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

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[–] 79 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Mikhail Gorbachev, in a Pizza Hut commercial

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    “No one out pizzas the hut.” - DJT

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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?"

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  • [–] 59 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Strong Demolition Man vibes to this.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I want off Mr. Toads wild ride

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

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

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago*

    🎵 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....🎵

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Nobody out pizzas geopolitics the Hut.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    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

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    [+] -18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [+] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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

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