tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post2586592372358084243..comments2024-01-27T14:05:07.702+00:00Comments on MAILSTROM : The Truth Hurts McDonaldsajohnstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-90636133904031973232018-01-15T01:28:23.504+00:002018-01-15T01:28:23.504+00:00george orwell’s predictions are just wrongful. mcd...george orwell’s predictions are just wrongful. mcdonalds is just unhealthy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-39904612175128786982007-05-27T10:39:00.000+01:002007-05-27T10:39:00.000+01:00I see in the Mail on Sunday that two Labour MPs gi...I see in the Mail on Sunday that two Labour MPs given free tickets to last year's football World Cup by McDonald's — Clive Betts and Alan Keen — are using the House of Commons to help the burger chain in their objective. See http://tinyurl.com/26rrem<BR/><BR/>If McDonalds can bully the OED into banning “McJob”, the OED should see no problem in accurately describing socialism as a classless moneyless voluntary system which has never yet existed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-19114826032286615412007-05-25T15:51:00.000+01:002007-05-25T15:51:00.000+01:00very nice point.What fascinates me is what McDonal...very nice point.<BR/><BR/>What fascinates me is what McDonald's is trying to accomplish by pressuring the OED (!) <BR/><BR/>The OED isn't advertising or publicity. It's not where corporations usually define the terms of the debate so blatantly. The editors of the OED may have their own hegemonic issues, but they have not, to date, been so very directly the target or tool of corporate power. <BR/><BR/>How breathtaking is McDonalds effort to own ALL aspects of discourse about them. All talk about McDonalds must be conducted in that corporation's own language, in all arenas. Words mean what the owners say they mean, everywhere they are used. McDonalds wants to own even our irony; even our mockery; even our thoughts about them.<BR/><BR/>Of course it does. George Orwell told us that years ago. . . . he just got the actors wrong, not the action.ellen9https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312108165263030268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-87286182509121226802007-05-25T14:37:00.000+01:002007-05-25T14:37:00.000+01:00Rather epithets like moron weren't bandied around ...Rather epithets like moron weren't bandied around . Doesn't really add anything to the issue.<BR/>I would say the Brownshirts phase exploiting the unemployed , and those without aspirations , may be more applicable to the para-militarism of McDonalds than the later phase of the Holocaust SSajohnstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874891810770297962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-28528470330354630152007-05-25T14:28:00.000+01:002007-05-25T14:28:00.000+01:00I think considering that large corporations have m...I think considering that large corporations have more control over the masses than Governments these days that it is appropriate to compare McDonalds to fascists.<BR/>KxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-82684075829134305952007-05-25T14:12:00.000+01:002007-05-25T14:12:00.000+01:00"Anonymous said... I don't think McDonalds can ..."Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/> I don't think McDonalds can hardly be compared to the Nazis.<BR/> 2:08 PM, May 25, 2007"<BR/><BR/>It's just raising a point , moron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12016602.post-82171870193131303302007-05-25T14:08:00.000+01:002007-05-25T14:08:00.000+01:00I don't think McDonalds can hardly be compared to ...I don't think McDonalds can <I>hardly</I> be compared to the Nazis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com