to be confronted by truth, past the point of passing feelings and truly be affected by it, is a mark of great art. It can be the truth of beauty, or suffering, or, in this case, ugliness.
Random guy: Buys McDonalds
12.2k people: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap:
Oh my god he's like us! and chose this over another thing! That means the small shitty life I've built my entire conscience around justifying might not be total bullshit!
This is why 'playing nice' to libs works better for fascists than us btw.
Coming to America and buying a car so I can navigate the urban sprawl and take advantage of the McDonald's dollar menu
Also love my car so much that I take an out of focus photo of it, but the McDonald's logo is crisp and clear. Subtlety seems lost on these marketing accounts
There are a huge amount of people who actually think like this though. I was having a conversation with a co-worker who came from Moldova the other day and they literally said that Cuba has good healthcare, but you can't get a Subaru there as if this were equal.
When I brought up the embargo they didn't even know it existed.
Yeah I think many people still can't grasp the dizzying interconnectedness of globalization and imperialistic supply chains. Marketing and propaganda apparatuses are also global, which means it's a fuck when people from a place like Moldova can espouse support for something like healthcare and lament about commodities in the same sentence without examining in any depth why this is the case
They consider themselves a libertarian, but also said that insurance is bad and debt is bad and "we should solve those problems by having something that everyone pays into that takes care of you if you get hurt or sick".
:funny-clown-hammer:
Man libertarianism really is just the philosophical equivalent of thousands of shards of glass lying around
It's just the default for anyone who realizes the system is fucked. The situation is compounded by the fact that apparently Russians are racist against Moldovans and the Red Army conscripted his family members to fight in Afghanistan.
The essence of capitalism is myopia, it's a engine of dizzying varied and ecstatic blindnesses more than any sort of economic character.
"I'm a (legal) immigrant showing a bland and inoffensive form of patriotism that appeals to most people." Yeah, even if it were more subtle, definitely marketing account vibe.
Yeah if the tone doesn't give it away the fact that almost all of the guy's post are just shilling raid shadow legends does.
lmao so this is okay, but whenever someone vaguely defends china its "oH mY GoD CCP sHilLs aRE EveRYWheRE oN ThIS siTE"
:thinkin-lenin:
Some people just like being wrong about everything and then turning the pushback they get into a series of heroic last stands against the forces of evil. Every fucking day.
Fast food at a suburban strip mall filled with chain stores that destroyed all local business. Of course, how could we forget unnecessarily large and empty parking lot (not a waste of space, it’s designed to be filled once a year on Black Friday(this is actually why parking lots are so large btw this isn’t even satire)), and of course the pièce de résistance: you can get here via 4-6 lane arterial avenues that the low density suburban commuter community can not afford to maintain. No, these will not be flanked sidewalks, shade, or public transportation because the community is bankrupt from maintaining its massive roadways which are completely necessary for the 2 hour commute to and from the city, twice a day. Why shouldn’t we bankrupt the community over roads we use at full capacity for 4 hours a day?
What could be more representative of American society than absolutely decimated neighborhoods and alienation from community and labor?
I'm so glad to not live in the US, so I don't have to have a car to survive.
In capitalist america when eviction moratorium ends car becomes home!
so I don’t have to have a car to survive.
must be nice. where do you live? I'm in Canada but it is the exact same shit here
ICE agent: "he passes the paper bag test folks he's one of the good ones, let him in and go get some McDonald's champ!!" :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap:
I shook my addiction to typical fast food like McDonald's when eating one of their meals started coming out the other end as a truly disturbing-looking brown slurry that was intensely unpleasant to pass. I'm not quite thirty.
I now have a knee-jerk revulsion at eating anything from McDonald's other than occasionally getting a lot of their fries as a snack, which is increasingly impractical because the price has gone up like 2 whole dollars in just 8 years.
Similarly I now no longer eat any Pizza Hut and instead only eat Domino's, the former plays absolute havoc on my digestive system.
mcdonalds is just too gooey for me to eat. like i just think of sloppy wet burgers uggh. nuggets and fries are ok but like you i just said fuck it long ago and never went back.
Thats deliberate! They decided Americans are frustrated by chewing, and many have bad teeth.
I like a burger bun with some give and some chew.
McDonald's hamburger buns to me are like eating food for senior citizens.
They do a lot of work on the consistency, because Americans don't like to chew too much or some shit?
Theres a difference between satire and reality?
Please explain.
Reality just happens. Satire is when someone deliberately tries to create something absurd. In today's world the results of the two processes are indistinguishable.
This country let me help make other people millionaires and billionaires at my expense. I'm so grateful.
The fact that this is in one of those strip mall towns makes it so much worse
They're so intuitively unpleasant, what structural incentives are there to build cities like this instead of like Cambridge or Portland?
Thanks for the good answer. I'd disagree that regulatory capture isn't a social structure, but I get what you're saying.
