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How M&M’s Found Itself in the Culture Wars Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, I thought. Big Al
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Words fail. It's a candy. That's all. It oppresses no one and keeps dentists in the black. Yeesh. Besides, if you are changing anything at all due to what Carlson says, well, bless your heart.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I’m not sure which is more annoying - woke or anti-woke.
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate  |
Just another way for that gazoony to keep people distracted from things that might really matter. Gross.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I saw a bit the other day. Guy said he was in a grocery store and a kid was pestering his mom for some candy. She grabbed a bag of M&Ms. The guy leapt into action and screamed at her to put them back because M&Ms had gone woke. So she put the M&Ms back and grabbed a Twix instead, and the guy went back to minding his own business. I’m sure it’s not completely true, but I certainly see the majority of wackanoodles doing the same. Failing to see the actual picture. I, for one, won’t be buying any Mars products. Any company that makes a decision based on some inane blather that li’l tucky spewed will not get my business.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
I had no idea… Mars owns Wrigley, Altoids, and bunch of pet food brands, and Banfield and VCA animal hospitals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ncorporated#Products
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Minor Deity |
Not sure how much impact this would have on my life. I like M&M just fine, especially the sort with peanuts, and I find the M&M “spoke candies” humorous and whimsical. But I only buy M&M may be once or twice a year, if that. In the last few years, most M&M I ate are Halloween hauls/left-overs or gifts from others. 
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I'm confused - Mars hasn't responded to Tucky-poo at all but it seems like shooting yourself in the foot to boycott a company because people you don't like don't like it. From the article (quoting Tucker): “The green M&M’s got her boots back but apparently is now a lesbian, maybe, and there is also a plus-sized, obese purple M&M,” he said. “So we’re going to cover that, of course. Because that’s what we do.” He is seriously deranged. | |||
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Mars responded. Mars is indefinitely suspending the cartoon M&Ms in all their advertising. Why? Because tucky called them “woke” for the female ones ditching the go-go boots for sensible sneakers, so in tucky’s pea-brain, they are no longer “hot” (sexualized). Mars caved to right-wing anti-“woke” BS. (NYT article is behind paywall.) Am I missing something? https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24...fox-news-culture-war
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I like Mars. I don't like Hershey's. However, Mars' advertising has become downright creepy. I didn't read the link so don't know if it mentions the personification of M&M's as human cannibal victims. | |||
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| knitterati Beatification Candidate |
And perhaps it’s all part of A marketing stunt for the Super Bowl. If so, it’s not particularly well handled.
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| Minor Deity |
Her effort was for naught. Twix is a Mars brand.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
Exactly the point. Sheeple do what twits like li’l tucky say… there is a complete and total lack of understanding, much less original thought.
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
this ^
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