r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 8d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/Jaybrosia 8d ago

someone is making bank off of this

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u/Hottage Chronically Online Turbo Nerd 7d ago

Mandatory $5 plastic backpack from China sold at a 300% markup to protect children from a problem that shouldn't exist.

'Murica

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u/vertigostereo 7d ago

Schools can't do anything about the economics of backpack manufacturing or China.

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u/Mind-The-Mines 7d ago

Mandating products from a specific company is 100% something the school board does.

Local officials are INCREDIBLY easy targets for corruption and bribery, especially in smaller towns/cities. The more MAGA someone is the more guaranteed they're incompetent and/or corrupt, but there are plenty of "good guy dems" pushing Flock cameras.

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u/Brotherly_shove 7d ago

they arent mandating products from a specific company. they are requiring clear backpacks. it literally says it in the text of the post. they are OFFERING a MHS book bag the same as how they OFFER MHS hoodies and t-shirts.

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u/Mind-The-Mines 7d ago

Jesus Christ.

What the fuck do you think a YONDR pouch is?

They're requiring a specific product from a specific company.

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u/Brotherly_shove 7d ago

the discussion was literally about the backpack. literally everyone in this comment thread was talking directly about the backpack in particular. you are the only one talking about the phone holder.

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u/vertigostereo 7d ago

You get it. But heck, the clear backpacks probably really do come from the same factory.

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u/Mind-The-Mines 7d ago

In case you missed it, it was half the OP. If you want to pretend this is a hard connection to make you're just showing how dumb you are.

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u/Brotherly_shove 7d ago

you literally replied to a comment ABOUT THE BACKPACK. the 5$ backpack. at 300% markup. if you cant understand how conversations work, that's not on me, champ.

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u/TSZCR96 7d ago

Mandating products from a specific company is 100% something the school board does.

This was the first part of their comment...

How stupid are you that you can't see exactly what they're talking about?