Shot in the Dark

Presumably Tweeted From Canada

To: Ben and Jerry’s
From: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant
Re: Performative Garment Rending Would Be A Great Flavor Name

Ben and Jerry,

You produce yet another product I’ve never bought, and being fairly strict keto, will not be buying any time soon, politics notwithstanding, so this note is of no real consequenes to either of us.

Sort of like the tweet below, in which you join the academic-nonprofit/industrial complex in its latest round of performative consequence-free virtue-signaling:

Then f***ing do it.

Liquidate your business. Give it back to the Abenaki tribe, the people who are indigenous to be area around Burlington, Vermont. All of it, down to the last dime.

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenberg? Yep – back to Europe with you, where you can argue about who’s stolen what land dating back to the Romans and before, and be alarmed at how unconcerned anyone in Europe seems to be about the millennia of land-theft behind all the modern states.

After you move to Canada, of course. Which is also “stolen”, come to think of it…

Anyway – until you’ve done that, shut up. Seriously.

That is all.

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26 responses to “Presumably Tweeted From Canada”

  1. SmithStCrx Avatar
    SmithStCrx

    So many different products and companies that I can’t boycott for their hypocritical idiocy because I’ve already been boycotting them for a decade. Ben & Jerry are typical, mal-educated, liberals with all of the baggage that includes.

  2. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    ” Performative Garment Rending Would Be A Great Flavor Name”. Nice.

    How about “Emotional Pearl Clutching”?

  3. MtkaMoose Avatar
    MtkaMoose

    And here I was thinking that having legally defensible public records of land titles was a hallmark of good government.

    The reason small businesses can’t develop in s#!t hole countries is because they can’t prove they own the land their business or home sits on. That’s also the reason construction methods and materials are so poor – nobody is willing to invest much in something that can be easily taken away with no legal recourse.

    I’m pretty sure the statute of limitations has expired on any property theft claims, so can’t we finally put this to rest for prove citizens?

    I do think the federation government might consider giving back a lot of its western lands and returning them to productive use.

  4. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Being that Twitter’s services are limited and unreliable, Americans are turning to “books” to determine wether Jews fabricated Red Cross Blood drives as part of Great Replacement.

  5. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    Aw emery wants to play the blood libel game – thats so precious!

  6. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    I’m just glad all the companies had time to adjust their advertising models between the time Twitter got bought out by a right wing conspiracy theorist and when it finally became unsustainable both as a business model and as a functional website.

  7. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    “bought out by a right wing conspiracy theorist “
    Emery, why do you hate African-Americans?

  8. Ian in Iowa Avatar
    Ian in Iowa

    The great about virtue-signaling is you don’t have to do anything to remedy the “problem”, Mitch. The Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world make their money are keeping the problem alive and never solving it.

    Perhaps we should turn it around on the navel-gazers:

    “Dear indigenous peoples: We or our ancestors “stole” the land occupied by you or your ancestors through violent conflict, just the way it’s been since the dawn of time. We had better weapons, tactics, etc. Apparently, we’re supposed to feel bad about it, but not do anything to actually remedy it, because we practice the cognizant dissonance of acknowledging past “sins” without any actual atonement, because perhaps deep down, we value our civilization– the one that replaced yours– as superior.”

  9. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Musk needs to be called out on his “data scraping” BS — one of two things is clearly happening:

    1. Musk is refusing to fulfil Twitter’s contractual commitments to Google and/or AWS for using their servers ergo there is insufficient server capacity to run the site; or
    2. Twitter has released untested code which is essentially causing multiple data requests per second every time a user looks at any tweet (effectively an internal DoS attack).

    Either way Musk is making the user experience unbearable, alongside destroying the enterprise value of Twitter, with each passing day.

  10. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Ultimately a good case study for MBA program. Great example of hubris overtaking potential sound business idea, fleeced in transaction funded with too much debt, then bungled implementation peppered with more strategic blunders. Real clown show.

  11. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    “Real clown show”

    Emery where did you get your MBA?
    why do you hate African-Americans?

  12. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Care to explain why user numbers increase but advertising revenue has decreased? Please don’t tell me it has anything to do with space lasers.

    You can make the advertising offering as feature rich as you want, but its appeal is mainly a function of reach — and who on earth would want to reach 2 incels and a racist?

  13. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    If you do not recognize title by right of conquest, then nobody in the world has good title. Now what?

    That is the problem with American policy toward Cuba. The refugees in Miami are never getting their lands back. Even if we conquered the island today it would be impossible to reset the clock after 64 years, too many deaths requiring probates. Too many generations creating new fractional interest owners. Now imagine doing it for Indian lands taken between 1620 and today…..insane.

  14. Bettyboop Avatar
    Bettyboop

    For crying out loud Emeryboard, create your own blog where you can criticize Twitter and Elon all you want to your own hommies. Could you at least stay on Mitch’s topic? I am beginning to think you have a limited number of subjects that you can comment on. Sometimes Mitch hits one at random and you actually have a relevant though wrong comment but when he doesn’t hit one of your topics you make an off-topic, irrelevant reply. I guess this was one of those topics in which you have no thoughts.

  15. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    The risk with banning objectors is the site becomes a pointless echo chamber.

    The risk in failing to ban trolls is the site becomes an unreadable garbage heap.

    The trick is distinguishing objectors from trolls. People who make legitimate objections, rational arguments, articulate opposing viewpoints, should be welcome. Trolls should not.

    Of course, that’s just my opinion and it’s not my blog so……..

  16. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    Back to the subject: Are we sure that the Ben & Jerry’s (@benandjerrys) Twitter account is actually managed by and the voice of the two decrepit hippies? Because they sold the company years ago, and it is now owned by Unilever. This might be just some corporate social media drone trying to corporately maintain the brand’s ESG score.

    That said, yeah, all the corporations pushing the “stolen lands” fallacy ought to put their money where their mouth is and find a virgin patch of land which was not stolen from anyone.

    I hear Australia’s quite nice this time of year.

  17. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    BillC;
    Good point.
    Unilever is based in the Netherlands. I’m sure that they either knew or learned from their due diligence that their US acquisitions were on stolen land. They have perpetuated the theft and should repent their sins and give all of it back. The problem with that strategy is that, if you talk with any of the “native Americans”, they don’t want it back, because the white man have it too messed up.

  18. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Bill, Australia was stolen from aborigines. And NZ from Maori. Did you know NZ is the only country in the world that still has a colony? How progressive of them!

  19. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    boss, Uniliver learnt a valuable lesson – they should have bought the brand and not the idiots. Since they kept them on payroll (I think they are), I wonder which English clan (Unilever is in London, not the Netherlands) owns the land their HQ is built on? Unilever’s only sane response would be to get the idiots off the payroll immediately with extreme prejudice and distance themselves as far as possible. And sue fat bastards for malicious attempt to subvert their business – they should at least be able to get Goodwill portion of their purchase price back.

  20. cosmicwxdude Avatar
    cosmicwxdude

    Since I never eat their ice cream let alone ice cream from these leftist pukes I won’t be able to boycott but I will never get it if ‘going out for ice cream’ to the store ever again. Probably have bought it 3 x in my life. Over priced crud.

  21. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I’m with those who cannot boycott B&J for this because I’ve been boycotting them for years for their anti-gun and other stands. Plus, with my type 2 diabetes, I do well to take it easy on ice cream to begin with. Not their best customer or prospective customer.

    I remember when Unilever fouled a good portion of Lake Michigan near where I grew up from one of their soap plants. It strikes me that companies wanting a good “score” for social justice and the environment might do well to address that. Just sayin’.

  22. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    bike;
    If you’re originally from Michigan, you may already know this. Nestle has been sucking water out of Lake Michigan for their Pure Life water for at least 20 years. It was exposed by a group organized to protect the lake about 12 years ago. The pumping building was not marked, save for a small sign by the entrance. While the sleuths were videotaping, the county Mounties showed up and kicked them out of the area, even though they were not on the grounds. I’m sure said plant was on land stolen from the Odawa natives.

  23. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    The Bud light boycott was started and completely driven on TwitR. They’ve literally been giving that watery beer away with rebate coupons…nothing has helped.

    As of today, Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost 14.55% of its value. Who knew a couple of incels and a racist drank so much shitty beer?

    Those three TwitR insurrectionists also went after Target. Target’s 52W high was 179.35. As of today, it’s at 125.08

    Gee…Sure hope that TwitR racist isn’t a Nazi too (they all are, aren’t they?). B&J doesnt have but a fraction of Anheuser-Busch or Target’s market cap.

    Could be annuda shoah!

  24. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    The barrage of mindless savagery being visited on cities worldwide has really made blacks very unpopular.

    In the US, poverty pimps like Ben Crump, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have played a outsized roll in currying the public’s disgust with our dusky population. But it is black “intellectuals” like Ibram X. Kendi and Charles Blow that put the capital D in “Despise” for their brothers and sisters.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/supreme-court-affirmative-action.html

  25. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Well, well, well. Isn’t this interesting.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ben-jerry-s-parent-company-loses-an-estimated-2-5-billion-after-july-4-tweet-about-stolen-indigenous-land/ar-AA1dwUYi?cvid=60bc6ce5a0d242d69d8c263bd677c180&ei=17

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