Now "Burgerbrain" means the same thing as "Comrade"

  • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Chinese KFC was really good before but now its fallen off (the big crunch equivalent is now this tiny rectangle, the chicken isn't as cripsy, and it kinda just tastes like salt) and domestic chains like Tasiting (sort of like if you made a burger but it was actually a fried chicken roujiamo) are really putting pressure on it. Honestly this might be a good thing if it means KFC in China sucks less, its super nostalgic because as a kid it was the "fancy western restaurant" for occasional treats.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      China’s food is too good to let these shitty western corporations feed people slop. President Xi please press the nationalization button

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        For real I could spend 20RMB at most for the best meal I've ever had at a night market stall, or I can pay twice as much for an extremely disappointing burger.

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, and north american KFC is always oddly soggy? Like you fried this right?

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      I will tell you that is the strategy for fast food everywhere. Have a really good year or five (if you can afford it) of really good food, then cut the quality to the floor for as long and as low as you can.

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I was there about 20 years ago, and it was straight up incredible. Probably the best fried chicken I've had to this day. Bummer that it's fallen off, but hopefully the government takes it over and MCGA.

  • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Under the terms of the deal, Citic Ltd. and its investment management unit Citic Capital will acquire 52 percent of the business while another partner, Washington-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group, will own 28 percent. McDonald’s will retain a 20 percent stake.

    Citic is a SOE.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I want to believe but I don’t see confirmation anywhere and pamphlets is a patsoc rag.

    • memory_adept [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Do you guys even bother to distinguish between the guys talking about how MLK Jr. talked about American ideals and the guys who say baristas are the labor aristocracy lol? Because I see a lot of people using patsoc and maga communist interchangeably.

      Is Jill Stein a maga communist because she talked about how he was initially treated as a threat to the dem/GOP duopoly? Some of these people are just trying to work with the American that exists today rather than fantasizing about literally destroying it physically

      • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        Because I see a lot of people using patsoc and maga communist interchangeably

        Why should anyone care about distinguishing patsocs and MAGA "communists"? At the end of day they're all right-deviationist reactionaries.

          • duderium [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Anyone with patriotic feelings toward the USA, anyone with positive feelings toward MAGA, is not a comrade. Imagine complaining about Israel (a settler-colonial project) while making excuses for the USA (also a settler-colonial project). Take this shit back to haz or edbie’s twitter page.

              • duderium [he/him]
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                3 months ago

                Unions, even american unions, get at least critical support on this site, even if they often have terrible views on decolonization and the global south, because they are at least trying to improve conditions for some workers. Patsocs and maga communists (the same thing) work only for feds and landlords.

      • Darth_Reagan [they/them, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        if you're using the words patsoc or magacom to describe yourself, your just a fascist. just call yourself demsoc, or socdem if you still want to work within the system.