being lobotomized sounds great rn

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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militaryintelligence@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 164d (7 replies)

Mikhail Gorbachev, in a Pizza Hut commercial

SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 164d (3 replies)

For those who don't understand, this is a Star Trek meme, about an episode where Picard has to learn to communicate with a people who only speak in memes, and the clanker universal translator can't handle it.

You can't fool me, it's memes all the way down.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 163d

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 164d (1 reply)

Darmok and Jalad, at The Hut.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d

Darmok and Jalad at Pizza The Hutt*

Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 164d (2 replies)

Krasnov, when the wall fell.

plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 163d

Gorbachev and Putin don't stand on the same side of history. If Trump is team Pizza Hut then he can't be Putin's Krasnov.

militaryintelligence@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d

Reagan, when the Alzheimer's hit

endlessvoid@lemmy.today · 59 pts · 164d (2 replies)

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 pts · 164d

Gonna put this in the post body, thanks

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 163d

The angry Russian dad was right.

vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 164d (9 replies)

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 pts · 164d (6 replies)

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

vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 164d (3 replies)

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 pts · 164d (2 replies)

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 pts · 163d (1 reply)

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.

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 163d

Funny thing is that I never met my grandfather, he died when my mom was still young. But I figure that I'd have to offset whatever damage id do by exterminating my father's family.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 163d (1 reply)
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gabbath@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d

Take up everything with "X" in the name to really piss him off.

Rusty@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 163d

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 pts · 163d

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?"

Hotstillnasty@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 164d (11 replies)

I'm missing the pizza connection. Can u fill in the gap for me?

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 164d (8 replies)

“No one out pizzas the hut.” - DJT

grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 164d (1 reply)

This sounds more like it should be a line from Spaceballs than real life.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 164d

“No one outs Pizza the Hut” is where it’s revealed he’s really a calzone.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 164d (5 replies)

When did this happen? I literally can't recall the moment.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 164d (4 replies)
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 164d (3 replies)

That youtube channel exist specifically to preserve the most annoying part of capitalism wow.

Like don't get me wrong its cool and I like recording history but I would actually preserve anything else

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 164d (1 reply)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhtD0OtNfLQ

This is real. Rudy Giuliani in drag and Donald kissing him.

Nooodel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d

Wow that's the first time I heard him talk in coherent sentences

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d

It’s still worth preserving. We don’t know what future historians want to study. Sure what the channel posts is just shitty consumerism, but it is also a glimpse in the culture of that time. Shit like this is educational, from an anthropological perspective, in a hundred years.

Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 164d (1 reply)

I like cheese pizza - DJT

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 164d

"Though me and my best mate Jeffery Epstein call it CP for short. We reallllllyyyy love that CP!!"

Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 164d (1 reply)

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 pts · 164d

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

sveltecider@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 163d (5 replies)

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

gabbath@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d

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

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 163d (2 replies)

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 pts · 163d (1 reply)

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 pts · 163d

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 pts · 163d

All restaurants are Taco Bell

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d (1 reply)

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

BorgDrone@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 163d

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

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d (6 replies)

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

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 163d (4 replies)

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 pts · 163d (3 replies)

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 pts · 163d (2 replies)

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 pts · 163d (1 reply)

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

plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 163d

What was bad about the collapse? The dissolution of the USSR itself? I had assumed it was the economic struggle during and after the transition to capitalism.

FukOui@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 163d

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

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 164d

Strong Demolition Man vibes to this.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 163d

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

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 164d

I want off Mr. Toads wild ride

Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 163d

🎵 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....🎵

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 163d

Nobody out pizzas geopolitics the Hut.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 164d
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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d

mlg@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 164d (5 replies)

I apologize in advance for the crappy gemini summary, but I'm 99% sure the original thread (and every subsequent discussion) of this was deleted on reddit lol.

Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 164d

There's no amount of apology you can make that's going to make me okay with you expecting me to read AI slop.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 163d (3 replies)
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mlg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d (2 replies)

Buddy I can't summarize something that doesn't exist, but I know Google's Gemini slop has indexed its data from reddit, so I knew for sure it would still have those threads in its spit out. Even the old Google article snips were incorrect because they were sourced on propaganda news created to cover this up. And the Wikipedia article keeps getting repeatedly revised.

I just posted it because otherwise people don't beleive me when I tell them that Papa John's is owned by a Pakistani Army General lol.

But fair enough, I could have just written out the story from memory, although I can't remember the details well because Pakistan's government also ran a propaganda campaign to cover it up.

You need to look at your life son. Seriously, what are you doing here. You need to question what your brain is doing and how you're managing it, I'm not even kidding, these are warning signs.

Smells like a redditor to me

ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d (1 reply)
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mlg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d

You seem awfully pressed over a random comment about a story about Papa John's being owned by the Pakistan Army lmao.