Just in case you thought the country would be healed and everyone would be fine after the election is over, Starbucks has given us a little preview of our annual Christmas-cup battle with their new “unity cup.”
Starbucks releases a cup designed to represent shared humanity… Gets this type of response… pic.twitter.com/VzNBNL5zq6
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 2, 2016
The cup, which is not specifically for Christmas, is green with a white circle and shows a bunch of people all standing together in good spirits. BLASPHEMY. If you need a reason to complain about it, maybe note that it’s a reminder of how crowded and unpleasant your train ride to work is.
Starbucks says it’s just supposed to represent unity at a divided time, but that hasn’t stopped a freakout from the people who need to feel outrage to know they’re alive.
Trying to figure out how I can possibly get offended by this Starbucks holiday cup. I guess someone will find a way pic.twitter.com/05Lo75us5r
— Geoff Kinns (@geoffkinns) November 1, 2016
Generally speaking, the outrage around this time of year comes from religious people who think that everyone should be forced to observe their superstitions in the same way that they do. And for some reason, they believe that decorating a coffee cup is part of their religious tradition. You know that part of the Bible where Jesus reminds the apostles to celebrate his not-actual-birthday by drinking coffee?
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So now religious nuts are mad that the cup’s not red, because apparently red is their thing now. It is also how we celebrate gay days at Disneyworld so who even knows.
In conclusion, Hillary Clinton deserves a better country to be president of.
Alistair Wiseman
“…Hillary Clinton deserves a better country to be president of.”
What Hillary Clinton deserves is a better pantsuit with big white and black stripes on it.
dwes09
Another example of how the left is outraged by actual social injustice, but the right is outraged by imaginary bogeymen or anything that steps outside their closely circumscribed little world.
As if highlighting unity as a positive value is somehow another volley in the laughable “war on Christmas”!
dwes09
@Alistair Wiseman: “What Hillary Clinton deserves is a better pantsuit with big white and black stripes on it.”
Thus proving my point about about imaginary bogeymen! How much money has the right forced to be squandered in their attempt to pin SOMETHING (anything!) on Hillary? And yet their golden (orange actually) boy will actually be going to court at the end of the year for fraud, sex offenses and more.
Jack Meoff
Every year Starbucks creates controversy with their Holiday cup. Do you really think they care one way or another about Christmas or any political or social agenda. They are a company taking advantage of a marketing opportunity and that opportunity is that every year people get outraged at their cup and take to social media to bitch about it and then the media cover the outrage which gives them more publicity.
As they say any publicity is good publicity and America just buys right into the Starbucks strategy giving them all this free publicity. Get off the merry-go-round people.
MikeColling83
My only complaint is that the artwork is kind of creepy.
Eye of the Beholder
I was all set to be smarmy and snarky when I saw how unoriginal and self-patronizing everyone else was who had already beat me to it? I don’t even go to Starbucks as I’m not a big coffee drinker, but outrage? A unity cup symbolically featuring “a mosaic of more than a hundred people drawn in one continuous stroke” ironically sounds pleasant given the approaching holiday especially considering this is the nature of their patrons.
Heywood Jablowme
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” – Matthew 23:25
So Jesus DID say something about this subject. But what? Would he be criticizing the hypocrites who are obsessed with his birthday decorations? Or would he criticize the sugary, indulgent concoctions of Starbucks? Can be taken either way, I guess! I make coffee at home, it’s cheaper.
Captain Obvious
That cup honestly looks creepy. I don’t really drink Starbucks anyway it’s just burnt coffee loaded with sugar. It seems so hard to burn coffee that I don’t know how they manage to do it consistently everyday.
offbeatoh86
That’s not even Starbucks’ Holiday cup! Someone leaked this design on Reddit a few days ago.
https://m.imgur.com/oLrvOlm
Alistair Wiseman
@dwes09:
“How much money has the right forced to be squandered in their attempt to pin SOMETHING (anything!) on Hillary?”
Are you kidding me? Hillary Clinton and her inner circle are facing 5 active FBI investigations. Is that nothing to you? I know you live in your own little world where Hillary is a paragon of virtue.
joeyty
@Captain Obvious: It DOES taste burnt. But a lot of people seem to like it. (shrugs)
Louis
This was a wonderful idea to promote unity yet some people as usual had to crap all over this concept.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
USA Today: “At Least 75 Of The 4,000-Plus Lawsuits Involving Trump And His Businesses Remain Open.”
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
Trump University is the subject of two class-action lawsuits in California and third case in New York.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
Toss in that pesky rape case of a 13 year old girl. Yikes.