"Business-friendly" doesn't really sound like them at all after seeing that John Oliver episode on them attacking tons of other businesses over logos.
As much as I did want to visit one someday just to try a few things I dont think I will he going out of my way if the chance does arise. Also announcing your political allignment should be a death sentance for any company... nobody wants to know this info.
It's a menu to choose from. Not a list where everything has to be true for it to apply.
But how brain washed do you have to be to call unions a problem. Unless you own the business. In which case you only have yourself to blame for making the workers angry enough to organize.
I read "union problem" as "a problem that can be fixed with a union" such as low pay. But yeah, just because your company isn't currently choosing to exploit its workers doesn't mean they won't choose to later - the trick is to prevent them from having the choice in the first place.
A union doesn't have to be an antagonistic force, exclusively beating exploitative companies into submission - it can just be the voice of the workers to speak on equal terms with an attentive employer, working together to grow the business for the benefit of everyone, instead of just those in the executive suite.
Indeed, the location in DeForest, Wisconsin is "on hold" because the village can't afford the $17 million highway interchange for it. (No chance of the company helping fund it, nosiree, that's communism or something.)
You're not missing out. It's a touristy gift shop for a mascot with convenience store amenities and some mid food. I really don't understand why people love it so much
We’re talking about people who have never done something interesting in their entire lives. They never make anything, so spending money is their only source of fulfillment.
After the novelty wears off, I don't understand the appeal of Buc-ee's. It's a shitty convenience store, because it's not quick or convenient, and everything it has that other convenience stores don't is either shitty, overpriced, or both. You want food? Food is higher quality elsewhere, and about as convenient. Clothes? Higher quality and cheaper elsewhere, and about as convenient. The only reason to go there is if you want Buc-ee's branded souvenirs. The bathrooms are nice, I guess, but a decent convenience store like Casey's or QuikTrip has bathrooms just as nice and you'll be in and out much quicker.
Their bathrooms are nice, their food is good by rest stop standards, and their gas is on the cheaper side. It's a solid choice to stop at when you're on the road if you're unsure about nearby options. That's it. I don't get the white suburbanite consumerist cult integrating a gas station into their personality. It's like funko pop people but somehow worse
They're explicitly anti tractor trailer. They have signs plastered all over the entrance. They'll accept anything else though. I've even seen a few campers at one.
Their gas is super cheap compared to everyone else in my area. Like - I paid 2.99 a gallon there yesterday and another place nearby was like 3.79.
I actually don't fully understand why their gas is so cheap. I would think it was to get people in the store, but Bucees doesn't generally have the gas prices posted on signs like everyone else.
Wawa put in a gas station near Orlando international airport because their CEO was visiting and got pissed off by the price gouging gas stations nearby, last time I was there the Wawa was still charging reasonable prices and at least one of the other gas stations was still way overpriced (although that might be the gas station in Orlando that doesn't want to be a gas station, they just want to be a convenience store but zoning forces them to keep gas pumps so they price the gas at obscene rates to try to keep people from buying it).
Okay, I just looked it up, that one is just price gouging the tourists with rental cars. The one that doesn't want to sell gas, at least according to local rumors, is the one on Vineland, I definitely recall it from going to the outlet mall but I don't completely remember where on Vineland it is.
I think another part of the equation is that by the time the novelty wears off, the local competition will likely be wiped out or be less formidable at very least.
It's a good place to stop for decent gas, selections of road trip food you want and especially ample clean bathrooms. Looking slightly behind that, it's worse than a Walmart on the inside with crowds of people shoving through each other for meh-quality fresh food.
but a decent convenience store like Casey's or QuikTrip has bathrooms just as nice and you'll be in and out much quicker.
Oh shit, they need to get ready to be sued. Only Buckee is allowed to have clean restrooms.
But seriously, never been there but I see comments like "but their bathrooms are nice". What's so special about their bathrooms? Do they have some high tech gadgets installed like the super expensive Japanese bidets or it is just being clean? And if so, why is that such a big deal?
But I'm weary of this liberal notion that red States have nothing to offer the world. What the hell does it mean to "have actual cultural attractions"? Do red States not have culture?
Does Louisana not have a culture? Does the Black Belt, throughout the South not have a distinct culture? Does New Mexico, or Texas not have significant Hispanic population that heavily influence their respective cultures? How about South Dakota's heavy indigenous population? Or Oklahoma? How about Appalachia?
Whiteness in America is, admittedly, not unlike the Borg, wherein all cultural artifacts and language of the many white ethic groups which immigrated here, were assimilated. They gave up the lifeways of their homelands in exchange for a kind of security, and thus for their great grandchildren to be run over by a Ford F250 in a Bucee's parking lot.
But that doesn't mean these places are without rich, deep, and important cultures. The United States is a prisonhouse of nations. Oklahoma, alone, is where we shoved a significant portion of this continents indigenous people. The fact that they're state government is lorded over by the most unhinged gringos America has to offer doesn't make it a place worth ignoring or giving up on. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Don’t you fucking lump New Mexico in with Texas. New Mexico may be a big square state but it is a blue state that is holding the line. It is the first state to have universal child care, was a fairly early adopter of LGBT rights, is a reproductive healthcare sanctuary, has a wide variety of interesting cultural traditions and events, and has better chile than anywhere else.
Texas is difficult. It is its own thing in many ways, and fiercely so. But it's also large. El Paso is definitely southwestern. Beaumont is definitely Southern. DFW would identify as Texas first, definitely not Southern and definitely not Southwestern.
It's not so much that -as a Connecticut Yankee that moved into the south. The south is a wonderful place rich with history, great wilderness, and a fairly decent people that still value hospitality. It's also full of sparsely filled main streets and ghost towns with only 2 Dollar Generals and a host of mom and pop stores that have gone out of business. This person is trying to convey this difference and is an inarticulate asshat. I'll tell you this - I can't get good healthcare but I can get a smoked tenderloin biscuit at 6 places on the way to work that puts fast food to shame. It is also not very healthy. I no longer care.
You raise a great point. The culture is there and blue states don't inherently have a greater inventory, per se. In response to the OP, would it be fair to say blue states celebrate and display that culture versus red states?
I would say yes? But it's a hesitant yes. For example, New York City is in a blue state, and is very proud of showing off its diverse cultural fabric.
But even in the bluest of states, the problems of colonialism and the United State's fraught [understatement of the millennia] relationships with the indigenous peoples of this continent still persist.
Yeah, I'm sad that as a queer person I feel unsafe visiting the deep south because I'd love to see more of the country, especially those areas you discuss. When I lived in Kentucky I developed a complex relationship with Appalachia that includes some love for it.
Fundamentally, I also just think it's tactically foolish to say that we don't want the cultures of red states to join us on the left. We don't dislike these places for the things worth loving about them like their food, their general ways of doing things, etc. We would gladly stand side by side with an inclusive, labor protecting Mississippi. Even Texas which is as annoying as California would be welcome in a blue coalition without having to give up its Texaseyness
Bucees sucks. I hate going into them. There are 10000 gas pumps that are always occupied and trying to get around the parking lot is a hazard. Inside is even worse with 1,000,000 lumen fluorescent lights and being packed full of gawking people.
Doesn't the Hoover Dam use a beaver in some of its older stuff? Legit would love to see how badly they'd get dragged through the mud because the Hoover Dam gift shop has some of those retro style reprints sitting around.
Also fun fact the Colorado does in fact have a beaver population.
My first and last experience with one of these places was many years ago. I didn't know it was anything special, just assumed it was yet another random truck stop gas station deal and I needed to stop for gas while on a long trip.
BIG MISTAKE
The customers themselves driving through the massive parking lot, it was like Mad Fucking Max, and that was enough to let me know that I needed to move on to some place else and never go back. It was literal non-stop absolutely bat shit insane drivers, running stop signs, laying hands on their horns and just letting it blare for a minute+ because a pedestrian dared cross through a crosswalk. People driving every which way down the lanes as though it was all one way or something. Squealing tires because people are going several times faster than the posted speed limit and then have to suddenly slam on brakes ... IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT.
NEVER AGAIN
I suppose learning this bullshit philosophy of the owners / management it all sort of comes together and makes sense. The worst kind of people as customers, the worst kind of people running it.
I k.Oklahoma is a bad environment but young people aren't allowed to vote and aren't allowed to leave until they're adults. No one should be stuck in a place that sucks that hard for that long
TN here - They don't have garbage cans or squeegees / window cleaners. The crap they sell is overpriced swill. The bathrooms are very clean. Food is fair and overpriced. I'd rather go to a Loves any day.
Basically yeah. They're impressive because they have big clean bathrooms and lots of gas pumps, that's it. They have occasionally saved my butt and having to buy a last-minute Christmas gift for my brother-in-law, but other than that everything is garbage. Expensive garbage.
Oh no now I'll have to get my gas at Mobile. Or BP. Or Shell. Or Thorntons, Marathon, Citgo, the big grocery store - hell, Phillips made a return nearby, I could go there. Am I forgetting anybody? Eh, it doesn't matter, it's not like I can't get gas at any of the dozens of gas stations in every direction.
My grocery store partners with a local vendor and you can use grocery points to discount the gas price. Giant Eagle and Getgo. I'm pretty sure there are chains in every state/city that run discounted fuel reward programs
I hate them for the same reason I hate Chick-Fil-A: they can't fucking spell and their mascots bother me on a fundamental level. Every other awful thing is just confirmation that I've made the right decision.
I remember when Buc-ees came to my state and everyone went “Hell, yeah, I’ll work at a gas station for $22/hr!” Pretty soon, word got around that you’re not even supposed to sit on your breaks. The people enthusiastically screaming “Fresh brisket on the board!!” Rapidly gave way to a tone that said “I am contractually obligated to say ‘Fresh brisket on the board’ at an at least mildly elevated volume.”
Still, I’m surprised by this story. The pay made a hell of a first impression, and the sitting thing made me think some kind of weird religious kink, but overtly political messaging was not something I expected. I’m just so used to “Fuckin’ burger-flippers want $15 an hour, you b’lieve ‘at?!” that Republicans never crossed my mind.
"I just need some shit I could get at 7eleven, but I really want the inconvenience of an old fashioned trip to the mall. I know... Sheetz! Or Bucees! Or Pilot! Or FlyingJ!
Yeah, America is going the sh*^#er. And it’s all because of the communists complaining about minimum wages, bathroom breaks and company health insurance.
Now, if we could only get a dozen other companies to take the same stance.
For instance, Chick-fil-A outlets, to me, only occupy space and feed junk food to my neighbors. Given the Christian nationalist stance of their upper management and support of anti-LGBT+ activism, they're really not a good fit for California.
I've seriously never understood this hype; as far as cool gas stations with shopping amenities go, I've seen great ones in Europe, and I doubt Buccees has anything to add in that realm.
Look, “amenities” for us is bathroom doors that don’t allow someone to watch you poop (for free). We don’t even hope for clean. Perhaps an interesting filth that we can record and show our friends.
At least in my experience, it’s just a novelty, like a mall with a roller coaster inside. I have a Bucc-ees full body swimsuit because my wife looked at them and physically recoiled because of how tacky they are (I went back alone to get one and surprised her when we went swimming). They have branded 1/4 lb “chocolate” disks with the horrible skin-beaver imprinted on them. They sell “beaver nuggets” that are something like Corn Pops and Cheetos had a baby, but drier. They have a jerky counter (somehow more expensive than regular jerky, never tried it), a fudge counter (lots of flavors, pretty sure I tried it, but it left no impression), and grab and go barbecue sandwiches (the brisket’s more fat than meat, but the rest are decent). I have no complaints about the hot (temperature) candied nuts. I actually don’t think I can get those anywhere else nearby. Then there’s a kitschy home goods section and a clothing department that sells things with the skin-beaver printed on them. That’s about it.
It’s a bit like Disney opened a gas station, but worse (They should. Some people would kill for access to Dole Whip). It was absolutely packed at first, but not now, as far as I can tell. I think the rarity is the selling point, and people will stop caring as they expand.
And here I thought the gas station in Ely Nevada was bad, at least that one was just packed because of morning rush. I was probably too deranged by that point to appreciate the chaos though, I had been driving for like 15 hours by that point.
The jerky went to shit anyway. They used to have real packaged jerky, but now it is the "Jack Links" pseudo-jerky meat snack that is strangely moist and no longer the real deal. No idea if the stuff behind the counter is any better as I stopped feeding this particular beast some time ago.
Plenty of better brisket elsewhere. Jerky too. About the only thing they have that I consider exclusive is buc-cee bites. Those are admittedly pretty addictive if you like that flavor (and I do), but I’m not going to miss them.
Have you ever walked into a gas station and thought, "man, I really wish this was the size of a Walmart and filled with cheap trinkets ala FiveBelow but beaver themed, had children running everywhere, and mediocre bbq"?
I'm getting old and I'm getting tired of pretending like eating gruel all day on the left is how things are suppose to be. When I visit america and I stop at a buc-ees everyone digs it. Hate to see this from their company but I also hate to see the left deny how great convenience is. When I was younger I didn't get why people turn to the right as they get older. I thought maybe it was they get money or senile or something. As I get older I think it's the slow realization that people on the left are truly full of shit. Being on the left is constantly being fed a shit sandwich and being told it's for your own good. And I get the irony here about shit sandwiches and buc-ees. God fucking me if that shitty roast beef slop isn't delicious after 16 hrs of driving.
You all hate these companies then fucking do something. Don't just try to create yet another moral barrier and culture point where you have to or not to be a good leftie. I hadn't eating chick fil a in ever. Yesterday I went and god damn was it good. But i"m just tired of living this life where every option in life is against moral or ethics and it's is piling up while nothing on the left happens. Nobody is starting business or actually doing anything beyond standing in streets. Go out and culture jam them. Steal their logo. Put it on everything in a world where advertising is a billion dollar business be the anti marketing to their billion dollar business. But just stop finding things to force the rest of us to eat this leftist moral slop. Just be honest.
You never actually explained what the left was being dishonest about.
In general what we're doing is performing negatives. It might seem uncomfortable but to not be complicit with destructive behaviors is a virtue. It's not more complicated than don't smoke, don't litter, don't hang out with jeffery epstein.
To explain; they think any form of consequences for bad behaviour is cancel culture and cancel culture is a purely left thing and is evil and wrong because freedom of speech and because it's something the left does. So anyone who advocates for consequences for a company's actions must be a leftist. It's a very common thing with American right wing propaganda. I have seen it way too often.
Guarantee you they are a fat fuck, too. Someone who thinks sugar makes food “good.” Those fuckers love Buccee’s so much they put goddamn bumper stickers on their cars for them.
Ah yes the classic "I can't shop at a shitty gas station mall so I think brown kids should be put in cages." argument. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, lets see if pays off on one of the most leftest forums on the internet.
Don't need to. You're here and accepting of what this is. They tells me enough. You accepted the most corporate controlling tools of bigger social media sites and distilled them down to this site which was suppose to be a way to fight back and instead you just recreated the bullshit so it is ready for corporate take over
Grade A amerifat fascist posting. Yes, Americans are right wing because they like the insane consumption that imperialism allows them. You're so fucking hedonistic you think getting to gorge on food justifies murder.
These fuckers tried to charge me to fill a water bottle after gassing up; I vowed to never stop in one again.
Honestly, you can take a bite out of my ass.
So this is a thread about how Buc-ee’s will never exist in the state I live in because we’re too woke or something. And you think leftists are the peoblem here? Buddy, I’m not boycotting Buckaroo Banzai’s over here, they’re boycotting me. You’ve gotten this completely twisted.
Also, there’s no evidence that people get more conservative as they get older.
Its more about how you as leftist have given up all your power to the point that successful people dunk on you without worry about consequences and all you have to show for it is being miserable. It's not like you're the leftist of decades ago innovating anything. There's no counter culture that wasn't something that you stole from the 70s. I'm going to enjoy some steak, drive my truck and fill up at bucees while grabbing some good food. You can drive around being miserable until you realize the same thing. Being a leftist today is being a miser all day. You give up power. You fail at organizing and it's to the point that a stores who sell to the public feel its fine to literally say, yea fuck their whole state because what are they going to do. But hate me instead of asking yourselves why you don't have power
Your comment history is fun. You say the left is too easy on people yet I see all these people giving you a hard time for this post. Care to explain how you resolve that cognitive dissonance to us?
You don't need to my dude. Votes were to remove the need for mods which instead you people embraced and now use for some imaginary system of digital capital?? Like when a kid an old school cash register that is so old it no longer has an value. You guys just smash those buttons like it's modern activism and call it a day. You don't need to my dude.
So I don't need to engage in the behavior you deride in order to be lumped into a group you define by that behavior. Did I get that right? Seems like an effective way to avoid challenging ideas, but boy are you telling on yourself.
God fucking me if that shitty roast beef slop isn’t delicious after 16 hrs of driving.
It must be the boot polish aftertaste from your previous oral adventure that really pushes the flavor over the edge.
Like Chicken 'n' Waffles... Buc's Beef and Fasc Footware must be a strange yet oddly familiar culinary pairing that you just have to try before you can understand.
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HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 22d
"Business-friendly" doesn't really sound like them at all after seeing that John Oliver episode on them attacking tons of other businesses over logos.
As much as I did want to visit one someday just to try a few things I dont think I will he going out of my way if the chance does arise. Also announcing your political allignment should be a death sentance for any company... nobody wants to know this info.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 98 pts · 22d
Business friendly just means lower corporate income tax I'm pretty sure.
clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 22d
Lower taxes, less regulation, less enforcement, maybe some union busting and general worker suppression.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 21d
Super shitty education system so you have a large pool of cheap labor
Aeao@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 22d
I hear they pay pretty good. I don’t think they have a union problem.
clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 22d
It's a menu to choose from. Not a list where everything has to be true for it to apply.
But how brain washed do you have to be to call unions a problem. Unless you own the business. In which case you only have yourself to blame for making the workers angry enough to organize.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
You are reading way too much much into that phrasing. My parents were both in unions and I’m pro union. Relax.
Edit: also I don’t really even like Buc-ee’s. I went once, it was a gas station… I never went again lol.
I just hear they pay well from people I’ve known who worked there.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 21d
What's "a union problem"?
Signtist@bookwyr.me · 3 pts · 21d
I read "union problem" as "a problem that can be fixed with a union" such as low pay. But yeah, just because your company isn't currently choosing to exploit its workers doesn't mean they won't choose to later - the trick is to prevent them from having the choice in the first place.
A union doesn't have to be an antagonistic force, exclusively beating exploitative companies into submission - it can just be the voice of the workers to speak on equal terms with an attentive employer, working together to grow the business for the benefit of everyone, instead of just those in the executive suite.
earlgrey0@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 22d
Or having the government pay for improvements that the business owners would normally have to do.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 21d
Indeed, the location in DeForest, Wisconsin is "on hold" because the village can't afford the $17 million highway interchange for it. (No chance of the company helping fund it, nosiree, that's communism or something.)
itsBlorpinTime@feddit.online · 6 pts · 21d
"Business friendly“ means friendly to "my" business. It always has. One company’s business friendly is another person's business hostile.
Rothe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 21d
And fewer worker's rights.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21d
I'd say it just means socially worse for those folks, because a bad social net clearly corresponds 1:1 with corporate friendliness.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 35 pts · 22d
There's an app called Goods Unite Us which tells you what political parties different companies donate to, and it's searchable.
In case you do want to know that info.
AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 22d
You're not missing out. It's a touristy gift shop for a mascot with convenience store amenities and some mid food. I really don't understand why people love it so much
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 21d
We’re talking about people who have never done something interesting in their entire lives. They never make anything, so spending money is their only source of fulfillment.
AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
They're NPC's and pedophile protectors
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 21d
currently they are suing a small chain, that has the beaver as a logo.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 21d
the ceo thinks blue areas need the stupid gas station chain in thier state, good riddance if they leave.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 22d
After the novelty wears off, I don't understand the appeal of Buc-ee's. It's a shitty convenience store, because it's not quick or convenient, and everything it has that other convenience stores don't is either shitty, overpriced, or both. You want food? Food is higher quality elsewhere, and about as convenient. Clothes? Higher quality and cheaper elsewhere, and about as convenient. The only reason to go there is if you want Buc-ee's branded souvenirs. The bathrooms are nice, I guess, but a decent convenience store like Casey's or QuikTrip has bathrooms just as nice and you'll be in and out much quicker.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 22d
Their bathrooms are nice, their food is good by rest stop standards, and their gas is on the cheaper side. It's a solid choice to stop at when you're on the road if you're unsure about nearby options. That's it. I don't get the white suburbanite consumerist cult integrating a gas station into their personality. It's like funko pop people but somehow worse
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d
maybe appeals to truckers, because they often lean conservative, and bucc-ees predominately is in the south more?
GlizzyGobbler@fedinsfw.app · 7 pts · 21d
They're explicitly anti tractor trailer. They have signs plastered all over the entrance. They'll accept anything else though. I've even seen a few campers at one.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 22d
Their gas is super cheap compared to everyone else in my area. Like - I paid 2.99 a gallon there yesterday and another place nearby was like 3.79.
I actually don't fully understand why their gas is so cheap. I would think it was to get people in the store, but Bucees doesn't generally have the gas prices posted on signs like everyone else.
Aeao@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 22d
In Florida they post the price. I think it’s the law there because of the shady gas stations near airports over charging
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21d
Wawa put in a gas station near Orlando international airport because their CEO was visiting and got pissed off by the price gouging gas stations nearby, last time I was there the Wawa was still charging reasonable prices and at least one of the other gas stations was still way overpriced (although that might be the gas station in Orlando that doesn't want to be a gas station, they just want to be a convenience store but zoning forces them to keep gas pumps so they price the gas at obscene rates to try to keep people from buying it).
Aeao@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
I’m thinking of the gas station near Outback stake house near the airport. They are crazy with thier prices.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 19d
Okay, I just looked it up, that one is just price gouging the tourists with rental cars. The one that doesn't want to sell gas, at least according to local rumors, is the one on Vineland, I definitely recall it from going to the outlet mall but I don't completely remember where on Vineland it is.
frunch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 22d
I think another part of the equation is that by the time the novelty wears off, the local competition will likely be wiped out or be less formidable at very least.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
It's a good place to stop for decent gas, selections of road trip food you want and especially ample clean bathrooms. Looking slightly behind that, it's worse than a Walmart on the inside with crowds of people shoving through each other for meh-quality fresh food.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
America is such a shithole that clean bathrooms at a gas station are a selling point.
You'll have a hard time finding dirty bathrooms in gas stations in the EU.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 21d
Oh shit, they need to get ready to be sued. Only Buckee is allowed to have clean restrooms.
But seriously, never been there but I see comments like "but their bathrooms are nice". What's so special about their bathrooms? Do they have some high tech gadgets installed like the super expensive Japanese bidets or it is just being clean? And if so, why is that such a big deal?
ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip · 50 pts · 22d
Oh no! No giant gas station!? I'll have to make do with my locally run book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, and farmers markets! How will I live?!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 43 pts · 21d
Only the states that let them bully small businesses into bankruptcy.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 40 pts · 22d
It's my fault for thinking that buc-ees pay and benefits and seemingly positive attitude towards employment meant they werent shit fucks.
protist@retrofed.com · 8 pts · 21d
The owner is a pretty big Greg Abbott supporter and has been for many years
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21d
They only operate in states with like zero employee protection laws
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 21d
Isn't Buc-ees the company that's suing small businesses over cartoon logos they've had since before Buc-ees existed?
I'll never step foot in one.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 21d
Yeah, and they've gotten themselves into a beef with Beavercreek OH over it.
Personally, I'm glad they won't be coming to my state
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 22d
Bucee's sucks shit, no doubt
But I'm weary of this liberal notion that red States have nothing to offer the world. What the hell does it mean to "have actual cultural attractions"? Do red States not have culture?
Does Louisana not have a culture? Does the Black Belt, throughout the South not have a distinct culture? Does New Mexico, or Texas not have significant Hispanic population that heavily influence their respective cultures? How about South Dakota's heavy indigenous population? Or Oklahoma? How about Appalachia?
Whiteness in America is, admittedly, not unlike the Borg, wherein all cultural artifacts and language of the many white ethic groups which immigrated here, were assimilated. They gave up the lifeways of their homelands in exchange for a kind of security, and thus for their great grandchildren to be run over by a Ford F250 in a Bucee's parking lot.
But that doesn't mean these places are without rich, deep, and important cultures. The United States is a prisonhouse of nations. Oklahoma, alone, is where we shoved a significant portion of this continents indigenous people. The fact that they're state government is lorded over by the most unhinged gringos America has to offer doesn't make it a place worth ignoring or giving up on. Quite the opposite, in fact.
brian@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 21d
I took the comment more of an attack on how Bucees itself is paraded as a cultural attraction
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 22d
New Mexico is not a red state
From Wikipedia:
40.3% voters registered as Democrat 31.2% voters registered as Republican
Democrat governor, Harris win the state in the last presidential election.
Also there is no Bucces in NM.
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social · 5 pts · 21d
Instead there are Alsups, which have the best convinence store chimichangas and breakfast burritos available anywhere.
halferect@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
The fried burrito with that alsups sauce just hits right
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Y'all got convenience store chimichangas‽
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social · 11 pts · 21d
Don’t you fucking lump New Mexico in with Texas. New Mexico may be a big square state but it is a blue state that is holding the line. It is the first state to have universal child care, was a fairly early adopter of LGBT rights, is a reproductive healthcare sanctuary, has a wide variety of interesting cultural traditions and events, and has better chile than anywhere else.
halferect@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 22d
Don't ever group new Mexico and Texas. They may be close in proximity but are lightyears apart
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 21d
I grouped them insofar as we stole them from Mexico ¯_(ツ)_/¯
halferect@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22d
Yeah the “south” and the “south west” are two different things. The “south” ends at Texas. Though Arizona does do some stupid shit.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Texas is difficult. It is its own thing in many ways, and fiercely so. But it's also large. El Paso is definitely southwestern. Beaumont is definitely Southern. DFW would identify as Texas first, definitely not Southern and definitely not Southwestern.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 21d
Part of the Confederacy, part of The South. Fuck em.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
It's not so much that -as a Connecticut Yankee that moved into the south. The south is a wonderful place rich with history, great wilderness, and a fairly decent people that still value hospitality. It's also full of sparsely filled main streets and ghost towns with only 2 Dollar Generals and a host of mom and pop stores that have gone out of business. This person is trying to convey this difference and is an inarticulate asshat. I'll tell you this - I can't get good healthcare but I can get a smoked tenderloin biscuit at 6 places on the way to work that puts fast food to shame. It is also not very healthy. I no longer care.
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
You raise a great point. The culture is there and blue states don't inherently have a greater inventory, per se. In response to the OP, would it be fair to say blue states celebrate and display that culture versus red states?
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21d
I would say yes? But it's a hesitant yes. For example, New York City is in a blue state, and is very proud of showing off its diverse cultural fabric.
But even in the bluest of states, the problems of colonialism and the United State's fraught [understatement of the millennia] relationships with the indigenous peoples of this continent still persist.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Yeah, I'm sad that as a queer person I feel unsafe visiting the deep south because I'd love to see more of the country, especially those areas you discuss. When I lived in Kentucky I developed a complex relationship with Appalachia that includes some love for it.
Fundamentally, I also just think it's tactically foolish to say that we don't want the cultures of red states to join us on the left. We don't dislike these places for the things worth loving about them like their food, their general ways of doing things, etc. We would gladly stand side by side with an inclusive, labor protecting Mississippi. Even Texas which is as annoying as California would be welcome in a blue coalition without having to give up its Texaseyness
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 22d
Bucees sucks. I hate going into them. There are 10000 gas pumps that are always occupied and trying to get around the parking lot is a hazard. Inside is even worse with 1,000,000 lumen fluorescent lights and being packed full of gawking people.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 21d
Lol, these companies are so lost.
More small businesses is great!
Bucees is actually suing a bunch of small businesses for using any logo with a beaver right now. It's super fucked up. Fuck them.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
Auli@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 21d
More then just a beaver. Any animal they think looks similar.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Because we all know moose look so much like beavers...
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 21d
Doesn't the Hoover Dam use a beaver in some of its older stuff? Legit would love to see how badly they'd get dragged through the mud because the Hoover Dam gift shop has some of those retro style reprints sitting around.
Also fun fact the Colorado does in fact have a beaver population.
Zannsolo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
Any logo with a cartoon animal
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Canada been real quiet since those suit done
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 21d
They ain't a small business.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
No one called Bucces a small business.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 22d
The more I read about Buc-ees, the more I hate them.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 21d
My first and last experience with one of these places was many years ago. I didn't know it was anything special, just assumed it was yet another random truck stop gas station deal and I needed to stop for gas while on a long trip.
BIG MISTAKE
The customers themselves driving through the massive parking lot, it was like Mad Fucking Max, and that was enough to let me know that I needed to move on to some place else and never go back. It was literal non-stop absolutely bat shit insane drivers, running stop signs, laying hands on their horns and just letting it blare for a minute+ because a pedestrian dared cross through a crosswalk. People driving every which way down the lanes as though it was all one way or something. Squealing tires because people are going several times faster than the posted speed limit and then have to suddenly slam on brakes ... IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT.
NEVER AGAIN
I suppose learning this bullshit philosophy of the owners / management it all sort of comes together and makes sense. The worst kind of people as customers, the worst kind of people running it.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 22d
Bro has never been to a Wawa. Or a Sheetz.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 22d
Okay. We have cultural attractions aside from our gas stations. Better?
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 22d
Oklahoman here - small town youth literally go Walmart for date nights. So grocery stores, too.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 22d
That's sad. They deserve better
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -2 pts · 22d
Eh... I'll wait and see who they voted for before I decide if they deserve better than date night at walmart.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 22d
I k.Oklahoma is a bad environment but young people aren't allowed to vote and aren't allowed to leave until they're adults. No one should be stuck in a place that sucks that hard for that long
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 22d
Yeah I was gonna say, people in NJ take Wawa seriously, even if it’s not as good as it used to be
Canajan@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 22d
Hey now Wawa Canada has a giant goose. 😃
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
Do you even know what a Wawa is?
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 22d
TN here - They don't have garbage cans or squeegees / window cleaners. The crap they sell is overpriced swill. The bathrooms are very clean. Food is fair and overpriced. I'd rather go to a Loves any day.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
Basically yeah. They're impressive because they have big clean bathrooms and lots of gas pumps, that's it. They have occasionally saved my butt and having to buy a last-minute Christmas gift for my brother-in-law, but other than that everything is garbage. Expensive garbage.
EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social · 18 pts · 21d
republicans and culture dont mix, they would rather wage war on culture.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 21d
That's not true, they have a strong Epstein culture.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 21d
The intentional irony of my avatar while being on lemmy.ml is starting to become more obvious.
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 21d
What's your avatar ? (Voyager doesn't show them)
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 21d
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 21d
But corporate daddy HBO is so much more ironic, no?
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 21d
Story checks out
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 22d
Strange how they only open in blue areas of red states.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 16 pts · 21d
So small businesses in blue states with beavers as part of their logo won't have to worry about getting sued? Sounds good to me.
Etterra@discuss.online · 14 pts · 21d
Oh no now I'll have to get my gas at Mobile. Or BP. Or Shell. Or Thorntons, Marathon, Citgo, the big grocery store - hell, Phillips made a return nearby, I could go there. Am I forgetting anybody? Eh, it doesn't matter, it's not like I can't get gas at any of the dozens of gas stations in every direction.
wunami@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
Costco. Unless that's what you meant by the big grocery store.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
My grocery store partners with a local vendor and you can use grocery points to discount the gas price. Giant Eagle and Getgo. I'm pretty sure there are chains in every state/city that run discounted fuel reward programs
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Liberty Fuel lol.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
=(
groucho@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 22d
I hate them for the same reason I hate Chick-Fil-A: they can't fucking spell and their mascots bother me on a fundamental level. Every other awful thing is just confirmation that I've made the right decision.
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 21d
I remember when Buc-ees came to my state and everyone went “Hell, yeah, I’ll work at a gas station for $22/hr!” Pretty soon, word got around that you’re not even supposed to sit on your breaks. The people enthusiastically screaming “Fresh brisket on the board!!” Rapidly gave way to a tone that said “I am contractually obligated to say ‘Fresh brisket on the board’ at an at least mildly elevated volume.”
Still, I’m surprised by this story. The pay made a hell of a first impression, and the sitting thing made me think some kind of weird religious kink, but overtly political messaging was not something I expected. I’m just so used to “Fuckin’ burger-flippers want $15 an hour, you b’lieve ‘at?!” that Republicans never crossed my mind.
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 21d
Buc-ee's ain't nothing but a tacky 30 year too late knock-off of Sheetz but with worse ownership.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 21d
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 22d
Their brisket is mediocre at best, and if you’re spending hard earned money on gas station merch, you should probably reconsider your life choices.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 22d
At this point yeah. RIP Kum & Go.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 10 pts · 22d
Yep, and buc-ees is shit regardless.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 21d
"I just need some shit I could get at 7eleven, but I really want the inconvenience of an old fashioned trip to the mall. I know... Sheetz! Or Bucees! Or Pilot! Or FlyingJ!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Hey, sheetz has good gas prices and seems to pay their employees well.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
MTO is way better than fast food at about the same price point, as well
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 21d
Is it really a bad thing that a company that decides to be political, will for political reasons cut themselves out from around 50% of the market?
I only wish more Fascists torpedoed themselves like that.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 21d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 21d
buccees is well known, not for its gas stations, but to sue other small businesses in the area as them.
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22d
Them words are gonna be real awkward when Texas turns blue this election…
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 6 pts · 22d
Been told that's happening "The very next election" since Obama
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Well it’s not gonna happen with that attitude…
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 22d
As a Texan I can CONFIRM that I would rather MURDER my ENTIRE Family then to Vote for the person trying to LOWER my Taxes while GIVING me Healthcare!
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
The most reasonable Texanpost on the internet.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
Okay. I don’t need fascist gas stations.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social · 6 pts · 22d
Chat is this real?
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
Well I guess I'm boycotting that business too except to use the restroom because let's face it, they're cleaner than most any other business.
Wear your politics on your sleeve and I'll vote with my wallet.
Lexam@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22d
I live in a red state and won't go to them.
metermatic26@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
Yeah, America is going the sh*^#er. And it’s all because of the communists complaining about minimum wages, bathroom breaks and company health insurance.
/s obviously
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 21d
Isn't buc-ees doing the cultural barrier?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 21d
Now, if we could only get a dozen other companies to take the same stance.
For instance, Chick-fil-A outlets, to me, only occupy space and feed junk food to my neighbors. Given the Christian nationalist stance of their upper management and support of anti-LGBT+ activism, they're really not a good fit for California.
Or any state that respects its own public.
thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 21d
Don’t forget Hobby Lobby.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 20d
Fuck Hobby Lobby. We lost Jo-Anne Fabrics but still have Michael's, and I don't think they're on the boycott list.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 21d
I've seriously never understood this hype; as far as cool gas stations with shopping amenities go, I've seen great ones in Europe, and I doubt Buccees has anything to add in that realm.
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Look, “amenities” for us is bathroom doors that don’t allow someone to watch you poop (for free). We don’t even hope for clean. Perhaps an interesting filth that we can record and show our friends.
At least in my experience, it’s just a novelty, like a mall with a roller coaster inside. I have a Bucc-ees full body swimsuit because my wife looked at them and physically recoiled because of how tacky they are (I went back alone to get one and surprised her when we went swimming). They have branded 1/4 lb “chocolate” disks with the horrible skin-beaver imprinted on them. They sell “beaver nuggets” that are something like Corn Pops and Cheetos had a baby, but drier. They have a jerky counter (somehow more expensive than regular jerky, never tried it), a fudge counter (lots of flavors, pretty sure I tried it, but it left no impression), and grab and go barbecue sandwiches (the brisket’s more fat than meat, but the rest are decent). I have no complaints about the hot (temperature) candied nuts. I actually don’t think I can get those anywhere else nearby. Then there’s a kitschy home goods section and a clothing department that sells things with the skin-beaver printed on them. That’s about it.
It’s a bit like Disney opened a gas station, but worse (They should. Some people would kill for access to Dole Whip). It was absolutely packed at first, but not now, as far as I can tell. I think the rarity is the selling point, and people will stop caring as they expand.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that beaver looks creepy af
magnetosphere@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 21d
Whatever, Buc. Fuck you too.
5ha99y@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 22d
I would say they should go, the blue states then only gets ethical companies and we will see where people want to liveXD
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
I would have no reason to walk into a Bucees. FDJT
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 22d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 22d
And here I thought the gas station in Ely Nevada was bad, at least that one was just packed because of morning rush. I was probably too deranged by that point to appreciate the chaos though, I had been driving for like 15 hours by that point.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Ooooh, now that Last Week Tonight episode makes so much sense
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Never been to a buckeys. Don't see a reason to ever visit one. Good marketing campaign.
Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 21d
sigh no brisket for me. keep your jerky too.
Hominine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
The jerky went to shit anyway. They used to have real packaged jerky, but now it is the "Jack Links" pseudo-jerky meat snack that is strangely moist and no longer the real deal. No idea if the stuff behind the counter is any better as I stopped feeding this particular beast some time ago.
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 1 pts · 21d
Plenty of better brisket elsewhere. Jerky too. About the only thing they have that I consider exclusive is buc-cee bites. Those are admittedly pretty addictive if you like that flavor (and I do), but I’m not going to miss them.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 21d
Wait you hear about how they treat their employees
motruck@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21d
I guess bucees doesn't want my money then.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 21d
As someone in a blue state, am I missing anything from then not being here?
lps2@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 21d
Have you ever walked into a gas station and thought, "man, I really wish this was the size of a Walmart and filled with cheap trinkets ala FiveBelow but beaver themed, had children running everywhere, and mediocre bbq"?
mbp@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 21d
They do have amazing bathrooms but it seems I never time it right.
nullspace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
If you see a Buc-ees it means the only thing worth stopping for is taking a shit.
thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 21d
Good, don’t need those in WA. lawsuit happy fucks.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 21d
What do you mean? My red state has a giant horseshoe and.....a couple theme parks I think?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 21d
They still use styrofoam cups? We don't want them.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
i feel the same way about heb, but have no evidence to justify that
lps2@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21d
The opposite with HEB, they give to blue causes and candidates
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
good to know
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 21d
The fuck is a Buc-ee's? Is it where you elope with your sibling/cousin?
And what kind of cousin fucking business owner openly states they won't expand their business?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · -32 pts · 21d
Love buc-ees I'm not even going to lie about it.
I'm getting old and I'm getting tired of pretending like eating gruel all day on the left is how things are suppose to be. When I visit america and I stop at a buc-ees everyone digs it. Hate to see this from their company but I also hate to see the left deny how great convenience is. When I was younger I didn't get why people turn to the right as they get older. I thought maybe it was they get money or senile or something. As I get older I think it's the slow realization that people on the left are truly full of shit. Being on the left is constantly being fed a shit sandwich and being told it's for your own good. And I get the irony here about shit sandwiches and buc-ees. God fucking me if that shitty roast beef slop isn't delicious after 16 hrs of driving.
You all hate these companies then fucking do something. Don't just try to create yet another moral barrier and culture point where you have to or not to be a good leftie. I hadn't eating chick fil a in ever. Yesterday I went and god damn was it good. But i"m just tired of living this life where every option in life is against moral or ethics and it's is piling up while nothing on the left happens. Nobody is starting business or actually doing anything beyond standing in streets. Go out and culture jam them. Steal their logo. Put it on everything in a world where advertising is a billion dollar business be the anti marketing to their billion dollar business. But just stop finding things to force the rest of us to eat this leftist moral slop. Just be honest.
xyguy@startrek.website · 23 pts · 21d
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 21d
What the actual fucking "old man yells at cloud" shit did I just read?
Erna_muse@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 21d
You never actually explained what the left was being dishonest about.
In general what we're doing is performing negatives. It might seem uncomfortable but to not be complicit with destructive behaviors is a virtue. It's not more complicated than don't smoke, don't litter, don't hang out with jeffery epstein.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 21d
Also, what the fuck does being on the left have to do with a fucking gas station?
This guy is an idiot.
DeLacue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 21d
To explain; they think any form of consequences for bad behaviour is cancel culture and cancel culture is a purely left thing and is evil and wrong because freedom of speech and because it's something the left does. So anyone who advocates for consequences for a company's actions must be a leftist. It's a very common thing with American right wing propaganda. I have seen it way too often.
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 21d
So...you love buc-ees because you're a fucking idiot. Got it.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 21d
Guarantee you they are a fat fuck, too. Someone who thinks sugar makes food “good.” Those fuckers love Buccee’s so much they put goddamn bumper stickers on their cars for them.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 20d
You're an idiot because you hate bucees
Hobo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 21d
Ah yes the classic "I can't shop at a shitty gas station mall so I think brown kids should be put in cages." argument. It's a bold strategy, Cotton, lets see if pays off on one of the most leftest forums on the internet.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 20d
This isn't a leftist forum. It's just brainwashed Chinese propaganda mixed in with people who hated everything about reddit except for the moderation.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 20d
you can leave
rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d
So can you
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 19d
And run away like you from everything?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 19d
you don't know anything about me, but I know you don't belong here
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Don't need to. You're here and accepting of what this is. They tells me enough. You accepted the most corporate controlling tools of bigger social media sites and distilled them down to this site which was suppose to be a way to fight back and instead you just recreated the bullshit so it is ready for corporate take over
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 7d
do you know how I know that you have no idea what site I'm on?
abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 21d
Grade A amerifat fascist posting. Yes, Americans are right wing because they like the insane consumption that imperialism allows them. You're so fucking hedonistic you think getting to gorge on food justifies murder.
Hominine@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 21d
These fuckers tried to charge me to fill a water bottle after gassing up; I vowed to never stop in one again.
Honestly, you can take a bite out of my ass.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
So this is a thread about how Buc-ee’s will never exist in the state I live in because we’re too woke or something. And you think leftists are the peoblem here? Buddy, I’m not boycotting Buckaroo Banzai’s over here, they’re boycotting me. You’ve gotten this completely twisted.
Also, there’s no evidence that people get more conservative as they get older.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 20d
Its more about how you as leftist have given up all your power to the point that successful people dunk on you without worry about consequences and all you have to show for it is being miserable. It's not like you're the leftist of decades ago innovating anything. There's no counter culture that wasn't something that you stole from the 70s. I'm going to enjoy some steak, drive my truck and fill up at bucees while grabbing some good food. You can drive around being miserable until you realize the same thing. Being a leftist today is being a miser all day. You give up power. You fail at organizing and it's to the point that a stores who sell to the public feel its fine to literally say, yea fuck their whole state because what are they going to do. But hate me instead of asking yourselves why you don't have power
hankmurphy@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 21d
You hate to see the left deny how great convenience is? What does that even mean?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 3 pts · 21d
Your comment history is fun. You say the left is too easy on people yet I see all these people giving you a hard time for this post. Care to explain how you resolve that cognitive dissonance to us?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 19d
Votes online don't matter 😆
When are you guys going to understand that.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 19d
I didn't even bother down voting you my dude. You're barking up the wrong tree to avoid hearing people call you out.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
You don't need to my dude. Votes were to remove the need for mods which instead you people embraced and now use for some imaginary system of digital capital?? Like when a kid an old school cash register that is so old it no longer has an value. You guys just smash those buttons like it's modern activism and call it a day. You don't need to my dude.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 1 pts · 17d
So I don't need to engage in the behavior you deride in order to be lumped into a group you define by that behavior. Did I get that right? Seems like an effective way to avoid challenging ideas, but boy are you telling on yourself.
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
It must be the boot polish aftertaste from your previous oral adventure that really pushes the flavor over the edge.
Like Chicken 'n' Waffles... Buc's Beef and Fasc Footware must be a strange yet oddly familiar culinary pairing that you just have to try before you can understand.