Wow. That’s a basic “know your audience” mistake. Even if Trump was this great guy and global warming was a hoax, you’d have to be an idiot to take a stand on that when your customers will almost all be people who hate Trump and believe in global warming.
I’d actually be more likely to think they did this on purpose than they made this dumb a mistake. Who did they think would want those types of meals?
But it would depend on what they actually said, and whether it was actual harassment (or just a bunch of phone calls of people who were angry at them). And you can threaten things other than violence.
I don’t see them giving any examples, so I can’t judge, other than to say they should include examples if they want me to believe they aren’t being the typical Republican snowflakes that are so popular as of late.
Oh, and I now see some of you are asking why they’d do it on purpose: to further the persecution myth. You know, like that guy at Google. Maybe they wanted to go out in a blaze. Or, yes, they expected people to get mad about all of it and crowdfund them. Maybe they hated the owner guy and wanted to hurt him.
Puh-lease. Of course they got death threats. Sending death threats to people who say something that you don’t like is as casual as a handshake on social media and because of social media and you know it. It isn’t remotely limited to the right threatening the left, it is also the left threatening the right.
I have no doubt whatsoever that people who are supposed to be on “my side” of the issue were contacting them to threaten to murder them and possibly their families, because that’s the sort of assholes the internet is filled with.
Not death threats, buuuut…
…Holy shit, who does that? What kind of an idiot business-owner pulls a stunt like that? Like, I know, they believe a lot of stupid things, but how in the world did they imagine this was going to go over well? Did they never meet a single one of their customers? Obviously, death threats are never warranted, but losing your business over a post like this? Totally valid.
I agree that this was a Hail Mary play, and that this business was on the brink of collapse due to some other thing that would ultimately prove humiliating. So why not go out with a bang? Possibly even drum up some support, get some free press coverage AND some sympathy from the like minded.
It is the only thing that explains this behaviour, to me. Especially how quickly they closed up after getting some offensive emails. That fast? Yeah, something else was up, for sure, in my opinion,
It did, at a glance, feel to me like “Well, we’re about to go out of business anyway” rather than “Some people said mean stuff so let’s not have income any longer”. I get the impression that they weren’t giving up much of anything by closing it down.
Trump University Alumni. Their motto: Be white, be right.
They were obviously looking for a Papa Johns franchise opportunity.
And that very accurately describes most Trump voters.
I wonder if they wanted to get rid of the other guy, and this made him resign and initiate dis- tangling himself from the business legally.
No muss of having to buy the guy out, or anything like that. They just miscalculated.
I’m pretty convinced the FB posters totally believed they were saying stuff the whole world wanted to hear. It’s one of the side effects of living in the Trump fake media sphere: you only hear and see stuff you agree with. Including the White Right Silent Majority stuff.
That would be stupid, but honestly stupid. OTOH, if business was poor or they had partner issues I could totally believe this was the plan:
It’s still a stupid plan, but when you’re trapped in a bad situation, a Hail Mary may be the only play left in the book.
IMHO, the Facebook post AND the business model were stupid. Meal in a cup? It makes me think of the episode of Friends where (I think Rachel?) is trying to make a layered desert, has two pages of the cookbook stick together, and produces a monstrosity layering desert items and meat, which only Joey loved. I have no problem thinking that their business was already failing. (Especially since their prices look pretty high for college students who could instead by dozens of packs of ramen for the price of one meal-inna-cup.)
Hey now. Soylent is good stuff. I keep a few around at home and work, in case I run out of time for a proper meal. Which I couldn’t do with a meal-in-a-cup.