The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches are melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.
  • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
    61·
    12 hours ago

    But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations,

    I promise I’m no tankie but this line in reference to McDonalds is cursed

    • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      10 hours ago

      If you don’t support Western freedom like having a McDonalds then you’re a tankie, that’s the rule. You’ll be receiving your monthly Stalin painting soon, the cadre expects a daily kiss on it before you mail it back at the start of the month, so I recommend you invest in “Commie red” lipstick now to be sure it’s obvious!

    • deeves@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      14 hours ago

      “As long as the ice cream machine still stands, this fight is not lost” ~ George Washington

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      4·
      11 hours ago

      I think that’s an America only thing. Sure I’m not the most loyal McCostumer (like I’m only go there if I’m out of other options) but I’ve never seen one out of service here in Europe. On the other hand I’ve heard that McDonald’s coke is better in the USA, while this side of the pond is the most watered down, flat, ass-tasting liquid one can buy legally.

      • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        There’s a servicing contract thing that happens with them here, so they’re probably engineered to break down often. Walk into a modern factory anywhere in this country and tell me their machines break down like that. It’s absurd.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          It’s rather that the machines give generic errors with no useful info, requiring calling for service. And if the minimum wage workers don’t follow the instructions correctly for cleaning it will fail, but won’t give an error until the end of the process hours later.

          They’re not actually broken, it’s just a cleaning process that is easy to do wrong when you don’t care because you’re paid pennies.

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I’ve also heard it’s just a long process, so if they’re backed up with orders, “it’s broken” again. :p

  • Murse@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Wait until the war is over, then shut it down out of spite.

    And because McDonald’s is shit.

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    133·
    11 hours ago

    I hate to agree with russia, but all mcdonalds should be destroyed. It’s poison garbage food and you all should know it.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 hours ago

      it’s garbage, but don’t forget, russia used to have mcd’s themselves. and even now, russia has a knockoff mcd’z.

      • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        10 hours ago

        I find it very curious how russia does some interesting things like that. One of the few places that invest heavily in sovereignty and makes resistance to us brands. A pity they kind of do that for the wrong reasons and are imperialist themselves

        • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          59 minutes ago

          What’s interesting about this? MacDonald’s left after the fullscale invasion, and someone bought the assets to make a cheap kickoff.

          It is not about sovereignty, they try to preserve Moscow as “rich and just like the West”, cause it’s the place foreigners visit.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          9 hours ago

          yeah it’s wild how they can despise the west… but also, want to be the west themselves? they despise capitalists… and have hollowed out their own country with crony capitalism… they’re a failed petrostate who are losing a war to a tiny neighbor, 1000-1600 dead every day, going on longer than WW1.

          oh and they have the second largest pile of nuclear weapons in the world (or first, depending on whose numbers you trust)…

      • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        The ability of people to have some shed of normalcy to preserve their psycho amid totally fucked up situation?

        Recently russia just flies reactive shahed in circles around Kyiv so the alarms would play nonstop. So you don’t even go to shelters cause otherwise you’d have to live there 24/7. That, and half-empty shelves in the shops cause the storehouses are being targeted.

        So, yeah, just order for some burger and coke is celebrated.

        • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          It would seem so. I really don’t like the mythical struggle that’s being projected on to this whole shitshow. People are so gross.

    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      That’s why I wear McCrotchplate, the new Happy Meal toy that doubles as a Kevlar™ substitute codpiece. Filet o Fish? Not with this equipment. Available in select locations while supplies last.