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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 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mikhail Gorbachev, in a Pizza Hut commercial

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 months ago (2 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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Darmok and Jalad, at The Hut.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Darmok and Jalad at Pizza The Hutt*

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Krasnov, when the wall fell.

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[–] endlessvoid@lemmy.today 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

Gonna put this in the post body, thanks

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The angry Russian dad was right.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 months ago (3 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.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Sorry Mr Musk, that company name was ALSO taken already, the owner says he has no desire to sell it."

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

It is a great plan, if you happen to be white and male and live in North America or West Europe.

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[–] Hotstillnasty@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“No one out pizzas the hut.” - DJT

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 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

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Nooodel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

All restaurants are Taco Bell

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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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[–] FukOui@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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....🎵

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago

Strong Demolition Man vibes to this.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I want off Mr. Toads wild ride

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

Nobody out ~~pizzas~~ geopolitics the Hut.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 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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