Random guy: Buys McDonalds
12.2k people: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap: :amerikkka-clap:
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”.
“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.
lmao so this is okay, but whenever someone vaguely defends china its “oH mY GoD CCP sHilLs aRE EveRYWheRE oN ThIS siTE”
:thinkin-lenin:
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?
