You might not have heard, but the mythology is being perverted anyway this year.
The red-suited white-bearded #CocaCola #SantaClaus now works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and people on the naughty list get kidnapped off the street and shipped off to other countries.
I kid you not.
I dread to imagine what it is like being a child of immigrants at Christmas in the U.S.A. this year.
I forgot that we now live in a Post-Stross Universe, where what Charlie Stross can imagine is now the upper bound on how positive the future can be.
A couple of hours after I wrote that post, I learned that *in reality* the toadies and Trumpanzees have perverted the #CocaCola #SantaClaus into something well beyond people's pessimistic imaginations.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115776155828082944
American Coca-Cola Santa Claus is a menacing horror figure, now.
♪ "Holidays are coming!"
You might not have heard, but the mythology is being perverted anyway this year.
The red-suited white-bearded #CocaCola #SantaClaus now works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and people on the naughty list get kidnapped off the street and shipped off to other countries.
I kid you not.
I dread to imagine what it is like being a child of immigrants at Christmas in the U.S.A. this year.
If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wants more industries to support his plan to eliminate the sugar substitute, people must first understand the schemes that led to this sticky situation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/11/world/americas-corn-syrup-addiction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #richardnixon #robertfkennedyjr #geraldford #jimmycarter #yoshiyukitakasaki #archerdanielsmidlands #jmsmucker #cocacola #cornysyrup #sugar #sovietunion
Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's
https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/leadership/roberto-mercade
#HackerNews #CocaCola #McDonalds #Executive #Partnership #BusinessStrategy #Leadership
@lauren Is cane sugar worse for teeth than corn syrup? I thought dental caries can do just fine on both. But I might be wrong.
@not2b
I can't find any evidence on the Web that either of #HFCS and #CaneSugar is worse for teeth than the other. I can find plenty of evidence that free sugars, in the amounts typically consumed in the West, are terrible for our health. If Maga cared about Americans' health, they'd tell people to lay off the sugary drinks rather than fiddling with recipes.
I have strong feelings about this, having recently lost a friend to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She couldn't control her intake of sugary foods, and it killed her, leaving a widower and two daughters just entering their twenties. She was an intelligent woman; she knew she should stop. But this rubbish is engineered to be addictive, and the addiction cost her her life.