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Well that’s what you get for being a bunch of greedy capitalist pigs and selling your company. Maybe you should start another company called Jerry & Ben’s and not sell out this time
You do realize you're referencing something from 25 years ago right?
This isn't the traditional "big corporation buys something and then makes changes" situation. For 25 years Unilever has been fine with B&J doing their thing.
Something has changed, that's notable. Dismissing it as traditional big corpo shit is stupid.
Really doesn't matter that it was 25 years ago. During the war on terror plenty of people were being cancelled for not being pro war. This shits been going on for centuries.
Yeah, well, they're making changes now. So Ben and Jerry didn't lose their autonomy right away, but they lost it nonetheless.
Broooo…. 2000 is no different than now in terms of selling out, becoming a billionaire, and then crying about how you have no more control.
You must be young… too young to actually remember 2000 vividly. It’s the same shit, just better phones.
Ah yes the classic, "you're young, you don't know anything". The same shit boomers have been telling everyone to dismiss criticism for decades and still do today. Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
Things are different now than they were at the turn of the century, and if you can't see that then you're either an idiot, or part of the problem.
Lmfao, when you talk about a decade inaccurately, don’t be surprised when someone who was there calls you on your shit.
Stop making excuses for billionaires. You cannot become or remain a billionaire without being a total fucking asshole deep down.
Calls me on my shit? How did I say anything inaccurate? I made no claims about the decade. Your reading comprehension seems to be non-existent.
I simply pointed out that Unilever seemingly didn't give a shit about B&J's social stances for 25 years, so trying to claim this is at all like the standard things that corporations change when buying out companies is ridiculous.
I'm making no excuses at all, the exact opposite in fact. I'm pointing out that something else is the reason for this and for whatever reason you seem to be trying to act like this is normal business as usual.
Why are you trying to insist that there's nothing to see here?
No, B&J didn’t give a shit about the long and terrible history that Unilever had for the last 25 years.
But please, keep explaining it into something else.
And yet for 25 years B&J have been able to do what they do without serious interference, now suddenly there's a major issue.
But go ahead, keep trying to say everything is the exact same and nothing has changed. Keep sticking that head in the sand.
So as long as they could do whatever they wanted, they would ignore Unilever? Sounds like a bunch of cunty billionaires.
Keep voting for Trump, kid.
Clearly you're physically incapable of having a real conversation. Good luck living in your little bubble and assuming everyone else must be a Trump supporter simply because they're willing to have a discussion and even consider the idea that the world isn't static.
Goodbye capitalist pig.
Troll harder.
They wanted the ability to maintain their social stances through the business. They put it in the contract.
According to Jerry, the contract isn't being honoured.
...I imagine, according to Jerry's lawyer, it's just barely being honoured by the legal definition.
Yeah, this is a bit of a shocked Pikachu moment here.
Is shocked Pikachu a flavor yet because it needs to be.
Get on it Ben.
Well, obviously Jerry has reached the limits of what Unilever is willing to tolerate. Or, Unilever has just reneged. Those kinds of things can happen when you sell away your independence and autonomy.
It was an optimistic view on Ben & Jerry’s part, I would agree. 24 years of apparently unimpeded activism isn’t a bad run though, and I’ve never heard of another contract like theirs. As I see it, Unilever violated their contract, but they probably are willing to spend the GDP of Paraguay on lawyers to win that one.
Yes? Don’t tell me your also defending the billionaires who are sad they can’t say whatever on top of their money pile?
or just remove the ampersand, and call it benjerries.
Just call it BJs. The ads would be hilarious. “Stay at home and enjoy a BJs” “Can’t beat the soft and creamy sensation of BJs”
I like the sweet cream and pineapple flavors.