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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Leftists are actually critical of rainbow capitalism. Look at how enthusiastic these “redpilled” types are in being good little sheep just consuming product.

Said it before, but CHUDs are everything they hate about “SJWs”. No one is persecuting them, quite the opposite in fact, and no one hates them out of jealousy or the fact they’re misunderstood geniuses or we just don’t get them. Again, quite the contrary. They’re just complete and utter unlikeable freaks. Do other conservatives even like them?

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've been playing a lot of Elden Ring recently. 'Finger but hole' is infinitely funnier than anything a brand Twitter has ever posted.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Mist, or Beast

Is a top notch construction. As is

Fort, Night.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Free tater if you come dressed as a Nazi propaganda poster about the importance of making enough German kids to replace the Ostfront casualties

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago

I love posts like this because the rebrand was probably made by some conservative chucklefuck, who was like "if we get rid of the dude and the barrel, it will reduce printing costs".

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, one free baked potato!

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you triggered by my masculinity potato? smuglord

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

4chan unironically re-boomerized gen Z.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

This is so far beyond boomer that it's firmly Greatest Generation shit. They're describing something my relative born in the 1920s would clap like a seal for, but he also fought the Nazis so he wouldn't want to go to the Aryan Barrel for Lebensborn Night.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Modernists

Damn, normally they complain about postmodernists. Now even modernism is too much for them. Give them a decade or two and they'll be railing against Aristotelianism.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

At least someone recognises that modernism is the real intellectual footing for the left. Whenever a reactionary calls me a postmodernist, it's on par with being called a liberal. As a modernist though I couldn't care less about Cracker Barrel and think this is an extremely postmodern culture war somewhere between the third and fourth stage of simulacra.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Winning strategy for your failing business: cut prices significantly for large groups and triple the cost of operation

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fiddle player on a Friday night

Like Cracker Barrel has the budget to hire out an army of string bands for all their locations every week.

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fiddle player on a Friday night

My mind immediately went to the song "cold beer on a Friday night" and the cringe video, for some reason

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

And a little bit of chicken fried air raid sirens

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, Michael Thomas is addressing this issue by, uh, giving out huge discounts to make the budget even tighter

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Cracker Barrel customers getting free shit would be the worst tippers for musicians, too.

This just sounds like the worst fucking restaurant gig: low/no pay, the included meals sucks ass, and you can't even have a decent beer or two.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

-families with 3 or more kids with both parents get 20% discount

let’s be real through, if they did this they would also push the waitstaff to conveniently “forget” to add the discount if the family wasn’t all white

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the kids might be discount actors

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

"Crisis customers" :kelly:

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

If I was made Cracker Barrel CEO I would simply turn the restaurant into Columbia from Bioshock Infinite.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

steak and shake deciding to do the MAGA grift is hilarious and the chuds are eating it up cause they’ll fall for anything

[–] plastic@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This shitty food-chain company really understands me. It's not a ploy to try and get more money!

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Inb4 Steak & Shake becomes the second-most overrated slopshop right after Chick-Fil-A. Does anyone even lile Chick-Fil-A, or do they just all claim to because its right wing, and everyone needs to bow down and glaze the right every 10 seconds?

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

it's not just some unpaid intern using AI to shit out tweets. it's a based corporation and they're my friend online

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

oh man that thread is just painful

social media person will get to keep their job a little while longer though:

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But real talk, though, a new logo and ditching the lanterns isn't what's going to bring your clientele back. People quit coming to your restaurant because the service went downhill, and that's at every one of them. So it's not a management issue. It's a corporate issue. Fire the CEO and the rest of the C-suite. Put the brand back like it was. Work on your corporate culture.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

Put the cinnamon back on the fried apples and pay your servers a living wage! That chain needs a union bad

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nothing will save them because their whole business model is denny’s for people who think denny’s is too “urban”, something even conservative zoomers don’t give a shit about any more

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

if they were gonna rebrand they needed to actually rebrand.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

At this point only a time machine or Juche powers will bring their clientele back

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

treatler really encapsulates that treat laden ass empire so perfectly.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The franchise wars have begun

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're being drafted into the Walt Disney militia, put on the mouse ears.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the only mouse ears I wear are my own 😤

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago

Mine were a gift from Jesus pete

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Wait, chuds are actually taking issue with this?

I thought it was a joke.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

I’ve never seen a more obviously manufactured round of Discourse^TM^

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, Steak N' Shake is bad and it's funny how they think they're going to make a big comeback considering they've been on the downturn for the past twenty years

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

You could sell frozen McDonald’s leftovers from 2 weeks ago to chuds as long as you called them Hitlerburgers and priced them at $14.88