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Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by codefreeordie on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:06PM (#32134145)
Surprisingly, yes.

"Mainstream" ones like Black Rifle Coffee (which is trying to lose its political image and focus on being coffee for our military, now that it is big wants to be able to keep growing by "selling across the aisle")

But also a whole range of farther-right ones -- Liberty Coffee is one, Stocking Mill Coffee made a bit of a name for itself by commenting over the Kyle Rittenhouse controversy, Thrasher Coffee is another, and then there are a bunch more I can't remember the name of that make a "1776" or gun-themed roasts.

I've tried some of them -- like I said, they have dark roasts. Some are kinda trash and are clearly just trying to trade on the backlash against liberal coffee, others have pretty tasty dark roasts.

I just find it fascinating how dark-roast-focused the right-wing coffee scene is and how ultra-light-roast the left-wing coffee scene is these days.

I personally find "food partisanship" in America generally to be a fascinating topic, so I tend to go out of my way to experience some of the "controversy"

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by bee_rider on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:40PM (#32134375)
Huh.

Coffee shops definitely have a vaguely liberal vibe to them.

Otherwise, though -- it is kinda funny that there's apparently a left-leaning association for coffee that they feel the need to push back on. Like coffee is kind of a ubiquitous thing that people consume to help them concentrate at their bland corporate jobs.

And the story behind sourcing it is... something that left leaning people are often not super psyched about. I guess that leads to the whole fair trade coffee thing, which... maybe that could be though of as left-leaning?

But whatever, the giant union-busting corporation Starbucks is sometimes assumes to be left-leaning, so what can you do, right?

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by codefreeordie on Monday July 18, 2022 @02:23AM (#32135334)
The smaller "third wave coffee" shops generally have a liberal bent to them -- largely because the movement was born in Portland and Seattle. You are much more likely to see an "ACAB" sticker, a rainbow flag, or other left-virtue device on display than anything on the other side of the spectrum.

Starbucks may be anti-union, but they have frequently taken public stances of a liberal variety (particularly around visible issues like LGBT activism, and occasionally on guns) which has left those who felt alienated as a ready market for coffee without the moralizing (or coffee with their sort of moralizing)

I often try to find a mainstream trend in the other direction to compare it to, but there are so few mainstream consumer categories dominated by the right, mostly due to demographics.

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by YLE118 on Monday July 18, 2022 @03:22AM (#32135606)
Strangely quite a few seem to be drop shipped coffee. Which I didn't know was a thing, but seems to be a real enough business. I'm sure there are plenty of other brands doing it too.

https://www.temeculacoffeeroasters.com/copy-of-drop-shipping...

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by nibbleshifter on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:12AM (#32136473)
Drop shipping, white label coffee is an enormous business these days - a considerable number of "influencers" have started launching their own "coffee brands".

Usually they are pretty cagey about the fact its white labelled.

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by YLE118 on Monday July 18, 2022 @01:08PM (#32140638)
White label is a much better term for it, thanks.
Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by eloisius on Sunday July 17, 2022 @11:18PM (#32134234)
So, they're just fleecing right-wingers by marketing them anything that's opposite to "the liberals"? I can't imagine making my coffee, beverage, or food preferences based on political affiliation.
Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by nibbleshifter on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:20AM (#32136510)
The right wing are incredibly easy to market to.

Some of the products I've seen shilled almost exclusively to that market are hilarious.

One of my favourites is a certain "gold subscription" service, where you sign up for X$/month, and every time you have paid enough in to cover the cost of an amount of literal gold, they send you the gold.

I did some calculations at the time based on my own purchasing of gold in the past and worked out that people buying via that service are getting absolutely rinsed.

The ad/sponcon copy tends to blather about inflation, etc, etc.

Re:The case for bad coffee (2015) by codefreeordie on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:37PM (#32144195)
Why do you think that might be?