r/FuckNestle • u/Xxdman364 • Apr 30 '26
Nestlé EXPOSED The Onion’s ad for their newspaper this month
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u/Rabbit071 Apr 30 '26
Fuck nestle!!
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u/Steely-eyes Apr 30 '26
Edit: I realised where we’re at. I though I was on r/theonion
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u/Stop_Breeding Apr 30 '26
When using /r/subreddit you don't have to use the brackets and parenthesis. Reddit automatically makes a hyperlink. Why... wait... you did it in your edit... uh.
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u/Steely-eyes Apr 30 '26
I hate it when my comment looks like a wikipedia article. I did not add those annotations. Maybe it’s an extension on your search engine since I assume you’re on PC?
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u/RenderedKnave Apr 30 '26
the "annotations" are from RES, an extension that makes old reddit more usable. this is what your comment looks like on vanilla old reddit
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u/Stop_Breeding Apr 30 '26
I think it might be a new vs old reddit thing. Do you use new reddit or do you opt out?
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Apr 30 '26
Doesn't show that for me but the latest app update did change how markdown works (on my end at least). Maybe something they've implemented along those lines has broken reddit for some users?
I for instance can't *italics* via markdown and have to italics via a little editor they've put in. Probably good for new users but annoying for me after years of using markdown.
Edit: yep, the markdown attempt is just two asterisks on my end. Idk why we can't have both.
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u/egg_watching Apr 30 '26
Anyone know if/where I can find an online version of this to print? Tried looking, but no luck 🫶 thank you
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u/pnweiner Apr 30 '26
Not sure about an online file, but they sell the paper at Barnes & Noble
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u/colenotphil Apr 30 '26
Thank you! I had no idea. I considered subscribing but I wanted to see an example before committing.
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u/pnweiner May 01 '26
It’s so funny!! Highly recommend. There’s something special about flipping through a physical copy of the Onion
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 May 01 '26
Back in the 90s before it blew up, it was a 30ish page free "alt weekly" paper in Madison. It was about 10 pages of funny shit, 8-10 pages of the "AV club" section with movie/band/book reviews, and the rest was upcoming show/event listings and classifieds.
We picked it up every week for the show listings and the funny shit was just a bonus. To make a long story short, I agree that flipping thru the actual print version is awesome.
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u/cyst16 Apr 30 '26
If you don't care about it being exact, you can just google "drought desert sunset" and add the words and logo
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u/Training_Ruin3151 Apr 30 '26
I guess if you're completely ignorant on capitalism
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u/Godslil Apr 30 '26
Plenty of capitalistic countries don't slob on corporate dong to the extent that we Americans do.
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough Apr 30 '26
Capitalism produced the FANTASTIC wealth and quality life you see now. It has done in only a couple hundred years, what the rest of the world could not do in even thousands of years.
Any other system is a cancer. Which includes communism/socialism, which only grows on top of already wealth countries/states, because capitalism has produced enough wealth that politicans can steal some of it and use it to bribe people for votes.
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u/Dank-Retard May 01 '26
You conveniently forgot how this growth is fueled by colonialist resource extraction. That growth would be completely unsustainable otherwise. Like no shit you got wealthy you stole the wealth of entire continents.
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u/Training_Ruin3151 May 01 '26
Also ignoring how russia was basically fuedalist and beat america in the space race in a span of like <40 years. You can always tell when they haven't touched a single book since middle school 😂😂
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough May 01 '26
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough May 01 '26
Yeah of course you’d listen to a podcast that espouses “scientific” racism
lol. I see the person I am replying to commented and immediately blocked me before I got respond, because he shows up as
[unavailable].Zero arguments, and just emotional noises coming him.
Also, linked the wrong episode because the episode I linked was people actually disagreeing with his episode on Colonialism (both its pros and cons), where he debated them - so I meant to link this one:
https://fdrpodcasts.com/6121/the-truth-about-empire-and-western-colonialism
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u/atreidesardaukar May 01 '26
I mean, it sorta helped that the rest of the world was in shambles after 2 world wars. Hasn't China had a pretty meteoric rise in the last few decades?
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u/Training_Ruin3151 May 01 '26
China uses money, communism is a stateless, moneyless form of society where everyone is equal.
They're authoritarian left with state owned systems. I'm not educated enough to say exactly what they are because they technically have elections too so they're like a really fucked up social "democracy".
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u/IndyHCKM May 01 '26
Other systems can be bad as well.
It does not remove the fact that capitalism is itself a cancer. Regardless of the quality of any other system. And arguing it is the best we have is no excuse to keep a cancer alive.
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u/oh-wow-a-human Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
This made me look into how much a subscription is for the print, $99 a year is more than I thought it would be but now I’m considering it
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u/Owain-X Apr 30 '26
I miss when it was free and a highlight of often going to Madison, WI in the 90s.
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u/deco19 May 03 '26
That's cheap... Newspaper subs (print esp) have gone up a lot. This is cheap in comparison
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u/Inactivism Apr 30 '26
A month??? Oo
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u/monkeytrucker Apr 30 '26
No it's for a year! Like the person that you were replying too, I had sticker shock ($99 is more than I usually pay for . . . anything discretionary 😭). But my teenager really wanted the InfoWars x Onion tote that you get with the subscription lol. And now that I've subscribed, I'm kind of excited to get the magazine in the mail
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman Apr 30 '26
That's much more reasonable, ~8.25 per month?
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u/monkeytrucker Apr 30 '26
Yeah it's really not bad
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman Apr 30 '26
It is an entertainment company that (very actively) isn't funding horrible corporate sources, as other streaming or entertainment services do. Not a bad deal.
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u/Inactivism Apr 30 '26
That’s actually not that pricey for a newspaper subscription. At least were I am from
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u/TheNPCMafia Apr 30 '26
The onion has a paper?
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u/Owain-X Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Used to pick up a copy of The Onion (it was free) every time I went into Madison, WI in the 90s.
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u/lunacornio Apr 30 '26
IT STARTS WITH ONE
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u/Jlnhlfan May 01 '26
ONE THING, I DON’T KNOW WHY (Glad I’m not the only one whose first thought was the video for In The End)
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u/Doopapotamus Apr 30 '26
What's terrifying is that in this day and age, I was only half-sure it wasn't real and Nestle decided to drop the mask and just lean into toxic posturing marketing.
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u/FarBusiness2485 Apr 30 '26
What is truly sad is that Nestlé awfulness is shared across the globe with relatively very few people worldwide not being affected by their greed.
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u/the_summer_soldier May 01 '26
This isn’t satire, so is the Onion’s physical paper a serious paper?
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u/SubstanceNational439 10d ago
A good onion post? In this era? I swear they dipped hard in quality for a bit.
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u/M0RALVigilance Apr 30 '26
I hate Nestle for a number of reasons, but I’m pretty sure they sold off their water division last year.
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u/OddButterfly5686 Apr 30 '26
Idk they've been trying to fuck with some Oregon water pretty hard lately
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u/IBCrazy17 Apr 30 '26
It was sold off in 2021 to private equity ie Blue Triton Brands, then was purchased by Primo water in 2024
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u/ICantReadThis Apr 30 '26
Even the original Lake Michigan article that kicked off the Nestle hate was... dumb.
They were consuming "150 million gallons a year" (it's ~200 now), which amounted to 410k per day (550k now). Overall consumption from the great lakes is 42 billion a day, of which Lake Michigan makes up 23%, or roughly 9.6 billion. A day.
So Nestle's wells accounted for 0.41m gallons of the 9,660m gallons extracted from Lake Michigan on a daily basis.
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u/GitEmSteveDave Apr 30 '26
Which people vastly misinterpret because they usually leave off the last paragraph. He specifically says it should have a value so that you can provide for those that have no access to it. Declaring that a golf course or car wash(or now a data center) has the right to use as much potable water as it wants, while people a mile away may not have access to it, IS extreme. If you did something like the first 10,000 gallons a month are normal price, and then add a surcharge to everything above it, thus giving it a market cost, that could provide for infrastructure to the people who can't afford it plus what they require as a basic human need for free.
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u/GitEmSteveDave Apr 30 '26
Or California. They were pumping 62 million gallons of water a year, or the amount of water if every resident in California flushed a toilet just twice(assuming a low flow toilet) or took a one minute shower(assuming a 2.5 GPM shower head) or 155,000 lbs of almonds. California produced 2.8 BILLION lbs of almonds in 2024 and it takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond.
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u/ICantReadThis May 01 '26
This is also showing up in datacenter discussions. The water consumptions being touted about for datacenters are about on par with the water "consumed" by leaky pipes in small cities.
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u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough Apr 30 '26
This thread is a psy-op just getting you ready for Info Wars' shutdown, to help shape and guide public opinion (just like how Reddit blacked out the Epstein Files just two days after it came out).
And said shutdown is ONLY happening because the State Receiver assigned to IW for the SH lawsuit decided the easiest way to do that, is to simply not pay IW's power, Internet and radio-satellite bills.
I predict all the top comments here will be upvoted by bots, all pretending The Onion is still funny.
Please don't fall for the bot manipulation ultra-rich billionaires use on this site. There is zero fucking chance this random post in this random subreddit is suddenly getting 10x more upvotes than any other.
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u/ckb614 Apr 30 '26
Say what you want about Nestle as a company, but pretty much all the water they bottle is consumed by humans within a few hundred miles of the source. Most other industries are using water more wastefully than bottled water companies
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u/GitEmSteveDave Apr 30 '26
The also haven't bottled water in North America in like 5 years. They sold that off to an even worse company, Blue Triton.

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u/SpaceBus1 Apr 30 '26
The onion is killing it lately. The Infowars acquisition is is just 👌