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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Conservatives: We are boycotting Froot Loops

Everyone else: Because they are unhealthy right?😀

Conservatives: 😐

Everyone else: Right? 😟

[–] captainlezbian 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I was expecting it to be because they’re rainbow colored and thus turning the kids gay

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The rainbow colored sugar milk that you end up with at the end of a bowl is concentrated gayness, and will make you 16-42% more gay.

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[–] somethingsnappy 34 points 1 year ago

Damn cancel culture.

[–] idunnololz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can they be unhealthy? They are called fruit loops and the loops are colored like fruit. That means the loops are fruit and fruit can't be unhealthy.

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[–] FlyingSquid 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm just waiting for a Republican to come out and just say, "reading is for liberals." Because you know it's coming.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I would say it's one or two years away. Two more years and the first person in congress is called a removed for reading

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[–] Illuminostro 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already are. What do you think their War On Education over the last 40 years is about. Dumb illiterate peasants believe whatever they're told.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They say it now just not publicly.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I strongly believe it.

Our customer service (CS) department has a HQ in a red state, they manage all the Customer Service nationwide. They report to my boss and have these "huddle" meetings where the CS managers (of which there are at least 30+ people) share ideas. Other department leads/managers can join. I used to sit in as a engineer manager, so I can under understand problems from customers. But now I sit in to eat popcorn.

The CS leads are definitely conservatives. And These huddles are full of really stupid takes.

One of the takes was where someone recommended training resources and another mockingly said, "Read a book? What do you think this is, a school?"

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Auch a cool thing to do by froot loops! Wouldn't have heard of it without that boycott! Come on. Republicans, keep the Streisand effect going!

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 1 year ago

Kids already love disgusting sugar hoops. Why not put them to good use?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've vowed to switch to their other favorite cereal, Racist Bran.

[–] Darkard 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kalcium is a building material for all them bones. Timmy, how many bones does your body have? 1488? You are right on the money, Timmy. There's our special Key-KornflaKes cap with a skull for you. (Your friends gonna beat you to have it.) Now, don't forget to salute the sun and Nestlé for all the sweet corn making you such a Kapable, Kareful Kid. Key-KornflaKes - the Key to the manhood°.

° Not recommended for females due to it's hormonal content. Side effects include: baldness, frequent mood-swings, acute radiation poisoning.

[–] Carvex 11 points 1 year ago

Whites-only Pebbles

[–] art 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another conservative tantrum, yet somehow everyone else is a snowflake.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Froot loops were once part of a balanced breakfast"

Ummm... No. No, they never were.

[–] jaybone 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of “a complete breakfast” and the commercial would show the bowl of cereal with like eggs and fruit and a ton of other shit. Like your 7 year old ordered room service at the Hilton before he’s late to Show and Tell.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A very small part. Like all the sugar you'd need for the day part.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another perfect example of how conservatives are trash. How is anyone actually friends with anyone who supports the Republican party? I would be absolutely disgusted being around them.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

They are fruity, rainbow colored, AND they let kids read things that haven't been vetted by MTG and the leader of the Proud Boys?

Holy shit how has the offense to our freedoms, the danger to our children, and the disdain for proper god-fearing Americans perpetuated by Froot Loops been allowed to continue for so long!!??

[–] paddirn 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So are they gonna go after Dolly Parton next for mailing ~~woke-leftist indoctrination propaganda~~ children’s books out to kids on a monthly basis?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They’re conservatives, so more than likely.

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[–] badbytes 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In Other News: Conservatives hate dancing and music.

[–] SPRUNT 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... But they absolutely love booze.

My friend got married in a conservative little Washington town near the Canadian border. When planning the wedding, they were told that city ordinance allowed them to choose either alcohol or music at the reception, but not both.

We ended up drinking and making Footloose jokes all night.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time a brand falls onto the "socially conservative ban list" I just cackle evilly.

Yes. The death by a thousand cuts is very fitting for these people who seem to lack critical thinking skills and won't learn.

It's almost like people think children need to know how to be decent human beings and they know that some parents will refuse to teach that skill.

It's almost as if...as if society at large has already decided that the "status quo" they are vehemently defending needs to die. It's like society has decided people need to be better. So that we don't like; kill each other off stupidly over stupid fucking bullshit in stupid wars like stupid idiots being stupidly fucking greedy and unrelenting.

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[–] nutsack 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who the fuck cares what they boycott

[–] Illuminostro 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shareholders. Fuck them, by the way.

[–] nutsack 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

im pretty sure the boycotts are just free advertising

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[–] silverbax 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this point, I'm surprised these morons aren't launching homemade missiles at the sky to try and stop actual rainbows.

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[–] babyfarmer 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh. I never really noticed they spelled it "Froot" before. Weird.

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What, did you think there was actual fruit in it?

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[–] rustyfish 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Alright. That’s even dumber than the beer thing a while ago. Let me try to guess what’s next.

Bacon. You see, more and more people from Muslim families say „fuck it“ and try out bacon. Conservatives, with that giant hole in their heads, will demand from the manufacturers to not sell bacon to muslims and ex muslims. The manufacturers will say „whatever“ and so the boycott starts. It will last for like 5 days and bacon sales will rise in the meantime.

If this doesn’t happens in the next two years, I will open and moderate a furry community.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I think you're a furry because Muslims aren't going to start eating pork in large numbers. However, what if they found a way to turn pigs gay?

[–] EmpathicVagrant 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So when you open your community, what’s it going to be named?

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[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 1 year ago

Why wait two years? Be satisfied if your own skin, even if it has fur on the outside!

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[–] finkrat 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"The Froot Loops are turning the frickin frogs GAY" -- US Conservatives probably

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[–] RQG 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

American Froot Loops have such vibrant colors. Wtf.

[–] skeezix 35 points 1 year ago

That is because the US does not have as strict regulations regarding food colorings. Colors that Europe ban are all good in the US.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 13 points 1 year ago

It's all the forever chemicals we allow in our food probably.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Standing against things rather than for things.

[–] BURN 12 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile I thought they were boycotting because the Fruit Loops are the colors of “the gays” /s

Conservative boycotts seem to be a dime a dozen, then everything goes back to normal because some manufactured moral outrage doesn’t really matter.

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