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For those who don't understand, in a weird coincidence, both Donald Trump and Mikhail Gorbachev have been Pizza Hut spokesmen that starred in Pizza Hut tv ads in their respective markets.

links to each ad: Trump- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR-RwV-xAY Gorbachev- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw

-- @endlessvoid@lemmy.today

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[-] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 22 points 5 days ago

I’m gonna start a conspiracy that Pizza Hut runs the world.

[-] gabbath@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

We can call it Pizzaga-- wait, no nevermind.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

I have an opposing theory that Pizza Hut is a symptom of late stage capitalistic cancer. In the late 80s the capitalistic process of consolidating power in the Soviet Union into the new oligarchy had nearly run its course and the USSR dissolved not long after Pizza Hut showed up on the scene.

Here, in the homeland of Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut has shifted from being a casual sit down pizza chain, to a casual pizza buffet chain, to an exclusively carry out fast food pizza chain. The uniqueness of the architecture has been lost just as architectural drive in the USSR shifted over time from Construcivist to Stalinist to Brutalist to Soviet modernist (which is commonly critiqued for lacking personality in comparison to prior eras).

Here in the states we are currently seeing all of our architecture lose personality. Suburban developments are the same house over and over again, often not constructed to code. Car oriented developments are just the same strip mall or basic big box store plopped all over the place with no design considerations given to the surrounding landscape. Even our shitty pizza joints have lost what little personality they once had, now becoming relegated to existing within strip malls next to illusion of choice grocery stores.

[-] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Suburban developments are the same house over

Nihil novi. It has been true since at least 1960's. There's even song about it from the 60s:

https://youtu.be/r5IKpHTEuY0

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes all the same...

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

for sure! you can still find little post war housing developments where every house the same. what i was trying to drive out is its accelerated and the developments have gotten bigger and less smartly planned

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

All restaurants are Taco Bell

[-] endlessvoid@lemmy.today 58 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For those who don't understand, in a weird coincidence, both Donald Trump and Mikhail Gorbachev have been Pizza Hut spokesmen that starred in Pizza Hut tv ads in their respective markets.

links to each ad: Trump- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkR-RwV-xAY Gorbachev- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 days ago

Gonna put this in the post body, thanks

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

The angry Russian dad was right.

[-] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 6 days ago

If I’m sent to 1965, I’m just going rogue.

I move to some backwater village, get some blue collar job, buy a house for $20.000 and put the rest of the money in suspiciously good stock picks.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago

You do that, I'm gonna move down a hit list and see how badly I ratfuck history.

[-] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 days ago

A noble goal. Hit me up when you’re out near me in the sticks, we can grill some burgers and talk about the bad days.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

The hit list is rather excessive but I'd have the secondary goal of slapping my grandfather upside the head in the 80s and teaching him the glories of PPE and how it's effective against lung cancer.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, if time travel was real, I probably wouldnt do some big act to prevent horrible people from being born/growing up..

probably just go back and hug my grandfather one last time.

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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

It is a great plan, if you happen to be white and male and live in North America or West Europe.

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 1 points 5 days ago

Pretty much my thoughts, but I would also memorize some lottery numbers, or write them down if it's not terminator time travel and I can take items with me.

I would hope to take someone with me though, it would be fun to sit around and reminisce about the future, "hey remember when this is going to happen?"

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 days ago

Wow trump made that commercial while he was still married to his second wife. So he made a national TV ad winking to the idea of him cheating on his second wife with his first wife.

Everyday I get to learn a new way our president is the worst piece of shit imaginable, fun times...

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 9 points 6 days ago

Somehow the worst piece of shit imaginable is still good enough to be the leader of the united States twice. Or more, who knows.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

TIL: world leaders are for sale literally, not just figuratively.

[-] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

The surprising thing is not that they’re for sale, it’s how cheap they are to buy.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Gorbachev was a way nicer person and smarter. The other is an annoying orange.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Children had to prostitute themselves for food because of that man. Nice person my fucking ass. I wish hell was real. His disposition was more pleasant than Trump but the choices he made were often just as devastating.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm sure Gorbachev was far from perfect, but nobody foresaw how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union would have been, or that it would have collapsed at all. The "shock therapy" that happened post-Soviet Union was long after he's gone.

[-] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

nobody foresaw how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union would have been

Nobody but communist theory, and the people who pushed for it.

It was naked capitalism and it's what the world is going to experience once China and Russia are gone.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The Soviet Union wasn't capitalist when it collapsed, and the current Russia isn't communist. China is communist but in name only.

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[-] FukOui@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're doing the annoying orange an injustice. At least, the annoying orange (cartoon) didn't fuck kids

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

🎵 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me,🎵

🎵 Than have to get a frontal lobotomy,🎵

🎵 Just different ways to end the pain the same....🎵

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 6 days ago

Really thought we were going to blame Papa John’s.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago

Strong Demolition Man vibes to this.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago

Nobody out ~~pizzas~~ geopolitics the Hut.

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I want off Mr. Toads wild ride

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