@Terry Kyle Rittenhouse was the signal to get away from Black Rifle Coffee. Shouldn't follow any of these right wing grifts- if not owned by kikes, usually faggots

@Marshall1Banana @Terry There’s something up with all this stupid new-media coffee shit. I suspect it’s one company just providing special web stores and packaging, because every grifter suddenly started saying “oh yeah I couldn’t find GOOD COFFEE so I MADE MY OWN” out of nowhere

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Terry So far people I know that have their own coffee... all roughly about the same time

Tim Pool
Adam Kriggler (former Tim Pool)
Jeremy Handley (Quartering)
Dick Masterson

Anyone know any others?

@Marshall1Banana @Terry That nerdrotic guy? The bearded shitlib san fran one. I dug in a little bit to see and the whole thing was super suspect to me. Almost guarantee it’s a targeted ad they get in the inbox

@WashedOutGundamPilot @Marshall1Banana @Terry Genuine question, is their coffee any noticeably better than whatever is already in the market?

I buy starbucks coffee beans, sure they hate me, but they make a consistent product, BRCC hate me, but they pretend to be for me, that’s infinitely worse.

@Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @Marshall1Banana @Terry It's just big producers selling white label coffee to influencers, who mark it up 20-30% and sell it to their audience. Eg. whitelabelcoffeecompany.com/, whitecoffee.com/private-labeling, austinroastingcompany.com/pages/private-label-coffee

I usually just buy store brand whole bean coffee, it's cheaper than Starbucks brand and tastes about the same.
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This.
I used to work in a dress factory. And while it was just another dumb job, one thing that blew my mind at the time was, that the dresses that were made there looked exactly the same, were made by the same people, but still had a different label based on who was ordering them.

And then, I realized, that it might be a common practice.

This is literally what Canon does with printers btw. HP literally buys printer mechanisms from Canon, and then they sell it as their own printer, and they've done this since the early days.

HVAC equipment is the same way, other than Lennox and maybe Trane most of it is off the shelf with similar or identical parts and different logos.

When I worked at a car repair shop I was also told which brands were the best to buy for parts. Namely; when buying European cars you'd always buy Bosch parts because they were always what the VW/BMW/Benz dealer sells at a markup, and there was a similar brand for Japanese car parts. I've seen Mann filters and Hella horns used by all 3 as well (currently own a VW). I know of a few Japanese OEM suppliers but the names don't come to mind right now. Sure you can't use VW parts on a BMW but the same company will make both parts.
@PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @Terry @InceptionState @Marshall1Banana @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot It's the same thing in most industries. Barrel blanks are all made by like, 3 or 4 companies I think. That's true in firearms and probably in cars and computers and chemicals and alloys as well. Anything that is capital intensive enough probably has only 2 to maybe 5 suppliers at most.
The same with sunglasses - some factory in Italy produces something like 40-50% of them in the market, for dozens of brands.

Late stage capitalism is entirely an illusion of choice.
@Red_Hat @Terry @PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @happypirate @InceptionState @Marshall1Banana @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot So just barely enough competitors to avert anti-trust suspicions. If they are publicly traded companies, controlling stake in all of them are probably held by the same handful of investment banks.
@Red_Hat @Terry @LukeAlmighty @InceptionState @Marshall1Banana @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @happypirate the real redpill is opening up AliExpress and seeing how much is just the same shit with a different label or sold on Amazon with a markup
@happypirate @PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @Terry @InceptionState @Marshall1Banana @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot Almost all forged AR parts will have a keyhole forge mark from Cerro Forge, a square from Brass Aluminum Forging, or "splintered" A for Anchor Harvey.

@DemonSixOne @happypirate @PhenomX6 @LukeAlmighty @Terry @InceptionState @Marshall1Banana @Twoinchdestroya Ah don’t bring that up here people get testy b/c there’s magic that makes its way into those parts when you pay $600 for them

DONALD TRUMP BRANDED 1911 (that will get taken by the cops and never returned as "evidence" when you are in a self defense situation even when you win your case).
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