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Tiki torch company: We have nothing to do with white nationalism

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fluffydelusions

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"Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took place in Charlottesville and are deeply saddened and disappointed," the company said in a statement Monday. "We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way."
The white nationalists marched at the University of Virginia on Friday to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. On Saturday, white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters, and a woman was killed when a car plowed into a crowd.
Tiki Brand, which has 70 employees and is owned by Lamplight Farms Inc. of Wisconsin, said its torches are intended for positive events.
"Our products are designed to enhance backyard gatherings and to help family and friends connect with each other at home in their yard," the company said.
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/14/new...index.html?sr=twCNN081417companies0145PMStory
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
 
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Bgamer90

Banned
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Insane. Absolutely insane. This year has been an Onion movie.
 
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KojiKnight

Member
The real news here is that "tiki" is an actual company and they are apparently the only ones that make these things.

no seriously though, fuck the alt-right.
 
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CarpeDeezNutz

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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I would have said it's too stupid to actually happen.
 
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Volimar

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Fucking surreal isn't it.
 
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Quick

Banned
Stolen from Reddit, not sure if 'shopped though but I thought it was funny anyway:

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Random Human

They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Imagine 2 years ago that there would be a situation where a tiki torch company denounced Nazis better than the President of the United States.
 
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Christian

Member
Imagine you're the marketing guy at Tiki. You get home after a long week, grab a beer, take a load off, turn on the ol' boob tube, and ... HOLY SHIT A BUNCH OF NAZIS ARE USING OUR TORCHES AKXNNDJZNXBAKALCNNE
 
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Red

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Then imagine telling yourself Donnie Trump will be the president of the United States, with one of his closest advisors fresh off a gig as a gold farmer in World of Warcraft.
 
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Trouble

Banned
In 2017 a tiki torch manufacturer felt the need to explicitly distance themselves from neo-nazis. Let me off this ride, please.
 
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Guevara

Member
It's 2017 and a tiki torch company is quicker to denounce white supremacy than the president of the United States.
 
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Swig_

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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LMAO... yet sad. :|
 
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Plum

Member
Christian said:
Imagine you're the marketing guy at Tiki. You get home after a long week, grab a beer, take a load off, turn on the ol' boob tube, and ... HOLY SHIT A BUNCH OF NAZIS ARE USING OUR TORCHES AKXNNDJZNXBAKALCNNE
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It's like a sketch from a comedy show:

"Well done, Charles for securing that large order of Tiki Torches! Now if, nothing happens between now and your performance review next month, you should be up for promotion."

*Cut to the boss looking outside as a bunch of Nazis march through the streets with the company's Torches*

"CHAAARRLLLEESSS!"
 
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Loxley

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Imagine telling your past self that almost literally anything since November 9th, 2016 actually fucking happened.
 
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PumpkinSpice

Banned
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Tic tacs.
 
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Unknown Soldier

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Someone should tell Dodge they might want to issue a statement too. Challenger sales are about to fall off a cliff.
 
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Somnid

Member
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Imagine what we have still yet to witness.
 
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Evening Musuko

Black Korea
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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"Shit, at least Trump isn't president."
 
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shandy706

Member
I think it bothers me more that there are people stupid enough in this world that the tiki torch company has the come out and actually say something.

Are there people boycotting tiki torches now?

I have common sense, I know you guys didn't have anything to do with this, tiki torch company.
 
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DrSlek

Member
These things keep mosquitos away, right?

Maybe the Nazi's were just really, really, really conscious of mosquito-born diseases.
 
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Teh Lurv

Member
Loxley said:
Imagine telling your past self that almost literally anything since November 9th, 2016 actually fucking happened.
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This past year feels like one of those crazy alternate worlds you'd see on the old sci-fi show Sliders, except I can't summon a portal and leave to normal Earth.
 
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Akuun

Looking for meaning in GAF
Blizzard said:
Imagine telling your past self, 2 years ago, that there will be a news story 2 years in the future involving a yard tiki torch company needing to formally announce that they do not support their products being used in a KKK style white supremacist rally in a U.S. city.
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Yeeeep.

How will history books record these years? I mean, it makes sense to record what happened in detail so that people might not make the same mistakes again, but I'd understand if historians felt tempted to write a big "Don't fucking ask" over these years and pretend that they never happened.

Fuck this shit. Words like "crazy", "stupid", and "ridiculous" don't even begin to describe the shitshow that's going on right now.
 
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