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,…)

  • nomoesyankho@lemmy.wtf
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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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

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

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

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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

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        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.

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      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?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Interestingly, the site wide rules about violence are only supposed to be credible calls to action. Like if someone was actually planning to murder people and coordinating it on the site.

      Saying you’d like to punch someone, even if they aren’t a Nazi, isn’t against the rules as they are written. Either they don’t understand their own rules, they are lazy fuckers who don’t want to do their jobs the correct way and actually investigate shit to make sure it actually violates the rules, or they are Nazi pieces of shit.

      Not one of these things makes using the site sound like a good idea.

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        A system is what it does. Action matters more than intent. Reddit bans anti Nazi rhetoric, therefore it is a pro Nazi website.

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

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      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 :)

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        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.

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    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.

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      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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    Devils advocate here.

    A “Don’t buy Red Bull” post seems off topic for me on a “Buy European” sub.

    If the mods only want to focus on one issue and not bring others and especially politics into the mix, I don’t find a issue with that.

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      Says a boycott doesn’t want to “bring politics into the mix” lol … buddy, boycotts are political by their very nature.

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      That’s the problem with the whole movement. These people don’t want to “buy local” or “buy responsible”. No, they want to “buy europeans”. They just switched a white nationalist project with another. They’re just stupid jingoists, if they were americans, they would be pro-tarriff.

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        I think there is some dissonance between the name of the movement and its intent. In my experience the intent is exactly this, buying responsibly. The name is unnecessarily nationalistic (unionistic?) but it is what it is. I’ll take it over dropping the whole movement.

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    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?

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        I prefer Rocka Nutrition to HOLY by a landslide. Rocka Nutrition has only two flavours with lemon ice tea and wild berry, but a tub only costs 13€ and has 40 portions in it vs. HOLY’s 30-40€ and only 30 portions. Gamers Only would be the next best thing but still a little too expensive for my tastes.

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          I prefer Rocka Nutrition to HOLY by a landslide.

          Looks neat, I’ll add that to my collection.

          Rocka Nutrition has only two flavours

          That’s what makes HOLY useful for me. I have like, 12 tubs with all kinds of flavours on my kitchen counter and the variance keeps me using it. I’m bored with things extremely quickly but this has kept me drinking enough since four or five months and that’s worth the price for me. Although, tbh, we have built an office internal tool to optimize prices by ordering in bulk that also keeps an eye on availability of flavours. That makes it a bit more affordable than just ordering by myself, although it is still laughably expensive, of course.

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            Sounds neat. I’m like that quite often too but somehow I don’t get bored of the two flavours they have that easily

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      yea just drink the cheap taurine drink from lidl

      If you go to the turkish you can buy 3l bottle of MEGA energy drink, with just 500mg of caffein per litter.

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        But isn’t that all energy drinks? Not that I have any clue, the only times I ever drank them was when I was 17 and they were mixed with vodka.

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          The ol’ heart exploder cocktail.

          Idk honestly but I have read this factoid specifically about red bull several times on the Internet so it must be true (/s)

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    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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      Servus TV is a TV station based in Wals-Siezenheim in the Austrian state of Salzburgand owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, a subsidiary of Red Bull GmbH, which also publishes the magazine Servus in Stadt und Land. The station is the successor to Salzburg TV, founded in 1995 and rebranded in 2009. It is politically aligned with the far right.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServusTV

      C’mon you have the fucking Internet, you can just search this shit yourself if you want more information.

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        It’s normal to expect from OP to provide source for their claim.

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            They asked for more information about a topic in which they were interested, on a forum designed to spread information. I don’t think you can reasonably fault the person asking for more information of being lazy, when the OP could be considered equally lazy for not including the context in the first place, right?

            Either way you’re right, being able to look things up is a good skill to have! But maybe don’t be a jerk about it, we left reddit for a reason, right? ;)

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              Welcome to the spot, you’re absolutely right and the world could use more people that think like you.

              For real, keep being you at all costs, you’re awesome.

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            Lets say 5000 people see this post - should it be normal and expected that 5000 people spend their time hunting down a source to a claim, or have a single OP include it in their post?

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              Should it be normal or expected that 5000 people read and believe something without self verifying it beyond what could be cherry picked or outright false examples by an OP?

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            No one said they’re unable to research, asking for a source is normal imo. Supporting claims with sources in the first place would be better, the internet is overrun by fake news and lies. Most don’t take the time to research everything they see online. It’s simply a big researchers team’s full time job to research everything you see scrolling 10 minutes on any platform. So when stating a claim or posting a story, you should support it with sources or otherwise you should be asked to do so.

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            Why would you assume they aren’t able? They just said they’d like more information, not that they can’t go get it themselves…

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        C’mon you have the fucking Internet, you can just search this shit yourself if you want more information.

        No I don’t think I will.

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        Damn, “Servus in Stadt und Land” doesn’t even need a translation to realize how racist it is.

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          Maybe next time use a translator just in case before commenting mate. Servus is the name of the TV station, “in city and country” is very hard for me, impossible really, to find anything racist in it.

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          Servus literally means “Hello” in many German dialects, especially in Austria:

          Servus, and various local variants thereof, is a salutation used in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a word of greeting or parting like the Italian ciao (which also comes from the slave meaning through Venetian s’ciavo).

          Also, it is used precisely because most people were servants a dozen or more centuries ago.

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    They also support Israel’s apartheid and occupation, they are listed on the NoThanks app.