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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

this is genocide

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely brilliant description.

Say anything remotely negative about Dictatorship 1 and Dictatorship 2, and they come scrambling out of the woodwork with a long rant full of lies, stupidity, and revisionism and a couple of those cringe ass, unnecessarily large emojis to go with it. Honestly sick of them. Individual instance filtering can’t come fast enough.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My condolences to the Russians.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Restaurant Brands International owns Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeye's Chicken, and Firehouse Subs

Fuck RBI, they are lying war profiteers putting tax revenue in the hand of the Kremlin which it uses to fund it's war of genocide in Ukraine. Do not eat in any of their restaurants

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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…

[–] [email protected] 8 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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure the Russian war effort isn't exactly dependent on burger king. But I'm no expert.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I thought burger king staying was the punishment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Burger Tzar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Slow news day I assume?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Every time someone complains about hexbear they make their emojis 1 pixel bigger

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Capitalists gonna capitalise!

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