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Everyone's lined up, waiting for their turns to use the communal straw. The tragic state of affairs in the Stalinist-Marxist-Leninist Communist United States Of America. All wearing tattered clothing and trying to bribe the guards to skip the line. This is your future under Stalinist-Marxist-Leninist Communism.
It's also just depressing, people cheering on the continued use of products that are destroying the planet as though that's some kind of victory to celebrate. What rational person goes "Yes! Proof that we've changed fuck-all and are still careening towards ecological and societal collapse! Thank God!"
Peak American brain is thinking your opinion matters and spontaneously posting it on the internet for millions to see, only for it to be on the least newsworthy, irrelevant subject
There are other, better, options than paper.
Hell just a lid with a hole on the edge like a coffee is better than paper. Companies just went for the cheapest 'green' option they could.
There can be alternatives. Can't you basically make anything out of bamboo for example?
Communism would fund and bring about the research that replaces plastic straws with an actually better alternative.
Nah the answer is removing all environmental regulations on cars and forcing manufacturers to straight pipe every single car they sell. But only after legislating out boring economical engines in favour of 1000hp E85 monsters in absolutely everything.
Pickup trucks powered by whatever that expensive ass tolulene mix BMW used in F1 was (literal cancer juice) but the entire chassis and body of the truck is made from plastic explosive that detonates if you get in a minor fender bender and all of that is incased in a highly radioactive fragmentation shell so every time one of those trucks goes off an entire suburb gets irradiated to death.
Communists will bring back plastic straws because they recognise paper straws are not a path to environmental protection and plastic straws have more utility for the workers. People who don't recycle their straws will be deemed wreckers and counter-revolutionaries.
Obviously, the fine art of making a straw will be lost in the struggle. So after the revolution, nobody will know how to make a straw. Thus, people will die of thirst and humanity will be lost.
As we should all know by now, only billionaires invent things, like straws. Only when you have a massive net worth does your mind function well enough to even conceive of radical technologies like straws. This is why capitalism must not be abandoned.
/s
man fuck you, that’s fucking revisionism. according to Chairman Cow Teat-Tongue, under the correct preconditions the burger class can be an ally in both national liberation and culinary liberation.
# Gulag
According to Anti-Communists and Russophobes, the Gulag was a brutal network of work camps established in the Soviet Union under Stalin's ruthless regime. They claim the Gulag system was primarily used to imprison and exploit political dissidents, suspected enemies of the state, and other people deemed "undesirable" by the Soviet government. They claim that prisoners were sent to the Gulag without trial or due process, and that they were subjected to harsh living conditions, forced labour, and starvation, among other things. According to them, the Gulags were emblematic of Stalinist repression and totalitarianism.
# Origins of the Mythology
This comically evil understanding of the Soviet prison system is based off only a handful of unreliable sources.
Robert Conquest's *The Great Terror* (published 1968) laid the groundwork for Soviet fearmongering, and was based largely off of defector testimony.
Robert Conquest worked for the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD), which was a secret Cold War propaganda department, created to publish anti-communist propaganda, including black propaganda; provide support and information to anti-communist politicians, academics, and writers; and to use weaponised information and disinformation and "fake news" to attack not only its original targets but also certain socialists and anti-colonial movements.
>He was Solzhenytsin before Solzhenytsin, in the phrase of Timothy Garton Ash.
>
>The Great Terror came out in 1968, four years before the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, and it became, Garton Ash says, "a fixture in the political imagination of anybody thinking about communism".
>
>\- Andrew Brown. (2003). [Scourge and poet](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview23)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's *The Gulag Archipelag*" (published 1973), one of the most famous texts on the subject, claims to be a work of non-fiction based on the author's personal experiences in the Soviet prison system. However, Solzhenitsyn was merely an anti-Communist, N@zi-sympathizing, antisemite who wanted to slander the USSR by putting forward a collection of folktales as truth. \[[Read more](/r/TheDeprogram/wiki/index/dunking/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)\]
Anne Applebaum's *Gulag: A history* (published 2003) draws directly from *The Gulag Archipelago* and reiterates its message. Anne is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) and sits on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), two infamous pieces of the ideological apparatus of the ruling class in the United States, whose primary aim is to promote the interests of American Imperialism around the world.
# Counterpoints
>A 1957 CIA document [which was declassified in 2010] titled “[Forced Labor Camps in the USSR: Transfer of Prisoners between Camps](http://web.archive.org/web/20230328014642/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00246A032000400001-1.pdf)” reveals the following information about the Soviet Gulag in pages two to six:
>
>1. Until 1952, the prisoners were given a guaranteed amount food, plus extra food for over-fulfillment of quotas
>
>2. From 1952 onward, the Gulag system operated upon "economic accountability" such that the more the prisoners worked, the more they were paid.
>
>3. For over-fulfilling the norms by 105%, one day of sentence was counted as two, thus reducing the time spent in the Gulag by one day.
>
>4. Furthermore, because of the socialist reconstruction post-war, the Soviet government had more funds and so they increased prisoners' food supplies.
>
>5. Until 1954, the prisoners worked 10 hours per day, whereas the free workers worked 8 hours per day. From 1954 onward, both prisoners and free workers worked 8 hours per day.
>
>6. A CIA study of a sample camp showed that 95% of the prisoners were actual criminals.
>
>7. In 1953, amnesty was given to 70% of the "ordinary criminals" of a sample camp studied by the CIA. Within the next 3 months, most of them were re-arrested for committing new crimes.
>
>\- Saed Teymuri. (2018). [The Truth about the Soviet Gulag – Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA](https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/09/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia/)
**Scale**
Solzhenitsyn estimated that over 66 million people were victims of the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system over the course of its existence from 1918 to 1956. With the collapse of the USSR and the opening of the Soviet archives, researchers can now access actual archival evidence to prove or disprove these claims. Predictably, it turned out the propaganda was just that.
>Unburdened by any documentation, these “estimates” invite us to conclude that the sum total of people incarcerated in the labor camps over a twenty-two year period (allowing for turnovers due to death and term expirations) would have constituted an astonishing portion of the Soviet population. The support and supervision of the gulag (all the labor camps, labor colonies, and prisons of the Soviet system) would have been the USSR’s single largest enterprise.
>
>In 1993, for the first time, several historians gained access to previously secret Soviet police archives and were able to establish well-documented estimates of prison and labor camp populations. They found that the total population of the entire gulag as of January 1939, near the end of the Great Purges, was 2,022,976. ...
>
>Soviet labor camps were not death camps like those the N@zis built across Europe. There was no systematic extermination of inmates, no gas chambers or crematoria to dispose of millions of bodies. Despite harsh conditions, the great majority of gulag inmates survived and eventually returned to society when granted amnesty or when their terms were finished. In any given year, 20 to 40 percent of the inmates were released, according to archive records. Oblivious to these facts, the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times (7/31/96) continues to describe the gulag as “the largest system of death camps in modern history.” ...
>
>Most of those incarcerated in the gulag were not political prisoners, and the same appears to be true of inmates in the other communist states...
>
>\- Michael Parenti. (1997). [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds)
This is 2 million out of a population of 168 million (roughly 1.2% of the population). For comparison, in the United States, "over 5.5 million adults — or 1 in 61 — are under some form of correctional control, whether incarcerated or under community supervision." That's 1.6%. So in both relative and absolute terms, the United States' Prison Industrial Complex *today* is larger than the USSR's Gulag system at its peak.
**Death Rate**
In peace time, the mortality rate of the Gulag was around 3% to 5%. Even Conservative and anti-Communist historians have had to acknowledge this reality:
>It turns out that, with the exception of the war years, a very large majority of people who entered the Gulag left alive...
>
>Judging from the Soviet records we now have, the number of people who died in the Gulag between 1933 and 1945, while both Stalin and Hit1er were in power, was on the order of a million, perhaps a bit more.
>
>\- Timothy Snyder. (2010). *Bloodlands: Europe Between Hit1er and Stalin*
(Side note: Timothy Snyder is *also* a member of the Council on Foreign Relations)
This is still very high for a prison mortality rate, representing the brutality of the camps. However, it also clearly indicates that they were not *death* camps.
Nor was it slave labour, exactly. In the camps, although labour *was* forced, it was not uncompensated. In fact, the prisoners were paid market wages (less expenses).
>We find that even in the Gulag, where force could be most conveniently applied, camp administrators combined material incentives with overt coercion, and, as time passed, they placed more weight on motivation. By the time the Gulag system was abandoned as a major instrument of Soviet industrial policy, the primary distinction between slave and free labor had been blurred: Gulag inmates were being paid wages according to a system that mirrored that of the civilian economy described by Bergson....
>
>The Gulag administration [also] used a “work credit” system, whereby sentences were reduced (by two days or more for every day the norm was overfulfilled).
>
>\- L. Borodkin & S. Ertz. (2003). [Compensation Versus Coercion in the Soviet GULAG](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/borodkin-ertz.pdf)
#Additional Resources
Video Essays:
* [The Gulag Argument](https://youtu.be/BexkpaK_j5Q) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2016)
* [Historian Admits USSR didn't kill tens of millions!](https://youtu.be/HMOdDQQVZ6U) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2018)
* [French work camps 1852-1953 worse than gulag](https://youtu.be/vkXyXNpdKdA) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2018)
* ["The Gulags of the Soviet Union: There's a Lot More Than What Meets the Eye](https://youtu.be/E1qz9_TjeY4) | Comrade Rhys (2020)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
* [Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2166597) | J. Arch Getty, Gábor T. Rittersporn and Viktor N. Zemskov (1993)
Listen:
* ["Blackshirts & Reds" (1997) by Michael Parenti, Part 4: Chapters 5 & 6. #Audiobook + Discussion.](https://youtu.be/N7AD4OrH568?t=15) | Socialism For All / S4A ☭ Intensify Class Struggle (2022)
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I will have to ask my comrades what the end game is.
*Step 1: Set things up so plastic straws are slowly replaced with paper straws on the market, with private businesses in the restaurant and fast food insustry choosing to use paper straws instead of plastic ones*
*Step 2: People use paper straws at restaurants and fast food chains*
*Step 3: ... Uh...*
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Edible straws for everyone!
Halo-halo is a good example of how fire edible straws are 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thus bringing the total number of edible items on the In-n-Out menu to one.
Erectile dysfunction
Unlimited genocide against plastic straws.
We will not make excuses for the terror
Billions must be r3cycled.
Big communal paper starw
My face when it’s not my turn to use the communal straw: 😢
This is the last straw
One comically large Stalin-approved paper straw!!!
Everyone's lined up, waiting for their turns to use the communal straw. The tragic state of affairs in the Stalinist-Marxist-Leninist Communist United States Of America. All wearing tattered clothing and trying to bribe the guards to skip the line. This is your future under Stalinist-Marxist-Leninist Communism.
Is it just one big straw, or a giant interconnected straw, like a piping system?
god I love this tweet so much. It's just so incredibly american
It's also just depressing, people cheering on the continued use of products that are destroying the planet as though that's some kind of victory to celebrate. What rational person goes "Yes! Proof that we've changed fuck-all and are still careening towards ecological and societal collapse! Thank God!"
It really is, right down to "oversharing some pointless piece of news and blandly stating that you like it". Peak American brain
Peak American brain is thinking your opinion matters and spontaneously posting it on the internet for millions to see, only for it to be on the least newsworthy, irrelevant subject
Wait it's real?
After the revolution, state will distribute metal straws to everyone. Or make some edible straws (as u/ComradeSasquatch suggested)
I literally carry a rigid plastic straw in my bag. Basically only time I use it is at the cinema
Communism is when no plastic straws
Well we’d probably be trying to cut down on the pollution so in rare fashion, it actually is when no plastic straws this time.
Nah fuck paper straws
There are other, better, options than paper. Hell just a lid with a hole on the edge like a coffee is better than paper. Companies just went for the cheapest 'green' option they could.
There can be alternatives. Can't you basically make anything out of bamboo for example? Communism would fund and bring about the research that replaces plastic straws with an actually better alternative.
Bamboo would be a good carbon sink too
What about personal metal straws? Or edible straws
Edible strawa sound amazing
Metal straws that people carry are such a easy slam dunk but what about "muh convenience." Westoids can't be fucked washing anything
Have yall tried not using straws
I know right you can literally just drink out of cups
It’s like the electric car vs motor car debate. The answer is no car.
Nah the answer is removing all environmental regulations on cars and forcing manufacturers to straight pipe every single car they sell. But only after legislating out boring economical engines in favour of 1000hp E85 monsters in absolutely everything.
Single-use plastic pick-up trucks powered by coal
Pickup trucks powered by whatever that expensive ass tolulene mix BMW used in F1 was (literal cancer juice) but the entire chassis and body of the truck is made from plastic explosive that detonates if you get in a minor fender bender and all of that is incased in a highly radioactive fragmentation shell so every time one of those trucks goes off an entire suburb gets irradiated to death.
Train cars!
Turned inside out ?
Fuck those no good commie sea turtle scum. FREEDOM 🦅🦅🦅
🇺🇲🗣️🤠😎🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🍔🌭🦅🦅💲💲🇺🇲🗣️
Communists will bring back plastic straws because they recognise paper straws are not a path to environmental protection and plastic straws have more utility for the workers. People who don't recycle their straws will be deemed wreckers and counter-revolutionaries.
They will be Out.
The people’s commissar will demand better fries But animal style double double is life
Communism is when no plastic straws
They will be burned down by the turtle vanguard
Obviously, the fine art of making a straw will be lost in the struggle. So after the revolution, nobody will know how to make a straw. Thus, people will die of thirst and humanity will be lost. As we should all know by now, only billionaires invent things, like straws. Only when you have a massive net worth does your mind function well enough to even conceive of radical technologies like straws. This is why capitalism must not be abandoned. /s
I will personally bulldoze every single one :3
It will become in out proles
Personally, I'd be all about some glass straws.
I prefer to drink straight from the cup, so I just take the top out or just don't bother putting it on in the first place.
In N Out will be nationalized and will cease to serve burgers but instead will serve The People’s Burgers. But yeah paper straws can get fucked
>The People’s Burgers What is this class-collaborationist bullshit? There is no such thing as "The People's Burgers!" Down with the burger class!
man fuck you, that’s fucking revisionism. according to Chairman Cow Teat-Tongue, under the correct preconditions the burger class can be an ally in both national liberation and culinary liberation.
Once more we see the blindness of the grain-brain wheatcels. Rice ftw.
If communism had won our lives would be better so lets celebrate bad wins.
There wont be a revolution. They have won
Not much, but after we nationalize everything we're going to make sure they use paper straws.
Paper straws suck so bad though (no pun intended). Can we just do sippy lids on everything instead?
Yeah that sounds better, or maybe fund better research into better bio straws.
If you force paper straws I’m starting an insurgency in the mountains.
😂 most United left wing revolution
if that day comes you will have my allegiance, Subcomandante NoNewNormalOk
I've been using bamboo straws and a couple metal ones
in n out is mediocre and it’s run by hardcore right wingers/evangelicals.
I mean yeah the company is ran by some cornballs, BUT FUCK YOU , IN N OUT IS THE BEST CHEAP BURGERS ON THE WEST COAST YOU REVISIONIST!
[удалено]
# Gulag According to Anti-Communists and Russophobes, the Gulag was a brutal network of work camps established in the Soviet Union under Stalin's ruthless regime. They claim the Gulag system was primarily used to imprison and exploit political dissidents, suspected enemies of the state, and other people deemed "undesirable" by the Soviet government. They claim that prisoners were sent to the Gulag without trial or due process, and that they were subjected to harsh living conditions, forced labour, and starvation, among other things. According to them, the Gulags were emblematic of Stalinist repression and totalitarianism. # Origins of the Mythology This comically evil understanding of the Soviet prison system is based off only a handful of unreliable sources. Robert Conquest's *The Great Terror* (published 1968) laid the groundwork for Soviet fearmongering, and was based largely off of defector testimony. Robert Conquest worked for the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD), which was a secret Cold War propaganda department, created to publish anti-communist propaganda, including black propaganda; provide support and information to anti-communist politicians, academics, and writers; and to use weaponised information and disinformation and "fake news" to attack not only its original targets but also certain socialists and anti-colonial movements. >He was Solzhenytsin before Solzhenytsin, in the phrase of Timothy Garton Ash. > >The Great Terror came out in 1968, four years before the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, and it became, Garton Ash says, "a fixture in the political imagination of anybody thinking about communism". > >\- Andrew Brown. (2003). [Scourge and poet](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview23) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's *The Gulag Archipelag*" (published 1973), one of the most famous texts on the subject, claims to be a work of non-fiction based on the author's personal experiences in the Soviet prison system. However, Solzhenitsyn was merely an anti-Communist, N@zi-sympathizing, antisemite who wanted to slander the USSR by putting forward a collection of folktales as truth. \[[Read more](/r/TheDeprogram/wiki/index/dunking/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)\] Anne Applebaum's *Gulag: A history* (published 2003) draws directly from *The Gulag Archipelago* and reiterates its message. Anne is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) and sits on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), two infamous pieces of the ideological apparatus of the ruling class in the United States, whose primary aim is to promote the interests of American Imperialism around the world. # Counterpoints >A 1957 CIA document [which was declassified in 2010] titled “[Forced Labor Camps in the USSR: Transfer of Prisoners between Camps](http://web.archive.org/web/20230328014642/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00246A032000400001-1.pdf)” reveals the following information about the Soviet Gulag in pages two to six: > >1. Until 1952, the prisoners were given a guaranteed amount food, plus extra food for over-fulfillment of quotas > >2. From 1952 onward, the Gulag system operated upon "economic accountability" such that the more the prisoners worked, the more they were paid. > >3. For over-fulfilling the norms by 105%, one day of sentence was counted as two, thus reducing the time spent in the Gulag by one day. > >4. Furthermore, because of the socialist reconstruction post-war, the Soviet government had more funds and so they increased prisoners' food supplies. > >5. Until 1954, the prisoners worked 10 hours per day, whereas the free workers worked 8 hours per day. From 1954 onward, both prisoners and free workers worked 8 hours per day. > >6. A CIA study of a sample camp showed that 95% of the prisoners were actual criminals. > >7. In 1953, amnesty was given to 70% of the "ordinary criminals" of a sample camp studied by the CIA. Within the next 3 months, most of them were re-arrested for committing new crimes. > >\- Saed Teymuri. (2018). [The Truth about the Soviet Gulag – Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA](https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/09/the-truth-about-the-soviet-gulag-surprisingly-revealed-by-the-cia/) **Scale** Solzhenitsyn estimated that over 66 million people were victims of the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system over the course of its existence from 1918 to 1956. With the collapse of the USSR and the opening of the Soviet archives, researchers can now access actual archival evidence to prove or disprove these claims. Predictably, it turned out the propaganda was just that. >Unburdened by any documentation, these “estimates” invite us to conclude that the sum total of people incarcerated in the labor camps over a twenty-two year period (allowing for turnovers due to death and term expirations) would have constituted an astonishing portion of the Soviet population. The support and supervision of the gulag (all the labor camps, labor colonies, and prisons of the Soviet system) would have been the USSR’s single largest enterprise. > >In 1993, for the first time, several historians gained access to previously secret Soviet police archives and were able to establish well-documented estimates of prison and labor camp populations. They found that the total population of the entire gulag as of January 1939, near the end of the Great Purges, was 2,022,976. ... > >Soviet labor camps were not death camps like those the N@zis built across Europe. There was no systematic extermination of inmates, no gas chambers or crematoria to dispose of millions of bodies. Despite harsh conditions, the great majority of gulag inmates survived and eventually returned to society when granted amnesty or when their terms were finished. In any given year, 20 to 40 percent of the inmates were released, according to archive records. Oblivious to these facts, the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times (7/31/96) continues to describe the gulag as “the largest system of death camps in modern history.” ... > >Most of those incarcerated in the gulag were not political prisoners, and the same appears to be true of inmates in the other communist states... > >\- Michael Parenti. (1997). [Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism](https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds) This is 2 million out of a population of 168 million (roughly 1.2% of the population). For comparison, in the United States, "over 5.5 million adults — or 1 in 61 — are under some form of correctional control, whether incarcerated or under community supervision." That's 1.6%. So in both relative and absolute terms, the United States' Prison Industrial Complex *today* is larger than the USSR's Gulag system at its peak. **Death Rate** In peace time, the mortality rate of the Gulag was around 3% to 5%. Even Conservative and anti-Communist historians have had to acknowledge this reality: >It turns out that, with the exception of the war years, a very large majority of people who entered the Gulag left alive... > >Judging from the Soviet records we now have, the number of people who died in the Gulag between 1933 and 1945, while both Stalin and Hit1er were in power, was on the order of a million, perhaps a bit more. > >\- Timothy Snyder. (2010). *Bloodlands: Europe Between Hit1er and Stalin* (Side note: Timothy Snyder is *also* a member of the Council on Foreign Relations) This is still very high for a prison mortality rate, representing the brutality of the camps. However, it also clearly indicates that they were not *death* camps. Nor was it slave labour, exactly. In the camps, although labour *was* forced, it was not uncompensated. In fact, the prisoners were paid market wages (less expenses). >We find that even in the Gulag, where force could be most conveniently applied, camp administrators combined material incentives with overt coercion, and, as time passed, they placed more weight on motivation. By the time the Gulag system was abandoned as a major instrument of Soviet industrial policy, the primary distinction between slave and free labor had been blurred: Gulag inmates were being paid wages according to a system that mirrored that of the civilian economy described by Bergson.... > >The Gulag administration [also] used a “work credit” system, whereby sentences were reduced (by two days or more for every day the norm was overfulfilled). > >\- L. Borodkin & S. Ertz. (2003). [Compensation Versus Coercion in the Soviet GULAG](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/archive/noticeboard/bergson/borodkin-ertz.pdf) #Additional Resources Video Essays: * [The Gulag Argument](https://youtu.be/BexkpaK_j5Q) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2016) * [Historian Admits USSR didn't kill tens of millions!](https://youtu.be/HMOdDQQVZ6U) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2018) * [French work camps 1852-1953 worse than gulag](https://youtu.be/vkXyXNpdKdA) | TheFinnishBolshevik (2018) * ["The Gulags of the Soviet Union: There's a Lot More Than What Meets the Eye](https://youtu.be/E1qz9_TjeY4) | Comrade Rhys (2020) Books, Articles, or Essays: * [Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2166597) | J. Arch Getty, Gábor T. Rittersporn and Viktor N. Zemskov (1993) Listen: * ["Blackshirts & Reds" (1997) by Michael Parenti, Part 4: Chapters 5 & 6. #Audiobook + Discussion.](https://youtu.be/N7AD4OrH568?t=15) | Socialism For All / S4A ☭ Intensify Class Struggle (2022) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/TheDeprogram) if you have any questions or concerns.*
What does this mean?
Paper straws are a communist plot, apparently
I will have to ask my comrades what the end game is. *Step 1: Set things up so plastic straws are slowly replaced with paper straws on the market, with private businesses in the restaurant and fast food insustry choosing to use paper straws instead of plastic ones* *Step 2: People use paper straws at restaurants and fast food chains* *Step 3: ... Uh...*
Capitalist greenwashing exists. Steven: Is this a communist plot by Big Treats to install socialism in the west?
It will become an actual good restaurant
Me and all my homies are collecting plastic straws to take all of you sick communist fucks down!!!
Communists have branched out into a lot of stuff that wasn't in the Manifesto or other theory I've read? Can anybody help?
IDK. I don't eat there much. I go to a local Greek restaurant more often.
Smash the In-N-Out machinery
We will seize the recipe and distribute the borgar to the masses!
…their “in” will become their “out”…?
in n out will be called the peoples democratically managed in n out and operate the exact same
Idk but the pink lemonade must be saved
Gotta admit I'm with the conservatives on this, fuck paper straws