Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com 路 Jun 17 Remember that more or less the reason the people in charge want to kill everyone in Iran is because they won't let us open McDonald's and KFC in their country. In fact, the maps of locations are a pretty good shortcut to geopolitics. Iran and Russia even have the audacity of having kicked them out.
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TThose fastfoods taste like utter shit, sorry :/
... ah, if only someone could have made a comic explaining the concept of cause and effect (countries we are at war with don't have a lot of American businesses, who knew). 馃ぃ
The easiest way to induct people into the military industrial complex is to make the act of eating their lunch part and parcel of soft power projection Brother, the eatin's good.
We have to nuke Iran because they are a theocratic dictatorship!! (that doesn't send us their required 10% tithe on cheeseburgers, otherwise it would be cool, no problem really)
McDonald's is a real estate grift hidden behind the world's most okayest grease food
Well...
Didn't McDonald's retreat in both cases because of western sanctions?
I just watched the first episode of Mountainhead and they had a great line lampooning this idea.
I had a poli sci professor try to tell me this was a good thing. Just complete neoliberal brain rot. He probably read Neal Stephenson novels as aspirational.
Come on, the correlation is only like 95%.
Also Iran grow better pistachios than california
So how's the KFC in Cuba?