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Ukraine war: Burger King still open in Russia despite pledge to exit (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by argo_yamato@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] jernej@lemmy.ml 110 points 11 months ago

I thought burger king staying was the punishment

[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 11 months ago

Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 66 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they should only operate in good countries, like the US.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago

And Israel

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago

It's like that 80s news footage of the first McDonald's opening in Moscow where they're like so-true ”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 lenin-laugh

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[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

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[-] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago

Lmao westerners having a totally normal one over the lack of loyalty of a slop-house to the divinely-ordained imperial cause.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 38 points 11 months ago

Who the fuck cares who is still open in Russia. Theres plenty of companiess still open in Israel where's the outrage over that?

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago

Honestly, BK should just leave. Russians or as a matter of fact no one deserves to eat that "food".

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago

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."

[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

Mfw when no pizza hut gorby-sad

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[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 11 months ago

Capitalists gonna capitalise!

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

They didn't change their name like McDonald's? No principles smh

[-] ours@lemmy.film 31 points 11 months ago

Burger Tzar

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[-] Trisave@lemmy.ml 35 points 11 months ago

Slow news day I assume?

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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Continuing to bring the most meh fries in the fast food industry to the fair people of Povarovo

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

when mcdonalds pulled out they just didn't close the mcdonalds. The buildings and people who work in the mcdonalds were already in Russia there is literally no reason they can't just stay open

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 11 months ago

Don't like it, don't go there. Tell them why.

Personally I'm boycotting them. Not because of any moral justification, but because they sell overpriced disappointing mulch.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago

Every hexbear comment reads like AI trained only on the Tumblr accounts of 14 year old boys with Stalin body pillows.

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[-] Dialectdezenuts@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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…

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sanctions are when you ask your mom for McDonald's and she says "we got food at the house". But the burger at home is actually not bad

I think (?) I watered it down even more for the average American to understand.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

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

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