I thought burger king staying was the punishment
They outrage is such a great example of western exceptionalism. The existence of western consumer businesses in the countries of the non-Aryan jungle is supposed to be an immense benefit to these places and their departure must necessarily be disastrous for them. Nowhere is the idea entertained that Russians are perfectly capable of creating their own shitty burger restaurants to replace those if the west.
It’s like that 80s news footage of the first McDonald’s opening in Moscow where they’re like ”finally those filthy commies get to enjoy our superior Western treats”
Then they interview someone who says it wasn’t really worth it to stand in line and pay so much
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This is unironically funny as hell. Great copypasta, I’ll add it to my collection.
Bullshit
Well, there’s no use sitting here arguing about this, is there. I know the truth hurts, so it’s easy to reject.
Who’s truth?
What sort of nonsense response is that? Anyone can poop out any anecdote they like to support their position and say “I know it hurts so it’s easy to reject”.
Man it’s a good thing homeless people in America get to enjoy all that choice!
Give me a break. No system is perfect and the discussion isn’t about perfection vs horror. It’s about a series of tradeoffs and the tradeoffs done in the west broadly resulting in better outcomes, on average, for the population there than they did in the Soviet Union. For China nowadays, I’m less certain. Definitely in the big Tier 1 cities, life is on par with Western outcomes, for some better for some worse.
I’m just saying, it’s ironic to use that example of a diplomat as opposed to how many people live paycheck to paycheck barely able to make ends meet or are actually homeless, I doubt those people are crying in joy when they walk into a Walmart
I think you’ve missed my point entirely - that could be my fault.
The example illustrates that even for those well-connected enough in the Soviet Union the sight of a western supermarket was enough to make them weep (this was ‘88).
I brought this example up to address the false belief that people in Russia weren’t all that impressed with western products (like McDonalds) back when the Soviet Union existed.
I don’t know how you’re managing to connect that with how people live today and their experience of walking into Walmart.
Finally, this didn’t take place in Harrods but in ICA in Sweden. Hardly a luxury shop - just an average supermarket.
Better outcome is when everyone is homeless and dies from preventable diseases due to unaccessible healthcare, BUT they have a choice of 50 different shampoos.
And the horror is when everyone has a roof, is educated, in good health, but has to munch on the disgusting government provided nutritious food. 😡
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf
if it was so bad why did the CIA report that the average russians diet was better than compartively an americans?
‘I get to have 8 different brands of pepsi-cola im so free’ isnt a compelling arguement lmao, neither are annecdotes from your neo-liberal scum family.
Vuvuzela 9000 dead. Don’t believe me? My parents used to live under the tyranny of communism and then left after they took their slaves.
Still think communism is cool? Guess again.
Many words considering no point.
Let them.
Don’t be upset
Pretty sure the Russian war effort isn’t exactly dependent on burger king. But I’m no expert.
BK in Russia? Smh I thought biological warfare was illegal.
My condolences to the Russians.
Спасибо за поддержку. Мы стараемся держаться и попытаемся пережить это неописуемое горе.
borgin queen is ruzzian orc cpc shill putler bot
this is genocide
Explaining the ineffectiveness of sanctions to an American:
ok so imagine you have McDonald’s but you also have Burger King and McDonald’s pulls out but the Russians can just make their own McDonald’s and they can still buy Burger King…
They didn’t change their name like McDonald’s? No principles smh
Lmao westerners having a totally normal one over the lack of loyalty of a slop-house to the divinely-ordained imperial cause.
Who the fuck cares who is still open in Russia. Theres plenty of companiess still open in Israel where’s the outrage over that?
You know you can care about multiple things at once, right?
OK?
So you say I should ignore all the injustice in the world just because I cannot care about all of them?
That’s just stupid
why can’t you care about all of them. Also how is burger king selling burgers injustice?
Putin isn’t chowing down on BK, neither are the oligarchs, or the heads of the army, the FSB, or so on.
What’s the point of making sure BK leaves the market except and ineffectual attempt to hurt ordinary Russians?
The main purpose is to create a sentiment of dissatisfaction for the current government
Edit: I am just pointing out their purpose, it doesn’t mean that I share their view boyz
Like the time I overthrew my government when my favorite pizza joint closed.
Honestly, BK should just leave. Russians or as a matter of fact no one deserves to eat that “food”.
I remember when the sanctions started and Western fast food, media, and social media were all pulling out. Someome quipped “oh no, Russians will be the healthiest and happiest people on the planet. How awful.”
Mfw when no pizza hut
Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.
Yeah, they should only operate in good countries, like the US.
And Israel
Imperialism: good
Slavery: good (when in prison or countries that I can’t find on a map)
Burger King in Russia: moral outrage
Libs rock
Wow wow wow you got it in one amazing job
I mean he’s not wrong, out of all the things to try and start an outrage about, this is just dumb.
They ARE wrong though. They’re acting like we’re only getting mad about one thing at a time. What kind of smug asshole goes on the internet to peddle moral superiority over strawmen?
You just admitted you are a lib. A powerful self-own.
Yea I too like to infantilize people I dislike, this makes me feel super smug and superior.
You did it to yourself
Oh no. Some myopic hexbear reject goons want to call me a lib. How ever will I go on living.
Lib gonna lib.
hexbear
unironically saying Russia is the victim of imperialismYeah that checks out.
Lib
Fails at basic reading comprehension
Now that does check out
AFAIK, the situation with Burger King, is that unlike McDonalds, BK doesn’t have much leverage over Russian franchisee’s. They can try and say “close the stores, we’re leaving”, but the actual store owners would just say “no” and re-brand them back to “Rostik’s”. They don’t really have any assets in Russia so there’s nothing really to sell either, but they do still receive the franchise fees. So pulling out would only benefit Russia