• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Gen Z stories of bravery against authority, expectations, and random bullshit are such a breath of fresh air.

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      8 months ago

      Lol, bravery. They just whine to mommy and daddy. Go throw a fucking brick through their window, pussies.

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        8 months ago

        Go throw a fucking brick through their window, pussies

        Easier to do for the generations that didn’t live in a surveillance state powered by personal devices voluntarily carried by everyone in society.

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        8 months ago

        Yea. Because organized response to the problem isn’t as effective as jail time. You can dismiss violence or gaslight anyone and make it about that rather than the issue.

        It’s almost like they thought about it and had an equally proactive response that was tailored exactly to Starbucks. How dare we think it’s less than!

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    8 months ago

    Something tells me if the students, staff, and faculty stop buying coffee from Starbucks, it will have more impact.

    Or am I misunderstanding? Where I am you can choose not to buy Starbucks coffee. Does their university require it for some reason?

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        8 months ago

        Exactly. People consume mindlessly. If you remove their ability to consume a product at all, then they can’t contribute to the shit practices of an ethically bankrupt company unless they emphatically go out of their way and go the inconvenient route to do so.

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      8 months ago

      No, the university doesn’t require anyone to buy Starbucks. Are you for real?

      And no, it will have more impact to ban them from campus.

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        8 months ago

        Actually, you can. I did it.

        Also, I drink coffee now every day, and I never go to Starbucks. It’s cheaper and better to just make it myself.

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          Actually, you can. I did it.

          We both know you are lying. (/s to be clear)

          Nobody who likes coffee goes to Starbucks, but than again there are university coffeemakers wich are even worse than cafeteria coffee. Luckily my campus had a really bad Italian pizza place with excellent coffee. Not sure what the point of that story was.

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            8 months ago

            First choice for me is to make my own. I have a Keurig at home and one in my office at work. I have reusable pods and my preferred coffee from the grocery store at each location.

            If for some reason I can’t make my own, first choice is Wawa. I like their coffee, and I like the way they handle the process (get your coffee yourself, and drink it while you wait in line to pay).

            If Wawa is unavailable, next stop would be Dunkin.

            If all that is left is Starbucks, I’m going without. However, I drink it black. Without all the nonsense people get in their over-priced coffee at Starbucks, it tastes like pig farm runoff. I don’t actually know what pig farm runoff tastes like, but I imagine it is similar to Starbucks coffee.

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    8 months ago

    Here’s what they could do, start a “coffee club”, set up a stall right nearby Starbucks. Then campaign against them while providing caffeine at-cost (potentially even paying someone to sell this dirt-cheap alternative to Starbucks at all the same hours they’re open).

    Sure it’s not the same (being from Australia, it boggles the mind how Americans even like Starbucks), but you’ll be offering an alternative to people who just want a caffeine fix and are open to being pursuaded into boycotting Starbucks.

    Obviously, would only work if student association rules at the university allow you to set up food stalls.