• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    1 hour ago

    He has the most insincere smile ever. It would be hard to make a real person appear more cartoonishly evil.

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    It was a lot of people’s jobs for months now creating some special bottle and box for this PR moment… none of this should exist. It reminds me of stories about the Middle Ages, where people would come before the king and shower them with gifts to make sure they are appeased.

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      It’s not even a good box. Kings are rolling in their graves, truly the worst timeline on many fronts.

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      6 hours ago

      If you get the rights to lower the ground water level even more during a drought, selling the water to the thirsty population in plastic bottles?

      Ka-Tsching Baby…

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      That’s why the guy put his right hand on the table… Prevent rumors.

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    8 hours ago

    Weirdest part to me is that I really can’t believe that he’s drinking Diet Coke and not regular Coke. I know there’s concerns about diet sodas, but that shows a concern about his health and what he puts in his body that I never imagined Trump was capable of.

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      Naw, I think it’s because he specifically enjoys diet coke more. If I want a soda, it’s diet coke or nothing. I’m in good health, but diet coke tastes great while regular coke almost makes me feel ill from the thick syrup.

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          Yes.

          I can’t stand American Coke but if I ever see the bottles of Mexican Coke then I’ll get that.

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          It’s a factor. Coke, Diet Coke, and Coke Zero all taste different regardless so individual preferences are guaranteed.

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        Same. The only thing that calms the beast that lives in my soul is the sweet embrace of aspartame. I cant even really drink mixed drinks with non diet soda. Sugar Free Redbull and Vodka just hits so good.

        My behaviors shouldn’t be emulated 😅

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          I’m now 9 years sober, by back in my day I would do redbull + tequila as my hair of the dog drink of choice. Cause if I survived one, I felt great.

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      Not that I like the man but I believe he’s also been against alcohol life long? Definitely has some concern with what he consumes.

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      Not trying to defend the taste. I hate the taste of diet coke myself, but I don’t know what it is about that diet soda specifically. I have met many people in real life and through the internet that just fucking LOVE diet coke. Idk why, but they drink 3-5 cans a day. I am working with one now that had to stop drinking for health reasons and she was talking about how she missed the taste a couple weeks ago.

      Diet Coke lovers are a dedicated breed.

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        I’m not sure how much chemical tweaking they did on aspartame, but I suspect it ended up being overfitted to their test group because I can’t stand the taste of it. It just tastes a bit off to me, like there’s some undesirable chemical in there.

        Stevia was disappointing for me because the ones granulated like white sugar also have that flavour. Maybe it’s from traces of whatever solvent was used to extract it from the plant.

        I’d rather have water than any diet soda.

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        People just love getting addicted to shit. We are all guilty of it. We equate the dopamine rush with actual enjoyment of things. I’m not sure I actually like anything, so much as it’s my brain tricking me.

        This is a little tongue in cheek, but also a little not.

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      Coke has been doing this every year.

      He probably wanted to be special and the ability to say “First DIET coke inaugural bottle”

      From the comments here, it seems like his plan of making people think Coke is doing it to endorse him is working.

      • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        We need to make this brilliant idea a real thing. Great project for people who are good at and enjoy photo manipulation.

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          Based on my experience with humans, the ruling class would probably get this turned around to the point where people vote based on how popular various brand names are. It might even reduce the amount it takes to buy or rent a politician if certain logos make them more likely to win.

          Even today, I bet a good portion of his cult would just call all that money an example of how good a business man he is, with the assumption that good business man = good leader.

          Another prediction is that dummy companies will pop up with good looking mission statements and money to give to candidates who might actually be good ones, only for scandals to break about the company after the name gets associated with the politician.

          We can’t have nice things.

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      I’m seeing it as a white, blue, and red jacket. Almost flag like for the country he represents. It’s got the same colors as the US flag, enough for denying it’s the Russian flag, but showing his true allegiance.

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      My wife and I have been paying attention to which companies are making significant donations to conservatives, and have been avoiding doing business with them, but now it’s getting tough as everyone is expected to kiss the ring. It’s about to the point where it might be easier to make a list of companies that haven’t.

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      puckered

      Considering the amount of Russian dick that man takes, I’d think by now his anal sphincter is pretty well destroyed.

      All these CEOs are tripping over themselves to lap up a cocktail of incontinent seepage and Putin’s cum