Coca-Cola ad in Bangladeshi aimed at distancing itself from Israel receives backlash

[xdecadentx]

In Bangladesh, a Coca-Cola ad aimed at distancing the company from perceived ties with Israel has gained widespread criticism amid Israel's ongoing war on Gazahttps://t.co/i93JjWbSWP
- Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) June 14, 2024
- The Coca-Cola ad shows a man being offered Coke on a hot day, the man refuses after saying it's associated with 'that

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[daredevilwolf]

speaking of soda recently unless i pair it with food all soda tastes like medicine to me now

oh well at least there is ginger ale

[mhfromnh]

root beer, my beloved

[dustbunny105]

If they don't want to be perceived as having ties with Israel, perhaps they should, Idk, publicly cut their ties to Israel? Having a factory on occupied land gives them the opportunity to make a bold statement. It'd be all style and no substance, obviously, since they didn't care enough to not have it built in the first place, but that suits the brand anyway.

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[ohwutevernvm]

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[michaelscott]

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[ohwutevernvm]

Oh damn. Do better damnit.

[peddlestools]

i can't stomach the idea of voting for genocide joe, but everyone keeps telling me i'm throwing my vote away

i'm going to vote in local elections

am i making the wrong decision if i don't vote for him? like, in the unlikely event that my single vote would change florida from red to blue, will i be able to live with myself if a trump administration winds up giving even more money and bombs to israel? i don't know

[recognitions]

Honestly at this point I feel like the decision of who to vote for can wait until November. The job of the moment is to stop the genocide and then we can revisit the election in 5 months and look at where we're at then

[skankyoulater]

They did manage to turn Arizona blue.

[altheablue]

I'm not in your position and I understand it's hard. Life sucks. I think it's between you and what you can stomach, and you don't owe anyone else to guilt trip you into voting whichever direction. "Just because the other guy would probably also enable genocide, it doesn't mean I owe my vote to the man who has definitely already enabled genocide" is a perfectly valid stance. So it's saying "Since they're both equally horrid on foreign policy issues, I will minimise the damage to my local community personally and vote in that direction

[trynabme]

I was about to ask why they issued this in Bangladesh of all places and then saw "In Bangladesh, sales of Coke are reported to have fallen by 23% since the beginning of Israel's onslaught on Gaza in October"

So the Bangladeshi's are actually boycotting the product and this was an attempt to save face.

Good on them by speaking with their wallets