Why All the Hating on Starbucks?
 

I mean, I know they make crappy overpriced coffee and all that. But what it is about Starbucks that makes protesters destroy and loot their stores? Everytime there's a protest that turns into a riot, you're guaranteed to see a newsbox or a trash can go through the front window of a Starbucks?

Doesn't matter what the riot's about ... global warming, economics, sports team victories ... Starbucks takes the brunt. You almost don't want to be in or near a Starbucks for fear that a riot will break out in the vicinity and the store will get trashed while you're waiting for your Venti Mocha Half-Caf Skim Latte Frappacino with a little hint of cinnamon.

Starbucks is even run by the kind of West Coast Hippies that would support whatever it is that the protesters are protesting, I mean, shouldn't they be trashing things like Gucci stores, or someplace that sells sneakers made by half-blind, crippled, Indonesian, orphaned toddlers?

Simple:

In South Park episode #217, "Gnomes", Tweek's parents' coffee shop almost went out of business because 'Harbucks', a parody of the Starbucks coffee shop chain, opened a shop in South Park.

Hippies watch South Park.

LOGIC! I does it!

Because half of all storefronts are Starbucks? They'd have to work hard to avoid trashing one! :p

I didn't know they taught that kind of thinking in English classes... obviously they haven't finished beating it out of you yet.

Starbucks? They're large, they're profitable, and they're everywhere. Easy target.

Doesn't Lewis Black equate two Starbucks across the street from each other with the End Times?

Yes. End of the universe, I believe. When I shared this with Mrs. Dallas, she told me (based on a book about the history of Starbucks that she had read) that they do this is places (heavy traffic, median, etc.) where a single building is likely to not attract customers driving both directions. So they just put one on each side of the street.

Starbuck's represent "high-end" obnoxious america. McD's or other fast-food joint is too common-man to really draw their ire directed at The Man.

Gucci stores are for the idle rich that have always been with us but are an insignificant percentage of the population.

Starbucks are for the pretentious, it's-all-about me, loud-cellphone-yapping. earth-polluting, oppressor-man-supporting, Hummer/SUV-driving, spotted owl-killing, whale-eating, not-nice-niks. The ultimate symbol of earth killing excess.
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Why does everyone in Starbucks sopping up the free WIFI? Around here it looks more like a computer class. Sipping on the expensive lattes etc. while staring at their substandard laptops. Sheesh

wolf, I see it as a typical response between "have's" and "have not's". They see a corporate icon that represents success and they despise it. You can see it among many aspects of our society, including those who support the Obama redistribution plans.

Posted by a friend of mine who lives in Atlanta:

I had a bad coffee from starbucks once and felt like throwing a chair through the window, but I'd been on anger management for a while, so I was able to restrain myself.

That is so effed up, cloud. I dislike starbucks - got coffee there a couple times - didn't think much of it either. Certainly not worth the price.

No one has the right to destroy someone else's property. That said, I rarely go to a Starbucks. Six bucks for a fuckin' cup of coffee? C'mon.

So stick to the 12oz of brewed for a buck sixty. Come on.

Or only drink large lattes at home, homemade.

Smashing up a Starbucks just tells me antiglobalists are morons. As if more proof were needed. Oughtta slam their cocks in that 164-degree dishwasher -- and run it. It's not like their thinking could get any worse that way, and it might actually take a turn for the better.

And no, Starbuck's coffee is hardly crap. 'Smatter you?? West Virginia roadside coffee -- now there's crap.