No joke: Their fries and chicken fries (Pretty much just chicken nugget sticks) are actually pretty good.
I've been seeing lotttttts of libs in the comments clapping for all this pinkwashing lately and it's really got me down. Like to them, this is a clear sign that society is improving and if you suggest that maybe we could ask for more you just get shit on with maxims like "perfect is the enemy of good", or worse yet "you know these campaigns are put together by real people, who are often times LGBT themselves, right?"
It's just so disheartening. This will be the arc of history we take, assimilated by capital instead of being liberated. Make no mistake; gestures like these, on the scale we see now, will result in otherwise privileged LGBT people like me being accepted by this society. And I can't do anything but watch as my freedom is slowly dismembered from my intersectional dream.
I’ve been seeing lotttttts of libs in the comments clapping for all this pinkwashing lately
I hate being the Russian Bots guy, but so much of modern social media is just manufactured consent. The comments are as much a part of the marketing push as the headline.
It’s just so disheartening. This will be the arc of history we take, assimilated by capital instead of being liberated. Make no mistake; gestures like these, on the scale we see now, will result in otherwise privileged LGBT people like me being accepted by this society. And I can’t do anything but watch as my freedom is slowly dismembered from my intersectional dream.
I think this takes an overly optimistic view of how much freedom we had in prior generations. Like... point to the "Freedom Decade", the ten year span when we had all the freedom that we're supposedly losing today. Was it the '00s under Bush? The '90s under Clinton? The '80s under Reagan?
I think a lot of what we experience as we get older isn't "losing freedom", it's "recognizing the risks associated with rebellion". When you're a teenager, you're not fully conscious of the long term harm inflicted by an arrest or a serious injury or a black mark on your employment history. But once you get into your 20s and 30s, when you're really alienated from your peers while living hand-to-mouth, the peril you feel is much more visceral. You don't have the same kind of social support network cultivated during your school years. You have more debt and more expenses. You have family members you used to rely on who now rely on you.
De-industrialization and de-unionization definitely hurt. But having grown up in Texas, I guess I never saw any of that shit. All I saw were the big cotton farms and sugar mills and retail stores full of working poor people. And I saw the big energy and tech companies and medical centers full of wealthy people. Real freedom was always just being in that second group. Don't be poor. Don't be black. Don't be uneducated. Otherwise, your life is going to be miserable.
But I never really saw a point in history when I was free. I never lived through a period in history when Capital wasn't in control.
Amazing how capitalism is constantly eating its own tail-- a page originally started as an online escape from the religious zealots who rule the country and dictate morality with the unquestionable divinity as God's special chosen ones-- blew up into a congratulatory i am very smart circle jerk that high fives itself for participating in an astroturfed ad campaigns for a slightly more liberal chicken sandwich.
/r/atheism was always bad.
The corporate schlock is relatively new. But people fawning over Christopher Hitchens as he pimped the Iraq War existed when the sub first sprouted. People shouting "you got what you deserved" at the red state residents eviscerated by the '08 financial crisis were everywhere. The sub was always just another redoubt in the Libs/Cons Culture War. It's politics were never particularly good.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony chicken sandwich's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by BK onion rings with zesty sauce.
Giving credit to huge powerful corporations that sat by idly while marginalised people fought and died to get their meagre rights. "Wow, you're pretending to support a minority now that it's safe and profitable to do so, how brave!"
There's no fast food brands out where I live, only in the cities, so for the past year and a half I haven't eaten any shitty fast food and I do not miss it one bit. The local burger truck is much better.
But they don't do milkshakes, that's the one thing fast food brands do
I would if there was one near me, I like the char taste they add.
