Mars, Inc. feels the need to make political statements instead of delicious candy (Simpson, free speech)
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I'm wondering what make over the Yellow "Peanut" M&M will get since he's supposed to a mentally slow White guy!! I'm pretty sure the political officers within Mars Inc., are fine with that one.
Well, I guess I'll be crossing off M&Ms from my snack list.
Remember when they wouldn't allow M and M's to be featured in "ET", because they didn't want their product associated with "aliens"? How "unwoke" of them. Hershey (and Reese's Pieces) ended up laughing all the way to the bank.
Sugar is poison.
Diabetes makes one susceptible to greater Covid risk.
Therefore Biden ought to mandate the ceasing of M&Ms to protect the public right away.
Right Joe?
They're keeping Joey busy and out of trouble by having him sort through a bag of M and M's, and picking out the defective ones...the W's.
How on earth did we, as a society, get to this point? Have we truly reached a point in our lives where stuff like this is worthy of our attention?
Should we not assume that you're familiar with the concept of marketing?
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How can we ever fix any of our very real problems in this country when people are focusing their attention on ridiculous issues like this?
*ahem* Aren't you focusing your attention on this issue? I'd never have noticed, except that now you've brought my attention to it. Congratulations. You've done just what the marketers hoped you'd do.
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Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH
You can never make people who find this sort of thing to complain about happy.
You're the one doing all the complaining.
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Originally Posted by bergun
Well, I guess I'll be crossing off M&Ms from my snack list.
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Originally Posted by SilkHammer
They made my woke list a while back before this episode and I printed out a list of their products to avoid.
Hahahaha, who says conservatives don't engage in cancel culture?
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Originally Posted by gailjnh
But I will take a stance that blue M&Ms are just wrong!
LOL - preach it! Blue M&Ms are an abomination!
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Originally Posted by BeerGeek40
LOL, inflation's raging, stock market's tanking, people can't afford to buy a house.... and Mars felt the need to go woke on us.
What, exactly, do you suppose M&M/Mars should do about inflation, stock market, and housing?
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Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH
Here I am pointing a finger at the lunacy we are being forced to deal with on a daily basis. Here I am discussing just how wrong it is that people are bringing focus to ridiculous issues like these while they could be focusing their attention on the very real problems that exist in this country/world.
Forced? LMAO. You could have scrolled right past that article. Instead, you chose to whine about it. So who's wrong here?
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Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH
On the contrary, I do not want people to ignore anything. I want people to see this and recognize that this sort of nonsense is a plague on our society. .
Marketing is a plague? Well, OK, you might have something there.
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Originally Posted by Variable
Are you upset that the bully M&M "will be more kind to his co-characters."
Or are you upset that the heels on the brown M&M "will be lowered to a professional heel height".
Or are you upset that the Green M&M's go go boots will be replaced by sneakers?"
Or are you upset because "orange M&M's shoe laces will now be tied"
Spot on. I wonder what has the OP so tied in knots - not unlike the orange M&M character.
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Originally Posted by sholomar
It's the total disregard for traditional values, lack of tolerance, identity politics, wokeness, and cancel culture that I disagree with. Plus the welfare state, mismanagement of large cities with lax on crime policies, and the general rewarding of bad behavior
OK, so what should M&M/Mars do about that?
As for cancel culture, take that up with all the people upthread who have vowed never to eat a M&M/Mars product because of the change in the M&M animated characters.
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Originally Posted by cuebald
What’s wrong with diversity and inclusion? We all know that M&Ms are a lot more fun for the very reason that they are not all the same color, and they all get along well as friends.
M&Ms are a metaphor for life as it should be.
I kinda like that.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua
No one will notice any of this, it's just mental masturbation for the woke crowd.
Aw, I bet the OP would take issue with this post.
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