tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2957892640057886950.post4628798432906172383..comments2023-09-07T00:52:47.599-07:00Comments on FreeThinker: A conversation about StarbucksGay_Cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829842245704692674noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2957892640057886950.post-61630691809072151832013-09-18T00:55:42.217-07:002013-09-18T00:55:42.217-07:00Bummer yeah...but I've made coffee at home sin...Bummer yeah...but I've made coffee at home since age 8, so I can't say I'll miss Charbucks' weak and gacky brews. <br /><br />The only time I buy coffee out is at this little stand--Hillbilly Beans--in Littlerock, near my gun club. The gals who run it have shotgun shell Christmas lights festooning the stand and love to whip out their smartphones to share range photos of themselves and their friends. (Recent favorite: the bachelorette party at the nearby skeet and trap club.)<br /><br />Charbucks panders to suburban/urban hipsters and mommies/grandmommies/retirees in Escalades and Priuses. They have the money. They can afford to be clueless about RKBA. And here in Pugetopolis, the home of Charbucks, they are usually Democrats, and often hail from urban California and Colorado. <br /><br />Of the ones I've talked to about open carry, a frightening majority has asserted that it's OK if "a few" women get raped or murdered, so long as the guns go away. THAT is how Victorian they are, both unrealistic (guns will never go away) and willing to leave their protection to imaginary daddies. (And don't even get me started on the psychosexual politics of that.) <br /><br />When I ask them whether they also don't mind this happening to queers, elders, people with disabilities, minorities, etc., they disengage with hauteur. It doesn't affect them, and frankly, they don't care. This is where the moral bankruptcy of latter day liberal orthodoxy comes out in full force, and I am sad about this, as a lifelong old skool lib. <br /><br />For me the biggest problem is going to be scraping the Guns N Coffee sticker off my truck window. I'm planning to replace it with a rainbow triangle and NRA Life Member stickers, and an FSM Clergy one. Not nearly as big a problem as the folks who run the Guns N Coffee meme and invested a lot of money and energy into supporting Charbucks' former stand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com