Small Candy Bars Are Communistic
 

ITS OFFICIAL.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/brown...s-brown28.html
This is fucked up right here.

A country with the diabetes stats of USA shouldn't worry about communism when concerning the size of candy bars.

Once again, the King Size people (well, those of them who are raised to support those who earn sick amounts of money by selling unhealthy food) are trying to make people forget about the relevant part.

[Church Lady]
Do you somehow imply that it's wrong to earn sick amounts of money by selling unhealthy food?

Could it be you're a communist yourself?
[/Church Lady]

Well duh, I'm openly communist.

Smaller bars = less consuption
WRONG
Smaller bars = people buy even MORE bars to get there fix.

Yes, in a way it's terribly wrong.


Accordning to the very strict american standards of decency I'm red glowin' indeed. But you'll have to ask yourself what communism really is. tip: this is not communism as Marx wanted it to be: "Mommy just gave me too little monoey to spend on hip clothes, therefore SHE MUST BE SLAINED". And the american way to mix up christian preachers with anti-left political views is absurd.

No, I'm not a communist, becouse I believe in people's right to own stuff. I just don't like people owning stuff and making the world a shittier place at the same time. (th (Great social differences is something that should be reduced)
(Here's a nice way to test your political views
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ )

If you want to call me something: Call me a Social Liberal.

Communism isn't about abolishing private property.

It's about abolishing private ownership of the means of production.

I've actually read Marx (well, a bit). :p

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yes, but communism in practice [during the 20th century] was quite much about restricting any kind of private owned property.

And I don't believe that all production should be owned by the state. All industries should be watched closely all the time though.

Communism in practice was quite much about restricting everything.

quite so.

Jesus! How comes Amreica is so fucking scared of communism??? Small candy bars don't turn you into small commies! They'd rather make you gay. How can anybody take that seriously?!?

me too :up: us scandinavians :p

Americans who has this fear about socialism and communism should spend a week in Scandinavia, somehow i have a feeling they would be much surprised.

on topic, it seems like a sensible suggestion to me, something has to be done, why not try this?

99% of people who take that test are within 2 squares any direction of there...:rolleyes:

Geez!

Do none of you get it?!?

Ok, i'll break down what I think is fucked up about my orginal quoting...

1) America has an obesity problem, britain has one too, but lesser.

2) British candybar makers will stop selling king size bars

3) American candybar makers thinking of following suit.

4) This american think that smaller candybars are the work of evil evil communists. Totally disregarding the obesity problem made worse by super-sized junk food.

Where did the link between responsible manufactureres and communism come in?

Why is this man so against responsible manufacturing?

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN AMERICA?

I thought he was taking the piss.

I don't see any humour in the article.

Becouse a lot of truly honorable people like this guy made clear that good american citizens should not ask difficult questions about industrial responsibility. I mean, responsibility harms the economical results of private propery like candy bar factories. Social respoonsibility can be linked to left-wing-thinking and left wing thinking is in fact in the same political wing as communism.


I don't know. I don't live there.

Exactly.

So he seriously means that calling something a manifesto means you're a communist?

Hmmm, maybe I still underestimate american stupidity.

American stupidity=low educational level (?!! This guy could, at leat theoretically, be a college professor. Why not ask him personally at markbrown@suntimes.com?)

Wonder what kind of education mr. Brown, the author of that column has. I mean, I'm practically 17 as my birthday is on next saturday, and I'm studying at upper secondary school and I already think that a very big part of the debate in the american media is extremely anti-intellectual. And now I was not talking about shock-jocks, radio talk show hosts and Michael Moore-types.

Seems to me a lot of people that don't live in the USA have a lot to say about how things are going here when they don't really know. They read a friggin' article about some bullshit and decide that Americans are a bunch of '_________' (fill in the blank with your favorite slander).

Just call me the social asshole.:D

Edit: For all of the non-Americans that don't get the joke - that's just it - the story is a joke.

The obesity problem started happening when nintendo proliferated and got worse when we all had computers that could do more than simple bleeps and bloops.

No joke, I think sitting in front of our pc's chuggin down sodas and twinkies while on IRC or forums is to blame.

It's not communism, it's the corporations getting what they want.

Corporations only care about selling their product and run endless commercials telling you it's healthy, cool or the thing to do and people buy into it.

Marlboro has the 'Marlboro Man', an ultra cool John Wayne looking dude that makes you think smoking is cool.

You have clothing people telling us tweed and paisley 70's looking stuff is the in-style and low and behold I see people dressing like the 70's never went away.

You have people thinking that by taking this little pill to subside your herpes outbreaks makes your life perfect anyway and you get a bug buff boyfriend or a hot girlfriend.

They tell you that the little ****** pill will give you a 36 hour 2X4 woodrow and your life will instantly become perfect like 'Bob'.

We were pushed for years to think we needed carbs for breakfast. Now carbs are bad. Eggs and milk were good, now they're bad. In a year or two they will be good again.

Every other year the new perfect exercise comes out. Sit ups, jumping jacks, jogging, aerobics, yoga, palottis (probably spelt it wrong), cardio .. yet not one of them lasts more than a year or two before the next fad exercise will come along and be the superior exercise.

Do I even need to mention how many diet fads have come along or how many people are all Atkins friendly right now.

No matter how bad is is or unhealthy it might be advertisers continue to tell us we want this and need this and if we get it we will all be perfectly fit, super cool and have everything we want. If we ever instituted a law for truth in advertising we would never see another commercial ever again.

What's worse than that is people believe their bull.

mr. social asshole :p

But we WANT to know. That's a good thing isn't it?

I prefer not to say that all americans are reaganese commiefearers. That would be to genearalize.


Prove that. And also prove that it couldn't be seriously meant if the same oppinion would be expressed by another person.

this is when a quote that i saw comes to mind "why do they call the mini candy bars fun size when its more funner to eat a bigger candy bar?" that question will never be known....maybe its so technically you'll eat 5 mini ones thinking your eating less when in actual fact you'r eating more......or maybe its just for pigs....

I wonder where Fidel Castro gets his cigars from...

:p yourself!
Prove that that story is a joke? LOL - Sorry, NO!

If you read international stories, you should know that in most cases, one culture doesn't appreciate the humor or logic of another culture. I deal daily with people in France. I refrain from trying to figure out something from another country when the meaning is not clear. I always ask someone from that country. I learned this a long time ago.

So like I've said before here, don't always believe what you read, see, hear, etc.

Let me just say this..

THEY'RE FUCKING CANDYBARS!

Who cares if someone eats them and gets fat? It's their own fault.

I started reading this thread and about halfway through I stopped... I fully plan on reading it tomorrow after I have a nights worth of sleep.

That being said, I havn't had a King Sized candy bar in a while. I find myself buying large bags of Fun Sized candy bars. For the price of a few King Sized bars I get a big ol' bag of small bars. As an added plus, I don't even have to bite pieces of candy off of the bar, they are already cut down small enough that I just have to pop them into my mouth and chew. In conclusion, I don't care what they do to the size of candy bars, just so long as they don't mess with my bag of fun sized snickers.

Eh, my point troug the whole thread was pretty much that some people eat too much candy. In fact most americans do so. And a lots of europeans do that too.

Prove it.:D

Prove what?
I have a feeling that it is proved many times over that people in the western civilication are too fat.

You stated Americans eat too much candy. I said prove it.:D

(Its real similar to you telling me to prove the story was a joke)

Edit: No one is arguing that Westerners are fat.

I don't eat candybars. :p

I don't eat candybars either. I'm a big fan of from-scratch chocolate chip cookies, though.