Initially I was making a picture picking on a stupid old sonic the hedge character named “hershey” for this setup. Although I think Mars makes better candy, they also seem mildly less concerned about child slavery in their supply line,while m&ms in particular are overpriced, and anyway this is a truly horrible character even without the dipwit patriotism advertising it appears in. I added confederate imagery based on the attitude alone but sure enough while hershey in a pennsylvania company, mars is headquartered in virginia. only as of 1984 but that certainly gives plenty of time to soak up local sentiment, considering how many racists are on the internet who were only born in 2009 or so.

a few years ago i saw a supermarket display that proclaimed something like “m&ms are for americans” and i wish i could find a picture that i probably took of it but i sure couldn’t find it for this website entry. o hwell.

I was reminded of it less than a month ago when I saw this package for sale…how DARE you put the stupid all american hat on this scumbag mascot when you know child slaves harvest your beans? It doesn’t matter how many.
I had hoped to get the drawing out by july 4, and didn’t quite do that but it is entirely possible that americans have bigger new bad stories in scumbag patriotism to worry about this independence day.

that character is SO awful. Aye dohKNOW, I never MYET the guy! awful

i hate the line “proud to be an american where at least i know i’m free.” the grammar is totally wrong and stupid. It doesn’t come across as a stylistic choice, just a stupid one, and is utterly uncalled out (that i could find, apart from http://www.amiright.com/names/bad-grammar/greenwoodlee.shtml) despite the song’s higher profile under the likes of trump, in line with other emperor’s new clothes elements of his political career. sure boss, as long as you codify persecution of alphabet people into law I’ll pretend you’re a genius even if absolutely everything gets worse for everyone who isn’t a billionaire but by a slightly lesser amount. It’s like nfts but for old and poor jerks instead of just the young rich ones.
It is also plausible that this creature simply does not know the correct words to the song, and there is no logical system whereby a person might assume the correct ones actually are since grammatically they aren’t.

I wouldn’t trust the horrid character change the line deliberately but ME using the word “where” here would imply that chocolate bean harvesting happens in the US, but if it did a lot more americans would know that children are being used for it and have long since prepared excuses for why that is good for them and better than free medical coverage.

ALTHOUGH my setup confounds the story a bit since while there are some legitimate 100% trafficked children doing the work, many of them “merely” toil on farms owned by their own families and aren’t necessarily being threatened with violence beyond what is inherent in hard labor done with massive maiming tools and the sort of encouragement and disciplining that might come from impoverished parents who would require their children to do that and probably had to do themselves as children. In america we only feed them fatty sugary poison made from the crops. It’s about time they had to WORK for it!