Rowling has not just become the perennial main character of anti-trans activism; she is driving it around the world. She is not simply someone with bad opinions but, in fact, is someone actively using the royalties gathered from brand partnerships like this to fund fighting human rights organizations that dare to suggest trans women should have rights.

However, much money Tim Hortons spent to secure the rights to slap “Hufflepuff” on a donut is going to fund initiatives like Rowling’s public fight against Amnesty International UK after the organization characterized an anti-trans sexual violence support centre set up by Rowling as . . . well, anti-trans. Those colour-changing Patronus iced drinks are boosting the profile of someone who tried to ruin a cis woman boxer’s life last year just because she was a masculine woman at the Olympics. That themed trivia event at your local Timmies will support the continued visibility of someone who has decided to spend every day making trans people’s lives worse.

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      I tried Tim Hortons for the first time about 7 years ago. Everyone told me that they were so excited for me because they could never relive that first time again. They told me that they had it so often that it lost its luster. I’d heard so much about Tim Hortons that I could hardly contain my excitement.

      I tried it and politely told everyone it was fine. I tried it 7 times from 5 different stores. At the end of my trip, I was able to tell everyone that they hadn’t become more jaded but that Tim Hortons just sucked.

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        Updoot for the name alone. But yeah, once upon a time it was pretty good but it was still just sandwiches, soup, coffee and donuts. Not that big a deal. Now it’s straight up bad.

        Peoples’ brand worship is insane.

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      Exactly. The last time anything there was good was when they were still baking everything in house. So, like, 2003.

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      honestly if you want shitty mud coffee just get it at McDonalds. you’ll get slightly more mud for like 30 to 40 cents less.

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        McDonald’s (last I checked) got the contract that Tim’s coffee used to have. So it actually is Tim’s coffee pre-2010s.

        Buy from your local coffee shop though eff these jokers.

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      I don’t understand how something so bad is so popular in Canada. I guess just people just don’t know that there are better options?

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        popular in Canada.

        It’s largely momentum and nostalgia for a time when it was actually decent.

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        Anywhere makes better donuts. Don’t drink coffee but people complain about it all the time but still go there.

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        I don’t understand how something so bad is so popular in Canada.

        It’s only popular with middle aged white people who dilute their shit coffee with milk and sugar. Double-double is fucking disgusting.

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    Fuck Tims for supporting this genocidal psychopath. Boycott Tims, I hope they learn a lesson (they won’t)

    In the US, there have been three red flags raised about the trans genocide. And don’t think for a second it’s staying contained, the UK is on track to join them.

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    I hope you guys don’t buy any. I get being a fan but the bitch is a monster and she’s trying to hurt people all over the world. She thinks a dead kid is better than a trans kid and she’s actively spending money to make that happen. Remind your friends that donut gives money for more dead trans kids.

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    Why always british or american culture to sell canadian shit? What about Wayne and Shuster or Rene Simard!

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    I mean it is a promotion and there is a new series coming out. Don’t go to Tim’s don’t watch the series. Nobody asks for any of this promotional shit companies do but we all end up paying for it.

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        Yes wonder why fast food is as expensive as going to a restaurant now. How many celebrities do they get to do commercials now? You think those are cheap? Corporate has to pay for it somehow.

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          It could also be the fact that beef has more than doubled over the last few (4-5 I think) years, or that minimum wage has more than doubled over the last 10 years. Would make sense then that fast food is about twice as expensive as 10 years ago lol

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            Sure but they also do lots of commercials with celebrities now and those are not cheap. Somebody has to pay for it. Also minimum wage depends where you live mine hasn’t changed.

            Sure but why can I go to a sit down restaurant and purchase a burger that is not so much more expensive then a fast food Burger. If its beef price it would effect both places.

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              Also minimum wage depends where you live mine hasn’t changed.

              Here it is raised every year.

              Sure but why can I go to a sit down restaurant and purchase a burger that is not so much more expensive then a fast food Burger. If its beef price it would effect both places.

              Idk, sit down restaurant burgers are even more expensive here. Sit down restaurants have comparable pricing to fast food places if you get like a pasta or something else that doesn’t need a lot of meat and has cheap meat in the first place. Sometimes they’ll even be cheaper than fast food then. Think 13€ for a McDonald’s meal (big tasty for example), 10-12€ for a pasta at a sit down restaurant, 15€ for a burger with fries at a sit down restaurant and then 3-4€ extra for a drink.

              And you used to be able to get that pasta for 6€ at the sit down restaurant, or the burger for about 8, back when that mcdonald’s meal cost 6-7. And somehow, the restaurant selling 7-8€ burgers went under, despite having plenty of demand.

              In other news, the superb chicken wrap that used to cost me €4.70 a little under a decade ago is now over €8. Actually, it was €8 2 years ago, it could be around €10 now. Also at a sit down restaurant, but I’d usually order it via Wolt.