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by megaman821 933 days ago
Or Coca-cola was made using the coca leaf and the kola nut for flavor and energy reasons. The coca leaf has trace amounts of cocaine in it but is not like they were mixing cocaine powder into their drinks. They still use the coca leaf today but with the cocaine part bred out.

Bringing up wrong historic points about "evil capitalists" doesn't really help your case against Meta.

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Hmm, let me scan my words again - did I say they were evil capitalists or used cocaine powder? ...Nope don't see that anywhere.

They used a natural product that contained cocaine. They very much "put this in" their drinks. The analogy is actually excellent because probably the early makers of Coca-cola didn't understand the dangers of what they were doing, either.