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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] 2 points 1 hour ago

Also they push their athletes to take more and more risk for the show until they end up dead.

I used to be fine of their corporate cool-guys skating bullcrap. Not anymore

[–] [email protected] 58 points 14 hours ago (3 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] 3 points 57 minutes ago

I'd also throw Bayer into that list. Knowingly had HIV contaminated blood, considered the amount of money they'd lose by destroying it, so they supplied it to patients in Latin America and Asia. Bayer considered the investment they had in the contaminated product, decided NOT to destroy it, for profits sake, and infected thousands of people with it. They misrepresented the results to not lose money and killed thousands.

I know pharmaceutical companies is a giant mess, but Bayer is on par with Nestle for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 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] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Owner is cozy with the AFD

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Red Bull also tastes like shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 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] 53 points 18 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] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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] 20 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] NottaLottaOcelot 1 points 2 hours ago

Yikes, Reddit is slowly killing itself. I remember years ago it was more the opposite - there were some seriously disturbing subs because they didn’t want any censorship. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and it’s hard to say anything of substance without getting warned or banned

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 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 3 hours ago

Like bombing civilians in moskow?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

o Reddit is no place for normal people

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 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 9 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 16 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 4 hours ago

Red bull is original thai

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

on the bright side, red bull tastes like shit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 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 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 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.

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