Post: #101

(11-13-2018 06:53 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Starbucks going broke 6 months after their "diversity" training that closed all stores:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-t...1542130200

Quote:Starbucks Corp. is planning to lay off approximately 5% of its global corporate workforce as it seeks to become a more nimble company

Short those Starbucks stocks folks!

Post: #102

(11-13-2018 03:25 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  ...
Last years "citizen" of the year

You should't mock him.

It he finds the other half of that medallion he will be one step closer to welding the mighty power of the great Golden Condor.

Post: #103

^
^

I think Lindy West has it, so we are safe.

Post: #104

(11-14-2018 02:00 AM)BaatumMania Wrote:  Unfortunately the "Get Woke" philosophy just creates shitty male and female characters on shows.

Star Wars:
- Guys are all depicted as idiots
- The female commanders (Leia and Purple Haired) rule like Adolf Hitler when real life military tend to give their officers a ton of autonomy.
- Purple haired lady literally causes a mutiny (showing how bad of an officer she was). Funny enough is almost everyone agrees the purple haired lady is a proxy of Kathleen Kennedy.
- There was no depiction of any strong "male" human characters except maybe the Captain of the Dreadnought who dies within 20 minutes of the show.
- They finally put an Asian female in a Star Wars movie but literally choose the fattest Vietnamese girl they could find on the whole planet (no wonder Star Wars was only playing in China for like 1 week before it got pulled).

Star Trek:
- They think they're being progressive by casting the main as a black female. Instead they forget they made her into a convict which is a highly racist black stereotype
- Too many scenes of gay flirting and romance (when flirting in previous Star Trek seasons was often kept until the 2nd season or later).

- There's a female red haired character who is medically obese. You'ld think in the future they would still have physical fitness tests for the job or at least put her on the transporter to beam off that unhealthy level of fat.

Haven't seen the latest Star Wars but episode 7 was already woke as fuck and yet plenty of so called red pill guys liked it. The main characters were a black dude with no charisma and a grown up Hermione with that annoying British accent. She didn't fit at all in the movie. I remember watching it on Christmas day and leaving the theater asking myself what the hell was this garbage ? I knowingly got ripped off.

I'm waiting for the day when Disney starts losing money, they're becoming too big and buying all the good studios and franchises, transforming them into SJW propaganda.

Post: #105

(11-14-2018 05:39 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(11-13-2018 06:53 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Starbucks going broke 6 months after their "diversity" training that closed all stores:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-t...1542130200

Quote:Starbucks Corp. is planning to lay off approximately 5% of its global corporate workforce as it seeks to become a more nimble company

Short those Starbucks stocks folks!

Also McDonalds has really seen a big success with McCafe and getting people to believe their drip coffee is higher quality.

Which is kind of the problem with Starbucks: who wants to pay $6 for a drip coffee that's probably some low quality Kenyan stuff... When McDonalds seems to be selling what taste like Colombian or Arabic for $2.

Post: #106

(11-14-2018 11:26 AM)BaatumMania Wrote:  

(11-14-2018 05:39 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(11-13-2018 06:53 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Starbucks going broke 6 months after their "diversity" training that closed all stores:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-t...1542130200

Quote:Starbucks Corp. is planning to lay off approximately 5% of its global corporate workforce as it seeks to become a more nimble company

Short those Starbucks stocks folks!

Also McDonalds has really seen a big success with McCafe and getting people to believe their drip coffee is higher quality.

Which is kind of the problem with Starbucks: who wants to pay $6 for a drip coffee that's probably some low quality Kenyan stuff... When McDonalds seems to be selling what taste like Colombian or Arabic for $2.

Man you are preaching!

McDonalds is on fire. They undercut Starbucks in plain sight and Starbucks did nothing except open more stores internationally. That's not a bad thing per se, but McDonalds is probably in more countries than they are..... Yeah...

In China, young people hang out inside the McDonalds as if it were a Starbucks, using the Wifi and whatnot. While it is no longer a hard thing to find a Starbucks in China nowadays, you can find a McDonalds ALOT faster in China and they deliver via the phone app.

McDonalds has never had bad coffee even in the old days before Starbucks. They just fucking burned the coffee and it always tasted burnt. Now it does not have that flavor as much (talking about the plain hot ones), and they have that entire McCafe lineup which isn't too bad either, not to mention cheap.

In Asia they have Pacific Coffee all over the place too that arguably tastes better than Starbucks. At least their iced coffees do.

Coffee snobs seem to be all about small independent cafes nowadays, obscure stuff, or Italian types.

Starbucks could go back after those types and offer French press, or small Americanos with that creme on the top that is bitter as fuck, and all that other upscale/fancy stuff too but they just wont do it.

They know their business better than I do, because I will admit, I do not know shit about it. They better figure something out before McDonalds introduces a smoothie/milk tea/juice add on or something and really hurt them.

Post: #107

Starbucks never had good coffee.

I always assumed it was to nudge people to buy the premium drinks.

Good point you guys on McDonalds.

With the new homeless seating policy at Starbucks, McDonalds is starting to look classier all the time.

Post: #108

(11-14-2018 02:45 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  ...McDonalds is starting to look classier all the time.

Reaching levels of Clown World previously unheard of.

Post: #109

I can't remember a movie I've watched in the past 3 years that wasn't outright propaganda.

They completely drove the Jurassic Park franchise into the ground with cancerous progressive propaganda.

One movie I recently watched that I found surprisingly accurate was Spy Who Dumped Me. By far the most honest, accurate portrayal of your typical westernized women I've ever seen. Seriously. They nailed every sterile, androgynous disgusting detail spot on!

Hollywood has become unwatchable. Who still pays money to see this crap?

Post: #110

(11-14-2018 02:45 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  Starbucks never had good coffee.

I always assumed it was to nudge people to buy the premium drinks.

Good point you guys on McDonalds.

With the new homeless seating policy at Starbucks, McDonalds is starting to look classier all the time.

I would not be so quick to suggest that. McDonalds has had quite a few homeless clashes this year, but that varies from store to store. I am unaware of a corporate policy of any kind. They have way too many franchise owners so they would have to be careful about that, but yeah overall they are a bit more open and forgiving about who eats in there.

Post: #111

Vice Media is cutting its workforce by 15% and its sites by half

Post: #112

Post: #113

(11-14-2018 07:27 PM)catoblepa Wrote:  Vice Media is cutting its workforce by 15% and its sites by half

Not wise to go niche in a dying industry...

Post: #114

(11-14-2018 11:14 AM)Pointer Wrote:  

(11-14-2018 02:00 AM)BaatumMania Wrote:  Unfortunately the "Get Woke" philosophy just creates shitty male and female characters on shows.

Star Wars:
- Guys are all depicted as idiots
- The female commanders (Leia and Purple Haired) rule like Adolf Hitler when real life military tend to give their officers a ton of autonomy.
- Purple haired lady literally causes a mutiny (showing how bad of an officer she was). Funny enough is almost everyone agrees the purple haired lady is a proxy of Kathleen Kennedy.
- There was no depiction of any strong "male" human characters except maybe the Captain of the Dreadnought who dies within 20 minutes of the show.
- They finally put an Asian female in a Star Wars movie but literally choose the fattest Vietnamese girl they could find on the whole planet (no wonder Star Wars was only playing in China for like 1 week before it got pulled).

Star Trek:
- They think they're being progressive by casting the main as a black female. Instead they forget they made her into a convict which is a highly racist black stereotype
- Too many scenes of gay flirting and romance (when flirting in previous Star Trek seasons was often kept until the 2nd season or later).

- There's a female red haired character who is medically obese. You'ld think in the future they would still have physical fitness tests for the job or at least put her on the transporter to beam off that unhealthy level of fat.

Haven't seen the latest Star Wars but episode 7 was already woke as fuck and yet plenty of so called red pill guys liked it. The main characters were a black dude with no charisma and a grown up Hermione with that annoying British accent. She didn't fit at all in the movie. I remember watching it on Christmas day and leaving the theater asking myself what the hell was this garbage ? I knowingly got ripped off.

I'm waiting for the day when Disney starts losing money, they're becoming too big and buying all the good studios and franchises, transforming them into SJW propaganda.

I can't wait either for Disney to lose money. I stopped watching their movies after reading about what they did to the LA Times for writing about their political influence in California last year. The buying of 20th Century Fox made me hate them further.

Post: #115

Actually like the new Star trek. Klingons are actually scary. The black chick with the wooden acting is perfect for the role of a Vulcan raised human.

Post: #116

(11-14-2018 02:15 AM)RawGod Wrote:  Seems culturally we're headed into post-wokeness

I think it's more of a generational thing, unfortunately. The up and coming generation is obsessed with social rep and therefore everything they say and do is oozing with virtue-signalling and tone-policing. How much buying power they have in order to prop up the wokeness, I don't know. But if you look at how far Europe has gone and compare it to the US, things could and probably will get worse...much worse.

Post: #117

(09-04-2018 11:00 AM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

(09-04-2018 07:32 AM)IveBeenFramed Wrote:  Nike's Kaepernick Ad Has Cost The Company Over $3 Billion So Far

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-0...ion-so-far

Quote:Since announcing their new advertising campaign will be led by Colin Kaepernick, the social media backlash has dominated the virtue-signaling efforts we presume they hoped for.

With images of Nike apparel and footwear being burned and real sacrifice being discussed, it appears investors are growing disillusioned as NFL fans as Nike shares are down 2.4% in the pre-market.

If the public backlash against other corporate brand names who have taken a vocal political stance is any indication, Nike faces considerably more pressure: companies from Dick's (which saw a sharp decline in sales after it stopped selling guns), to ESPN, to Papa John's, to Twitter and Facebook, to In-N-Out burger, have all seen an angry customer backlash - from either the left or the right - once these corporations entered the political arena, resulting in a hit to the top line, and ultimately, the shareholders' pocket.

Back to my classic Puma sneakers then if that's how Nike wants to be.

Pumas are incredible! The classic suede shoes are 50-80 bucks and are appropriate for any age man. Nikes are for dipshits that want to waste their money on being flashy.

Post: #118

(11-15-2018 11:12 AM)spydersuit Wrote:  

(09-04-2018 11:00 AM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

(09-04-2018 07:32 AM)IveBeenFramed Wrote:  Nike's Kaepernick Ad Has Cost The Company Over $3 Billion So Far

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-0...ion-so-far

Quote:Since announcing their new advertising campaign will be led by Colin Kaepernick, the social media backlash has dominated the virtue-signaling efforts we presume they hoped for.

With images of Nike apparel and footwear being burned and real sacrifice being discussed, it appears investors are growing disillusioned as NFL fans as Nike shares are down 2.4% in the pre-market.

If the public backlash against other corporate brand names who have taken a vocal political stance is any indication, Nike faces considerably more pressure: companies from Dick's (which saw a sharp decline in sales after it stopped selling guns), to ESPN, to Papa John's, to Twitter and Facebook, to In-N-Out burger, have all seen an angry customer backlash - from either the left or the right - once these corporations entered the political arena, resulting in a hit to the top line, and ultimately, the shareholders' pocket.

Back to my classic Puma sneakers then if that's how Nike wants to be.

Pumas are incredible! The classic suede shoes are 50-80 bucks and are appropriate for any age man. Nikes are for dipshits that want to waste their money on being flashy.

Man, you guys are taking me down memory lane. Those classic blue suede Puma "Clydes" were the coolest shoes of all when I was in high school.



They were the first shoe named after a player, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, and were, in the end, better as every day shoes than as basketball shoes, since they weren't high tops, and who in high school is going to tape their ankles?

Anyway, it is nice reminder of Clyde himself:





He isn't a legend the way some others of his time are, but he was clearly the coolest of the cool players at the time, with his fashion sense and style and the fact that he was the best player ever at stealing the ball and never seemed to change expression or break a sweat while doing it.





He even wrote a book that we passed around in high school that told you how to play the game, how to dress, how to groom yourself, and overall how to be cool. He even said that if you wanted a reputation for fast hands, you had to be able to catch flies out of the air, and he gave instructions for that too.

He also had great advice about stealing the ball, about how you go for it right when it leaves the hand on the dribble, so you have the most time to get it. On the strategy of the steal, he said you feel the other players rhythm so you know when you can steal the ball, but you don't do it early in the game, you wait and wait till the end when it will demoralize the other team, and by the time you go for it, it feels like the other player is overconfident, and tossing the ball out there like a yo-yo on a string.





Ok. Nostalgia eruption over. Pumas have a good pedigree.

Not quite over. Some Clyde highlights.

Post: #119

https://www.dailywire.com/news/38401/too...-paul-bois

The Financial Times wants their writers to cite and quote more female experts so as to attract more female readers. I don't think this will end well for them.

Post: #120

(11-16-2018 03:39 PM)66Scorpio Wrote:  https://www.dailywire.com/news/38401/too...-paul-bois

The Financial Times wants their writers to cite and quote more female experts so as to attract more female readers. I don't think this will end well for them.

Heh.
I hear Elizabeth "Theranos" Holmes is looking for work...

Post: #121

(11-16-2018 03:39 PM)66Scorpio Wrote:  https://www.dailywire.com/news/38401/too...-paul-bois

The Financial Times wants their writers to cite and quote more female experts so as to attract more female readers. I don't think this will end well for them.

Going back 20 years or so all the newspapers and business magazines decided to increase female readership. They began cutting down article sizes and having small snippets of news instead of indepth analysis as that's what female readers prefer. Surprise, surprise it slowly drove away the male readership and the new female readership did nothing to balance out this loss. Shockingly the sexist manbabies didn't want to buy magazines that told them the future was female.

Newspapers and magazines shut down at an alarming rate over the last 20 years blaming the internet and ad revenue declining for their loss in sales, but they actively alienated their core audience. This is not enough, they won't be happy until they have 0% male readership.

Post: #122

(11-16-2018 04:21 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

(11-16-2018 03:39 PM)66Scorpio Wrote:  https://www.dailywire.com/news/38401/too...-paul-bois

The Financial Times wants their writers to cite and quote more female experts so as to attract more female readers. I don't think this will end well for them.

Heh.
I hear Elizabeth "Theranos" Holmes is looking for work...

Just don't agree to pay her in advance for anything.

Regarding Nike and Kaepernick, it's been mentioned before but look into how Trump's tariff war with China and his regional meddling with North Korea is fucking Nike's bottom line.

Nike's "wokeness" is aimed at getting rid of Trump who's foreign and trade policies are cutting off their supply to literal slave labor. Ironic that the man "taking a knee for POCs" is in reality protecting access to slaves for a modern British East India Company.

Post: #123

Not the outcome she expected one can imagine... :

Post: #124

Probably belongs more in the "left eating their own" thread but this one was too god not to share, and relates to the entertainment Twitter shitshow.

The response from SJW's, who worship both vaccines and getting self righteous over seeing anything racial, is utterly predictable.

Post: #125

Did he go broke?