/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

If you have ever looked at a coin, you are a fuckin fascist.

your political ideology dictates your takeout options

Are you a real bourgeoisie if you've profited from contracts with your feudal lord?

I don't care for local restaurants much. I just want my food on the go. Something I can quickly get so I can eat at home. I don't like eating outside the house much.

>>2501682
When I was young I avoided fast food chains due to naive anticapitalism but now that I realise there isn't ethical consumption under capitalism I will eat at fast food although rarely out of necessity because I still don't like the aesthetic of it, it just makes me sick.

>>2503004
teletubby ass mcdonalds

Your personal consumptive decisions have very little bearing on your political position. Buying a hamburger from a McDonalds doesn't make you any more of a capitalist than buying an apple from a farmer's market. In terms of outside effects, it really doesn't matter what you feed yourself to survive, it's just a personal choice. You're just a person living under a capitalist society and you have to buy food to live, and it really doesn't matter who you buy it from.

This whole corporate boycott line of thinking comes from a very naive understanding of how economics and the modern world works. Most of McDonalds revenues don't even come from selling hamburgers, they come from investments. McDonalds doesn't need your money anymore, it can go on just fine without you. Buy zero hamburgers, buy a thousand hamburgers, McDonalds won't even know the difference.

It depends where you live wheather groceries or fast food is cheaper. Where I live it's groceries but I understand that's not universal.

I think in some places the local joints are cheaper than the chains, but again that varies.

Americans are brainwashed from a young age to think of politics only in terms of individual personal decisionmaking and not systemic collective action.

Here's a good example: Walmart. The common narrative is that Walmart took over America and ran all the smaller stores out of business because Americans are lazy fat greedy worthless pieces of shit who don't care about their communities. It's all the public's fault.

The real story is that the United States government allowed businesses to outsource all manufacturing overseas and exploit cheap labor in developing foreign countries and grow into huge ungovernable monopolies that have eliminated competition and effectively destroyed the free market. Regular people never had a say in the matter, it was all decided behind closed doors by neoliberal politicians and economists. The problem is *systemic* i.e. it is built into the system; nothing you do in your personal life can fix it, the only way to fix it is to fix the system.

>>2501682
Personally I love Mcdonalds.

Che Guevara drank Coca-Cola

>>2507485
Didn't whatshisname soviet general also drink it? and they invented the clear version so he could say it was vodka instead

>>2507489

I think everybody in Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina is obsessed with Coca Cola and it's their favorite thing ever.

>>2507409
Where in the world are groceries more expensive than fast food.

>>2507506
A lot of north america now.

>>2507518
Wait, i misread nevermind

>>2507506

If you live in suburbia you drive to the supermarket and get all the variety of groceries you want.

If you live in the inner city, you might end up living in what is called a food desert. Whitey has abandoned your area, big businesses like supermarket chains have decided your area is no longer profitable and packed it in, now the roads are full of potholes and the only stores left are liquor stores and pawn shops and bodegas with bars over the windows that barely have any groceries and they're much more expensive than groceries in a supermarket because they know you're poor and desperate and don't want to drive all the way to another town for food.

>>2507528
It can very inner city too but yeah food desertion is a big factor.

>>2507678
Ah, misread. Yeah being inner city puts ya at more risk of it if your public transit options are spotty.

we must support working class small business owners.