Isn't there a big movement about how devastating beef farming is for the environment? McDonalds probably contributes a lot to that.
There was, but the left as a whole doesn't really seem to care much anymore, if it's not race or gender related, they don't really give a shit.
The left seems to flip flop back and forth between environmentalism and identity politics being their main focus.
A perfect example of how they went full circle is Margaret Atwood, she went from writing the Handmaid's Tale in the 1980s which was commentary on the Religious Right, women's rights, feminism etc, then in 2003 she published Oryx and Crake with dealt with things like the idea people had that McNuggets are not actual chicken, genetically modified organisms, a depleted Earth's environment and so on.
But what did she go back to writing in recent years? A sequel to the Handmaid's Tale, everything old is new again!
Back around 2004 a lefty like Quinton would not have been caught dead wearing a McDonald's jacket and unironically thinking it's cool, it really is funnily ironic, but part of the reason for that change is something Quinton addresses in the video and that's McDonald's goes for an "older" image these days, they've stopped marketing so directly at kids, it was easier to paint them as sinister villains when they so directly targeted kids (aka an audience more easily susceptible to advertising) during peak Ronald McDonald, McDonald's Play Land era but now that all of that all shit is safely in a long bygone era of the past, it's ok for people to wax nostalgic about it.
And like I said, if you're an urban lefty with the money to spare, you're all about the free range farm to table stuff, they just moved on to that's just something you do if you want to do it and stopped trying to browbeat middle America into living like that so much.
It actually is really funny to look back at just how big a fucking deal the topic of food, not just fast food, but food in general was as a political topic back in the 2000s, with a million different documentaries about it, but now they just don't give a single shit, it is possible that they'll one day go back to obsessing over environmentalism again sometime in the future, but for now environmentalists are a niche thing that the main spotlight isn't on at the moment.
And like I said, I feel like there's a message for us today there, that for as big of a fucking deal as the left makes something out to be, it doesn't mean that they won't still one day basically forget about it.
I think a big reason why they forgot about their hobby horses of the 2000s is the election of Obama made them "feel" like they were solved issues, even if they weren't, but the left is all about the surface level and not the deeper reality and they felt like the 2000s was a battle they "won" thanks to Obama so they just moved on to other things over the course of the Obama era often being directly informed by Obama being President, hence the great big race obsession.
pose watching the start of this, where we open focused on his gut packed into a dumb pink t-shirt I'm sure he thinks makes him look wacky; then he complains about being too low on camera and his posture; then he gets up to go get his fucking slippers.
