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Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

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[โ€“] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)
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[โ€“] LordGimp@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell them to put someone vision abled in the chocolate scoring machine because goddamn they have the worse chocolate scoring ever. Who the fuck wants a circle of a chocolate bar?

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[โ€“] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i am definitely going to read this entire comment thread and all its tributaries until i get bored and forget, but also fuck the dutch. fucking badass dike builders when it's feeling kinda sexy for them

edit fuck the tariffs for fucks sake

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