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A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« on: June 04, 2015, 06:26:58 PM »
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A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee outside of Fred Meyers yesterday...


I got to an outdoor barbeque the store was having outside that was just closing up as I pulled out, and different vendors were giving out free samples of food, etc. I noticed that Ben and Jerries were giving out some small cups of a free sample of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

I went up to get one of those before this guy shut their booth down, and asked him if they had any free samples of a newer Bernie Sanders flavor yet in a joking fashion. We talked a little about him, and he seemed like a nice guy but it was hard to read his politics. He said something like "He's got a few wacky ideas, but seems like a nice guy.".

I responded by acknowledging he was a "socialist", but then followed up by noting that the Koch Brothers were more aligned with the hard line communists of the Soviet Union days when the Koch Brothers' father built his fortune from business deals with hard core communist dictator Joseph Stalin, who went out of his way to kill off Trotsky and those following him that were more espousing a more bottom up socialist Russia than Stalin was and kind of made the point that the young Koch brothers were carrying on that tradition of top down control that their father and Stalin both espoused and are helping embed in our system with all of their corruption money they pour in to it. He hadn't realized this, and I think I planted the seed in him to look this up.

I think this is the kind of conversation we need to have with reasonable people who might question whether Bernie being a "socialist" is a good thing or not. Now some hard core right wingers aren't going to listen to you whatever you say, but many out there that have the "socialist is bad" meme that they hear constantly from the media around them that has them skeptical of someone like Bernie should be encouraged to study this history, and perhaps can get a more nuanced understanding of what socialism is, and what the different variants of it are, and how it is not "all bad", and note that another poll shows that most Americans think that we are closer to and idolize a wealth distribution that a more socialist country like Sweden has too.

There are many independents we can change minds with out there I think. That is the challenge that many of us out at the grass roots have now, as the corporate media that so many hear/watch won't inform them of these sorts of things.

You planted your seed in him? Gross.

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2015, 06:52:42 PM »
You planted your seed in him? Gross.

I believe the DUmmy is bragging about it, too.
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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2015, 07:29:28 PM »
This is why I don't mole. It is just masterful. Masterful!

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2015, 07:53:32 PM »
This is why I don't mole. It is just masterful. Masterful!

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With any luck, there'll be a lot more cunning stunts played by the Sanders wing at the DUmp!

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2015, 08:02:39 PM »
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...I responded by acknowledging he was a "socialist", but then followed up by noting that the Koch Brothers were more aligned with the hard line communists of the Soviet Union days when the Koch Brothers' father built his fortune from business deals with hard core communist dictator Joseph Stalin...


DUmmies can't even lie worth a damn:  From Wikipedia

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In 1928, Fred C. Koch, father to Charles and David Koch, traveled to the Soviet Union searching for business opportunities, but he came to despise communism and Joseph Stalin's regime,[6][7] writing in his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, that he found the Soviet Union to be "a land of hunger, misery, and terror"... 

Between 1929 and 1932 Winkler-Koch "trained Bolshevik engineers and helped Stalin’s regime set up fifteen modern oil refineries" in the Soviet Union. "Over time, however, Stalin brutally purged several of Koch’s Soviet colleagues. Koch was deeply affected by the experience, and regretted his collaboration."
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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2015, 08:55:45 PM »


     "And then this ****ing lunatic talked my ear off forever about Colonel Sanders. And I'm standing there thinking, dude, isn't Colonel Sanders dead? Like, why are you
bothering me with this shit? This guy just wouldn't shut up. And then after a while I got the sense that he might have been talking about someone else, but I wasn't sure,
you know? So this hippie asshole is going on and on about somebody named Sanders. And I was thinking, wait, I still have some football cards stashed in the closet, and
I think I have a Deion Sanders rookie card. And it turns out I had three of them. So I got that going for me. And that asshole finally wandered away talking about tides
or some crap like that. I always get the lunatics. Never hot chicks. Just crazies."


     - that guy who the DUmmy harassed.
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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2015, 09:42:02 PM »

     "I always get the lunatics. Never hot chicks. Just crazies."


     - that guy who the DUmmy harassed.

My advice: Get out of the ice cream stand. Only the fat chicks go there. The hawt chicks congregate at the pizza and brat stands. They really prefer the peperoni and sausages, some things they can sink their teeth into. Not licking a cone and slurping up some ooze and not spitting it out.

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2015, 11:17:41 PM »
DUmmies can't even lie worth a damn:  From Wikipedia
Further, Charles Koch was born in 1935, and David in 1940. Their earliest memories of Communism would have been from the time frame when their father was seeing the purging of the men he trained ... IOW, of their father's nascent hatred for Communism.
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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2015, 12:06:51 AM »
I really miss those lame bouncies we used to get from rsmithnumbers.

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2015, 07:00:20 AM »

     "And then this ****ing lunatic talked my ear off forever about Colonel Sanders. And I'm standing there thinking, dude, isn't Colonel Sanders dead? Like, why are you
bothering me with this shit? This guy just wouldn't shut up. And then after a while I got the sense that he might have been talking about someone else, but I wasn't sure,
you know? So this hippie asshole is going on and on about somebody named Sanders. And I was thinking, wait, I still have some football cards stashed in the closet, and
I think I have a Deion Sanders rookie card. And it turns out I had three of them. So I got that going for me. And that asshole finally wandered away talking about tides
or some crap like that. I always get the lunatics. Never hot chicks. Just crazies."


     - that guy who the DUmmy harassed.


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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2015, 11:38:11 AM »
BFDU,  :lmao:

I like it, a bouncy featuring freeeeeee stuff! 

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2015, 12:32:29 PM »
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The entire premise of this article is:

* I have emotions and was emotionally moved by Obama
* Bernie emotionally moves me
* Obama was elected
* Therefore Bernie can be
* Just imagine if everyone thought like me! Lots of exclamation marks!!!!!

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2015, 04:57:02 PM »
DUmmie: Do you have any samples of the new Bernie Sanders flavor?

B & J employee: No. (Hands sample to DUmmie) Have a nice day!

DUmmie: Get's in car. On the drive home makes up conversation where he can sound superior and get the appropriate pats on the back. BTW, DUmmie, you might want to work on this because "wacky ideas" may or may not have anything to do with socialism. And, just because he's not sold on Bernie, the old white guy, doesn't mean he's a Republican or gives a rip about the Koch brothers. They aren't running for office so inserting them into the conversation has absolutely no relevance. Maybe he likes the corrupt, unapproachable, arrogant grandma or the wanna be Mr. Universe, O'Malley.

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2015, 05:13:34 PM »
DUmmie: Do you have any samples of the new Bernie Sanders flavor?

B & J employee: No. (Hands sample to DUmmie) Have a nice day!

DUmmie: Get's in car. On the drive home makes up conversation where he can sound superior and get the appropriate pats on the back. BTW, DUmmie, you might want to work on this because "wacky ideas" may or may not have anything to do with socialism. And, just because he's not sold on Bernie, the old white guy, doesn't mean he's a Republican or gives a rip about the Koch brothers. They aren't running for office so inserting them into the conversation has absolutely no relevance. Maybe he likes the corrupt, unapproachable, arrogant grandma or the wanna be Mr. Universe, O'Malley.

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I have a feeling the guy passing out the ice cream was a paid part time merchandiser, not a Ben & Jerry's employee.

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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2015, 08:11:26 PM »
I just got back from Walgreens.  I asked the pharmacist if they had any free samples of a new Bernie Sanders flavor Geritol yet in a joking fashion.  He said something like "He's got a few wacky ideas about women and gang rape fantasies."
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Re: A conversation I had with a Ben and Jerry's employee
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2015, 11:15:09 PM »
I just got back from Walgreens.  I asked the pharmacist if they had any free samples of a new Bernie Sanders flavor Geritol yet in a joking fashion.  He said something like "He's got a few wacky ideas about women and gang rape fantasies."

Did you tell the pharmacist about the Koch brothers?