers, even if there are plenty of quiet customers who feel very differently” territory. Just sayin
@Selethorme@troy That’s a broad and problematic statement. Who’s defining “decent”? And since I assume you are one of those decent human beings, on what grounds (pun entirely intended)? And how do you reconcile despising an entire company, the employees of which you have not met and do not know, with being decent? Wouldn’t stereotyping an entire company, and despising them because of it, conflict with the very idea of being decent? Food for thought (or coffee for thought, if you prefer)
@sirrief@troy I’m defining it. And on the grounds that BRCC is run by and for white nationalists. The bar isn’t high. I do love the “calling out intolerance is the real intolerance” variation you tried there. Not gonna work.
@sirrief Ah, You must not know about sarcasm. You should really look that up. It will be good practice. The internet will be a confusing place until you’ve established some basic search engine skills.
@Selethorme@troy Ah, I see. So you are all-knowing, and therefore whatever you declare to be decent is decent. Hard to reason with someone who supports their opinions with those same opinions. Although in solidarity I am hereby declaring all persons of the decaffeinated persuasion to be the opposite of decent. And since I declared it, it shall be. Wow that was fun. I see why you do it
And I stand by my reasoning. Stating BRCC is “run by and for white nationalists” is a wild claim with no support. Again, condemning an entire company of individuals you have not personally had the opportunity to interact with is unfortunately just bad judgment. I would say the same to anyone, of any political or cultural bent.
But hey, we’ve probably said enough. I highly doubt we will change each other’s minds, so why don’t we just sit back, brew a cup of whatever coffee we happen to enjoy, and move on with life?
@RedHot O gosh- sarcasm? Never heard of it. Is there some way to search the internetz for this thing? I’ve heard kids are using something called google these days… I’ll see if I can find em in the yellow pages
@sirrief@troy I don’t have to be all-knowing to be able to do basic research about a company. It’s not “with no support.” It’s a fact that you are free to google for yourself. They stood by the Muslim ban. They said they’d hire 50k veterans because Starbucks was hiring 50k refugees. I’m not the one with bad judgement. You choosing to not engage with criticism doesn’t make the criticism invalid.
I ordered this the first time around and I love these so I ordered two this time. I don’t know why this is political. I’m a Liberal Gun Owner ™ and have no problem buying BRCC goods.
I know I’m just another voice in the crowd and it doesn’t matter much, but I want to say that while I appreciate Meh acknowledging the many negative comments they received last time they sold this product, the description trying to make light of the situation reads as really insincere and honestly frustrates me more than anything else.
This is the main issue to me: “Of course, as with all companies who attempt to parlay politics into profit, they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with” - this is an insane spin on the reality that this company chose to connect with Kyle Rittenhouse, after he was arrested and before the conclusion of his trial. You can think whatever you want to think about Rittenhouse and the verdict he ended up getting, but none of it changes the fact that this company chose to link up with him when they did, they knew exactly what that would communicate and who that would appeal to.
So for Meh to say “they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with” is really bizarre. They didn’t “find themselves” anywhere and they obviously didn’t agree that they’d “rather not align with” the people that they willingly aligned with. They made a decision all on their own, so why word it in a way that removes their agency? This is the main reason why so many people were against Meh selling these drinks in the first place, yet this description addresses it in the weakest possible way.
QUICK EDIT: I know there are many other reasons why people oppose this company, like how they supported Trump’s Muslim travel ban for example. I just remember people mentioning them supporting Rittenhouse in the previous thread more than any other reason, but I apologize if I’m misremembering.
But then there’s this: “Something else to know: despite a contentious forum, this stuff actually sold pretty well last time we offered it. And we have more. So we’re offering it again.” This is really the heart of the whole thing. We all get it, Meh is a business trying to make money. That’s fine, but to undercut the entire message of the description by essentially saying “well this sold pretty well last time so we’re gonna sell it again regardless of the comments”, after downplaying exactly why people oppose this company at all, is really frustrating.
I get that Black Rifle isn’t making any money off of these sales, people can choose to buy this or not, yada yada yada, but I really dislike how Meh chose to address the situation. If you want to read this while pretending that I’m a soyboy lib cuck who was typing while holding back tears or whatever, that’s fine and I can’t stop you, but I’ve been a Meh customer for about a decade now and I just want to make it clear to them that my issue isn’t just with them selling this product, but also with their justification for reselling it.
“this is an insane spin on the reality that this company chose to connect with Kyle Rittenhouse, after he was arrested and before the conclusion of his trial.”
and
“they knew exactly what that would communicate and who that would appeal to.”
You’ve really worked yourself up over something you clearly didn’t pay attention to or understand.
Just don’t buy the coffee. You don’t owe Meh your business and they certainly don’t owe obeisance to your boutique politics.
@disposableface nothing I said was incorrect. They chose to support him after he was arrested but before he was acquited. That was a conscious choice on their end and they knew who they were signaling when they did that. For Meh to frame it in a way that ignores their agency in the situation frustrated me.
I don’t have to just buy the product - the page has a comment section, so I chose to leave a comment that is relevant to the product and the product description. And you chose to respond to me, instead of simply purchasing the product. Funny how comment sections work!
@theanthonyya The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective. It is massively silly of you to get this upset and attempt to crybully a company who not only directly ridiculed BRCC in the listing, but also obtained the product in a way that can’t profit BRCC. I can’t even imagine the emotional fragility that leads to that kind of mindset.
You are wrong about how Meh framed the listing, you are wrong about the morality of BRCC supporting Rittenhouse, and now you get to be wrong about me. I’ve never bought their coffee, I didn’t buy this coffee, and I wouldn’t buy it at 1 cent. Since you are so talented at mind-reading, I’ll let you decide why not.
I think it’s interesting how often people such as yourself have to pretend that anybody you disagree with must be “getting upset” and being “emotional fragile”, which is something I actually acknowledged at the end of my original comment with the whole “feel free to pretend I’m a soyboy cuck” thing. Sorry to bust your bubble but I spent a few minutes writing each of my first two comments while taking a shit this morning and I’m writing this one while walking my dog.
Meanwhile your entire comment here boils down to “you are wrong about this, you’re wrong about that, you’re wrong about everything you’ve said, you’re silly and ignorant and emotionally fragile”. And you believe that you are the one who sounds level-headed here? I mean I know that you’re probably also writing your comments while taking a shit or whatever - and you aren’t actually getting irl upset over a disagreement with some random guy on a comment thread - but it’s just ironic, how “emotionally fragile” you sound, while you declare all of my opinions to be wrong and accuse me of being upset.
Buddy it is an objective fact that BRCC first supported Rittenhouse after he was arrested but before he was acquitted. Saying “you’re wrong” over and over again doesn’t change that. Neither does creating a raving lunatic strawman version of me to argue with. Sorry!
@disposableface@theanthonyya two things: 1- you definitely didn’t type all that while walking your dog, unless your dog wasn’t on a leash and didn’t take a shit. 2- you people are actually upset that a company or its employees would support someone who was arrested and accused of committing crimes simply for defending himself while exercising his constitutional rights? That’s your big argument? The left constantly jumps to the defense of actual violent criminals, simply because the police had to use force to control them. No matter what the circumstances, the “unarmed black man” can do no wrong, even when he’s actually armed. I guess your support of the whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing we have in this country depends on the race and the politics of the person arrested. But we all knew that, right? In case you missed it, which it seems most of your type did, Kyle was found not guilty, because of the fact that he did nothing illegal, despite the absolute stupidity involved in him being there in the first place. It’s extremely difficult to take any of you seriously when you choose to blatantly ignore obvious facts, just because you have a differing viewpoint. It would be so much more effective to argue your points based on facts instead of feelings, but we all know those facts don’t support your argument, so feelings it is!
Okay, I can admit that I was the idiot here lmao. I’ll be honest @warpedrotors I 100% thought you were the same person I was first talking to. I’m not very familiar with the Meh forums and didn’t realize. That’s my bad and I’ll keep up my original comment so as to not hide my stupidity:
if you don’t prioritize a random internet argument it is actually very easy to type a comment on a phone while your dog sniffs flowers etc. It’s also possible to put the phone down when need be, such as to pick up dog poop. Or are you actually “so upset” that you can’t understand the concept of multitasking?
wow, you type out that entire reply, and without a shred of irony, end it by accusing other people of putting their feelings over fact. Very interesting. By the way, I acknowledged the fact that Rittenhouse was acquitted in my previous two comments. Maybe you got so worked up that you missed it? Both times?
@theanthonyya Hey there friend, I didn’t call you a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You can tell by those words and their synonyms being missing from my replies. Pointing out the emotional reasoning and highly charged tone in your original post was just an observation. Go on telling us about how casually you posted it though. Maybe you will be taking out the trash or giving a urine sample during your next post.
You don’t need to randomly guess at my posting mood. You’re no more likely to arrive at the correct conclusion than when you assess the events in Kenosha. Feel free to hate BRCC to your heart’s content, I’m not in the market for gimmick tough-guy brands. It’s just extravagantly silly to whip yourself up in indignation over your misunderstanding of Meh’s post, which is preceded by your more fundamental misunderstanding: the moral significance of BRCC’s lukewarm and temporary support for Rittenhouse.
Condemning BRCC’s fence-sitting support while ignoring the deranged lies and malfeasance by so much of the media then against Rittenhouse is rank hypocrisy. Condemning them for their “signaling” is a cheap, thought-terminating cliche used to strangle the viewpoints of others. If you had real principles, you would be able to face all of this and be enlightened.
@disposableface “Hey there friend, I didn’t call you a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You can tell by those words and their synonyms being missing from my replies.”
Okay, let me break this first part down for you. I apologize in advance but this is going to be a long comment (it’s mostly just quotes though).
I did not say that you called me a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You see, in my very first comment I wrote the following towards the end:
“If you want to read this while pretending that I’m a soyboy lib cuck who was typing while holding back tears or whatever, that’s fine and I can’t stop you”
You then went on to say the following about me, in your next two comments:
“You’ve really worked yourself up”
“The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective”
“It is massively silly of you to get this upset”
“I can’t even imagine the emotional fragility that leads to that kind of mindset”
Then I replied, saying this:
“I think it’s interesting how often people such as yourself have to pretend that anybody you disagree with must be “getting upset” and being “emotional fragile”, which is something I actually acknowledged at the end of my original comment with the whole “feel free to pretend I’m a soyboy cuck” thing.”
Do you understand? I was not accusing you of literally calling me a soyboy cuck, you see, I was making the point that you were acting as if I was upset/fragile/etc, which I acknowledged people might do in my first comment, with the whole “soyboy cuck” thing.
You say that “pointing out the emotional reasoning and highly charged tone in your original post was just an observation”
But when you say things like:
“Just don’t buy the coffee. You don’t owe Meh your business and they certainly don’t owe obeisance to your boutique politics.”
and
“The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective”
and
“If you had real principles, you would be able to face all of this and be enlightened”
you’re being completely neutral, right? You’re not engaging in “emotional reasoning” or writing in a “highly charged tone”. Right?
“You don’t need to randomly guess at my posting mood.”
I guess I need to break this one down as well. I was not simply “randomly guessing your posting mood”. I was making a point - the point being, that you keep insisting on calling me “upset”, “emotionally fragile” etc, when in reality we are both just here writing comments on a forum, probably while doing other things, and probably while not actually being irl upset. I wasn’t just making some random guess about you for no reason. And I wasn’t the one accusing you of being upset, over and over again. You have been “guessing my posting mood” this entire time. Look, you even do it again in this comment:
“It’s just extravagantly silly to whip yourself up in indignation over your misunderstanding of Meh’s post”
But as you said, you’re simply “making an observation” about my posting mood. Right? Because everything you say is completely neutral?
I expressed my opinion on what I believe to be a couple of issues with Meh’s description for this product, I tried doing so without being indignant/an asshole about it, and I don’t believe that my original comment was “highly charged” even if it was negative (unless using words like “baffling” or “frustrating” are enough to make something “highly charged”). I’m not the one here declaring that anybody’s opinions are wrong, or telling people to “buy the coffee or don’t” rather than leave comments…on a comment thread. I’ll end by saying what I said in the beginning - if you are going to believe that I’m just being upset or fragile (or as I described it, a “soyboy cuck”), that’s fine and I can’t stop you.
@theanthonyya Alrighty, I wasn’t implying you were accusing me of saying those actual words. You were indignant and your original post both contains and is the evidence. Trying to head off criticism by pre-emptively defusing ad hominems doesn’t change that.
Setting the rules so that one “side” is allowed a public opinion on Rittenhouse’s actions is farcical. Overstating BRCC’s support is farcical. Refusing to acknowledge their about-face towards him is farcical. Trying to lock a chain of false guilt around Meh is farcical. Misinterpreting their commentary and then implying that BRCC stands to win or lose by these sales is farcical.
Push-back against stances that fundamentally threaten the principles of freedom of conscience, free association, good faith dialog, and plurality of perspectives is normal and necessary.
If you want a defensible line-in-the-sand stance against BRCC, then read up on the sexual assault allegations against their CEO. Then go after the company proper, not some internet clearance website with a questionable impact on upstream profits. Have a good night.
Bought one the last time and really enjoyed it. Bought three this time. Please keep hating so the price goes down and I can get an even better deal next time.
All it takes is a little canned coffee to bring out the adult tantrums, and they didn’t even have to drink it. I’ll weigh in now, in order to upset more mentally fragile people who make decisions based on who’s telling them what to be outraged about. Kyle Rittenhouse was dumb. He put himself in a situation where he would likely need to shoot someone to get back home safely. However, the people he shot created that situation, by illegally rioting in the streets, and attacking him with weapons while he was clearly armed to respond to those attacks. Bad decisions were made on both sides, but criminal decisions were made on only one side. Kyle was found not guilty because he was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of committing. It’s really that simple. No logical and factual application of the laws in question to the actual facts of the case could arrive at any other conclusion. Anyone who thinks otherwise is using their politics or feelings or ignorance to make their decision. Bad guys were shot by a moron who needed to defend himself. No one would have been shot if they had all stayed home. Rioting is not protesting and no one has the right to participate in a riot, since it is illegal. Pretending you’re protesting in an attempt to justify your riot or any other crime is just ridiculous. Crying about a certain company not having the same beliefs as you, or another company selling that company’s products, or stomping your feet and going home because of it is also ridiculous. Meh has made a business out of selling countless products of questionable origin to a bunch of people with questionable spending habits. I’d bet that half the shit sold here is manufactured by children or slaves in some third world hellhole, but everyone wants to get self-righteous over the scary black gun coffee guys who have differing views on which old billionaire to vote for, or whatever political topic they were told to be upset about this time. Ride your hypocrisy high horse straight out of town, and imagine the crowd cheering for your brave decision as you leave meh. Feel free to come back when you realize every company you support has a differing opinion than you on some important subject, or does something you wouldn’t support. Pretending that Starbucks and Ben and Jerry give a shit about you or immigrants or the homeless, or whatever they pretend to care about, while they’re raking in billions from whoever is willing to hand them cash, is just laughable. If you let your morals and politics decide what you buy, you’d never have to spend a dime. Just be ready to be self-sufficient enough for your level of self-righteousness. God bless America and the great Donald J. Trump! Blue lives matter! Build that wall! I think that should do it.
@warpedrotors This just seems like a lot of words to justify your bad takes. Also, like, that’s not remotely the only issue they have. But I do love the pants-on-head “you’re a hypocrite for participating in society.” Really just a great way to say you shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Imagine someone (a clear racist by all accounts) going to a riot for the purpose of shooting people, armed with the scariest gun ever to exist, with so much dangerous ammunition, so much potential for killing the black people he so wanted to kill, and he manages to shoot ONLY 3 white guys who attacked him. What restraint, right? How did he do it? How did such a violent racist with such a dangerous mass-killing-capable gun, only manage to shoot 3 white guys? It’s almost impossible to imagine that’s what happened. It’s as if something in the story isn’t factual. Weird.
@Selethorme let’s have a moment to appreciate the irony. Are you not here also? Are you not craving the attention? Your desperation is showing. Maybe take a break. You don’t seem to be having the fun I’m having with this.
@warpedrotors Oh it’s all too easy. Particularly with the middle school level attempts you’ve got here. You think others are mad, but spent like half an hour making multiple ragebait comments that got no replies until I volunteered to engage with you. You’re desperate for attention and validation of your bad takes, and nobody here is giving it to you. Your comments here consist of calling others fragile, crybabies, and hypocrites, while whining about how many people call out BRCC for being run by bad people for bad people. Notice how you don’t have an actual reply to a more substantive reply above.
@Selethorme notice how i only posted to bring out the fragile ones who were hurt by my comments. I don’t drink coffee. I didn’t buy this. I don’t care that it’s being offered for sale here. I don’t care about your political beliefs or your justification of them. I don’t care if you don’t like what i think. I posted to upset fragile people, which seems to have upset you. Be less fragile. Drink more BRCC.
@warpedrotors Sure ya did. That’s why you spent literally half an hour commenting multiple separate top level comments. But thanks for proving my point.
@Selethorme did you read my original post? It seems like you just decided it was too many words. I laid it all out pretty clearly from the start. Just because your politics are your whole personality, doesn’t mean everyone who doesn’t agree is upset. Typing a few words, or even many words, is not the great inconvenience, nor the barometer of my feelings, that you wish it to be. I’m having fun while you’re getting upset and projecting. I’m even typing this with one finger while I hold my ar-15 in my other hand. I’ll see if i can find a red hat to pop on my head so you can shit your diaper a bit more over words from a stranger on the internet.
Politics/messaging aside… Would anyone else have bought them if they dropped the price $1 or more? Surely meh could have ‘learned’ more in this experiment by seeing how many purchases are price motivated vs unwavering politics… Maybe next sale includes a $1 donation to a local food bank or charity w/ each purchase to really make folks check their beliefs at the gate…
@troy how dare you! That is my private financial information and a violation of my HIPPO! You do not have my permission to record me and you’ll be hearing from my lawyers!
If Meh is going to start dabbling more in weirdly political items I’m going to leave. There’s other daily deals sites out there I can just as easily migrate to. I’m trying to live my life and not think about all that toxicity and vitriol and it already feels like literally everywhere I go, offline and online, it’s shoved down my throat anyway.
I’m not going to buy the fascist coffee that’s about to expire from a stupid group who pretends to be patriotic but couldn’t actually give less of a shit about their nation or those who serve it. It’s not about whether or not they’ll directly profit from my purchase, it’s about how I morally feel about having their products in my home. I work in veteran’s mental health, my whole family is military, it’s a subject close to my heart and I’m upset seeing Meh would run a product like this that is from a group that would stoop so low.
I can safely say I will never again recommend this site to a friend or coworker after this incident, and I’m already debating how I feel about my continued membership. Just keep anything that’s so blatantly political away and stop giving people things to get mad about. Sure, you might get some sales from people who don’t know, or don’t care, or think they’re owning the libs and defeating communism, but I don’t think it’s a good call in the long run.
@capnjb@warpedrotors Do y’all ever get tired of being genuine pieces of shit, eager to fight over anything? Has being a good person ever once crossed your minds? No?
I aim to do good in life, and make morally good choices to support morally good things. I know, must make me so terrible. Cry harder.
@capnjb@Nova_1231 your personal attacks in response to jokes on the internet sure highlight your moral superiority. Way to go! Are you still here though?
@capnjb@warpedrotors Personal attacks? Oh grow up. You came looking to fight, you wanted an argument. You weren’t making a joke, you were inciting. Congrats, you got a response. Go play stupid elsewhere, and by all means waste your money on shit coffee from a moronic company that takes advantage of veterans to show me how owned I am. I’m so riled up about it. Shaking and crying right now. How will I manage, oh no, egads.
I’m about to clock out of work and go back to enjoying myself. Would recommend y’all reconsider how you interact with the world and the people you meet, if the thought of being even a half-decent person ever crosses your mind. Cheers.
@capnjb@Nova_1231@Selethorme I’m certain you don’t actually know what irony is. Add that to the list of things you don’t understand, along with racism and white nationalist… and facts.
Supporting the former POTUS…that’s just dumb for a “Patriotic” company. Selling good coffee and employing veterans, that’s fantastic. Buying canned caffeine off of Meh at a discount, that’s just genius. Stay hydrated my friends.
A 3.5-ounce pack of Act III microwave popcorn tossed into my 1250 watt Panasonic nukebox on the 1.5 ounce popcorn setting burns no kernels and produces exactly the amount of popcorn that I want to eat at one sitting.
I am running low.
I blame this thread. (The Goat need not take this one.)
@warpedrotors More popped kernels would result in more popcorn than I want to eat at one sitting, so the quantity of unpopped kernels is exactly right. The bag is technically bigger than I need, but by the math I did the last time I looked at the quantities, the best bang for the buck for me is in doing it this way.
@werehatrack Best bang for the buck would be to pop all the kernels. Are you telling me 7 or 8 more puffed corn bits would push you over the edge into gluttony? Sacrifices are made in the name of scientific discovery. Be the hero the popcorn world needs, even if it causes you slight discomfort. You’ll be remembered for your contribution to popping science, not for the specific amount of popcorn you personally wish to ingest during a specific time period. Save that for your autobiography.
@warpedrotors Prior experimentation established that it is impossible to get this brand of popcorn down to the point where less than 10 kernels remain unpopped and none of the popped kernels are burnt. I hate burnt popcorn. And I don’t really want as much as it pops now, but I will finish it. So, for me, what I am doing is perfect. You do you.
Meh’s controversial item for sale tomorrow: a globe! Flerfers, creationists, space-deniers, etc. come on out and discuss the dome, ice wall, giants, flight paths, gravity, and the cheese moon.
@Kidsandliz@warpedrotors Those of us who understand cats are fully aware that the presence of Stuff on the planetary surface means that it can’t be flat, because the cats would have knocked everything over the edge by now.
@Kidsandliz don’t be ridiculous. There’s not an edge to the Earth like a cliff that you sail off. There’s an ice wall that prevents you from accessing the rest of the flat Earth that is vast and inhabited by dinosaurs and nephalim, and then sometimes the ice wall is the dome of the firmament… or something.
I feel like the cats need to be interspersed with the angry rants and name-calling posts. They aren’t having the desired effect with the current deployment strategy. Maybe mediocrebot can be programmed to post a cat picture whenever certain key words are posted.
First things first - Way to go Meh for not obviously mod-blasting any of the obviously jocular comments on this deal. The commenters who are obviously egging each other on to higher heights of hilarity for the obvious enjoyment of the rest of us are obviously doing their best to help diffuse the political angst we all obviously feel.
Meh to the coffee, obviously.
@mehakane There wasn’t any discussion of tactics amongst the mods as far as I saw, but my personal decision was that since the “discussion” was inevitably going to be a raging dumpster fire (and at least some of it was doubtless going to get metaphorically CGI-enhanced), the only winning move was to stay outside of the splash radius (plus a little).
Well that was fun wasn’t it?
I’m sure some of your phones are in need of a charge after all that typing so why not head on out of here and over to this great deal on some magnetic USB cables (they come in red or blue)
Specs
Product: 24-Pack: Black Rifle Coffee Company Espresso Mocha
Model: 36-003
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$45.98 for 24 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Oct 9 - Tuesday, Oct 10
Bean soup in a can?
@yakkoTDI Nope, never have. But I’ll try anything once!
@shahnm @yakkoTDI
/giphy bean soup
@yakkoTDI ill buy that for a dollar!
Get the popcorn ready.
Like we haven’t had enough drama the past few days …
@Kyeh There was drama?
@brainmist Practically nonstop!
@brainmist @Kyeh
Thank god I wasn’t paying attention
@Kyeh
What is this drama you speak of?
I’m just here for the drama
Great write-up and explanation about the fallout from last time…
@caffeineguy
Anyone got a link?
@caffeineguy @thechilipepper0 https://meh.com/forum/topics/24-pack-black-rifle-coffee-company-espresso-mocha#64ec1bc814c88a314a61e3d6
Coffee with protein?!
Curious as to the source of that one.
@rjquillin They’ve had several different coffee-with things. I couldn’t tell you much more than that, because as a coffee atheist (I can prove that there is no coffee that I will believe drinkable) I paid unremarkably little attention to the details.
@rjquillin Well it being from black rifle, probably soy
@rjquillin @tuzalu There’s a link to the ingredients list. The protein is from milk.
“Should we even do a joke here: probably not”
This product is a joke.
@medz It’s basically Starbucks
@mark0805 you’re basically Starbucks!
@mark0805 @medz They’re Starbucks!
Amazon has the price much lower at $22.99. C’mon Meh.
@paxeternal The Amazon option is a 12 pack vs the Meh 24 pack.
@paxeternal @yakkoTDI
or this
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rifle-Coffee-Company-Espresso/dp/B09VTN1YZN
for $70
@yakkoTDI Thanks. That makes more sense. Clicked the compare link but didn’t realize it was needing to be doubled in quantity.
@paxeternal Maybe you need a coffee to get the brain running smoothly. I know a place where you can get some.
@rjquillin @yakkoTDI That’s just gross. Buying in bulk like that shouldn’t cost so much per drink. Too rich for my blood. Don’t care about politics. Just deals.
@paxeternal @yakkoTDI small detail
@paxeternal @yakkoTDI Amazon’s is a better deal, because you get less of this crap!
Oh boy, red hat coffee.
@DrunkCat
Expresso Mocha Black … it’s as strong as airline coffee and would never be allowed on the plane.
@hchavers and the reason its not allowed on the plane is actually because it was at Jan 6 and is now in prison.
Colombian coffee? Is American coffee not good enough for this outfit?
@Hanky This is “America’s Coffee” – South America
@caffeineguy @Hanky Supplier of some of the finest stimulants!
CONTAINS BOIENGINEERED FOOD INGREDIENTS
What???
@lonocat just saw that as well; hard pass
@lonocat @rjquillin GMO sugar beets are common, so my guess is that it’s that driving the disclaimer.
@lonocat Vaxxed?
@lonocat @ralphie
@lonocat @rjquillin Why? Do you people not know what ‘bioengineered food ingredients’ means? Lol
/giphy not today satan
@PHRoG
I knew it was you before I saw the name.
You made me look. I’m sorry I did.
Sounds like Meh has their own Instant Regret by not being able to offload this sh*t. Cut your losses Meh and don’t buy this garbage ever again.
@mikesmells they said it sold pretty well last time, so
. This 2nd offer will tell whether it was a mistake.
LOL, check out their website! SOOPER MANLY ALPHA MALE NO CUCKS COFFEE!!! These coffee names were invented by a 14 yo wannabe edgelord in 2002, weren’t they.
I especially like "Emails Suck. Ours Don’t.
When I saw this on sale last time, I didn’t think to read the comment section. Apparently I missed out on people crying.
I find the bag of crap for 50 to be more offensive than a product with a political alignment I don’t like, but then again, I don’t subscribe to the delusion that you can have a morally sound political alignment.
It’s all a game, and you’re a loser if you play it.
As far as buying it goes. I’m really more of a tea guy, so pass.
@AaronLeeJohnson I’m more of an unsweetened coffee type… but if these get cheap enough, I may try them. Maybe.
170 cals per serving is a lot, though.
@AaronLeeJohnson You’re conflagrating two things that shouldn’t be related. Guns and politics. There were 9 people killed at a mall that I regularly visit. Or, should I say, used to regularly visit. It will be some time before we feel safe going there again.
In my state, an entire classroom of 4th graders were gunned down. 9-year-old kids. They watched their classmates get killed in front of their eyes before getting killed themselves.
This isn’t a political thing. This is a gun thing. This is a cultural thing.
No other country that has legal guns has this kind of a problem. Don’t play this off as a Democrat vs Republican thing. That’s too easy. And these motherfuckers – Black Rifle Coffee Company – are playing this off like it’s a male libido thing. Fuck them, and fuck Meh for selling this shit.
@aarond12 @AaronLeeJohnson When people use cars and trucks to intentionally kill people, do you think we have a car and truck problem?
When people blow up buildings with fertilizer and diesel fuel do you think we have a fertilizer and diesel fuel problem?
When people use passenger jets to kill 3000+ people, do we have a passenger jet problem?
When people go on a killing spree using knives or machetes or swords, do you think we have a sharp instruments problem?
A gun is a tool. It is neither good nor bad. It can’t kill anyone. The gun isn’t the problem. People are the problem. Mentally ill people, evil people, bad people use the tool to do bad things. Take the tool (gun) away and they will find another tool to do their evil.
And on the flip side, in the hands of good people, moral people, responsible people that tool can be used for good.
Let’s stop talking about guns as if they just randomly fire autonomously and slaughter people.
@Trinityscrew Get out of here with your logic. I want to be ANGRY!
@aarond12 @AaronLeeJohnson @Trinityscrew If people were using passenger jets, or knives, or swords, or nail guns, or fertilizer, or Priuses, or tittlywinks to kill massive numbers of people on a daily basis? We would in fact have a problem with all those things. We would need to start tracking their sale and those that are buying them.
If we had such a problem and a weirdly high number of people who decided to make swords or stealing passenger jets a core part of their “cultural identity” we would refer to those folks as violent extremists and probably want to put them in jail.
Unfortunately when it comes to guns, for reasons that made sense at the time (and are unrelated to the modern age we live in) they were put in the bill of rights (using a poorly worded amendment) so they have a level of legal protection in this country that is problematic. Repeal the second amendment, too many of our fellow Americans have shown themselves to be incapable of living up to the responsibilities that are supposed to come with their second amendment rights.
@joshaw @Trinityscrew Logic? No. We regulate access to cars. We require proficiency tests, insurance, and training. Literally six to nine months to go from a learner’s permit to a license. What a disingenuous argument.
@aarond12 @AaronLeeJohnson @Trinityscrew
Yes, that’s why there’s been a shift in how we handle these and hijackings.
@joshaw @Selethorme Really? Disingenuous? So a person intent on killing as many people as possible with an automobile wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t registered? Or if they didn’t have a license? Don’t be absurd.
And all of the stupidity regarding the gun-grabbing attempts won’t stop bad or mentally ill people obtaining a gun, legally or illegally and killing people with it.
And you can rest assured that if they are intent on killing indiscriminately they will find a way to do it.
@aarond12 @AaronLeeJohnson @imnotjames
The extreme reaction to the 9/11 hijackings is a complete joke. It worked on 9/11 because no one on the planes understood what was going to happen. They assumed the planes were being hijacked, not turned into flying missiles. That particular scenario will never happen again. People on board won’t allow it to play out.
As a case in point, the passengers on flight 93 found out what was happening and tried to take the plane back. Sadly they perished anyway, but no one will sit still and wait to die on a plane anymore.
@aarond12 @AaronLeeJohnson @Trinityscrew
There’s a nugget of some really basic logic in that statement, actually. Some very primitive “if we boil this down to its basic Lego pieces” logic. Is it accurate to say that a “gun is a tool?” Maybe. But it ignores the fact that the tool being used by the “mentally ill” or “evil people” to do evil things has been refined to do its job better than its competitors (and there have been a lot of competitors in that space). Have we made it harder to hijack a plane to mitigate high casualty events? Yep. That’s why you can’t go into the terminal anymore without a ticket, pat down, removing your shoes, and having a computer inspect your genitals. Have we made it harder to buy diesel and fertilizer together in bulk? You bet.
So why hold the door open to make high kill counts easier? If someone wanted to kill people with a bowling ball, they could totally do it. But after you get past the first, it gets exponentially harder to get to a goal of a high body count.
There are legions of people whose job it is to get rid of regulation and make modern guns more accessible. Then you get the forum warriors like this is a magnet for those who spill their bad takes and terribly short-sided logic bombs that want to justify tragedy with culture. Did you learn those lines on your own, or did you hear it from someone else first? Because it behooves those who want customers, voting blocs, and profit generators to hold that door open at the lowest levels with nebulous ideas of “culture” and novel, but flawed ideas of philosophy.
BRC sucks. Period. It sucks that Meh is giving them oxygen by selling their crap stock. The profit motive of one company doesn’t overshadow the idea that whatever that brand very publicly stands for is now getting dragged along here by Meh. So they can use the tactic of “Oh, it’ll blow over in a day or so, just ignore them” here on the forums or if there is some internal pressure, “Just ignore the drones, hunker down, wait for it to blow over and we’ll all forget about it tomorrow.”
You don’t have to explain anything. We can see what you’re doing, and you already know the routine; know the game plan. Profit motives take president, so spending money, time, and attention elsewhere for us really shouldn’t be surprising.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew how many of those things do you need to actually drive a vehicle? The vast majority of carjackers don’t have a valid driver’s license, yet they somehow manage to drive many different vehicles. It’s almost as if regulating things, even as strongly as you’ve pointed out we do with vehicles, has no bearing on what criminals will do with those regulated things. All of the gun violence is already illegal. New gun laws won’t make those crimes more illegal, or stop those committing them from doing so. Getting rid of all the guns is a ridiculous and impossible non-solution. The best actual solution is to severely punish those violating the existing laws against violent gun crimes. Ironically, the strongest proponents of reducing gun violence, promote policies that do nothing but increase that gun violence, while further restricting law-abiding citizens. If we could somehow magically make all the guns disappear, violent criminals would find a way to continue their violent ways. It’s a people problem, and those people are not being punished when they commit violent crimes. Punishing those who legally possess and use an item, be it a car or a gun, rather than those who illegally use those items, would seem counterproductive to any rational person, but that’s the “solution” you guys always come up with.
@joshaw @Trinityscrew Do tell, where exactly you think guns come from. Where cars come from. Almost every single gun used in a mass shooting was purchased legally. Most gun crime is committed with legally purchased guns, not weapons smuggled into the country. This argument just really shows you don’t know anything about the issue beyond what NRA propaganda will tell you to repeat back at us. Meanwhile, the data exists. Making it take more time to get a gun, making you have to have a background check for every sale. Taking guns away from domestic abusers. All of it actually works.
@joshaw @Trinityscrew @warpedrotors I love how you just make up some pretty blatant lies here to try to ignore the point.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew your fantasy statistics only hold up if you use the left wing media definition of a mass shooting, where innocent white kids are gunned down in a school, or a lunatic shoots up a shopping mall. If you look at actual shootings involving multiple victims, or a mass shooting, the numbers overwhelmingly show that they are committed by black males, mostly against other black males, using illegally obtained and/or modified handguns, and the occasional illegally obtained and/or modified long gun. The vast majority of gun violence in this country is perpetrated by young black men upon other young black men and women. Those same acts of violence ALL violate many laws that are already in place. These violent criminals aren’t turning in their guns, nor are they giving up their lives of crime and violence in response to new gun laws. The extreme ignorance needed to make the argument you’ve presented, in the face of endless evidence to the contrary, is just astonishing. Kudos for your amazing lack of awareness. It’s really something.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew The sheer number of people that can be killed from a firearm before being stopped, especially in places that are supposed to be safe and secure, is vastly more than a vehicle. This has been proven time and time again; vehicular rampages cause less fatalities than firearm rampages.
I agree mental health is a major issue in our society and no doubt it contributes to gun violence, but when politicians and others in power bring up how “guns aren’t the issue, it’s mental illness,” they also provide no methodology for improving the mental health crisis. There’s no attempt to tackle issues with access, stigma, financial burden, work & school structures, etc. It is only used as an excuse and justification that “firearms aren’t the problem,” rather than an actual belief or call to action. It’s disgusting how people with mental health disorders are used as a scapegoat for the firearms community, furthering the stigmatization of those with mental health disorders by painting the mentally ill as “the mass shooters.” This also increases the likelihood of creating the boogeyman that they say they’re trying to stop.
Another thought, you also mention that guns can be used for good, not just bad. I genuinely challenge you to think of a scenario where a person with a firearm is doing good, while the people they are enacting “good” on do not also have firearms. It seems to me that access to firearms creates its own intrinsic, self-sustaining need for more people to have firearms; if people have access, there will always be “bad actors,” necessitating “good actors.” If there were no firearms to begin with, there would also be no “bad actors” to stop.
@alx10mgmg @Selethorme @Trinityscrew Umm, France disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack
Rest assured that he had all of the proper paperwork and licensing for that truck.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew there are many mass shootings that total over 100 deaths, including in France. Working on averages, firearm massacres cause more death than vehicular massacres. Using one example that doesn’t follow this trend is an exception, not the rule. It comes across as a bad faith argument when a straw man like this is presented.
I will agree (and this is an assumption by me) that vehicles may cause more harm, leading to larger numbers of injured people, but that’s partly due to how effective firearms are at killing and how ineffective vehicles are.
@joshaw @Trinityscrew @warpedrotors Wow. You’re almost a parody of yourself. You went full mask off on that racism, and in so doing really just exposed that everyone calling out BRCC as the coffee of white nationalists is right. So…thanks, I guess?
@Selethorme @Trinityscrew @warpedrotors Hahaha, wut? Your comment is a parody of itself.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew facts aren’t racist. Your inability to see the truth because of some “white guilt” or other such nonsense, doesn’t change that truth.
@joshaw @Selethorme @Trinityscrew oh, and i don’t drink coffee, so deciding I’m a white nationalist for drinking BRCC is quite the stretch, even for someone so blindly committed to accusing everyone else of being a terrible person. If i were to drink coffee, i wouldn’t buy this, for a variety of reasons, none of which involve the race of anyone. I don’t make purchases based on race. I’m sure you make every effort to support “black-owned businesses” though, because you just feel like you have to. There is racism in this scenario, but it’s not coming from my side. Imagine the outrage if people were encouraged to support white-owned businesses. Your immediate jump to “that’s racist” for anything you disagree with may work for the lefties reading your nonsense, but simply screaming racism doesn’t magically make it exist. We can all pretend gangs of white people are shooting each other on a daily basis if you want, or even that white people are committing carjackings in the record numbers that black people are, but that just doesn’t align with the reality of the situation. The only person I’ve ever met who actually buys BRCC coffee is an army veteran who happens to be black. He had the stickers and the coffee mug and everything. I guess he’s a white nationalist in your world though. He also owns one of those scary black rifles. Stop using your feelings to try to create your own facts, because that just makes them not facts, no matter how much you want them to be.
Any good person with a gun has the ability to intervene and potentially stop any crime regardless of whether the criminal has a gun. And no, I’m not suggesting that the “good guy” blows the heads off of the perpetrators of the crimes. I am suggesting that an unarmed perpetrator will submit to the commands of the good guy or flee. Either way, the good guy wins the bad guy is stopped.
I will leave you with this quote: “An armed society is a polite society.”
Dammit, the CBOT is probably going to halt sales of popcorn futures before the exchange opens at this rate.
ok, let’s forget about the dead elephant in the corner & look at a can of caffeine that tastes like caramelized 30 weight, with as much protein as a couple candy bars.
at $1.25 a can, the only thing I can justify it for is the inevitable drunken crawl out of my trunk after an all-nighter involving tequila & bad choices.
how long will it last in a trunk?
@alacrity Depends on whose trunk, and where it’s parked.
@alacrity @werehatrack And how often the all-nighters occur (especially given their expiry date—you can work with frankenstein’d sugar/dairy, but you don’t wanna roll the dice on the protein, trust me)!
@alacrity Is there a perforated body in the trunk?
I like these. I didn’t even know there was political controversy with this company before I read comments last time. We bought them at Sam’s the first time we tried them but that was a while ago, so I was glad to see them here. I think they taste better than the Starbucks double shot we were getting on Amazon. They aren’t as sweet and don’t make me feel bloated like Starbucks does. I will likely buy them again.
I bought them last time and I’m almost out. F the politics, it’s easy to grab out the fridge and go, tastes ok, and packs a caffeinated punch.
@bigjim_ Yea, 200MG is a good KICK and tastes good to me, best over ICE, even better! I bought another case for sure, hard to be at that price.
@bigjim_ @bigkiskewl I like to put one in the freezer when I get to work and after a couple hours they get slightly slushy. Yum.
@paxeternal, @DrunkCat,@Pontiak, @AaronLeeJohnson, and anyone else ignorant enough to think the same way:
Meh.com writer:
“Of course, as with all companies who attempt to parlay politics into profit, they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with, and, in an attempt to offend no one, crafted a statement whose spinelessness offended literally everyone.”
FYI Black Rifle Coffee Company was apparently founded by veterans who are proud to have patriotically served their country.
See About Us - Black Rifle Coffee Company
https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/pages/who-we-are
“Our Mission
Black Rifle Coffee Company serves coffee and culture to people who love America.
We develop our explosive roast profiles with the same mission focus we learned as military members serving this great country and are committed to supporting veterans, law enforcement, and first responders. With every purchase you make, we give back.
Our History
Founded in 2014 by former U.S. Army Green Beret Evan Hafer, Black Rifle Coffee Company was built upon the mission to serve coffee and culture to people who love America.
Black Rifle stands for more than high-quality coffee. We are a Veteran-founded business operated by principled men and women who honor those who protect, defend, and support our country.
#10,000 Veterans
A large part of Black Rifle Coffee Company’s success is due to the outstanding work ethic and discipline of our Veteran employees. As we grow, we’re committed to hiring 10,000 Veterans to provide opportunities to the military community that helped build us.
As a Veteran-founded and operated company, Black Rifle Coffee also strives to help other service-members successfully transition from the military into entrepreneurship. We provide assistance to Veterans who seek to launch a business of their own, helping more companies like Black Rifle Coffee Company become a reality.”
Do you all think being patriotic is political?
I do NOT understand. Does anyone, ANYONE, dare to step up and explain to this Vietnam veteran why you believe being patriotic is political?
Do you all really think “using” their hard earned histories is being political.
Try telling that to the millions of vets who vote for both parties.
There is no other way to say it. Anyone who believes that has been brain washed.
THAT is disgusting.
Yes, I am unapologetically proud to be an American and I love my country.
Are YOU
Apologies will be accepted from those who have reconsidered.
OTOH, I do NOT need your apologies.
@jeffreywsnyder you have no idea what “political” means do you? lol
@jeffreywsnyder they did a bunch of ads about how they’re “murderer’s favorite coffee” (those are my words, they said Kyle Rittenhouse instead.)
@jeffreywsnyder
@jeffreywsnyder don’t let the ignorant commies get you all riled up my guy, eventually they’ll pay taxes and grow up
@jeffreywsnyder You’re being silly. That line means that right wingers wrote the brand off for distancing from proud boys and the like. https://www.independentsentinel.com/black-rifle-coffee-hates-you/
@eagonwild @jeffreywsnyder Yeah, add Jeffy’s “righteous” apologetic to the “unpolitical” use of murder boy, and I’m pretty sure I wanna see those fuckers go down in flames as they deserve.
I know plenty of vets who’d agree with me, and who wouldn’t fall for this bullshit, so there’s that.
@jeffreywsnyder they said they’d hire 10k veterans because Starbucks said they’d hire 10k refugees.
As of today BRCC has hired 50 employees total.
Starbucks hired at least 8k refugees and over 40k veterans total.
@jeffreywsnyder what a sad, little person - I mean patriot. Being a veteran and/or a “patriot” doesn’t absolve you or anyone else from other poor, uninformed decision making. It’s possible to be a patriot without being an asshole, you just didn’t choose that route.
@jeffreywsnyder hey, we all love our country- we prove it daily.
We just don’t jerk off with the flag like y’all do.
F’n creepy, princess.
@jeffreywsnyder @TheStas Hey there, Stasi. That’s funny, because I’ve been paying my taxes for decades, happy to invest resources and effort on behalf of the common good. I exercise my right of assembly and expression in the wake of cops killing another unarmed Black Person (unfortunately a regular occurrence). I show up and speak up at city council and committee and school board meetings. I work with community leaders to try to make this shithole more of what it claims it is—founding words crafted under the shadow of its embrace of slavery, overt racism, genocide, patriarchy, classism. I not only vote, but do what I can to assist folks in exercising the right that conservatives in this country have consistently (continuing in full force in the present day) striven to restrict and throw up obstacles to.
Meanwhile, not only are your people the ones excluding, othering and demonizing according to all manner of identities and labels, but, help me out, wasn’t it the “patriots” who were rubbing their shit on the Capitol walls and attacking cops on January 6? If that’s what it means to “grow up”, I’m quite pleased to remain a commie.
@jeffreywsnyder Dude, politicians sent you halfway around the world to participate in violence to stop communism. You were engaging in a process that changes who wields power and how it’s applied.
@jeffreywsnyder Are you sure your rose tinted glasses aren’t just made of rose petals?
@eagonwild show me one of those advertisments? What I understand is their marketing agency sent out one tweet which Black Rifle made them take down.
@jeffreywsnyder @joelmw @TheStas I can’t imagine genuinely believing in the things y’all do. Then I remember that I actually care about other people.
@TheStas @jeffreywsnyder
I’m sorry. Did I hurt your feelings? Do you need a hug? Are there too many words and “brain hurts bad”? Did you get a shitty education and you’re too goddamned lazy to learn anything beyond your tired cliches and bigotry? Does it bother you when I toss your witless epithets back at you and el jefe? I don’t mean to waste any more time on your bullshit, so don’t worry, you won’t need to respond with anymore complete irrelevancies (at least not in my direction; but I’m sure you’ll feel or create the need to throw your two cents in somewhere).
For the record, not that it’s pertinent, but, as mentioned, nothing else you said is either: My mother’s been dead for close to 47 years, almost longer than she lived. Before she died, when I was 13, she’d already taught me most of what I needed to know to take care of myself. I was out of Dad’s house (I’d wager a better father than you’ve ever known) at 18, before I started college. I don’t much care for SpaghettiOs. Thankfully we don’t all live like you do or have your–what I suppose you flatter yourself by calling them–“tastes”.
You’re quite welcome to fuck off and do your bootlicking elsewhere.
@jeffreywsnyder @TheStas
/giphy do you need a hug
@jeffreywsnyder @joelmw interesting how you conflate “miss me with your bullshit” as “please come and tell me about your parents failures”.
Not sure how you have the audactiy to question someone else’s education based on that alone.
You can fuck right off yourself unless you want to discuss it here in Chicago.
@jeffreywsnyder @TheStas hey buddy, all the scary millennial commies ARE grown up and guess what, we want it even more now. boo!
“Third world animals”? @TheStas You’re trash. I’m not one to overdo forum moderation but this is just overt racism and has no business on a mediocre deals forum.
@highonpez yes, treating people based on the content of their character is now racist. Everyone I don’t agree with is a nazi. Welcome to bizarro world 2020’s America
@jeffreywsnyder @Pontiak “scary millennial” is probably the biggest oxymoron I’ve heard in a long time. You probably ought to go look up the difference between “phobia” and “misia” while you’re at it.
@highonpez @TheStas Content of their character? No. It’s just pretty blatant racism on your part. But doubling down with it when xenophobia fits you so well is icing.
@Selethorme so what are you accusing me of? xenophobia or racism? that’s two entirely different things. Also, please don’t bastardize my mother tongue. Phobia isn’t isn’t the suffix you need, it’s misia. No one’s afraid of foreigners. Congratulations, you’re stupid in two languages
@TheStas No, they’re two entirely related things. But good try. Phobia isn’t just a fear, and hasn’t been for a long time. Same reason a Muslim ban is islamophobic even though I’m sure you’re not afraid of Muslims, you just want to hurt them.
@Selethorme like I said malaka, stupid in two languages
I can have zero to 500 mg of caffeine and never notice the difference either way. Wish I did.
Read something recently that caffeine does not actually give you energy but tricks your body into not feeling tired. Except my body. It seems nothing can make me not tired.
@ponagathos Sorry to hear that. I might know a guy, though.
/giphy Heisenberg
@ponagathos I’m the same way…I can drink coffee or a Monster energy right before bed and be fine. Do you have ADHD? I wonder if it has something to do with that. I know someone else with ADHD who is this same way.
@ponagathos @TimW
Yup, me too. As a matter of fact, coffee sometimes puts me to sleep.
Also have ADHD.
@TimW No ADHD. But I have some weird stuff going on. For example, Ibuprofen works way better than opioids for pain relief. Alcohol breaks down fast and usually makes me nauseous before buzzed. Never had a hangover, not that I drink a ton very often.
Gonna buy this and some Penzey’s spices tonight and let them duke it out in the pantry.
@djslack
Love it. It made me think of those Merrie Melodies cartoons where household items get up to shenanigans.
Oh, and the first picture shows them making popcorn
!!!
Hit me with your best shot!
When even Starbucks is more genuine than BRCC bait-and-switch brand, you can keep that crap. No thanks.
I have a friend who really likes these and normally pays $3 for a 16oz can at Dollar General. The company may be questionable but the product is good so I’m in for more.
Too much sugar… PASS
For those reading the comments just to see a flavor review: I bought these last time. Myself, who loves to drink crafted beverages from the coffee shops (meaning I love tons of cream and sugar), thought it was not bad and exactly what I would expect from canned coffee. Quick, convenient, and saves me a ton of money. If I could add anything, it would probably be a bit more cream. My husband, who is a strict black coffee drinker but will occasionally get a mocha coffee from said coffee shops, thought the drink had “too much mocha”. Do with that what you will. Hope it helps!
@nonlion This is a good first draft, but there’s nothing political in this post. When you try again, please make sure to call someone an idiot, bonus points if you’re able to do it in such a way that even people who vaguely agree with you feel that you may be an idiot also despite being on “our side.” In short, this review is ONLY helpful, I’m sure you see the problem there.
@allthatisjosh @nonlion You’re an idiot!
See @nonlion, @JamieB1966 gets it!
I ordered these last time, despite the controversy over the company itself. I needed a new canned coffee thing to take on the go, particularly to replace the last one I had, which was that Rise oat milk nitro (which was quite good.) And frankly, this canned caffe mocha is pretty decent itself.
I think it tastes more chocolate than coffee flavored, which isn’t a pro or con, just an observation. I generally don’t like caffe mocha (I’d go with something like vanilla or caramel over chocolate in my coffee,) but this one is pretty palatable. I’ve been experimenting with adding a little creamer, like an ounce or less, to dilute the chocolate, and I think that brings it closer to how I usually drink coffee.
This stuff does have that kind of creamy mouthfeel that’s associated with beverages that have added protein; it’s my preference not to have that, but it’s not that excessive or off-putting. Adding creamer as above also appears to help dilute it and reduce that sensation. As far as the caffeine is concerned, it generally doesn’t affect me much and so I couldn’t offer an opinion as to whether it’s a sufficient, insufficient, or excessive amount.
Oh yeah, also I think you really have to remember to shake up the can first (and then let it settle before opening) per the instructions on the can to make sure it’s mixed up and not have the chocolate additive all at the bottom; I’ve been forgetting to do this, and also was in the habit of not doing so with that aforementioned nitro coffee for obvious reasons.
I’ve been debating getting more of this, as it’s more or less what I’m looking for in a prepackaged coffee. My preference would be to try a different flavor, though, and my main hesitation is the “best by” date; I’m not sure I’d be able to buy more and use it in a reasonable amount of time before it starts to taste funky, especially considering my remaining supply from the initial order.
@Atomizer Sounds like we got the same memo… Add MORE cream! Lol I fill a cup with ice, sometimes add a few sweetener packets (yes, MORE sweet!) Then pour it, and top with some vanilla creamer (sugar free ha!). It tastes very similar to a Starburnt frappicino in the bottles. I’m hooked.
This will be my third order of these 24 packs. I just finished the first order and cracked open the new box from the last sale. I almost ordered more yesterday for $35. Thank you, Meh for having my back at $30. …Damn it all and keep BRCC the coffee coming! Don’t listen to the haters, I’m hopelessly addicted now.
Well, I’ll still buy shit here, but I’m definitely not recommending meh to a coworker ever again.
Well, probably. Maybe time for me to take a break too. It’s easy to say “it’s just politics” when it’s not the people you care about that they’re coming after.
Guna turn off my vmp in any case. It’s been a good run, thanks for the fun while ir lasted.
It’s sad when a company chooses money over integrity. Meh is done getting money from me.
@valkyriered It’s a company, not a person. What is the point of any company?
@bulletfodder @valkyriered To support the goals of the person or people who founded the company, typically. Sometimes those goals are money or money-supported, which appears to be what you’re trying to imply is always the case.
@valkyriered
@valkyriered I am not sure I understand. Because Meh is selling the BRCC? Or because they are calling it out? Or because they are selling canned flavored coffee? What integrity issue are you concerned with?
@umbrellacorp @valkyriered she mostly used my account, since up until today i had free shipping.
I won’t buy this thing but certainly don’t begrudge meh for trying. Maybe there should be an extra button to the left of the ‘meh’ button that says ‘hard pass’ if they want more fidelity in the data.
@anwaro an RFM button – Really F’in Meh
@caffeineguy ha!
I’ll take 10.
Stay strong and dont buy this terrible about to expire coffee.
Coffee for fascists®
I don’t understand why people are mad at Meh for offering this. It’s just coffee. I understand the shenanigans behind the brand. Coffee is simply coffee.
Stop with the whole ‘meh won’t be getting my business anymore because of a single item that they’ve sold twice that I don’t like the brand of’
It’s a laughably silly stance to take.
@Stevalicious
I think it’s because they’re worried that they’re supporting a company that - according to Wikipedia because like I really have time to validate all these - called Starbucks ISIS for wanting to support refugees (which itself was a dumb publicity stunt by bux), said they were going to hire 10k veterans and have… uh 50 employees total, supporting a bunch of xenophobic political policies publicly, etc.
Black rifle coffee had decided to align themselves with weirdos in a ploty to sell to what they believed were a market that had a fervor and a willingness to throw money down. Then they realized that aligning themselves with weirdos doesn’t actually make them money and backtracked, so everyone was mad.
I think meh should have made it clearer that black rifle isn’t actually making money off this so it’s all pointless to boycott it. But if you squint it looks like they’re supporting an org that most people that care about politics will be mad at might be considered a bad idea
Mybe those that aren’t as politically motivated can find that it’s a good product, and they can make some sales?
Unfortunately, it’s also just mediocre coffee.
@imnotjames
I think it’s sad that they had to go to such lengths to clarify their position in the first place. It’s a bad sign in my opinion. I personally cant recall any other time Meh had to be so… serious(?) In their usually silly item message.
The coffee does kinda suck, ive tried multiple and some are okay but are overall Meh (lol)
I’m not going to dig into the politics, but the company was kind of a joke even before they tripped over themselves. I fit perfectly into one of their chosen demographics (mil vet) and thought they were completely overestimated and personally never understood the appeal. They had a bunch of amusing yet egotistical and self aggrandising media posts and that was the extent of it for me.
Anyways. It’s friggin coffee at a deal, not a political statement. Drink it if you need/enjoy it. Or skip this deal and see what the next one is tomorrow, like we all do.
@imnotjames @Stevalicious I for one am not ready to give up on meh, and I appreciate their spelling out their position. I wonder how many folks have said they are. I haven’t seen it, but I didn’t read all of the old shit. I seriously doubt that there are as many folks willing to leave over this as have threatened to leave for all of the flouncers’ other silly reasons.
What’s silly is ignoring the way BRCC has intentionally targeted their advertising and exploited associations folks make with their innuendo. We didn’t invent this shit. They could be a little more brazen, but the way they try to be cute with it is arguably worse and certainly more insidious. Am I not entitled to choose which companies I do and don’t do business with based on their overtly expressed values? They made their play; they’re happy to benefit; they should likewise suffer the consequences of their shitty choices. To literal hell with BRCC. They deserve to be a laughingstock and a byword.
When are you going to bring back the shock collars? My puppy gets very unruly when he drinks this shit.
@crabbyman the photos shows the correct dosage for infants is 1 can but they also get unruly when given this product. Will the shock collar approach work for them, too?
i don’t understand why people so hostile towards this. the description makes it pretty clear that they’re fully aware of the controversy, brcc doesn’t benefit from a purchase, and frankly meh just has a bunch of shit in a warehouse they need to shift before it expires and has to be thrown out. i mean, i’m not buying it, i don’t like coffee so i know i won’t get anywhere close to the bottom of the case before january, but i am firmly one of the woke transgender communists that fox news warned you about and i don’t really understand what’s happening here
@octoturt “need to shift before it expires” – since when does Meh care about expiration?
@caffeineguy @octoturt The distributor that took the hit certainly felt the need to shift the product. Meh? “At this price, we can still make a buck even after we pay FedEx to damage a third of them.”
@octoturt Give up trying to make sense out of the responses. People are taking themselves (and their reading ability) far too seriously today.
Sell things or don’t sell things. Not sure why this needed to turn into a political rant. I’m done with meh.
@Zargov it didn’t turn into that. The product made it political. They’re just making the situation funny.
@Zargov this comment is no better.
@Zargov Thanks for the announcement? Your comment makes no sense, but I’m thinking we’ll all be better off without you. So thanks for actually leaving, if that’s what you truly mean to do.
Fuck off, fuck Meh. Enjoy the fascists and Nazis you are going to have in your comment sections from now on. Greedy dicks.
@aperfecttool72 tissue?
@aperfecttool72 everyone I don’t agree with politically is a Nazi!!!#$$@°□|!!
@aperfecttool72 Meh stated Black Rifle took a loss and are making no money on these. It’s a win win for those who dislike the messaging of Black Rifle.
@aperfecttool72 This comment is pretty facially fascist.
@aperfecttool72 Unfortunately the fascists have been here for a long while.
@aperfecttool72 @DJ No, but most white nationalists are, and that’s the entirety of BRCC.
Yeah, I’m not buying it this time either. Hopefully, for Meh’s sake, there are enough people who are ignorant, bad people or need the savings to unclog the Meh warehouse of this stuff now.
I just don’t drink canned coffee… they’re all pretty nasty. That, and at over $1 per can, I can make a whole lotta coffee at home for that.
Came back to add that if meh we’re to offer some whole-bean goodness. That would be an easy buy. Might even consider ground, but not canned.
Well, I loved the description, and I don’t drink coffee.
, this doesn’t affect me at all.
I ordered 2. Hope they get here in time for Halloween! The kids are going to love them!
@DJ but their parents are going to HATE you at 2 am
What in the actual hell? “morally above board coffee products”? First of all, how exactly is a coffee company moral or immoral, unless coffee itself is evil (which is definitely not true). Second, when did a company being veteran-founded and run make it offensive? We’re offended by veterans now, and those that employ them?? Wow, meh. Just wow.
@sirrief We’re just explaining the discourse that happened on the previous sale
@sirrief you clearly did zero research on this topic so your opinion is highly valued. Thanks!
@troy Appreciate the response, but I think the description strays pretty solidly from “explaining the discourse” territory, to “ensuring our audience knows we despise this company just as much as our apparently more verbal customers, even if there are plenty of quiet customers who feel very differently” territory. Just sayin
@RedHot That’s strange. I would think if I did zero research then my opinion would not be highly valued. But that’s just me
@sirrief @troy I mean, why wouldn’t they despise them? Decent people do.
@Selethorme @troy That’s a broad and problematic statement. Who’s defining “decent”? And since I assume you are one of those decent human beings, on what grounds (pun entirely intended)? And how do you reconcile despising an entire company, the employees of which you have not met and do not know, with being decent? Wouldn’t stereotyping an entire company, and despising them because of it, conflict with the very idea of being decent? Food for thought (or coffee for thought, if you prefer)
@sirrief @troy I’m defining it. And on the grounds that BRCC is run by and for white nationalists. The bar isn’t high. I do love the “calling out intolerance is the real intolerance” variation you tried there. Not gonna work.
@sirrief Ah, You must not know about sarcasm. You should really look that up. It will be good practice. The internet will be a confusing place until you’ve established some basic search engine skills.
@Selethorme @troy Ah, I see. So you are all-knowing, and therefore whatever you declare to be decent is decent. Hard to reason with someone who supports their opinions with those same opinions. Although in solidarity I am hereby declaring all persons of the decaffeinated persuasion to be the opposite of decent. And since I declared it, it shall be. Wow that was fun. I see why you do it
And I stand by my reasoning. Stating BRCC is “run by and for white nationalists” is a wild claim with no support. Again, condemning an entire company of individuals you have not personally had the opportunity to interact with is unfortunately just bad judgment. I would say the same to anyone, of any political or cultural bent.
But hey, we’ve probably said enough. I highly doubt we will change each other’s minds, so why don’t we just sit back, brew a cup of whatever coffee we happen to enjoy, and move on with life?
@RedHot O gosh- sarcasm? Never heard of it. Is there some way to search the internetz for this thing? I’ve heard kids are using something called google these days… I’ll see if I can find em in the yellow pages
@sirrief @troy I don’t have to be all-knowing to be able to do basic research about a company. It’s not “with no support.” It’s a fact that you are free to google for yourself. They stood by the Muslim ban. They said they’d hire 50k veterans because Starbucks was hiring 50k refugees. I’m not the one with bad judgement. You choosing to not engage with criticism doesn’t make the criticism invalid.
@Selethorme @sirrief @troy No one speaks like this in real life. There’s a reason for that.
Buy the disgraced coffee company’s product at a deep discount and hide the label when That Uncle/That Aunt is in town. Their PR flub is your gain!
I’m not drinking any sugar so I’m out. Let me know when there’s more almost-expired Slim Jims or Jack Links for sale.
@SteelCityExile I’m still working on finishing a bunch of the giant Slim Jims from here.
And I’d probably buy them again!
@SteelCityExile
/giphy snap into a slim jim
If I was a canned coffee drinker with $35 to spare, I’d get these just to piss off whoever it is who gets pissed off about BRCC.
@donpratt the whole ‘owning the libs’ thing? I’d rather spend money on stuff I like rather than stuff other people don’t.
@donpratt that mindset and you not having $35 to spare seem a bit related.
@jasonrandall27 It’s not just libs. I’m happy to razz the idiots on both sides of the aisle.
I ordered this the first time around and I love these so I ordered two this time. I don’t know why this is political. I’m a Liberal Gun Owner ™ and have no problem buying BRCC goods.
@mark0805 Because they’re supporters of white nationalist groups?
I know I’m just another voice in the crowd and it doesn’t matter much, but I want to say that while I appreciate Meh acknowledging the many negative comments they received last time they sold this product, the description trying to make light of the situation reads as really insincere and honestly frustrates me more than anything else.
This is the main issue to me: “Of course, as with all companies who attempt to parlay politics into profit, they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with” - this is an insane spin on the reality that this company chose to connect with Kyle Rittenhouse, after he was arrested and before the conclusion of his trial. You can think whatever you want to think about Rittenhouse and the verdict he ended up getting, but none of it changes the fact that this company chose to link up with him when they did, they knew exactly what that would communicate and who that would appeal to.
So for Meh to say “they found themselves aligned with some people they’d rather not align themselves with” is really bizarre. They didn’t “find themselves” anywhere and they obviously didn’t agree that they’d “rather not align with” the people that they willingly aligned with. They made a decision all on their own, so why word it in a way that removes their agency? This is the main reason why so many people were against Meh selling these drinks in the first place, yet this description addresses it in the weakest possible way.
QUICK EDIT: I know there are many other reasons why people oppose this company, like how they supported Trump’s Muslim travel ban for example. I just remember people mentioning them supporting Rittenhouse in the previous thread more than any other reason, but I apologize if I’m misremembering.
But then there’s this: “Something else to know: despite a contentious forum, this stuff actually sold pretty well last time we offered it. And we have more. So we’re offering it again.” This is really the heart of the whole thing. We all get it, Meh is a business trying to make money. That’s fine, but to undercut the entire message of the description by essentially saying “well this sold pretty well last time so we’re gonna sell it again regardless of the comments”, after downplaying exactly why people oppose this company at all, is really frustrating.
I get that Black Rifle isn’t making any money off of these sales, people can choose to buy this or not, yada yada yada, but I really dislike how Meh chose to address the situation. If you want to read this while pretending that I’m a soyboy lib cuck who was typing while holding back tears or whatever, that’s fine and I can’t stop you, but I’ve been a Meh customer for about a decade now and I just want to make it clear to them that my issue isn’t just with them selling this product, but also with their justification for reselling it.
@theanthonyya
“this is an insane spin on the reality that this company chose to connect with Kyle Rittenhouse, after he was arrested and before the conclusion of his trial.”
and
“they knew exactly what that would communicate and who that would appeal to.”
You’ve really worked yourself up over something you clearly didn’t pay attention to or understand.
Just don’t buy the coffee. You don’t owe Meh your business and they certainly don’t owe obeisance to your boutique politics.
@disposableface nothing I said was incorrect. They chose to support him after he was arrested but before he was acquited. That was a conscious choice on their end and they knew who they were signaling when they did that. For Meh to frame it in a way that ignores their agency in the situation frustrated me.
I don’t have to just buy the product - the page has a comment section, so I chose to leave a comment that is relevant to the product and the product description. And you chose to respond to me, instead of simply purchasing the product. Funny how comment sections work!
@theanthonyya well said.
@theanthonyya The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective. It is massively silly of you to get this upset and attempt to crybully a company who not only directly ridiculed BRCC in the listing, but also obtained the product in a way that can’t profit BRCC. I can’t even imagine the emotional fragility that leads to that kind of mindset.
You are wrong about how Meh framed the listing, you are wrong about the morality of BRCC supporting Rittenhouse, and now you get to be wrong about me. I’ve never bought their coffee, I didn’t buy this coffee, and I wouldn’t buy it at 1 cent. Since you are so talented at mind-reading, I’ll let you decide why not.
@disposableface
I think it’s interesting how often people such as yourself have to pretend that anybody you disagree with must be “getting upset” and being “emotional fragile”, which is something I actually acknowledged at the end of my original comment with the whole “feel free to pretend I’m a soyboy cuck” thing. Sorry to bust your bubble but I spent a few minutes writing each of my first two comments while taking a shit this morning and I’m writing this one while walking my dog.
Meanwhile your entire comment here boils down to “you are wrong about this, you’re wrong about that, you’re wrong about everything you’ve said, you’re silly and ignorant and emotionally fragile”. And you believe that you are the one who sounds level-headed here? I mean I know that you’re probably also writing your comments while taking a shit or whatever - and you aren’t actually getting irl upset over a disagreement with some random guy on a comment thread - but it’s just ironic, how “emotionally fragile” you sound, while you declare all of my opinions to be wrong and accuse me of being upset.
Buddy it is an objective fact that BRCC first supported Rittenhouse after he was arrested but before he was acquitted. Saying “you’re wrong” over and over again doesn’t change that. Neither does creating a raving lunatic strawman version of me to argue with. Sorry!
@disposableface @theanthonyya two things: 1- you definitely didn’t type all that while walking your dog, unless your dog wasn’t on a leash and didn’t take a shit. 2- you people are actually upset that a company or its employees would support someone who was arrested and accused of committing crimes simply for defending himself while exercising his constitutional rights? That’s your big argument? The left constantly jumps to the defense of actual violent criminals, simply because the police had to use force to control them. No matter what the circumstances, the “unarmed black man” can do no wrong, even when he’s actually armed. I guess your support of the whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing we have in this country depends on the race and the politics of the person arrested. But we all knew that, right? In case you missed it, which it seems most of your type did, Kyle was found not guilty, because of the fact that he did nothing illegal, despite the absolute stupidity involved in him being there in the first place. It’s extremely difficult to take any of you seriously when you choose to blatantly ignore obvious facts, just because you have a differing viewpoint. It would be so much more effective to argue your points based on facts instead of feelings, but we all know those facts don’t support your argument, so feelings it is!
@disposableface @warpedrotors
Okay, I can admit that I was the idiot here lmao. I’ll be honest @warpedrotors I 100% thought you were the same person I was first talking to. I’m not very familiar with the Meh forums and didn’t realize. That’s my bad and I’ll keep up my original comment so as to not hide my stupidity:
if you don’t prioritize a random internet argument it is actually very easy to type a comment on a phone while your dog sniffs flowers etc. It’s also possible to put the phone down when need be, such as to pick up dog poop. Or are you actually “so upset” that you can’t understand the concept of multitasking?
wow, you type out that entire reply, and without a shred of irony, end it by accusing other people of putting their feelings over fact. Very interesting. By the way, I acknowledged the fact that Rittenhouse was acquitted in my previous two comments. Maybe you got so worked up that you missed it? Both times?
@theanthonyya Hey there friend, I didn’t call you a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You can tell by those words and their synonyms being missing from my replies. Pointing out the emotional reasoning and highly charged tone in your original post was just an observation. Go on telling us about how casually you posted it though. Maybe you will be taking out the trash or giving a urine sample during your next post.
You don’t need to randomly guess at my posting mood. You’re no more likely to arrive at the correct conclusion than when you assess the events in Kenosha. Feel free to hate BRCC to your heart’s content, I’m not in the market for gimmick tough-guy brands. It’s just extravagantly silly to whip yourself up in indignation over your misunderstanding of Meh’s post, which is preceded by your more fundamental misunderstanding: the moral significance of BRCC’s lukewarm and temporary support for Rittenhouse.
Condemning BRCC’s fence-sitting support while ignoring the deranged lies and malfeasance by so much of the media then against Rittenhouse is rank hypocrisy. Condemning them for their “signaling” is a cheap, thought-terminating cliche used to strangle the viewpoints of others. If you had real principles, you would be able to face all of this and be enlightened.
@disposableface “Hey there friend, I didn’t call you a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You can tell by those words and their synonyms being missing from my replies.”
Okay, let me break this first part down for you. I apologize in advance but this is going to be a long comment (it’s mostly just quotes though).
I did not say that you called me a “soyboy”, a “cuck”, or a “soyboy cuck”. You see, in my very first comment I wrote the following towards the end:
“If you want to read this while pretending that I’m a soyboy lib cuck who was typing while holding back tears or whatever, that’s fine and I can’t stop you”
You then went on to say the following about me, in your next two comments:
“You’ve really worked yourself up”
“The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective”
“It is massively silly of you to get this upset”
“I can’t even imagine the emotional fragility that leads to that kind of mindset”
Then I replied, saying this:
“I think it’s interesting how often people such as yourself have to pretend that anybody you disagree with must be “getting upset” and being “emotional fragile”, which is something I actually acknowledged at the end of my original comment with the whole “feel free to pretend I’m a soyboy cuck” thing.”
Do you understand? I was not accusing you of literally calling me a soyboy cuck, you see, I was making the point that you were acting as if I was upset/fragile/etc, which I acknowledged people might do in my first comment, with the whole “soyboy cuck” thing.
You say that “pointing out the emotional reasoning and highly charged tone in your original post was just an observation”
But when you say things like:
“Just don’t buy the coffee. You don’t owe Meh your business and they certainly don’t owe obeisance to your boutique politics.”
and
“The most important way you are incorrect is in presuming that all heads should bow to your ignorant, bizarre perspective”
and
“If you had real principles, you would be able to face all of this and be enlightened”
you’re being completely neutral, right? You’re not engaging in “emotional reasoning” or writing in a “highly charged tone”. Right?
“You don’t need to randomly guess at my posting mood.”
I guess I need to break this one down as well. I was not simply “randomly guessing your posting mood”. I was making a point - the point being, that you keep insisting on calling me “upset”, “emotionally fragile” etc, when in reality we are both just here writing comments on a forum, probably while doing other things, and probably while not actually being irl upset. I wasn’t just making some random guess about you for no reason. And I wasn’t the one accusing you of being upset, over and over again. You have been “guessing my posting mood” this entire time. Look, you even do it again in this comment:
“It’s just extravagantly silly to whip yourself up in indignation over your misunderstanding of Meh’s post”
But as you said, you’re simply “making an observation” about my posting mood. Right? Because everything you say is completely neutral?
I expressed my opinion on what I believe to be a couple of issues with Meh’s description for this product, I tried doing so without being indignant/an asshole about it, and I don’t believe that my original comment was “highly charged” even if it was negative (unless using words like “baffling” or “frustrating” are enough to make something “highly charged”). I’m not the one here declaring that anybody’s opinions are wrong, or telling people to “buy the coffee or don’t” rather than leave comments…on a comment thread. I’ll end by saying what I said in the beginning - if you are going to believe that I’m just being upset or fragile (or as I described it, a “soyboy cuck”), that’s fine and I can’t stop you.
@theanthonyya Alrighty, I wasn’t implying you were accusing me of saying those actual words. You were indignant and your original post both contains and is the evidence. Trying to head off criticism by pre-emptively defusing ad hominems doesn’t change that.
Setting the rules so that one “side” is allowed a public opinion on Rittenhouse’s actions is farcical. Overstating BRCC’s support is farcical. Refusing to acknowledge their about-face towards him is farcical. Trying to lock a chain of false guilt around Meh is farcical. Misinterpreting their commentary and then implying that BRCC stands to win or lose by these sales is farcical.
Push-back against stances that fundamentally threaten the principles of freedom of conscience, free association, good faith dialog, and plurality of perspectives is normal and necessary.
If you want a defensible line-in-the-sand stance against BRCC, then read up on the sexual assault allegations against their CEO. Then go after the company proper, not some internet clearance website with a questionable impact on upstream profits. Have a good night.
^ what I imagine many of those commenting are thinking, lol
This thread needs cat pics.
Bought one the last time and really enjoyed it. Bought three this time. Please keep hating so the price goes down and I can get an even better deal next time.
BRCC didnt make a profit from the sale of these to the distributor Meh bought from.
But every dollar the distributor paid for these is a one dollar reduction in BRCC’s loss. It’s still money they were paid.
Don’t want to take any part in that, so it’s gonna be a hard meh for me, dawg.
All it takes is a little canned coffee to bring out the adult tantrums, and they didn’t even have to drink it. I’ll weigh in now, in order to upset more mentally fragile people who make decisions based on who’s telling them what to be outraged about. Kyle Rittenhouse was dumb. He put himself in a situation where he would likely need to shoot someone to get back home safely. However, the people he shot created that situation, by illegally rioting in the streets, and attacking him with weapons while he was clearly armed to respond to those attacks. Bad decisions were made on both sides, but criminal decisions were made on only one side. Kyle was found not guilty because he was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of committing. It’s really that simple. No logical and factual application of the laws in question to the actual facts of the case could arrive at any other conclusion. Anyone who thinks otherwise is using their politics or feelings or ignorance to make their decision. Bad guys were shot by a moron who needed to defend himself. No one would have been shot if they had all stayed home. Rioting is not protesting and no one has the right to participate in a riot, since it is illegal. Pretending you’re protesting in an attempt to justify your riot or any other crime is just ridiculous. Crying about a certain company not having the same beliefs as you, or another company selling that company’s products, or stomping your feet and going home because of it is also ridiculous. Meh has made a business out of selling countless products of questionable origin to a bunch of people with questionable spending habits. I’d bet that half the shit sold here is manufactured by children or slaves in some third world hellhole, but everyone wants to get self-righteous over the scary black gun coffee guys who have differing views on which old billionaire to vote for, or whatever political topic they were told to be upset about this time. Ride your hypocrisy high horse straight out of town, and imagine the crowd cheering for your brave decision as you leave meh. Feel free to come back when you realize every company you support has a differing opinion than you on some important subject, or does something you wouldn’t support. Pretending that Starbucks and Ben and Jerry give a shit about you or immigrants or the homeless, or whatever they pretend to care about, while they’re raking in billions from whoever is willing to hand them cash, is just laughable. If you let your morals and politics decide what you buy, you’d never have to spend a dime. Just be ready to be self-sufficient enough for your level of self-righteousness. God bless America and the great Donald J. Trump! Blue lives matter! Build that wall! I think that should do it.
@warpedrotors This just seems like a lot of words to justify your bad takes. Also, like, that’s not remotely the only issue they have. But I do love the pants-on-head “you’re a hypocrite for participating in society.” Really just a great way to say you shouldn’t be taken seriously.
I heard Dylan Mulvaney and Kid Rock both drink this stuff. Obama loves it too.
Imagine someone (a clear racist by all accounts) going to a riot for the purpose of shooting people, armed with the scariest gun ever to exist, with so much dangerous ammunition, so much potential for killing the black people he so wanted to kill, and he manages to shoot ONLY 3 white guys who attacked him. What restraint, right? How did he do it? How did such a violent racist with such a dangerous mass-killing-capable gun, only manage to shoot 3 white guys? It’s almost impossible to imagine that’s what happened. It’s as if something in the story isn’t factual. Weird.
@warpedrotors Yeah, you’re not worth talking to.
@warpedrotors Because it was dark out?
@warpedrotors on a bright note Joseph Rosenbaum died doing what he loved to do. Chasing underaged boys
@Selethorme fragile feelings
@Selethorme it seems your feelings let you engage with me anyway… just as we all knew would happen. It’s cute.
@warpedrotors Oh this is sad. You’re so desperate for attention you came back here again.
@Selethorme let’s have a moment to appreciate the irony. Are you not here also? Are you not craving the attention? Your desperation is showing. Maybe take a break. You don’t seem to be having the fun I’m having with this.
@warpedrotors No, I’m here because you keep tagging me, though I absolutely am having fun mocking you.
Apparently I’m late to the party. Now I’m sad.
@warpedrotors It’s ok, I’ll make fun of you.
@warpedrotors Me too, but at least we got here before the people who get mad about food waste did.
@Selethorme please try. I’m sure it will be amusing.
@warpedrotors Oh it’s all too easy. Particularly with the middle school level attempts you’ve got here. You think others are mad, but spent like half an hour making multiple ragebait comments that got no replies until I volunteered to engage with you. You’re desperate for attention and validation of your bad takes, and nobody here is giving it to you. Your comments here consist of calling others fragile, crybabies, and hypocrites, while whining about how many people call out BRCC for being run by bad people for bad people. Notice how you don’t have an actual reply to a more substantive reply above.
@Selethorme notice how i only posted to bring out the fragile ones who were hurt by my comments. I don’t drink coffee. I didn’t buy this. I don’t care that it’s being offered for sale here. I don’t care about your political beliefs or your justification of them. I don’t care if you don’t like what i think. I posted to upset fragile people, which seems to have upset you. Be less fragile. Drink more BRCC.
@warpedrotors Sure ya did. That’s why you spent literally half an hour commenting multiple separate top level comments. But thanks for proving my point.
@Selethorme did you read my original post? It seems like you just decided it was too many words. I laid it all out pretty clearly from the start. Just because your politics are your whole personality, doesn’t mean everyone who doesn’t agree is upset. Typing a few words, or even many words, is not the great inconvenience, nor the barometer of my feelings, that you wish it to be. I’m having fun while you’re getting upset and projecting. I’m even typing this with one finger while I hold my ar-15 in my other hand. I’ll see if i can find a red hat to pop on my head so you can shit your diaper a bit more over words from a stranger on the internet.
@warpedrotors Thank you for continuing to prove my point.
@Selethorme I’m sorry. Did you have a point? What was it again?
Can I use these for AR-15 target practice?
@bldufour HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
@bldufour @pcontiman If you don’t live in New York, maybe?
/image cat pics
@narfcake Taking a rest from it (these are 2 of my kitties)
@narfcake My post that was removed was better.
Politics/messaging aside… Would anyone else have bought them if they dropped the price $1 or more? Surely meh could have ‘learned’ more in this experiment by seeing how many purchases are price motivated vs unwavering politics… Maybe next sale includes a $1 donation to a local food bank or charity w/ each purchase to really make folks check their beliefs at the gate…
@caffeineguy I bought three just to pour them down the drain! I’ll teach these companies a lesson!
@warpedrotors Lies. (I checked!)
@caffeineguy I would’ve bought it if it was $5 for the whole pallet.
@troy how dare you! That is my private financial information and a violation of my HIPPO! You do not have my permission to record me and you’ll be hearing from my lawyers!
@caffeineguy @DrunkCat just the pallet or the coffee too?
@caffeineguy @DrunkCat @warpedrotors I’d pay more for the pallet without the coffee, if it was a decent pallet.
@caffeineguy @DrunkCat @werehatrack any decency the pallet once had would be tainted by the evil coffee.
/image another cat pic
If Meh is going to start dabbling more in weirdly political items I’m going to leave. There’s other daily deals sites out there I can just as easily migrate to. I’m trying to live my life and not think about all that toxicity and vitriol and it already feels like literally everywhere I go, offline and online, it’s shoved down my throat anyway.
I’m not going to buy the fascist coffee that’s about to expire from a stupid group who pretends to be patriotic but couldn’t actually give less of a shit about their nation or those who serve it. It’s not about whether or not they’ll directly profit from my purchase, it’s about how I morally feel about having their products in my home. I work in veteran’s mental health, my whole family is military, it’s a subject close to my heart and I’m upset seeing Meh would run a product like this that is from a group that would stoop so low.
I can safely say I will never again recommend this site to a friend or coworker after this incident, and I’m already debating how I feel about my continued membership. Just keep anything that’s so blatantly political away and stop giving people things to get mad about. Sure, you might get some sales from people who don’t know, or don’t care, or think they’re owning the libs and defeating communism, but I don’t think it’s a good call in the long run.
@Nova_1231 this post is the equivalent of Rosie and friends vowing to move to Canada if Trump was elected. None of them left and you won’t either.
@Nova_1231 Can I have your stuff?
@capnjb @Nova_1231 isn’t it OUR stuff?
@Nova_1231 Also, I can’t tell if you are clenching your fists or stomping your feet. Please give us an update.
FWIW I bought these last time and they are pretty good for a cold sweet coffee.
@Nova_1231 @warpedrotors Excellent point, but I can’t seem to come up with a Meh commune joke. My bad.
@warpedrotors Simply incorrect, but stay mad
@capnjb @Nova_1231 It’s OUR bad.
@Nova_1231 so you left then? Interesting. What am I mad about? Do I miss you or something?
@capnjb @warpedrotors Do y’all ever get tired of being genuine pieces of shit, eager to fight over anything? Has being a good person ever once crossed your minds? No?
I aim to do good in life, and make morally good choices to support morally good things. I know, must make me so terrible. Cry harder.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 your personal attacks in response to jokes on the internet sure highlight your moral superiority. Way to go! Are you still here though?
@Nova_1231 @warpedrotors Well crap. Now I have to buy these again just to prove I’m an awful person.
/giphy dreary-stunned-familiar
@capnjb @warpedrotors Personal attacks? Oh grow up. You came looking to fight, you wanted an argument. You weren’t making a joke, you were inciting. Congrats, you got a response. Go play stupid elsewhere, and by all means waste your money on shit coffee from a moronic company that takes advantage of veterans to show me how owned I am. I’m so riled up about it. Shaking and crying right now. How will I manage, oh no, egads.
I’m about to clock out of work and go back to enjoying myself. Would recommend y’all reconsider how you interact with the world and the people you meet, if the thought of being even a half-decent person ever crosses your mind. Cheers.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 doubling down is always the best way to prove you’re not upset and you’re morally superior.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 oh, and you’re still here when you said you would leave. You said i was incorrect in saying you would stay. Prove me wrong.
@Nova_1231 This is such a weird response.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 @warpedrotors Nah. Their most recent shit was superior to the two of y’all. You’re not even good at ragebait.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 @Selethorme yet here you are with all your rage.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 @warpedrotors Oh the irony of how this literally proves it. You’re not good at this.
@capnjb @Nova_1231 @Selethorme I’m certain you don’t actually know what irony is. Add that to the list of things you don’t understand, along with racism and white nationalist… and facts.
Supporting the former POTUS…that’s just dumb for a “Patriotic” company. Selling good coffee and employing veterans, that’s fantastic. Buying canned caffeine off of Meh at a discount, that’s just genius. Stay hydrated my friends.
@narfcake
Perfect commentary on this thread.
Spike is never amused by people.
Particularly not when they order huge boxes of treats, and then don’t immediately open them.
A 3.5-ounce pack of Act III microwave popcorn tossed into my 1250 watt Panasonic nukebox on the 1.5 ounce popcorn setting burns no kernels and produces exactly the amount of popcorn that I want to eat at one sitting.
I am running low.
I blame this thread. (The Goat need not take this one.)
@werehatrack how many kernels are left unpopped? I think you need to fiddle with the timing in order to pop every kernel and burn none… for science.
@warpedrotors More popped kernels would result in more popcorn than I want to eat at one sitting, so the quantity of unpopped kernels is exactly right. The bag is technically bigger than I need, but by the math I did the last time I looked at the quantities, the best bang for the buck for me is in doing it this way.
@werehatrack Best bang for the buck would be to pop all the kernels. Are you telling me 7 or 8 more puffed corn bits would push you over the edge into gluttony? Sacrifices are made in the name of scientific discovery. Be the hero the popcorn world needs, even if it causes you slight discomfort. You’ll be remembered for your contribution to popping science, not for the specific amount of popcorn you personally wish to ingest during a specific time period. Save that for your autobiography.
@warpedrotors Prior experimentation established that it is impossible to get this brand of popcorn down to the point where less than 10 kernels remain unpopped and none of the popped kernels are burnt. I hate burnt popcorn. And I don’t really want as much as it pops now, but I will finish it. So, for me, what I am doing is perfect. You do you.
@werehatrack after being provided with this new information, i fully support your original plan.
Meh’s controversial item for sale tomorrow: a globe! Flerfers, creationists, space-deniers, etc. come on out and discuss the dome, ice wall, giants, flight paths, gravity, and the cheese moon.
@warpedrotors this. Right?
@Kidsandliz @warpedrotors Those of us who understand cats are fully aware that the presence of Stuff on the planetary surface means that it can’t be flat, because the cats would have knocked everything over the edge by now.
@Kidsandliz don’t be ridiculous. There’s not an edge to the Earth like a cliff that you sail off. There’s an ice wall that prevents you from accessing the rest of the flat Earth that is vast and inhabited by dinosaurs and nephalim, and then sometimes the ice wall is the dome of the firmament… or something.
@Kidsandliz @warpedrotors Geeze… well now my brain isn’t going to let me sleep tonight. Thanks jerk
@capnjb @Kidsandliz Fascist!
@Kidsandliz @warpedrotors You misspelled Fantastic.
@capnjb @Kidsandliz I’ll have you know I’m excellent at spelling… some might even say I’m fantastic… fascist!
/image another cat pic right meow
@narfcake And that is how you definitively handle a situation.
/image cats and more cats
@narfcake
I feel like the cats need to be interspersed with the angry rants and name-calling posts. They aren’t having the desired effect with the current deployment strategy. Maybe mediocrebot can be programmed to post a cat picture whenever certain key words are posted.
@warpedrotors Purrhaps so. Or maybe a /catpix command? That’s beyond my $0 pay grade, though.
/image cat pix
/showme calm cats because someone is “wrong”
@narfcake
@mediocrebot Hey dumb bot. Cat eyes have pupils.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot it’s an alien cat. He’s blinking his inner eye lids
Could we have a nice boring speaker dock for our next deal? Please?
@Kyeh Hear, hear.
@PooltoyWolf
Okay, charging cables work, too!
@Kyeh And, cool glowing ones at $2 a pop!
First things first - Way to go Meh for not obviously mod-blasting any of the obviously jocular comments on this deal. The commenters who are obviously egging each other on to higher heights of hilarity for the obvious enjoyment of the rest of us are obviously doing their best to help diffuse the political angst we all obviously feel.
Meh to the coffee, obviously.
@mehakane There wasn’t any discussion of tactics amongst the mods as far as I saw, but my personal decision was that since the “discussion” was inevitably going to be a raging dumpster fire (and at least some of it was doubtless going to get metaphorically CGI-enhanced), the only winning move was to stay outside of the splash radius (plus a little).
LOOOUUUUD NOISES!
Well that was fun wasn’t it?
I’m sure some of your phones are in need of a charge after all that typing so why not head on out of here and over to this great deal on some magnetic USB cables (they come in red or blue)
Y’all enjoy the Mehndless ShamWow Biff Bang Pow. I’m Wootin off on $1.50 Super Coffee w/20 times less sugar and 30% more protein. ciao!
What a deal! What a company! If this is Meh, make sure I’m on the list when you go to Wow!
Great deal, tastes amazing. Too bad they are gone