It’s less defending corporations and more “don’t just like something because it’s local or small”. A mom and pop shop selling shitty burgers and blaming McDicks when they go under isn’t the same as Walmart coming in and undercutting everyone.
South Park is quite adept at finding something very niche and making a whole episode about how that’s bad. Kinda like how Mr. Garrison railed against being too tolerant, a problem that has never been widespread.
>something very niche
Both topics you mentioned are far from being niche, they're more like common issues that the rest of the media doesn't want to address.
>a problem that has never been widespread
that episode was made in a very different time though. if it was made today, the you-know-whos would think it was directed at them
I will not be posting that video of that one guy who got stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend just know that yes extremist tolerance is a real thing.
anyone wants context, some twitter homosexual made a post about how he was going out to some event in a big city and he was basically saying he was afraid of how many hateful trumpsters would be there. then a video came out a little later showing him and his girlfriend walking down the street. he trips on a bench while trying to run from a black dude, and the black dude stabs him to death. good stuff.
Cool story. Did /misc/ tell you that?
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/672765448/#672778017
That's assuming you are talking about the same person, which you most likely are
Cool story. Did /misc/ tell you that?
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/672765448/#672778017
That's assuming you are talking about the same person, which you most likely are
This, really.
Most people I've seen will absolutely go to a local cafe over Starbucks if it's actually good. Starbucks is expensive as frick too so it's not like it would be hard to compete.
You can actually undercut most of those big box chains at this point. I don't get why they thought big scale meant hiking up their profit margin when that kills a business.
The next stage of 'fast food' is likely a return to the old days when a place had a menu with like 4 tems on it (Burger, Burger with cheese, fries, drink), Raising Canes is likely the best example of this, why spend $14 at Huey Magoos when the exact same meal is $10 at Cane's. Sure I can't get a salad or Wrap at Cane's but i just want chicken tenders.
Yeah, this is a reversal of the trend of trying to be a one stop shop for every single type of food on the planet in the 80s. Everywhere used to do tacos for some reason, but then they realized that was stupid, but never cut down the super broad menu most of them had. I think we're going to see the splintering of fast food into the psuedo-health modular model (Chipotle-likes, Subways), the German sandwich fare (Culver's, Freddy's), and then the single option stuff like Cane's and probably stuff other than chicken now that they figured out that one works.
It's just arrogant marketing people removed from the actual business who make those decisions. They think everyone will pay any price for McDonald's French Fries, meanwhile I've started making burgers and fries at home. Bought an air fryer too, so frick KFC as well.
It's so stupid that chronic DC-ism has seized all of these businesses so fast and so hard, and now they're running it into the ground. It's like they didn't realize that their parents got where they did by selling friendly garbage to everyone.
>It's so stupid that chronic DC-ism has seized all of these businesses so fast and so hard
Blame Business Majors. Unironically. They view everything in terms of 'widgets' and shuffle about from company to company, offering their 'expertise' in explaining how video games can be sold like soda.
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The funniest part of that is that business education literally only works for GM and other factories. Creative workers and doctors are also managers (I'd even go as far as to say you can't apply a Fordist model to fast food), so we need a better paradigm of proper manager-to-manager relations in order to actually make business education good.
you can undercut them only because literally everyone decided to raise their prices. the real problem is the distributors that these places get their products from.
Oh, yeah, distributors are the real problem. The government's been going after them like crazy recently since COVID showed they cannot be trusted to not ape out instantly in the age of the internet.
you can undercut them only because literally everyone decided to raise their prices. the real problem is the distributors that these places get their products from.
What propaganda? The episode where South Park made fun of corporations being unable to explain their own business model? That propaganda? Or the "propaganda" where the local coffee shop sold shit coffee and that's why people liked an alternative?
It's popular because you can buy coffee-flavored milkshakes, not for the coffee itself. If you want fast food black coffee just go to McDonald's.
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Anonymous
Okay, then go to McDonalds for regular coffee. >BUT I WANT REGULAR COFFEE AT STARBUCKS! NOT MOCAFRAPPAWHATEVER!
Okay, boomer.
>It's popular, so that means it's automatically good.
If something is popular, there is a reason it got that way.
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Anonymous
>consumers aren't stupid
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Anonymous
The issue here is that you're acting like their coffee is equivalent to their mixed drinks and assuming the coffee is not bad, when we're just talking about their coffee, meaning the black bean stuff unadulterated. Their coffee is objectively shit.
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Anonymous
That reason isn't always because it was objectively better than the other options. Something can be popular despite being bad. Not everything popular is bad, not everything good is popular.
For example, if something has good enough advertising, it can be popular, even if there are better alternatives.
It’s popular because it’s everywhere. People can go into any city and see something they recognize so they’ll go there out of comfort. Same reason why tourists will go to NYC and eat at fricking Sbarros. Spoiler: Sbarros does not have the best pizza.
Starbucks makes shit coffee. They’re popular because they are aggressive with their marketing and franchise expansion, not because their product is superior.
Did South Park ever do an episode about how megacorporations donate to political campaigns and lobby the government and pay less tax as a percentage of their profit than the independently owned small businesses they compete with?
That would require them to actually do some research beforehand. They don't even do research on libertarian issues, so why would they do it for stuff that matters to everyone like Citizens United and the capital gains loophole?
I approve of the complete abolition of the evil practice of taxation. I do think it's a problem that bigger corporations can collude with government to put policies in place that favor them at the expense of other companies, but the solution to that is to do away with the taxes and keep government out of business entirely.
They criticize Starbucks in that episode. They just point out that for all its flaws, it gives people a product that they like and that's a good thing.
It’s less defending corporations and more “don’t just like something because it’s local or small”. A mom and pop shop selling shitty burgers and blaming McDicks when they go under isn’t the same as Walmart coming in and undercutting everyone.
South Park is quite adept at finding something very niche and making a whole episode about how that’s bad. Kinda like how Mr. Garrison railed against being too tolerant, a problem that has never been widespread.
>Kinda like how Mr. Garrison railed against being too tolerant, a problem that has never been widespread.
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Thanks for reminding me of this banger. This memory was wayyy in the back of my brain
>Kinda like how Mr. Garrison railed against being too tolerant, a problem that has never been widespread.
>what is the Paradox of Tolerance
You are a danger to us all.
Good. Fascists should be shot on sight.
>something very niche
Both topics you mentioned are far from being niche, they're more like common issues that the rest of the media doesn't want to address.
>a problem that has never been widespread
that episode was made in a very different time though. if it was made today, the you-know-whos would think it was directed at them
I will not be posting that video of that one guy who got stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend just know that yes extremist tolerance is a real thing.
anyone wants context, some twitter homosexual made a post about how he was going out to some event in a big city and he was basically saying he was afraid of how many hateful trumpsters would be there. then a video came out a little later showing him and his girlfriend walking down the street. he trips on a bench while trying to run from a black dude, and the black dude stabs him to death. good stuff.
Anon, the good times don't end there.
The girlfriend refused to cooperate with the police. She literally sided with her boyfriend's murderer over her boyfriend's still-warm body.
Cool story. Did /misc/ tell you that?
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/672765448/#672778017
That's assuming you are talking about the same person, which you most likely are
‘Embellishment’ is the /misc/tard specialty.
I mean the black guy could have voted for Trump
>a problem that has never been widespread.
Do you live under a rock?
This, really.
Most people I've seen will absolutely go to a local cafe over Starbucks if it's actually good. Starbucks is expensive as frick too so it's not like it would be hard to compete.
You can actually undercut most of those big box chains at this point. I don't get why they thought big scale meant hiking up their profit margin when that kills a business.
The next stage of 'fast food' is likely a return to the old days when a place had a menu with like 4 tems on it (Burger, Burger with cheese, fries, drink), Raising Canes is likely the best example of this, why spend $14 at Huey Magoos when the exact same meal is $10 at Cane's. Sure I can't get a salad or Wrap at Cane's but i just want chicken tenders.
Yeah, this is a reversal of the trend of trying to be a one stop shop for every single type of food on the planet in the 80s. Everywhere used to do tacos for some reason, but then they realized that was stupid, but never cut down the super broad menu most of them had. I think we're going to see the splintering of fast food into the psuedo-health modular model (Chipotle-likes, Subways), the German sandwich fare (Culver's, Freddy's), and then the single option stuff like Cane's and probably stuff other than chicken now that they figured out that one works.
It's just arrogant marketing people removed from the actual business who make those decisions. They think everyone will pay any price for McDonald's French Fries, meanwhile I've started making burgers and fries at home. Bought an air fryer too, so frick KFC as well.
It's so stupid that chronic DC-ism has seized all of these businesses so fast and so hard, and now they're running it into the ground. It's like they didn't realize that their parents got where they did by selling friendly garbage to everyone.
>It's so stupid that chronic DC-ism has seized all of these businesses so fast and so hard
Blame Business Majors. Unironically. They view everything in terms of 'widgets' and shuffle about from company to company, offering their 'expertise' in explaining how video games can be sold like soda.
The funniest part of that is that business education literally only works for GM and other factories. Creative workers and doctors are also managers (I'd even go as far as to say you can't apply a Fordist model to fast food), so we need a better paradigm of proper manager-to-manager relations in order to actually make business education good.
Oh, yeah, distributors are the real problem. The government's been going after them like crazy recently since COVID showed they cannot be trusted to not ape out instantly in the age of the internet.
you can undercut them only because literally everyone decided to raise their prices. the real problem is the distributors that these places get their products from.
The big scale isn't to maximize selling products, but more so to lease out land to franchises, that's where they really make their money.
eerie, I just corrected a smallbusinessgay by sending him to this episode, like 3 minutes ago.
I see you failed to learn from its easily explained lesson. Keep cutting the tall poppies, see where it gets you.
What drives someone to make a post reeking of so much homosexualry?
You do.
So what was Stage 2, anyway?
Raise minimum wage which forces anyone who isn't a chain to close
Well, stage 3 is PROFIT!
Yeah, but what’s Stage 2?
Well, for stage 1, they collect underpants.
The message is to not make grade schoolers your mouthpieces, especially when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
they do it a lot you moron
Fun fact: small businesses are corporations too. That was the point of the episode.
>that time commies seethed at creatives not just spouting commie propaganda line for line
Oh wait that's every day
Anon you are literally defending propaganda.
What propaganda? The episode where South Park made fun of corporations being unable to explain their own business model? That propaganda? Or the "propaganda" where the local coffee shop sold shit coffee and that's why people liked an alternative?
Starbucks also sells shit coffee.
According to you. The fact is, it's popular for a reason.
>It's popular, so that means it's automatically good.
It's popular because you can buy coffee-flavored milkshakes, not for the coffee itself. If you want fast food black coffee just go to McDonald's.
Okay, then go to McDonalds for regular coffee.
>BUT I WANT REGULAR COFFEE AT STARBUCKS! NOT MOCAFRAPPAWHATEVER!
Okay, boomer.
If something is popular, there is a reason it got that way.
>consumers aren't stupid
The issue here is that you're acting like their coffee is equivalent to their mixed drinks and assuming the coffee is not bad, when we're just talking about their coffee, meaning the black bean stuff unadulterated. Their coffee is objectively shit.
That reason isn't always because it was objectively better than the other options. Something can be popular despite being bad. Not everything popular is bad, not everything good is popular.
For example, if something has good enough advertising, it can be popular, even if there are better alternatives.
It’s popular because it’s everywhere. People can go into any city and see something they recognize so they’ll go there out of comfort. Same reason why tourists will go to NYC and eat at fricking Sbarros. Spoiler: Sbarros does not have the best pizza.
Starbucks makes shit coffee. They’re popular because they are aggressive with their marketing and franchise expansion, not because their product is superior.
Yeah they're moronic libertarians, that element of the show has definitely aged the worst.
And then they attacked Walmart
Did South Park ever do an episode about how megacorporations donate to political campaigns and lobby the government and pay less tax as a percentage of their profit than the independently owned small businesses they compete with?
That would require them to actually do some research beforehand. They don't even do research on libertarian issues, so why would they do it for stuff that matters to everyone like Citizens United and the capital gains loophole?
South Park had a whole season making fun of Amazon
Taxation is evil, so I'm glad they're doing good work.
Of course Super Satan approves of corporate tax dodging.
I approve of the complete abolition of the evil practice of taxation. I do think it's a problem that bigger corporations can collude with government to put policies in place that favor them at the expense of other companies, but the solution to that is to do away with the taxes and keep government out of business entirely.
What's with autists clinging onto South Park episodes? There is/was that gay that ragged on the smoking episode constantly.
They criticize Starbucks in that episode. They just point out that for all its flaws, it gives people a product that they like and that's a good thing.