Gazprom-Owned TV Channel Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Over Music Video Kiss - The Moscow Times
A music channel owned by the media arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom was fined $11,300 for spreading “LGBT propaganda among minors” in a 90s-era music video that shows two women kissing, the independent Vyorstka news outlet reported Friday.
If you know about Callum from the lotus eaters he did a video on Russia by the way on his own youtube channel. He went there and was instantly suspicious of what the corporations were doing. Turns out for McDonalds they simply rebranded it because all the infrastructure was still there and now they're independent chains or something. There are also corporations still paying rent for the stores. I found that pretty interesting because it shows you how full of shit all of the online and media virtue signalling really is.
The local restaurent that is ''McDonald's'' is owned by someone ( with a brand license from the Clown ), who gets its stock from some dealer with warehouses who get supplies from slaughter houses, who buy from farmers that are likely in Russia.
All those people didn't throw their hands up and say ''well if McDonald's took their brand out of Russia, we'll just burn the infrastructure I guess''.
No, they kept the infrastructure and logistics, but without the M branding.
McDonald's Corporate makes its money collecting rent from its franchisees, whether it's the myriad of brand fees or actual rent from the real estate the restaurant stands on.
That probably weakened their hand then as if the normies just realise it was all lip service and 'technically' the western companies rent paid for Russian war efforts (as remember they tried that shit with Atomic Heart) I imagine there'll be a small implosion on the virtue signallers.
I actually expect Trump to say it if he gets back in and starts trying to stop the war, to just go in his first press conference 'You know McDonald's has been still operating in Russia just changed the name?'
No it won't. That's a really poor coping mechanism for the way the corporatocracy works.
The only reason you know is because Lethn told you, and the only reason Lethn knows is because of Callum. How many people actually watched that video? How many social media posts were made about it? How many people are even aware of the rebadging taking place or the fact few corporations actually pulled out?
There will be no implosion, because the zeitgeist has ensured most people don't know and by the time they find out it won't matter anyway.
Depends, I mentioned Trump saying it.
Him just announcing he has 4 scoops of ice cream.is 'shocking news!'. Plus he has a habit of just revealing shit like this that the media can't bury it.
Maybe, but that's a long shot. Even if we theorycraft on the principle that Trump wins (which is highly unlikely given how corrupt the systems are in the West), I'm sure the Leftists will have moved on to some other manic situation to rope the normies in where even if Trump does mention it the media will just side-step it or find some way to blame the Naht-zees.
All the restaurants and infrastructure remained, but it all changed ownership to (I believe) the previous general manager of the country.
It's not just a rebranding if the profits are no longer going to corporate HQ
Well that's the big question is it? The general manager could be paying under the table, though admittedly I don't necessarily know why they'd want to do that if they're making more money independently.