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Sep 11 2020

Burger King Pushes Social Engineering Envelope

The liberal establishment has been fundamentally transforming Western culture into something very different, which we will neither recognize nor find appealing. Having to watch athletes express contempt instead of respect for America when the national anthem is played is an obvious example. The advertising industry is another.

These days, it seems every major corporation jockeys to position itself as even more woke than the others. The point of advertising is no longer to sell a product, but to throw elbows on behalf of political correctness. Burger King throws a sharp one:

Burger King has launched a new advertising campaign in Finland featuring its eponymous mascot sharing a deep kiss with Ronald McDonald, along with the English slogan ‘Love Conquers All’.

“Love” is Liberalese for “divergent sexuality.”

The image is front and centre on the landing page of the fast food chain’s Finnish website, with various outlets with a focus on advertising showing physical posters at locations such as public bus stops as well.

The idea appears not to be to convince people to buy one brand of junk food over another, but to make propaganda supporting the LGBT agenda still more inescapable.

Despite the characteristic paleness of Finland, the campaign specifically promotes nonwhites of the LGBT persuasion by featuring a gay pride flag topped with black and brown stripes, probably to kowtow to rioting Black Lives Matter militants.

In case you want to see the family-unfriendly image for yourself and it is no longer on the Finnish Burger King landing page, here it is on Instagram.

If this flies in Finland, expect to see it here. Soon afterward, companies like Burger King will push the envelop still further. The public may be subjected to posters featuring increasingly explicit gay sex.

Or, having conquered that hill, the social engineers may move in a different direction. The liberal establishment’s embrace of Netflix’s Cuties suggests a possibility:

On tips from Feet2Fire, Rapinhoe, and Frances J.

Jan 16 2023

Let Them Eat Beetleburgers

Our moonbat overlords have decided that we must not eat food because agriculture offends the climate. But they are generous rulers, who provide us with a wide variety of alternatives, including cockroach milk, maggot butter, weeds, synthetic pseudofood, plastic trash, lentils, grass, crickets, larvae, wind turbine blades — and even beetleburgers:

Beetleburgers could soon be helping to feed the world, according to new research. The creepy crawlers’ larvae — better known as mealworms — could act as a meat alternative… The process uses a fraction of the land and water and emits a smaller carbon footprint in comparison of traditional farming.

CO2 makes plants grow. Unfortunately, this precious nutrient is regarded as haram in the moonbat religion. It offends the weather gods.

French biotech company Ynsect is planning a global network of insect farms, including nurseries and slaughterhouses.

No doubt plenty of government funding goes into the pockets of companies that make food alternatives, as with inefficient but politically correct energy alternatives. Big Government even pays farmers to stop farming by buying up their land with public money. Again, our rulers are generous.

Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae … can be turned into protein powders, shakes, burgers, cereal bars, and even cooking oils at a fraction of the environmental cost of traditional farming.

You don’t hate the environment, do you? Then shut up and eat the bugs.

On tips from Wiggins and Steve T.

Jan 12 2023

Vintage Hate Hoax: Bob’s Burgers n’ Teriyakis

This Vintage Hate Hoax originally appeared on Moonbattery November 5, 2019:

The classic hate hoax consists of a lone person of politically preferred pigmentation or sexual derangement staging minor vandalism/harassment and blaming it on bigots to generate sympathetic attention and to propagandize on behalf of cultural Marxist ideology. But the phenomenon has been so successful that hoaxes are becoming more ambitious, involving different motives and a larger number of participants. From Seattle: Read more »

Feb 16 2022

How to Make a Biden Burger

Communist cooking starts with the Biden burger. This culinary delight has the advantage that the cost of its main ingredient is unaffected even if greedy capitalists price you out of the market for meat. Transitory inflation that is definitely not caused by excessive government spending may, however, cause a slight increase in the cost of other ingredients:

On a tip from Chuck A.

Mar 20 2023

Race-Pandering Katie Hobbs Upstaged by Rachel Dolezal

To grasp how much of a farce it is that left-wing ditz Katie Hobbs is now Governor of Arizona, consider this preposterous spectacle:

On Friday afternoon, Governor Katie Hobbs was joined by a group of black leaders and the former Rachel Dolezal, now Nkechi Amare Diallo, for the signing of an executive order banning racial discrimination based on a person’s hair in Arizona.

Rachel Dolezal is to racial impostors what Jussie Smollett is to hate hoaxers. Born of central European ancestry with blue eyes and straight blonde hair, she managed to become an NAACP chapter president and an instructor in Africana studies at Eastern Washington University before her fraud was revealed, ending her career as a professional black person. Astonishingly, she then doubled down on her tasteless racial impersonation, renaming herself with all the authenticity of Suzy Eddie Izzard.

The executive order will prohibit state agencies, and all new state contracts or subcontracts from discrimination based on hair texture and protective styles, such as braids, locs, twists, knots, and headwraps, in the workplace and in public schools to ensure protection against discrimination based on all race-based hairstyles.

Under our racially tiered justice system, anything that could be construed as “discrimination” against privileged blacks is already illegal. But new laws will accrue anyway, as leftist pols virtue signal their racial obeisance.

Here’s why Hobbs had to make a special show of bending the knee:

It is unknown how Dolezal/Amare Diallo managed to steal center stage from the governor, who has twice been found guilty by juries of discriminating against a black staff member of the Arizona Legislature.

The alleged victim is crybully Talonya Adams, who was fired despite being black. That even hardcore moonbats like Katie Hobbs are denounced for racism proves it is imaginary — unless you count racism against whites.

I didn’t realize Burger King still gives out those crowns.

On a tip from Barry A.

Jul 25 2021

Let Them Eat Plastic Trash

Getting us to eat bugs for the sake of pretending to save the planet from variation in the weather sounds like a great idea, until you consider that according to moonbat ideology, it is anthropocentric not to think that bugs are people too. Some have suggested that we should eat weeds. But weeds absorb the harmless CO2 that liberals regard as politically unclean. If people are going to insist on eating, better that they should eat plastic trash:

Two U.S. scientists have won a 1 million euro ($1.18 million) prize for creating a food generator concept that turns plastics into protein.

The 2021 Future Insight Prize went to Ting Lu, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Stephen Techtmann, associate professor of biological sciences at Michigan Technological University, for their project. It uses microbes to degrade plastic waste and convert it into food.

Merck sponsors the prize. No doubt it will position itself to make a fortune if food made out of plastic garbage one day becomes mandatory.

“The winners of this year’s Future Insight Prize have created a ground-breaking technology with the potential to generate a safe and sustainable source of food, while reducing the environmental harms associated with plastic waste and traditional agricultural methods,” said Belen Garijo, Merck CEO and chair of the executive board.

The food they create out of plastic waste could be almost as tasty as the synthetic meat that Bill Gates wants us to eat, and even more politically correct. Expect it on the menu at hyperwoke Burger King soon. It might be an improvement over the current offerings.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Jan 05 2024

Mass Immigration and Moonbat Masochism

Sigmund Freud himself would be flummoxed by the psychopathology behind the willingness of some to be displaced from their own countries by mass immigration. Military force failed at Tours and the Gates of Vienna, but hijrah is working thanks to the masochistic mentality of moonbats. A story from a few years back is illustrative:

The family of an EU official’s teenage daughter who was allegedly raped and murdered by an Afghan migrant in Germany has asked for well-wishers to donate money to a refugee charity.

Medical student Maria Ladenburger, who had also taken time out to help asylum seekers as a volunteer, was found dead in a river in the south-western German university city of Freiburg in October.

Authorities arrested 17-year-old Hussein K. He was an “asylum seeker” from Afghanistan — a country leftists like so much they are helping to extend it across the world through open borders policies.

As the 19-year-old student’s family tries to come to terms with their loss, they have asked for donations to be made to an organisation that aids refugees.

Here’s the thanks Maria got for helping Muslims eradicate her country and absorb central Europe into the Ummah:

Maria, 19, worked in her spare time in the ancient university city of Freiburg helping out the migrants in various shelters and homes. But in October, as she cycled home after a party, she was ambushed, raped and then drowned in a river.

They say a Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged. Some never get the chance to wake up from wokeness. Others only double down.

On a tip from DCGere.

Oct 22 2023

Let Them Eat Sawdust

The leftist war on meat continues. Nazi blitzkrieg tactics involved softening up the target with air raids and artillery; then came the tanks and infantry. With globalist moonbats, the softening up is accomplished by the media through propaganda campaigns:

One of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis, accounting for a third of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, is food production, with meat – particularly beef – at the top of the list.

What climate crisis? Before gullible readers have thought to ask, the alleged news item presses forward with a claim that 12% of Americans eat half of the beef consumed in the country.

“It may be that some of those 12% don’t realize the impacts that beef has on their health or the environment,” said study author Diego Rose, professor and director of nutrition at Tulane University. “The concern is, on a usual basis, are you eating a disproportionate amount?”

A disproportionate amount means more than your fare share.

Remember how Marxist moonbats used to bark about how much they hated the 1% during the Occupy Wall Street craze? It’s up to 12% now. Must be Biden’s inflation.

We are told that beef is 50 times more offensive to the weather than beans. No wonder environmentalists are so full of the latter.

Add eating beef to the long list of crimes attributable to the hated white race:

White people were among those more likely to eat more beef, compared with other racial and ethnic groups like Black and Asian Americans.

Assuming that not even liberal journalists are screwy enough to honestly believe eating beef makes it be too hot outside, this could be the real reason they oppose it:

“There’s this connection between meat consumption and masculinity,” said Joshua Specht, author of the book Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America.

Masculinity is bad enough. Worse still is colonization — i.e., the expansion of Western Civilization into savage wilderness:

Beef was first introduced in North America as European colonizers cleared Indigenous land and wildlife like bison. It became a core part of the nation’s identity in the late 19th century, with the expansion in the United States west.

Fortunately, we don’t have to give up meat completely to please our moonbat masters — at least, not for now:

Making a positive impact on the climate doesn’t necessarily mean giving up all meat – even reductions and substitutions can make a difference.

Substitute with what? How about sawdust:

Eating it is probably the last thing that comes into your mind, but that may be about to change thanks to one Estonian start-up.

ÄIO, set up in 2022, has created a way of producing fats and oils from industrial waste. …

The rosey red oil produced by ÄIO’s innovative process is ideal for making alternatives to meat, which often need a splash of colour to attract consumers away from their animal-based rivals.

Not to worry, if industrial waste isn’t to your taste, there are plenty of other options that meet with woke approval, including beetleburgers, cockroach milk, maggot butter, weeds, synthetic pseudofood, plastic trash, lentils, grass, crickets, larvae, wind turbine blades, mealworms, worm dogs, and seaweed.

On a tip from Lyle.

Aug 01 2023

Vegan Influencer Reportedly Dies of Starvation

At first you might want to burst out laughing at the damage moonbats inflict on themselves. But then the senselessness of the tragedy sinks in:

Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has reportedly “died of starvation” after subsisting exclusively off a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family. …

The Russian national — who frequently promoted raw foods on social media where she was known to her millions of viewers on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram as Zhanna D’Art — reportedly died July 21 after finally seeking medical treatment during a tour in Southeast Asia, according to local media outlet reports. …

[A] friend claimed that for the last seven years, Samsonova had only eaten the giant, sweet jackfruit and durian, a spiky, mace-like fruit known for its custardy meat and noxious odor.

If only a good Samaritan had force-fed her bacon cheeseburgers, a life might have been saved.

An autopsy is needed to confirm that she died of starvation. Sure looks like she might have.

At least Zhanna D’Art’s demise was self-imposed:

Last year, vegan Florida mother Sheila O’Leary, 38, was sentenced to life in prison after starving her 18-month-old son to death by feeding him only small amounts of fruits and vegetables.

Next time they update the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, they ought to list veganism as a psychiatric illness. Humans were meant to eat meat, as you can tell by looking at our teeth.

“I see my body and mind transform every day,” Samsonova chirped as she led others down her path. “I love my new me.”

As with transsexuals, the first step toward health is a willingness to work with what you actually are.

On tips from R F and Steve T.

Jul 23 2023

NPR: It Is Racist to Know They Want Us to Eat Bugs

By now most of us know that our globalist moonbat ruling class wants to make us to eat insects in order to degrade and humiliate us — or rather, because The Climate.

While they gorge on meat, they tell us to eat larvae, mealworms, beetleburgers, and maggot butter, and to wash it down with cockroach milk.

The EU has approved sneaking powdered insects into food. Canada has built a massive cricket farm.

They tell us eating bugs will control the cost of living. Kids are taught to eat them.

British subjects pay to make African children eat bugs — and even their own children. The Dutch make their kids eat bugs too.

The only qualm liberals have about making us eat insects is that it oppresses the insects. Never mind the parasitical infections that can result.

Yet even as one repugnant coercively financed leftist propaganda platform applies pressure to make us accept eating bugs, another gaslights by sneering that this thoroughly documented agenda item is not only a conspiracy theory, but racist even to entertain. Actual headline from NPR:

This Right Wing Conspiracy Theory About Eating Bugs Is About As Racist As You Think

“Racist” in this context means verboten to discuss.

The media establishment has dug itself so far into self-parody that nothing it asserts will be taken at face value by serious people. Yet the liberals who get the slogans and talking points that serve them as thoughts from NPR are so hermetically sealed inside their smug bubble of pretentious idiocy that they cannot even hear us laughing at them.

NPR rebutted.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Jul 17 2023

Woman May Be Put to Death for Having Anorexia

At least it will be voluntary. Canada isn’t a tyranny or anything. It won’t kill people for having anorexia unless they agree to it:

Lisa Pauli wants to die.

The 47-year-old has wrestled with the eating disorder anorexia for decades…

These days, Pauli says, she weighs 92 pounds and may go days without eating solid food. She says she is too weak to carry groceries home without stopping for breaks.

The government could give her a cheeseburger instead of killing her. But that would not help advance the agenda by granting bureaucrats the power of life and death. Also, cheeseburgers are offensive to the climate.

An expansion of the criteria for medically assisted death that comes into force in March 2024 will allow Canadians like Pauli, whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, to choose medically assisted death.

Canada legalized assisted death in 2016 for people with terminal illness and expanded it in 2021 to people with incurable, but not terminal, conditions.

Before long, Canada will execute people for having dandruff. Only if they agree to it, of course.

They’ll even do it to children:

[Canada’s Justice Minister, David] Lametti said the federal government is considering recommendations from a parliamentary committee to allow … “mature minors” – people under 18 deemed capable of making this decision – to access assisted death.

Canada’s government has offered death as a cure for PTSD, as a solution to poverty, and as an alternative to getting a wheelchair lift. Taxpayers provide a suicide hotline that instead of talking the desperate out of suicide, talks them into it.

Once you reject the value of human life, the slope gets slippery, as a California bill to allow abortion up to 28 days after birth confirms.

As leftism inevitably degrades the Canadian economy, those with chronic conditions will become an unsustainable burden on the socialized healthcare system. Increasing pressure will be applied for the sake of managing costs.

But don’t worry, there will always be a distinction between assisted suicide and execution. Progressives oppose capital punishment, so it was abolished in Canada.

In liberal utopia, Big Government won’t kill anyone who hasn’t been persuaded to ask for it. If they can persuade people to vote for Justin Trudeau, this should be child’s play.

On tips from Wiggins and Chuck A.

Jan 30 2023

Let Them Eat Seaweed

Sniff our haughty moonbat rulers: Let them eat crickets. Let them eat beetleburgers. Let them eat maggot butter. Let them eat weeds. Let them eat synthetic pseudofood. Let them eat plastic trash. Let them eat lentils. Let them eat grass. Let them eat larvae. Let them eat Chef Boyardee. Let them eat wind turbine blades. Let them drink cockroach milk. Let them eat seaweed:

An area of ocean almost the size of Australia could support commercial seaweed farming around the world, providing food for humans, feed supplements for cattle, and alternative fuels, according to new research.

Making us eat seaweed “could have profound benefits to land use, emissions reduction, water and fertiliser use,” according to the researchers.

However, there is a drawback:

A review in 2019 of the risks of expanding seaweed farming in Europe highlighted concerns farms could upset the balance of marine ecosystems…

Whatever we are allowed to eat when moonbats have sufficiently consolidated power to impose utopia, it won’t taste good. But at least it won’t be offensive to the climate.

On a tip from Steve T.

Nov 17 2022

Liberals Come for Rodeo

Sports are mostly mindless entertainment. Displays of unusual skill are the main redeeming quality. Rodeo is different. It combines skill with physical courage and an inspiring display of the triumph of mankind over wild nature through sheer toughness and will power. Rodeo represents the spirit of the American West. Liberals want to ban it:

In California, there is a growing movement to ban — or seriously curtail — these kinds of performances. …

In Los Angeles, the City Council is poised to vote on legislation that would curtail, if not eliminate, rodeo events within the city.

Alameda County (home of leftist strongholds Oakland and Berkeley) has already banned wild cow milking and mutton busting. The latter is a great way for kids to take part in rodeo without getting hurt.

The restrictions have spread throughout California and beyond:

San Francisco, San Juan Capistrano and Pasadena already have restrictions on rodeos, as do Pittsburgh, Leesburg, Va., and Fort Wayne, Ind.

Other states, towns, counties and countries have bans on specific events, such as the county of Baltimore, which prohibits calf roping…

This attack on a disfavored aspect of American culture is justified by pious concern for the welfare of animals. But as chief executive and commissioner of the Professional Bull Riders Sean Gleason observes,

“[I]f animal rights activists were successful in shutting down bull riding — through this argument that there’s some kind of torture that doesn’t exist — I assure you these animals have zero purpose and they’d be turned into hamburger within a week.”

This isn’t about cattle, but about reducing us to cattle as part of the Culture War. As California Political Review notes,

The Western lifestyle is also about self reliance, freedom and private actions, without government interference.

Only when toughness, independence, and masculinity have been abolished can progressives achieve their conception of utopia. In the meantime, whatever is worth having, they will take away from you with ostentatious self-righteousness, despising you for wanting to keep it.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Feb 18 2022

White Castle Expands Robot Replacements

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The reaction to hikes in the minimum wage and Jesse Jackson types spitting on your food for racial justice purposes is that your White Castle slider will be cooked by a robot:

Flippy 2, the fast-food robot by Miso Robotics, will now be whipping up burgers and other food in 100 standalone locations. …

“Artificial intelligence and automation have been an area White Castle has wanted to experiment with to optimize our operations and provide a better work environment for our team members,” said Lisa Ingram, CEO of White Castle…

The work environment will be improved because there will be a higher ratio of office workers to burger-flippers among the remaining employees.

Sawing off the lowest rung of the ladder is not a bug but a feature of minimum wage from the Democrat point of view. Young people who never get into the habit of working are more likely to vote Democrat for life.

On a tip from Eddie_Valiant.

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