Hieronymous Alloy posted:

In America that stuff still exists, it's just about the South winning the Civil War.

Murgos posted:

The fiction about demonizing and destroying your neighbors is bad but the other thing is just a take on “A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court”.

Wasn’t there a US series about a military unit that goes back in time from around a decade before that and does similar things?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

In America that stuff still exists, it's just about the South winning the Civil War.

A.o.D. posted:

If you're talking about the Guns of the South books by Harry Turtledove, it's not presented as a good thing. There are a series of wars that parallel late 19th and early 20th century Europe, with analogues to the Franco Prussian war (won by the South), WWI (won by the North), and WWII (both sides nuke each other and the North eventually wins). The South gets worse and worse, from a humanitarian perspective, and ends up with a Hitler analogue that Final Solutions black people in the South.

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MOSCOW (AP) — Three months after McDonald’s suspended operations in Russia, hundreds of people streamed into its famous former outlet on Moscow’s Pushkin Square as the restaurant reopened Sunday under a Russian owner and a new name.

In March, McDonald’s halted operations of its company-run restaurants in Russia. Although some run by franchisees stayed open, the action by the multinational fast-food chain was among the most visible responses by foreign companies to Russia sending troops into Ukraine.

Two months later, McDonald’s decided to leave Russia altogether and sold its 850 restaurants to Alexander Govor, who held licenses for 25 franchises in Siberia.

Govor is moving fast to reopen the shuttered outlets. It wasn’t until a couple of hours before the Pushkin Square restaurant opened that the Russian chain’s new name was announced: Vkusno-i Tochka (Tasty-period).

The logo is different, but still evokes the golden arches: a circle and two yellow oblongs — representing a beef patty and french fries — configured into a stylized M.
Fifteen of the former McDonald’s were set to reopen in Moscow on Sunday. Oleg Paroev, the chain’s general director, said he aims to have 200 open by the end of the month.

As part of the sales deal, whose monetary terms were not announced, the new operation agreed to retain all 62,000 people employed by McDonald’s prior to its exit.

The crowd at the Pushkin Square outlet, however sizable and lively, was no match for the turnout for the McDonald’s opening in 1990, when people waited in line for hours. At that time, McDonald’s had psychological and political resonance beyond hamburgers.

The opening was the first taste most Muscovites had of Western consumerism and service efficiency, as well as a sign the Soviet Union was slowly dropping its guard and allowing foreign culture into the country.
On Sunday, that earlier symbolism echoed through Sunday’s reopening with a note of nostalgia.

“This is a historic place — the flagship of McDonald’s,” Govor told reporters. “I’m sure it will be the flagship for us.”

Inside, the restaurant resembled a fraternal twin of its former self. There were touchscreens for placing orders and counter workers wearing familiar polo-shirt uniforms.

“We’re sure that our customers won’t notice a difference between us,” Paroev said. However, he said, the company will seek a new soft drinks supplier as it has limited stocks of Coca-Cola.

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Govor is moving fast to reopen the shuttered outlets. It wasn’t until a couple of hours before the Pushkin Square restaurant opened that the Russian chain’s new name was announced: Vkusno-i Tochka (Tasty-period).

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Vkusno-i Tochka (Tasty-period).

CMYK BLYAT! posted:

mom, can we we stop at макдоналдс?

we have макдоналдсВКУСНО И ТОЧНО at home

at home: https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1535913431081095169

Alan Smithee posted:

shame on an IGA posted:

you are like little babby, watch this



https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/knowledge-fight-all-about-steve

Murgos posted:

Wasn’t there a US series about a military unit that goes back in time from around a decade before that and does similar things?

The X-man cometh posted:

There was this movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/

The X-man cometh posted:

There was this movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/

Gaius Marius posted:

Wait what the gently caress is the point of the movie if the one thing you want to see it for doesn't happen

Gaius Marius posted:

Wait what the gently caress is the point of the movie if the one thing you want to see it for doesn't happen

GD_American posted:

You mean like when the USS Hillary Clinton went back in time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Choice

Arrath posted:

Thanks I'd managed to repress memory of that book.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Ugh I remember a character was named “Mike Judge” and it was distracting. Doesn’t the Japanese ship from 2021 immediately defect to 1942 imperial Japan, as otherwise the sides wouldn’t be even?

Madurai posted:

"Nationalist military fantasies exist" isn't the story. "State security apparatus mandating they be included in every bookstore" is the story.

fartknocker posted:

A really good theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBXbQSu0UOo[

Coquito Ergo Sum posted:

My new avatar is somewhere in this post.

GD_American posted:

You mean like when the USS Hillary Clinton went back in time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Choice

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

There's a really funny series of books where a civil war Regiment(or something) gets transported to some alien world so they can fight the local not-mongol centaur horde. I'm completely blanking on the names though.

Radical 90s Wizard posted:

There's a really funny series of books where a civil war Regiment(or something) gets transported to some alien world so they can fight the local not-mongol centaur horde. I'm completely blanking on the names though.