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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 91 points 2 weeks ago (8 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, Nestlรฉ, Mรผllermilch all these mf can suck it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't drink Red bull but still would like a more thorough article or information about this

[โ€“] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago

Wikipedia provides a starting point!

I don't drink it because it's trash, but I had no idea about any of this. The word needs to be spread.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Servus TVย is a TV station based inย Wals-Siezenheimย in theย Austrianย state ofย Salzburgand owned by Red Bull Media House GmbH, a subsidiary ofย Red Bull GmbH, which also publishes the magazineย 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 theย far right.

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

Cโ€™mon you have the fucking Internet, you can just search this shit yourself if you want more information.

[โ€“] [email protected] 130 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It also tastes like shit and is prohibitively expensive compared to many energy drink brands

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also has even higher chances of giving you kidney stones than other sodas iirc

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (14 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well yeah, you're promoting the same kind of violence that Ukraine continues to perpetrate on Russia.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

o Reddit is no place for normal people

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's also owned by the creator of the original Red Bull in Thailand, which is a different company, but it's named after an extreme right wing paramilitary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gaurs

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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

idk about r/buyFromEU but r/europe on reddit is pretty right-wing

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Without reading the actual post, and my sole reaction to the thread title is: you can purchase Reddit mods?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

10 to 15 years back when I still watched tv, I loved Servus TV: news, lots of documentaries, reports and some panel shows. Like, TV before enshittification. Absolutely nothing even remotely close to what this post is suggesting. Has it gone down since then, or is this post misinformation? Can anybody who's still watching TV confirm this?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Red Bull also tastes like shit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Wait really? I live in the US granted but I don't want to support any company that does heinous shit like this.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didnโ€™t know redbull was European and I didnโ€™t know servus tv belonged to redbull

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Bullshit they actively promoting anti corona, pro Putin and far right wing plebs for the last 10 years now! I live in Austria and it's ridiculous you try defend them. Yes they were an awesome tv station back then )until 2017. But nowadays it's just a hate tv!

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