Got my red holiday cup

[47of74]

The local grocery store has a Starbucks inside, so I made sure to stop by and get my red holiday cup.



That hot chocolate tasted extra nice today.

Up yours, Donald Trump.

[smirkymonkey]

1. Everytime a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings...

Everytime you drink from a red Starbucks cup, an angel gets set on fire.

Why do you hate Baby Jesus?

[47of74]

5. Cool!!!

[randys1]

2. STarbucks is the least quality gourmet coffee anyway, all the fuss over Starbucks, sheesh

[47of74]

6. Yeah all the local operations round here make it much better

It's just my way of saying screw you to Trump and all the other reich wing Christians.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

3. The terrorists won

:face palm:

[Heeeeers Johnny]

4. I'm not against the red cup thing, but JFC...

at least wait until after Thanksgiving to roll them out, it's bad enough that some retailers already have
made in China Christmas garbage on the shelves.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I know more than a few people who've stopped by to get their $4.75 mocha lattes since this began...

Marketing genius is what it is. A few of the people I know are NOT Starbucks customers normally, but went there to "support the cause". What cause? Not putting an image on a paper cup?

It's like the line from the movie "Field of Dreams", and I'm paraphrasing here; "If you create a controversy, they will come." Using a paper cup that costs about two cents each to entice people into the store who would not normally go there? Pure genius and I hope whoever hatched the idea gets a mega-raise.

[niyad]

8. my supermarket also has a starbucks, and the baristas are telling me that all of their customers are

treating the whole red cup thing as a joke. we all agreed that some people have wayyyyyyyyy too much time on their hands, or, as one put it, "wish I had time to be THAT bored!"

oh, and that same starbucks has a BOGO going on right now--TWO red cups for the price of one!!

[47of74]

9. Mine had a BOGO doughnut offer

Didn't partake of that though.

[Tipperary]

10. I never go to Starbucks.

I make my own coffee.

[Javaman]

11. +1

this whole argument is ridiculous from both sides.

the right wing nuts protest because they think a red cup is out to get them.

and the left supports a known mega corporation because they think a red cup represents them.

it's just fucking coffee.

we have slid so far down the rabbit hole, I don't believe people know the way back to the entrance.

[niyad]

14. it isn't about the "left" supporting starbucks because of presumed representation, but because

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thinking people know that the red cup freakout is just the latest insanity from the xian reichwing, which gives us, alas, more things about which we can shake our heads in utter dismay.

[Javaman]

17. while I agree with you to an extent...

I have read posts on that glorious dissimulator of the "truth" known as facebook of people saying they should "get coffee at starbucks to show your support".

support of what? a freaking cup of coffee.

like I said in my previous post, society as fallen so far down the rabbit hole, they no longer know where the entrance is.

[niyad]

18. support for an organization that is not bowing down to the xian nutbars.

again, in the local supermarket's starbucks, an older woman used to patronize it daily. until, that is, she learned that starbucks supports planned parenthood. she has since quit patronizing it, announcing loudly and often why she has done so. others are saying that they are patronizing starbucks because it does.

[displacedtexan]

12. I bought a Starbucks red cup xmas ornament yesterday...

...at the Starbucks in Target.

Hee hee hee hee.

[niyad]

15. thank you for the reminder. I have one of the red cup ornaments from last year, bought some

time in late jan during close-out of the holiday stuff.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. Satanist.

[bigwillq]

16. I never knew so many folks cared, either way, about a coffee cup

I think you're all nuts. Lol

[Bonx]

20. Reminds me of the Sneetches

[xmas74]

19. Our pastor's wife mentioned this to the youth group the other day.

She seemed irritated about this even being a discussion. She said that there's more than one holiday and that we had no business attempting to monopolize it all. She also told the kids that if they were really so worked up that they planned on boycotting she hoped that they'd take the money they were going to spend on Starbucks and instead donate it to a local Angel Tree so some good could come of it. She said that the kids needed to be a bit more critical about what they were watching, hearing and reading and realize that Starbucks is out to make money from everyone and doesn't want to offend anyone and that that preacher is out to get his fifteen minutes of fame so he can make money by making a big deal out of nothing. She said that if he was so offended she hoped he'd put his money where his mouth was but that she knew that wasn't going to happen.

She also went off on the whole "Happy Holidays vs Merry Christmas" debate. To sum up her response: be happy that someone is thinking of you for even a second out of their day just long enough to wish you well. Take it and go, don't act like a spoiled brat about it. If you know they're Christian you can wish them Merry Christmas, Jewish you can wish Happy Hanukkah, etc, etc. She said that Happy Holidays is the easiest. She also went into the basis of the word holiday.

Just wanted to bring up that not every Christian is offended by a stupid Starbucks cup.