CBS decided this ad is too offensive for the Super Bowl (it offends Coke and Pepsi)

[DainBramaged]

[RandiFan1290]

1. No thanks

Last edited Sat Feb 2, 2013, 06:25 PM - Edit history (1)

http://holidaysodastreamboycott.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/494/

SodaStream’s main production site is in Mishor Edomim, an Israeli settlement industrial park located in the West Bank.

The land where the SodaStream factory is located was illegally confiscated by the Israeli military occupation authorities from Palestinian owners. Israeli settlements are an impediment to peace and violate international law.

Since 1968 the US government has called on Israel to stop building and expanding settlements in the West Bank.

Companies should not profit from products that are made on stolen property or that perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the West Bank

[DainBramaged]

5. OK I guess you have a boner to pick with Made in Israel goods.....

want to fill us in while you can???


You want to protest over a commercial? Find someplace else to spew....

[Comrade Grumpy]

25. Do you own this board? I didn't think so.

[AverageMe]

55. From what I read it us not Made in Israel goods

It is goods made in disputed land that the UN said is illegally occupied. Perhaps (?) this factory was built on land that was never paid for.

[DainBramaged]

57. It's about a fucking commercial not a political statement

but that's OK.



The people who decided to expose themselves are known.

[HERVEPA]

7. Could you please supply a list of countries you are boycotting.

[DainBramaged]

10. If he boycotts all the products he'll be wearing potato sack clothes and walking on tire sandals

[another_liberal]

11. Get your head down, Randi.

IN-COMING!!!

[RandiFan1290]

12. It's OK I welcome their hatred and personal attacks

[DainBramaged]

13. Welcome to my ignore list

start your own thread to announce your boycott.

And please, don't forget to boycott the US Government because they have no bigger ally than us.....

[RandiFan1290]

14. lol

I'm all up in YOUR thread!


http://holidaysodastreamboycott.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/494/

SodaStream’s main production site is in Mishor Edomim, an Israeli settlement industrial park located in the West Bank.

The land where the SodaStream factory is located was illegally confiscated by the Israeli military occupation authorities from Palestinian owners. Israeli settlements are an impediment to peace and violate international law.

Since 1968 the US government has called on Israel to stop building and expanding settlements in the West Bank.

Companies should not profit from products that are made on stolen property or that perpetuate the Israeli occupation of the West Bank

[dballance]

30. Wow, I Was Thinking of Buying One of Those Things - BUT NO MORE

Thanks for the info.

[another_liberal]

16. Good for you.

All countries and all governments, including Israel, need to be criticized, even boycotted, when they violate the human rights of others. How else will they ever see their own mistakes and, perhaps, change for the better?

[Whisp]

42. ++++++

mostly ineffectual but we have to keep at it.

[WinkyDink]

33. So! Are you boycotting products made in "Waterboarding 'R' U.S."? How about from "Fukushima? WHAT

Fukishima" Land?

[Swagman]

44. thanks for the heads-up. I was thinking about a Soda Stream but

will look elsewhere.

For the past ten years I have tried to support 'ethical' companies and products (it's easier than you think) and if I choose an ethically made product over another I write to the other manufacturer and tell them why. I fall off my ethical wagon every now and then.

I've bought goods from Israel but I do my research- I've rejected other Israeli products and Soda Stream will now be one.

[Logical]

62. LOL, and what bogus reason do you have for this boycott? n-t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Maybe they found it offensive.......I think it's hilarious!

It makes a simple point, and very directly.

I think it should be aired.

[onehandle]

3. Sodastream rocks. Even plain water made to fizz is great.

Don't miss lugging those bottles from the store or having just that much more to recycle.

[trof]

46. I had a similar system. Plastic bottle blew up in my hand.

ER and 7 stitches.
Still have a scar.
No thanks.

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. My brother-in-law loves his but I really didn't care for it when I tried it.

[Brigid]

4. I think it's funny.

Who cares if Coke and Pepsi are offended?

[sakabatou]

6. Perhaps we'll try it.

[another_liberal]

8. Censorship in support of a product?

Would you call that Proprietary Censorship?

[arely staircase]

9. wtf is sodastream?

eom

[Whisp]

43. more useless crap manufactured for crap users. n/t

[arely staircase]

63. as i suspected eom

[DainBramaged]

15. And now I intend to buy it myself and to tell my friends and Union brothers too

Sometimes the boycott's best attempt results in more sales.



Maybe those folks should worry about the damage done to this country by the Right wing before advancing the cause of others? The Arab nations are the sworn enemies of Israel. Who should we support, the sponsors of terrorism or the nation of Israel, hmmm.

[another_liberal]

19. I don't know . . .

Whom should we boycott? I don't know, lets see:

Who has seized and annexed a good third of a neighboring people's land?

Who has launched "preemptive" aggressive wars on nearly all of its neighbors?

Who has threatened to preemptively attack another nation for developing nuclear technology while at the same time arming itself with an arsenal of nuclear weapons it refuses to even admit it owns.

Who has sown millions of cluster bomblets to create a miles deep minefield on its Northern border, doing so on another nation's territory?

Who keeps a million and a half non-citizens in what amounts to a gigantic prison, and refuses to let them conduct anything like normal relations and commerce with the rest of the World?

Whom should we boycott? Gosh, that's really tough.

[DainBramaged]

20. Another anti-Israel post. It is amazing how that occurs with regularity here.

Gee are they responsible for 9/11 too?

[another_liberal]

22. I'm not anti-Israel.

Last edited Sat Feb 2, 2013, 06:39 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm not anti-Israel. I happen to love the nation of Israel, and have since I was a child. It's true I do despise Israel's current leaders and their indefensible policies toward Palestinians, particularly, and many others more generally. That, however, is something quite different.

So don't call me "anti-Israel" on these forums. There is a mechanism for dealing with that kind of slander.

[DainBramaged]

31. One it isn't slander, two you didn't answer the question

Three threatening me because YOU are posting anti-Israeli propaganda is too funny. Trying to silence those who disagree with your propaganda is worse than the propaganda itself.

[RandiFan1290]

32. Oh the irony!

[another_liberal]

34. Again with the "anti-Israel" nonsense?

What are you talking about? What I stated to you was only a warning. You attacked me, and now in more than one post, not the other way around.

I will not respond to any more of your provocations. This matter will be handled by others. I will let them decide.

[PCIntern]

36. Oh I'm sorry...

Yes, you loves you some Israel...how could I POSSIBLY think otherwise???? Just an instantaneous post about all that stuff....funny, I never ever read ny posts around here about the Arab's abuse of women, about repression ,about the hatred of the Jews...oh..I'm sorry...I didn't mean the Jews, I meant the Zionist Entity taking up the space where all that desert should be...
Lord know, the Arabs love the Jews, they just hate The Zionist Entity.

Sheesh.

[DainBramaged]

37. Gee you didn't notice?

Targeting and Israeli product to spew shit, how amazing.

[another_liberal]

51. Don't try to put words in my mouth.

People on this forum can read. They will see your accusations against me are totally unfounded.

[DainBramaged]

54. Guilty conscience there I see........

deflection, lies and counter-accusations against people who simply want to decide for themselves if a commercial is funny or not, yet you and your buddies come in here and trash the State of Israel and then throw up your hands as if YOU are the victims.


Boggles the mind.


OH and thank you for keeping the thread at the top for all to see. Warms the cockles of my heart....

[RandiFan1290]

58. Just keep those personal attacks rolling in

Looking good!

[aquart]

41. Uh huh.

Say "Hi!" to Hamas.

And could you provide links to your posts demanding Egypt keep the Rafah Gate open?

[another_liberal]

49. Everyone here seems to post about how bad . . .

Everyone here seems to post about how bad Arabs and Muslims in general are. If they post anything concerning the Mid-East at all, that is. I do not view the situation in such a one-sided way.

As to Hamas: If there weren't a genuine need, do you really think, after the years of relentless pounding, they would even exist?

[RandiFan1290]

50. Don't let them goad you into it

They show their shame without our help

[another_liberal]

52. Too right.

Thanks.

[DainBramaged]

61. They don't want to talk about a little thing like that....

http://www.idfblog.com/hamas/

[Whisp]

48. some of those leaders are like the extreme teabagger right in the US.

they are cruel and treat specific people like shit. everyone here on DU gets that about the baggers, but somehow when the Israeli government does similar despicable things - like the Ethiopian women who unknowingly were treated so as not to have children - it will be defended.

The government of Israeli is like Dick Cheney and the fucking assholes that were the government in the U.S. corrupt leadership and extreme greed and paranoia and all the rest is not isolated to just the PNACers in America.

I bet most Israelis think the same too. But let the anti-semite accussations fly. ridiculous bordering on pure nuts.

[another_liberal]

53. Thank you.

I imagine you are correct about most Israelis. They have to be careful. Calling for a return of the West Bank now would be like voicing admiration for Karl Marx in 1950's America.

[Comrade Grumpy]

24. Maybe the actions of the state of Israel have something to do with that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. Really? Being produced on illegally seized land makes you more likely to buy it?

That says a lot of bad things about you. If you're interested in a union response to this:

The Hamilton and District Labour Council in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, adopted the following motion on January 17, 2012, joining the international campaign to boycott SodaStream products:

Whereas: SodaStream is an Israeli company with its main factory in the industrial park of Ma’aleh Adumim, the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank, which is internationally recognized as occupied Palestinian territory.

Whereas: The Israeli colonization of the West Bank, including the industrial park where SodaStream has its main factory, is illegal under international law.
...
Therefore be it resolved that the Hamilton and District Labour Council support the international boycott of SodaStream products.

http://laborforpalestine.net/2013/01/19/hamilton-and-district-labour-council-passes-motion-to-boycott-sodastream-products/

(I believe that should read 2013, not 2012, in the first paragraph).

[Ian David]

17. He hates these cans!

[Mnemosyne]

23. Hehehe, love that movie! nt

[aikoaiko]

18. I drink a lot of diet pepsi, but I really like my sodastream.

I was skeptical when my wife bought it for me, but its been good.

[Kalidurga]

21. Funny commercial

doesn't get better than dueling banjos and vaporized plastic bottles.

[elleng]

26. I decided to tell CBS to go to hell!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

27. My girlfriend bought one of those.

She loves it.

I haven't tried any of it ... I'm a creature of habit. I loves me some Dr. Pepper.

[northoftheborder]

28. I thought it was funny!

[krispos42]

29. I saw that commercial yesterday

Or maybe this morning... the kid began vomiting at midnight and didn't stop until about 5am, so I'm kinda fuzzy. But I did see this commercial in the last 24 hours. Maybe on Chris Hedge's show?

Hmph.

[tclambert]

35. But Kate Upton isn't even washing the car!

Oh, wrong commercial.

[JI7]

38. which one is the best to buy ?

[RandiFan1290]

39. Coke

[JI7]

40. i only like coke from the fountain

[A HERETIC I AM]

45. Maybe it's because the audio sounds a bit like gunshots

These days, that might have had something to do with it.

Good commercial though.

[asjr]

59. I like it. It is funny, but what does Israel have to do with it?

[Orrex]

60. Did CBS release a statement explaining why they opted not to run it?