MAGA got everything they wanted out of Cracker Barrel and they still want to punish the company anyway. Just about the most predictable outcome you could imagine.
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Seems like the real lesson is appeasing MAGA gets you nothing. Better to focus on intelligent customers.
sep 1, 2025, 5:22 am • 48 3 • view
Did I miss something? I thought they just simplified their logo. Does that count as woke trans policies?
sep 1, 2025, 9:28 am • 6 0 • view
There was also some internal remodeling at the restaurants. Things like better lighting and (iirc) different seating.
sep 1, 2025, 9:52 am • 3 0 • view
"The woke transgenders wanna take away our dingy lighting and turn our kids gay as a result"
sep 1, 2025, 9:56 am • 7 0 • view
Actually seeing my spouse on the other end of the table ruined my msrriage.
sep 1, 2025, 9:57 am • 6 0 • view
None of them even ate there to begin with. It was always just an object to be sacrificed at the alter of cultural grievance.
sep 1, 2025, 5:34 am • 15 0 • view
Truth
sep 1, 2025, 6:54 am • 3 0 • view
First they came for Harvard, and I didn’t speak out because I went to a state university. Then they came for Cracker Barrel and I didn’t speak out because I go to Outback….
sep 1, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
For them, the outrage is the end, it's not a means of achieving one.
sep 1, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGA America who fought to continue to be referred to as a Cracker.
sep 1, 2025, 6:38 am • 3 1 • view
Who is Robby Starbuck and why does he think Cracker Barrel listened to him, specifically.
sep 1, 2025, 5:13 am • 209 2 • view
He sees himself as the paragon of small minded, petty conservatives, "The real America". laughable how inflated from self-importance, pretentious and oblivious to what a ridiculous pompous ass he is.
sep 1, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
He's Starbuck's Johnny Crackerbarrel
sep 1, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Is “Robby Starbuck” his porn name? Surely that’s not real…
sep 1, 2025, 9:57 am • 3 0 • view
He's a dumb fascist bigot that Facebook hired to be Fascist Bigot In Chief.
sep 1, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
He's the conspiracy theorist who's Meta's new AI advisor to root out bias
sep 1, 2025, 5:20 am • 157 2 • view
He seems… biased
sep 1, 2025, 5:25 am • 145 0 • view
Yeah, it's a bizarro world hire that almost only Zuck could do
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 am • 88 0 • view
Zuck or Musk, that's pretty much it...
sep 1, 2025, 5:44 am • 22 0 • view
Also Musk or Bezos
sep 1, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, but he means "the sort of reality acknowledgment that the Mad King perceives as bias, and will lead to him hitting me with billions of dollars worth of legal hassles out of petty spite"
sep 1, 2025, 7:31 am • 3 0 • view
my Facebook account is no longer active as of Augest 2025 thanks to AI moderation limitting my ability to post to a ludacris degree. is this the person to blame?
sep 1, 2025, 8:36 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, where "root out bias" = "root out facts and opinions 'Robby Starbuck' doesn't agree with". Great job Zuck. 🤦🏼♂️
sep 1, 2025, 6:11 am • 5 0 • view
Oh, is THAT why all of the reels on my FB timeline are rightwing A.I. garbage now?
sep 1, 2025, 6:00 am • 5 0 • view
Seriously?
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 am • 1 0 • view
100%. He's a RWNJ and he's responsible for making sure Meta's AI isn't biased as too woke.
sep 1, 2025, 5:47 am • 14 0 • view
ffs
sep 1, 2025, 5:54 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, it's insane.
sep 1, 2025, 5:56 am • 3 0 • view
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg tap MAGA influencer Robby Starbuck as AI ‘bias’ advisor www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
sep 1, 2025, 5:50 am • 7 1 • view
fascism offers the small and mediocre the illusion of power and greatness by adopting the persona of the mob, which they project upon their leader
sep 1, 2025, 6:11 am • 21 2 • view
and the leader watches the mob on tv, a circle jerk that never ends
sep 1, 2025, 6:33 am • 1 0 • view
he's an idiot grifter who was so extreme that even the fucking TN GOP didn't want him to run as a Republican and removed him from the primary ballot.
sep 1, 2025, 6:09 am • 7 0 • view
Oh you don’t know? He’s a douche bag jagoff. But why should CB listen to him? Don’t have a fucking clue. Robby is just a dumbfuck
sep 1, 2025, 5:17 am • 5 0 • view
Robby
sep 1, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
I feel like it's a bad idea to mess with big companies and not expect your brakes to get cut eventually
sep 1, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
I still don't get what was "woke" about the change? I thought it looked more conservative without the artwork, since they're the most uncreative mfs to walk the earth and all.
sep 1, 2025, 7:28 am • 11 1 • view
Well,,,, they took the cracker *and* the barrel
sep 1, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
LOL
sep 1, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They said erased the white man. And erased the white from their customs and made it woke DEI
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel bad for the person whose life is so dull they know how busy their local Cracker Barrel is on any given night. There's more to life than giant checkers and "OK" food in a place modeled after a barn.
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 14 0 • view
“Be neutral and sane”. ZERO self-awareness as always with these people.
sep 1, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Sucks to be Cracker Barrel. No one I know eats there because they refused to serve gay people 20 odd years ago. Now the MAGA don’t want them either
sep 1, 2025, 5:16 am • 57 0 • view
It was Sunday on a holiday weekend it was probably empty because everyone is at barbecues and such. I'm sure Their base of elderly road nomads does not give a shit at all
sep 1, 2025, 7:36 am • 5 0 • view
I stopped eating there because of how they treat their employees. My aunt was a server there. No breaks, no meal stipend, and barely any tips because they only give you 2 or 3 tables.
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The whole rebrand was because they're failing and they needed to try something to get people back in Fortunately, nothing of value will be lost when they shutter
sep 1, 2025, 6:26 am • 22 0 • view
"Muh steak!! Who will fry it now??"
sep 1, 2025, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe they should consider a menu that is not actively killing their guests. Hello sausage gravy. 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 7:14 am • 3 0 • view
what if they tried making the food... good
sep 1, 2025, 7:37 am • 12 0 • view
Bingo! Customers: "Your restaurants are in tatters, your tables and floors are sticky, and the food quality has gone way downhill." Management: "We're losing customers left and right. What should we do?" Marketing Consultants, with supreme confidence: "CHANGE THE LOGO!"
sep 1, 2025, 11:11 am • 9 0 • view
if we can get MAGA on board with "private equity ruins everything" then I'm just taking the win on all this Cracker Barrel logo non-sense
sep 1, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't forget the good ol fashioned racism too
sep 1, 2025, 6:15 am • 6 0 • view
Same thing happened to Colombia. If you cave, they see weakness and attack harder.
sep 1, 2025, 5:19 am • 21 0 • view
Colombia?
sep 1, 2025, 7:29 am • 0 0 • view
University
sep 1, 2025, 8:12 am • 2 0 • view
I think that's Columbia
sep 1, 2025, 8:15 am • 4 0 • view
yea, I just wasn't sure if you were genuinely confused, or if it was because of the homonym use — have a good day
sep 1, 2025, 8:21 am • 1 0 • view
I'm sure the trump admin has tried to extort the country and the university.
sep 1, 2025, 8:23 am • 4 0 • view
He did. That’s why I hoarded coffee earlier this year.
sep 1, 2025, 2:20 pm • 2 0 • view
replace Robbie PooPants with Trump and Cracker Barrel with Tariffs or Dem City or Universities its the same play. they don't want what they say, they want to destroy
sep 1, 2025, 6:25 am • 1 0 • view
Big "If you serve black folks we'll burn down your store" energy from the micropenis crowd. Good thing nobodies stupid enough to give them an inch incase they decide to take a mile, right? Right?
sep 1, 2025, 6:52 am • 14 1 • view
Oh yeah they were screaming that by erasing the white man on the logo they were “literally” erasing the white out of your customers. Boomers on Facebook were hot something that was only white people enjoyed was being hit with DEI
sep 1, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
The do a bland corporate rebrand and blame DEI instead of the corporation. I don't know what rock these people have been living under, but every major chain has done this in the past 20 years. This is a product of Wall St. and private equity, not trans people.
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 am • 22 0 • view
They don't actually believe that, they're getting desperate & cutthroat after several shareholders meetings for large co's have ended in resounding "no"s for ending DEI initiatives
sep 1, 2025, 6:18 am • 11 0 • view
The people who call everything they don't like "communism" sure are into telling privately owned businesses what to do and how to present their viewpoints.
sep 1, 2025, 3:25 pm • 4 0 • view
"I'm trying to help you!" -Every abuser in all history
sep 1, 2025, 7:16 am • 28 3 • view
Here’s to the NRA updating its logo.
sep 1, 2025, 7:04 am • 3 1 • view
Do not comply. They are going after you anyways.
sep 1, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Has anyone ever asked them what, specifically, is woke about updating a logo?
sep 1, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d like to suggest that Cracker Barrel got everything the wanted out of MAGA. A head fake towards modernizing then an immediate backlash then acquiescence. Millions in free publicity with barely any effort and the right (already their biggest customers) feel like they have a special spot.
sep 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Extra hilarious because the changes to their interior decor were 100% an attempt to capture the Tradwife Modern Farmhouse market
sep 1, 2025, 7:27 am • 8 0 • view
“CB waited a week to listen to MEEEEEE” good lord the ego and sociopathy of these people.
sep 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
this is abuser logic. “fix it and we (i) won’t harm you again” ya right. until your need for control kicks in again.
sep 1, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Guys, there's a tip line...
sep 1, 2025, 8:05 am • 4 1 • view
Who in the blue hell is Robby Starbuck?
sep 1, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Mob tactics
sep 1, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
“Drop the egos” might be the least self-aware sentence of all time
sep 1, 2025, 10:36 am • 12 0 • view
It's a never ending reality show for them, the rage bait content must continue to flow.
sep 1, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
...is this extortion?
sep 1, 2025, 6:54 am • 3 0 • view
I mean, it was never important to them to begin with, they just need to be outraged all the time. Also suspect he's talking out of his ass about the photo details, too. Can't speak for all the ones in AZ, but for the one nearby their peak hours are only ever at night around four specific holidays.
sep 1, 2025, 8:10 am • 4 0 • view
“Drop the egos”. You first, asshole.
sep 1, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t want to Google this fucker and see his name in between the good, wholesome porn searches. What’s his deal?
sep 1, 2025, 8:34 am • 2 0 • view
Starbuck is such a shit stain and he really deserves some actual consequences for being such an insufferable waste of oxygen
sep 1, 2025, 6:22 am • 1 0 • view
Did they? They had to get loud. Can't have that. They want everything to go acc'd to their wishes without having to spell it out.
sep 1, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
I continue to be baffled by what they were mad about with the logo change Also hasn't Cracker Barrel been doing poorly for a while now? I imagine the logo change was part of a marketing push to get them out of the slump.
sep 1, 2025, 6:39 am • 7 0 • view
Also who the fuck is this guy and why does he think anybody of consequence is listening to him
sep 1, 2025, 6:40 am • 5 0 • view
Drop the egos, says the guy claiming to be able to destroy businesses at will.
sep 1, 2025, 6:47 am • 42 0 • view
He has a tip line
sep 1, 2025, 7:38 am • 5 0 • view
Randomly set my rabidly moronic ass after a business call 1-800-MAGA-ZAP
sep 1, 2025, 7:39 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, serious case of "main character syndrome" right there...
sep 1, 2025, 6:59 am • 10 0 • view
Robby Starsuck
sep 1, 2025, 5:20 am • 3 0 • view
it's nice that he makes it clear the 'neutral' stance is unpersoning LGBTQ+ people entirely
sep 1, 2025, 5:14 am • 260 6 • view
Liberals were such good allies that they deserve to throw all of them under the bus. As a treat
sep 1, 2025, 5:46 am • 51 0 • view
i still dont even know what they wanted pretty sure they dont either
sep 1, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
People also forget that Cracker Barrel still is dedicated to promoting DEI. The right wing "Winning" on the Logo made them thinking that they could break Cracker Barrel on things like that, make them go full Bud Light
sep 1, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Since this incident proves that they are happy to consider anything "woke" if it lets them play God, then we should flood their "tip line" with complaints about places like Hobby Lobby and Chik-fil-A.
sep 1, 2025, 8:57 am • 7 0 • view
Biggest dipshits of all time
sep 1, 2025, 6:38 am • 8 0 • view
I probably follow American news (and world affairs more generally) far too closely. But I’m truly stumped with the whole Cracker Barrel logo thing. Anyone able to explain it to me? I really missed something.
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
"Leftism and trans policies" Wasn't this about a big standard corporate logo change? How is the logo change DEI or trans related? Or was there more I missed?
sep 1, 2025, 5:16 am • 85 0 • view
I understand they removed the guy and are therefor "man hating" but trans policies?
sep 1, 2025, 5:18 am • 7 0 • view
They had DEI and pride pages on their website; which they have unsurprisingly taken down since the backlash from the Nazis began.
sep 1, 2025, 6:01 am • 9 0 • view
“Anything I don’t like is trans people’s fault.”
sep 1, 2025, 8:31 am • 2 0 • view
Honestly, how a corpo logo rebrand got wrapped up in a Conservative "woke" dragnet is beyond me — all the rest of their bullshit suggests "woke" means anything that isn't explicitly selfish.
sep 1, 2025, 8:10 am • 4 0 • view
One big fascist calling card is complaining about the destruction of art. So they turned the logo rebrand into an example of that and claimed the woke left is responsible for destroying it.
sep 1, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
Not centering an old white guy is the conservatives definition of woke
sep 1, 2025, 8:41 am • 8 0 • view
I think we're saying the same thing..
sep 1, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Cracker Barrel’s CEO is a woman, so they assume she must have been a DEI hire investor.crackerbarrel.com/management/j...
sep 1, 2025, 5:18 am • 36 0 • view
I have an idea...
sep 1, 2025, 6:24 am • 19 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/peng...
sep 1, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It's woke DEI to make a logo look shit
sep 1, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
But being artistic & creative is also woke dei if course
sep 1, 2025, 7:16 am • 4 0 • view
Robby Starbuck to American corporations: "Don't make me hit you again!"
sep 1, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
maybe Maga should actually go to Cracker Barrel...oh wait prices went up recently, I wonder why and what President caused that?
sep 1, 2025, 10:57 am • 0 0 • view
It’s the lesson literally everyone needs to learn - never capitulate to anyone even remotely right of center because if they take exception with you, you are already dead to them.
sep 1, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
They're just awful vindictive small people.
sep 1, 2025, 5:15 am • 9 0 • view
Robby Starbuck was interviewed by Nikkei Asia. “Using DEI practices to artificially raise disadvantaged peoples to the same level as white males is ‘a communist concept that is really not friendly to the idea of free markets and capitalism,’ said Starbuck.” www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...
sep 1, 2025, 4:12 pm • 18 5 • view
Wait, updating the logo is participating in DEI? God forbid anyone updates a logo!
sep 1, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
oh it would be such a tragedy for any Cracker Barrels to shut down oh dear I mean Appleby's is too woke
sep 1, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
“Drop the egos”
sep 1, 2025, 1:16 pm • 10 0 • view
Is this about the logo change? This sounds more like Cracker Barrel replaced all its staff overnight with drag queens.
sep 1, 2025, 11:45 am • 2 0 • view
Crazy that companies haven’t learned to ignore these attacks. Capitulating gets them nothing.
sep 1, 2025, 4:17 pm • 37 1 • view
How is Target doing these days?
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 9 0 • view
Capitulating actually makes it worse because not only do they not win back the grievance filled rightwing nuts, they lose everyone else who see how shameful and untrustworthy they are as organizations
sep 1, 2025, 4:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Cracker Barrel blinked. In July, “America First Legal — a conservative legal entity led by President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Stephen Miller — issued a statement calling for federal and state government investigation into Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.” www.nrn.com/family-dinin...
sep 1, 2025, 4:43 pm • 15 4 • view
Soo, how's Target's foot traffic numbers going... SMDH.
sep 1, 2025, 5:43 am • 5 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
What's a "trans policy?"
sep 1, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGAts have to be the sorest winners the world has ever seen
sep 1, 2025, 2:15 pm • 3 0 • view
They’re angry little snowflakes. They only know how to ruin things. They don’t know how to build anything meaningful, or to be empathetic. Or, to simply let others live their lives. Their blind hatred drives them.
sep 1, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Saying "drop the egos" after that self-adulation post is next level lack of self awareness. Like me, I'm sure Cracker Barrel execs said "Robby who?"
sep 1, 2025, 3:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Cracker Barrel is well known as a great place for racists to gather (eggs with a side of bigotry). This makes perfect sense because they lived by the sword and then died by it. Diversity is alive and well where normal folks gather.
sep 1, 2025, 9:24 am • 2 0 • view
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Online Discourse Indicates that No Sane Person Gives a Fuck about Cracker Barrel Signage, Yet an Arizona Cracker Barrel was Empty at 6:00 PM on a Holiday Sunday so... (sorry, I have no idea how to do this. Is fuck even capitalized? This is your department)
sep 1, 2025, 6:34 am • 3 0 • view
The capitalization is fine, but the ellipsis at the end wouldn't fly
sep 1, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Their only hope for survival is going woke. Rebrand with a rainbow background, introduce menu items like gay hash browns and queer meatloaf etc.
sep 1, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
How was that woke DEI again?
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Erase the white man off the logo like DEI erased the white man.
sep 1, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I see light pink skin color people everywhere. Some people are obsessed with being the centre of the universe tho
sep 1, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I spend half my life amongst MAGAs in Texas. Without hate, they would be bored and depressed. Hate is their drug.
sep 1, 2025, 5:21 am • 145 7 • view
They are very boring and they still seem depressed.
sep 1, 2025, 8:18 am • 2 0 • view
This is not what Bryan Ferry taught us.
sep 1, 2025, 4:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I love Bryan Ferry! I actually met him -- one of the highlights of my life.
sep 1, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t know why people don’t see this. We cannot reach out to them and reason with them. They want to be angry because they feel nothing else.
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
They hate and blame their failures on everyone but them, Hate is an easy way avoided accountability for their own failings.
sep 1, 2025, 5:35 am • 3 0 • view
Yep. They made poor life choices and love any distraction from taking the blame.
sep 1, 2025, 5:55 am • 1 0 • view
it's all they have left in the world. a camaraderie of hate.
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
"HATE is their drug" ☝️ exactly also, hate and fear fills the pews and the coffers I grew up being dragged to all sorts of cray-cray religious right S. Baptist and other holy roller type churches in TN and AL. *shiver*
sep 1, 2025, 5:25 am • 42 2 • view
Also a good part of what they have as an excuse for a personality.
sep 1, 2025, 5:44 am • 1 0 • view
Along with the mega-maga gospel prosperity types
sep 1, 2025, 5:27 am • 17 1 • view
People addicted to hate are the perfect audience for prosperity gospel grifters. These people can never be happy so they constantly turn to someone telling them they’re gonna be rich and content. One day.
sep 1, 2025, 3:09 pm • 1 1 • view
My favourite part of this, even assuming the Rapture is a thing that's "really truly gonna happen", I imagine sky daddy's gonna be kinda pissed about y'all enabling the antichrist in order to force his hand... SMDH
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 am • 26 1 • view
For the record there is literally a Bible verse that says this. But these people have never actually read the Bible.
sep 1, 2025, 8:31 am • 17 0 • view
Of course they haven't. They believe whatever they're told by the man behind the pulpit whilst he relieves them of their money and tells them they're virtuous every Sunday... But of course everyone ELSE are the sheep. SMDH
sep 1, 2025, 8:34 am • 9 0 • view
A whole lot of good people have never read the bible, and it might even be why they're still good, for all anyone knows
sep 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
That's also why they support Israel. They need a nation of Israel to exist for their apocalypse fantasies.
sep 1, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 1 • view
Indeed.
sep 1, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
If I believed in the Rapture and whatnot I’d be supporting policies that encourage Jews to stay OUT of Israel. Like, pay for them to have really nice homes in desirable locations. They get nice houses, and the apocalypse is prevented. Everyone wins!
sep 1, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
"no one knows the day or hour" but they think they can force God's hand by engineering world events
sep 1, 2025, 2:50 pm • 2 0 • view
And I can't think he's gonna be too pleased with them for doing that... Never mind completely ignoring and generally contradicting the teachings he sent his son to earth to convey (and be killed but that's a whole OTHER story...)
sep 1, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
I never could understand the argument that we should hate Jews for killing Jesus. Now, I'm not a Christian anymore, but last time I checked Jesus' death is what gives us salvation. Shouldn't they be *thanking* the Jews? After all, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
sep 1, 2025, 11:17 pm • 1 0 • view
You had the same questions I did ... so much of it never made sense and contradicts itself. The hypocrisy drove me extra nuts, "Do as I say, Not as I do" crap. cool site: The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: The King James Version from a Skeptic's Point of View www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/faq.php
sep 1, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup, I mean, it would seem to be pretty sensible to assume "apocalypse bad" but these morons think they're going to live in eternal bliss after it happens so...
sep 1, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 11:10 pm • 1 0 • view
2025 Huckabee also believes in a strain of Christian fundamentalism called Christian Zionism, in which people quite literally pray for war in Palestine/Israel as a sign of Christ’s impending return. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
sep 1, 2025, 7:31 pm • 2 1 • view
I'm very familiar: I was raised evangelical Christian. I knew about the Rapture before I knew how to play baseball.
sep 1, 2025, 7:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I grew up in the 70s, and was dragged to all sorts of S. Baptist and other holy roller churches. They would show creepy movies to us little kids about the rapture and the Book of Revelation. I would have nightmares all the time. I saw so much racism and hypocrisy that I knew was wrong then. 1/2
sep 1, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I finally got over the last little bit of fear of hell and satan when I was 19/20ish. Note that it was only the fear part keeping me kind of believing in that crap. 2/2
sep 1, 2025, 7:55 pm • 2 1 • view
My first step was at Bible camp when I was 10-11. It was "get filled with the Spirit" night, and though I sang and prayed the same as everyone else, I didn't start speaking in tongues. For years I thought I'd been personally rejected by God.
sep 1, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
My faux news watching religious right Republican S. Baptist relatives have always been obsessed with Israel and all things Jewish ... and they pray for Jews because they "know" they will not go to "heaven" 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 4 0 • view
I'm a little nostalgic for when the internet looked like that.
sep 1, 2025, 6:34 am • 3 0 • view
They should try actual drugs
sep 1, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Truly the stupidest country.
sep 1, 2025, 5:18 am • 208 1 • view
MAGA is not the rest of us.
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 18 0 • view
A lot of the rest of you agree with them or think that conceding to their dumbass "beliefs" is a worthwhile strategy. So yeah, MAGA is a lot of the rest of you.
sep 1, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re both the majority and the ones in charge of everything.
sep 1, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
They bring down the average
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 am • 135 0 • view
And we can say that because we’ve seen our trucker convoy do the same
sep 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 10 1 • view
Stop distancing yourself from it and fight instead of whining you’re not like them. They are also whiners.
sep 1, 2025, 1:25 pm • 9 0 • view
nah they're your bosses lmao
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Being ruined by the greediest, most corrupt people
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Deranged bullies can't quit.
sep 1, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure I'd expect to see Latinos, Blacks, Jews, Muslims, or really any other minority sitting in a White Cowboy store. See Target? That's what the America we love does to a real company that refuses to be "woke".
sep 1, 2025, 5:16 am • 16 0 • view
3.5 billion vs 106 billion in sales. You can make a restaurant be empty for a few days, but cripple a company 30 times it's sales volume, no Maga you cannot. This is what happens when you are a marginalized minority. Welcome to the future, kids. Buckle up, it's gonna be rough. For you.
sep 1, 2025, 5:16 am • 13 0 • view
The ones near more rural military bases get a bit more diverse customer base
sep 1, 2025, 7:31 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds like lack of choice. But your point is a good one.
sep 1, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
I pondered going to Target for a minute yesterday. I needed something that would be a no-brainer Target item but just couldn’t do it.
sep 1, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Right out of the abuser bible
sep 1, 2025, 5:31 am • 19 0 • view
Well, I sure hate him
sep 1, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Leftists didn't give a toss before, after or during the redesign, they totally scored in an empty net. Congrats I guess.
sep 1, 2025, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
When the fuck is Cracker Barrel packed?
sep 1, 2025, 6:26 am • 4 0 • view
Sundays after church. 🤷♂️
sep 1, 2025, 7:06 am • 0 0 • view
Cracker Barrel didn't do anything DEI. They simplified a logo. MAGA punished a company based on vibes.
sep 1, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
...hasn't Target lost like 12 Billion (so far) and had to replace their CEO *explicitly* because they abandoned DEI initiatives?
sep 1, 2025, 11:51 am • 4 0 • view
Idiot snowflakes
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
everyone of these dumbfucks now feels like a mini-trump ruling the world
sep 1, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
MAGA hates legitimate business and wants everyone to eat at their roadside hot dog stands. I'm sure there are lower income staff who will suffer because of this. Maybe, eventually, people will realize you don't eat logos.
sep 1, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
Him calling the Cracker Barrel going minimalist woke trans DEI is so funny to me.
sep 1, 2025, 6:37 am • 5 0 • view
Trigger words. The they love them
sep 1, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
"Drop the egos." You first, guy who holds the fate of historic family and casual dining restaurant chain Cracker Barrel in his hands.
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 16 0 • view
Maybe the follower was lying and Robby got conned.
sep 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
JoJo Starbuck your namesake is failing
sep 1, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Or, And bear with me, The empty restaurants were the thing that prompted the change in the first place…
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 17 1 • view
Robby StarfuKKK is still alive??
sep 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It's Sunday on labor day weekend.. people are out of town or hungover. I went grocery shopping today, there was barely anyone there.
sep 1, 2025, 7:27 am • 6 0 • view
They go off on punishing and cruelty. As does their Dear Leader.
sep 1, 2025, 9:29 am • 3 0 • view
DEI? LOL Cracker Barrel has been empty since the pandemic because a LARGE percentage of their Loyalty Program never came back to the restaurant- because they died off. bsky.app/profile/robv...
sep 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 4 0 • view
This guy is losing his mind cause they made their logo simpler and he's telling them to "Be neutral and sane."
sep 1, 2025, 5:27 am • 43 0 • view
they also changed the font
sep 1, 2025, 8:13 am • 6 0 • view
But is it anti-DEI font?
sep 1, 2025, 2:51 pm • 2 0 • view
it's like OpenDyslexic but the opposite designed specifically to be impossible to read for anyone with dyslexia
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Robby is just mad because Mondays are his day in the barrel.
sep 1, 2025, 5:53 am • 1 0 • view
Those are some seriously weird demands
sep 1, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Robald Starbucks wrote a novel to imaginary executives just because he received an unsolicited dining room pic. Seems sane.
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Not once in my life have I ever even considered that you could go to Cracker Barrel after 3pm.
sep 1, 2025, 8:14 am • 2 0 • view
Anecdotalism killed america
sep 1, 2025, 7:08 am • 1 0 • view
1. "...if you get caught..." the overconfidence talking like he lives in a 99% maga country 2. They're violent to no end because they have no vision. P25 might have a plan, but most of these duds don't. They're hammers just hitting nails, nothing more.
sep 1, 2025, 12:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah. That's why they were empty. Nothing to do with the guy he voted for fucking up the economy.
sep 1, 2025, 7:27 am • 6 0 • view
I still don't understand what they think was woke about the new logo. Do *they* even know?
sep 1, 2025, 5:41 am • 30 0 • view
It was *checks the complaint* apparently trans.
sep 1, 2025, 8:12 am • 3 0 • view
They don't. It's not the same as it was, so it's bad.
sep 1, 2025, 6:54 am • 2 0 • view
As a graphic designer who was working for a tech company as the internet exploded on to the scene, simpler logos are so much easier to work with and to see on a device. People cried back then, too. Cracker Barrel just changing their logo 20 years late had them reflexively screaming woke.
sep 1, 2025, 2:18 pm • 2 0 • view
It eliminated an old white guy, and old white guys are really sensitive about that, since elimination (of myriad kinds) is on their minds a lot.
sep 1, 2025, 6:15 am • 21 0 • view
From what I understand folks only go to Cracker Barrel for the experience. Sounds like a one and done restaurant to me. Now if you want a restaurant to go to all the time that’s packed 7 days a week I highly suggest The Stagecoach Restaurant in Sacramento, CA.
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Next up: “MAGA refuses to attend the Met Gala”
sep 1, 2025, 6:07 am • 5 0 • view
That's legit how ALL abusers work.
sep 1, 2025, 5:25 am • 75 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 5:32 am • 7 0 • view
Robby wants to feel like he’s doing something important, so he’s on the case of making sure cracker is pure white and are those font sizes DEI free.
sep 1, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm going to become a millionaire by starting a PR consultant company where I just say to companies, "Never capitulate to Nazis. They don't have any ideology. They all have Oppositional Defiant Disorder."
sep 1, 2025, 8:02 am • 16 1 • view
Calling it oppositional defiant disorder is really interesting and I lowkey think it really fits their behavior. You gave me something to think about.
sep 1, 2025, 8:53 am • 9 0 • view
the thing is that oppositional defiant disorder is a fake problem made to incarcerate black kids who don't like their teachers. the idea you are looking for is "contrarianism"
sep 1, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Also good to know didn’t realize it carried that history but that also makes sense
sep 1, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They kill Cracker Barrel, they won't have it anymore. It's not exactly a haven for left of center diners.
sep 1, 2025, 10:53 am • 2 0 • view
I don’t get the outrage, it’s not like they made the old man in the logo black.
sep 1, 2025, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm still struggling to figure out what was "woke" about the Cracker Barrel change. I'm pretty sure none of these people bitching could say why either. All I can say is it must be sad to have a life so bland that a franchise restaurant changing its decorations is a life or death emergency for you.
sep 1, 2025, 3:25 pm • 5 0 • view
MAGA is so full of rage, they just snowball, rage begets rage. They have nowhere to put their anger so they keep picking new targets, in this case blind to the people who work in these restaurants who go without tips and maybe without jobs.
sep 1, 2025, 6:40 am • 1 0 • view
It’s very clear that these people had never eaten at a Cracker Barrel because they are busy during breakfast-Lunch and EXTREMELY busy after Church on Sundays. It’s never been a hot bed for Dinner because it’s been branded for old people. Almost like they tried to fix that…
sep 1, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I am so confused! all I heard about was the corposlop logo change. what did they do that was woke, DEI, or leftist?
sep 1, 2025, 8:33 am • 2 0 • view
MAGA will drive their local restaurant into bankruptcy and in so doing deny themselves the utility of a local restaurant. This is winning
sep 1, 2025, 5:53 am • 24 0 • view
This is why I do Waffle House. Ass whoopin’s and waffles. Nobody has time to listen to you whine how a restaurant logo tried to erase the existence of white men
sep 1, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
They are just a bunch of bullies
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh! I see. He was just trying to “help” them.
sep 1, 2025, 5:21 am • 10 0 • view
"....if you don't listen to our consumer movement" The fascists have the structure, organization, money and homogeny to have a loud and effective consumer movement Book bans, beer commercials, pride merch at Target... Middle stage fascism is administrative and logistical, they're winning
sep 1, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Honestly, I’m surprised he didn’t demand they hang a “No Coloreds” sign at every entrance.
sep 1, 2025, 5:19 am • 25 0 • view
Give it some time.
sep 1, 2025, 7:33 am • 8 0 • view
They love to pretend they're always right. If people were at the restaurant? It's cause they changed the logo back. Since people weren't at the restaurant? It's cause they changed the logo initially.
sep 1, 2025, 6:53 am • 7 0 • view
Robby seems humble. 🤓
sep 1, 2025, 6:03 am • 0 0 • view
Imagine letting people that talk like Sephiroth on the internet dictate your corporate policy. Absolute losers.
sep 1, 2025, 5:19 am • 180 5 • view
bruh ur name be starbuck obv conflict of interest here
sep 1, 2025, 10:21 am • 14 0 • view
The first company that successfully tells Robby Starbuck to eff off is going to have a bright future ahead of it.
sep 1, 2025, 5:48 am • 6 0 • view
Interesting how the whole rant keeps going back to him and how he must be listened to or else.
sep 1, 2025, 9:17 am • 15 0 • view
Didn't CB only fold on this after the literal president of the United States weigh in on this?
sep 1, 2025, 9:53 am • 3 0 • view
They’ll say “liberalism” (read: anything left of Hitler’s ideology) is a mental illness, and then pull stunts like this.
sep 1, 2025, 12:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Who even cares lol, what a bunch of pathetic losers
sep 1, 2025, 6:24 am • 5 0 • view
Robbie Starbuck. Really? 😂 Sounds like a guy who lost the audition for Homelander. Narrator: It wasn't close.
sep 1, 2025, 6:27 am • 4 0 • view
How was the new logo anything but neutral? These people are absolute morons.
sep 1, 2025, 8:14 am • 6 0 • view
They took out the old white guy
sep 1, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
this seems like terrorist talk
sep 1, 2025, 8:32 am • 3 0 • view
Thus always to companies that cater to that demographic.
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
“No partisan activism” Pretty rich coming from the guys saying “you took the little guy off a logo in a larger marketing move to more boring and cleaner logos across all of marketing and we took that as reverse-racism [sic]”
sep 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 3 0 • view
To be fair, once we defeat MAGA I want to punish them for at least a century
sep 1, 2025, 11:29 am • 2 0 • view
"Drop the Egos" from this guy is the most un-self-aware thing I've seen in a short while.
sep 1, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow they really have them over a cracker barrel
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 am • 35 0 • view
lol
sep 1, 2025, 5:34 am • 4 0 • view
Side note imagine dating this dude
sep 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Proactive AND neutral.
sep 1, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
I'm still not sure what the logo change had to do with any of those things though??? Seems like the hidden anti-woke principle is 'nothing must ever change, ever, for any reason'
sep 1, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Okay what’s the over under on how long the MAGAs can hold out without their crack ???
sep 1, 2025, 5:14 am • 9 0 • view
How was the change woke or DEI about the change? 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 7:18 am • 5 0 • view
Because it erased the white man on the logo, which is what they claim DEI did was erase white men.
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, thanks!
sep 1, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Everything they don't like is dei
sep 1, 2025, 7:23 am • 7 0 • view
Sorry @robbystarbuck, this made me laugh so hard I choked on my prosecco. Does MAGA really think it is that powerful? Your lord & savior is a rapist mob boss & dementia patient who is being laughed at across the globe. You should come out of your echo chamber occasionally for a reality check.
sep 1, 2025, 7:11 am • 3 0 • view
A striking thing here is their sealed information environment. Cracker Barrel, its logo, and maga's freakout all occurred without input from anyone to the left of Mitt Romney. If we all vanish tomorrow in a lib/left rapture, they'll be picking enemies from their own ranks and calling each other woke
sep 1, 2025, 7:14 am • 32 1 • view
It’s ideological rabies. It has to be exterminated before it kills us all.
sep 1, 2025, 12:18 pm • 3 0 • view
I have a theory that if white supremacists ever successfully suppress the brown people, they’re gonna go back to discriminating against certain kinds of white people. Turn against anyone with Italian or Irish ancestry, or something.
sep 1, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Robby Starbuck sounds drunk on authoritarianism.
sep 1, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
Robby needs to drop his ego.
sep 1, 2025, 5:54 am • 0 0 • view