Chicago Starbucks Worker Did Not Write 'Loser' On Order Honoring Charlie Kirk, Company Says
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A Starbucks spokesperson said time-stamped surveillance footage shows an employee did not write the note, which had prompted online outrage and the store's temporary closure this week.

Starbucks now says that time-stamped footage from the store at 6332 N. Northwest Highway does not show any of its workers writing that message. Instead, the note appears “to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,” a spokesperson told Block Club.

Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink — from the Starbucks. When the order was completed, the cup had “Loser” written on it, Garretson said.

“I’m talking 5 p.m. today, I want some form of action to the employee that represents this business that wrote ‘Loser’ on my mother’s cup,” the man, who is not seen on-camera, can be heard saying in the video, which was posted Wednesday.

“We’re looking for not corporate bureaucracy. I want immediate accountability; and if not, I will have this whole intersection lined with patriots today, I’m not even joking,” the man told a Starbucks employee.

What an emotional response jesus. Guy sounds like a loser.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      48·
      3 天前

      Much like how in Nazi Germany, neighbors would report each other to the police over real or invented allegations to resolve personal grievances, chuds are ordering this drink because they are sick with glee at the prospect of provoking a reaction from the woke blue-haired radical communist baristas and getting them fired. Of course that never happened because nobody gives a shit about their discount Horst Wessel, so they had to manufacture it as seen here.

    • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      22·
      3 天前

      It wasn’t really before now but it has been making the rounds the last week ish, these donuts ordering his drink and giving the name Charlie Kirk to- I guess own the lib starbucks workers?

  • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    49·
    3 天前

    I want someone fired right the fuck now for a staged self victimization or else I’m going to January 6 this Starbucks.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    461·
    3 天前

    Leftists are so edgy and the actual offensives every time we offend chuds it makes national news.

    We literally exist and that’s enough to ragebait 99% of the population, and we make headlines when we insult chuds back. Remember the legendary crashout of ‘ok boomer’ and “gammon”? If we can convince fascists that “skibidi” is a slur for white people, it will make headlines.

    Please. I am begging for the left to have its own 4chan or any other cultural mafia, the crashouts will be gold.

        • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          16·
          2 天前

          I know this is a shitpost but I was thinking the other day if there is ever any use for an extendable baton as a self defense weapon and I feel like the answer is no. My understanding is that if its use were legally justifiable then you’re already in a situation where you are in grave danger. And the baton would let you hurt someone but not really disable their attack if they were determined to getcha. Whereas pepper spray would temporarily disable them, hard, while also not putting you in legal jeopardy if you were a bit too quick to use it. If I’m wrong lemme know cuz I’m totally the kind of rube who could be convinced to buy an asp or collapsible baton or whatnot.

          Also Brace Belden says he carries a sap which is pretty funny and also a point in favor of bludgeoning weapons.

          • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            21·
            3 天前

            Thr law will never protect and always punish you.

            So ask the real question: what’s the funniest self defense weapon you could get real utility out of?

          • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            11·
            3 天前

            I don’t think collapsible batons are very good. Unless the telescopic part is really sturdy and the end of it is really heavy, basically just making it a medieval mace, it’s going to be mildly annoying at best, and picking up a random brick off the ground and throwing it would probably be more effective.

            My understanding of a lot of that “self-defense” gear is that it is made to trick rubes who are scared of “crime” (us-foreign-policy ) to buy bullshit that doesn’t actually work, but it’s ok, because the nightmare scenario Fox news has planted in their heads doesn’t actually happen in the real world, so the company doesn’t need to be worried about getting sued when their product doesn’t work.

            Any of that “tacticool” mall ninja shit is never actually going to be effective, you’d be better off carrying either a knife or a gun (as long as it is completely legal of course). I don’t know about how effective pepper spray stuff is, but fumbling with a bag and the cap and then making sure you’re aiming the spray end at your attacker, all while they’re coming at you seems like it would not be very effective either, though with practice and making sure you can stay cool in a crisis and not panic it would probably be fine. That’s the biggest part really, not panicking, calmly assessing the situation. Sometimes the most effective defence against a mugging is to just take out your wallet and toss it at them and run away. It sucks, but it’s way better than getting stabbed.

            • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              13·
              2 天前

              100-com Agree on your analysis and assessment of the psychology behind the industry. I have a pepper spray canister with a lil’ pocket clip and a top that flicks up with the thumb to access the button so its fairly accessible. I wouldn’t be confident using a blade for self defense. Getting a CCW permit for a firearm is fairly obtainable where I live but I wouldn’t be comfortable carrying everyday, having a gun on me would make me so paranoid. Avoiding the situation, escaping the situation, giving up the loot if that means staying safe, absolutely right.

            • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              10·
              3 天前

              I’ve always maintained that the most effective form of self defense training is to go to the track and do sprints. It’s not flashy but 99/100 people (including cops) either can’t or won’t keep up with you if you’ve trained your running speed.

  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 天前

    Right wing ragebaiters obviously don’t care about what they’re supposedly outraged about, when they say they feel sick to their stomach about some nobody on Xitler being mean to Horst Wessel they are obviously sick with glee at the thought of destroying someone’s life over it. Chuds have never been this happy and excited in their lives, they crave the feeling of power they get when they call up a business and scream slurs into the phone threatening to shoot up their office unless they fire PigFucker69 from Instagram

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    3 天前

    Ah. So the same as when a cup had “pig” written on it by a cop?

    And they shut down a Starbucks because they got called a loser? A fucking loser?! Why are the loudest, most obnoxious people so thin skinned? And why do they seem to have such a following?

    Do you know what most “healthy” people would do in that situation (had it actually happened?) Just not go back. No performance, no threats, just not go back.

    And if Starbucks is so woke this keeps (not) happening, why are they even going to Starbucks in the first place?

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    3 天前

    the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink

    Yeah I’m sure the underpaid Starbucks barista with a mailing address well outside of Charlie Kirk’s asshole decided to call someone a loser on the sole basis of an order similar to his.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      3 天前

      “Known to be Kirk’s favorite drink”

      Known by who? I’m a fan of Robert Englund and I couldn’t for the life of me tell you if he’s ever had a big mac, let alone if he even drinks tea, and they think someone who isn’t even a fan would be up to date with what pretentious drink he’s into?

      Had the worker actually written loser, it would have most likely be in reference to the person ordering this pretentious drink.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      3 天前

      The truth doesn’t matter, the point is to accuse their mortal enemies (woke baristas) of lese-majeste publicly in the hopes that it goes viral on Xitler and they they get inundated with death threats. The hogs will have forgotten all about it and moved on to the next target and be too busy sending new death threats to care about any developments on an old case (right wing outrage cycles have the shortest half-life of any known element), and even if they found out they wouldn’t give a shit, because all they really care about is destroying the lives of minimum-wage workers because Fox News told them they were involved in a communist plot to destroy America

  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    3 天前

    Man thinks people seriously give a fuck about or know that piece of shits order? Like… seriously? So obvious you wrote it yourself to try and target “woke” (lol) Starbucks.

  • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    30·
    3 天前

    “Don’t give them a reason!” Crowd–where you at?

    Also, as a tea drinker and herbal tea lover–who the fuck orders tea at Starbucks? Their tea is piss water.