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Red Bull - European but Far right

Buy European but ... Also with ethical considerations.

Red Bull might sound cool, but they have their own TV station in Austria. (servus TV) And that station js beyond far right. Spreading disinformation, and Russian propaganda, Corona Bullshi, Ivermectint, cleaning stuff with chlorid, climate change deniers, ... If there is a conspiracy they support it ...

(And it's also not very healthy,....)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Red Bull also tastes like shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is disinformation at its finest. Red Bull absolutely does NOT taste like shit. It tastes like piss.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Tell me you've never drunken piss, without saying that you've never drunken piss. Piss tastes heavenly, compared to Red Bull.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I try to buy european but i think it's important to remind ourselves that we have shit companies in Europe that don't deserve our business. Red Bull, Nestlé, Müllermilch all these mf can suck it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

Following this logic i'd end up buying nothing or absolute crap. Example: i really liked Kellogg's corn flakes and i tried to switch to a local brand (Cerealitalia) but unfortunately is tastes bad. In the biggest supermarket of my town it's Kellogg's, Nestlè or Cerealitalia so it's US, shitty company or shitty product. Same goes for Coca Cola: it's Coca Cola, Pepsi or the coke with the same brand of the supermarket (tastes meh). I'm trying but it's not easy at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What's up with Müllermilch? I haven't bought it in a while because it wasn't very healthy anyway. But i didn't know the company itself was bad

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

The CEO meets up with the AfD on the regular to discuss Nazi things.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

I am permanently banned from making Reddit accounts because I got about 4 of them banned for "promoting violence".

The violence? Telling people it was a good thing to punch Nazis. Reddit is a Nazi safe space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Remember when you could say things like "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi"? Wasn't even that long ago.

Seriously, fuck Nazis. All of a sudden you've got Nazis in government and we're supposed to act like you should tolerate that shit. Hmmm.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I got a warning for upvoting pro-Canada stuff like "elbows up". That is apparently promoting violence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well yeah, you're promoting the same kind of violence that Ukraine continues to perpetrate on Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Like bombing civilians in moskow?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, at this point Reddit is a sinking ship. Been using it for so long too. A little sad to see it go, but it's a shell of what it used to be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

o Reddit is no place for normal people

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Yep, permanently banned here for "ban evasion" though I only know 1 sub I was banned from and I never went there after. That's okay, helped me quit what is clearly a hollow shell of user participation filled with a corpo bot sludge. It's really easy to VPN up and make another account anyway, but why play in the garbage heap?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Damn, red bull is my energy drink of choice. Anyone got a good alternative that doesn't use alternative sweetener? So many of them use them and I can't stand the flavor they have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I drink coffee and Decathlon isotonic drink, one after the other, and it makes me great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago
[–] Justas 1 points 3 hours ago

Club Mate is my energy drink of choice. Made in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Any off-brand energy is fine. Aldi has a pretty good one though it does use artificial sweeteners instead of, or in combination with, sugar.

Alternatively, give mate a try. Mio Mio has lots of flavours to choose from. The classic Club Mate is also always a gold choice. Pomegranate and peach iced tea are my favourites :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I usually buy my energy drinks from gas stations, so I guess I'll have to see what off brands they have. I am interested in mate, I'll have to see what's available near me. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I didn’t know redbull was European and I didn’t know servus tv belonged to redbull

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Red bull is original thai

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

on the bright side, red bull tastes like shit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

But also be mindful of the fact that the more rules you add for people to be part of a movement, the less members the movement will have.
The "Buy European" protest is about sending a message of resistance against the current US regime, as well as reducing reliance on US products.
It doesn't require you to only buy ethically spotless products.
That simply isn't possible in our system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

@superkret
I'm more of the avoid-US(-and-some-others) stance.
@SwordOfOtto @EuropeanMade

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

The post is not a "rule". OP didn't even ask people to stop using Red Bull. I'm glad to have more information.

If you really enjoy Red Bull, you're an adult, make your choices. Personally, I can take it or leave it, so I'll choose to leave it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Reminder: Arguing and discussion is okay, but keep it civil and do not attack the person you are arguing with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Did you just got here from reddit or what? Or is it some toung in cheek /s stuff too elaborate for me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, I'm not new. This account is new because you can't use mod tools properly if your account is on a separate instance from the modded community (e.g. you don't get reports, can't sticky stuff, etc).

And you also might not actually see the whole discussion going on here since you are on lemmy.world due to defederation between lemmy.world and other instances and so. I'm just reminding everyone to keep it civil since this community has had heated discussions before and the discussion easily slips into nationalism, which is against our rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Are you a moderator? Of .world or maybe on your server? Just trying to figure it out here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Luckily I don't like energy drinks and have hardly supported them at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

In the UK, not a fan of tea or coffee. I rarely use caffeine at all, but there are some days where I'm falling asleep at my desk and I need something.

Any recommendations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 22 hours ago

Holy shit what is up with the reddit mods? I posted a screenshot of a Mastodon post there yesterday, that basically said if youre switching us big tech for eu big tech you're not doing enough and that we have to support decentralized tech. Deleted in 5 minutes because it "posts should be relevant to european made products"

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