SF first major city to ban toys with fast food meals

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WHOA!...did that guy just insinuate brown people are sh**tty, ignorant parents?  <googles>...oh, he's an asian so I guess it's ok.

Expect more of this freedom hating bullspit in the future.  I'm sure the nanny staters here will fully endorse this trend.

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Should we pass laws banning all promotion of things that are bad for us?  Should we ban beer ads that show people having fun?

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aaahhh, the old "won't someone please think of the children" line.  Earth, I'm sure, will disagree with you.

A small part of this issue is when did the public sphere, culture itself, because "family friendly", that we myopically focus on goddamn kids? So much utterly ridiculous bullsh*t gets ignored because it's framed as a discussion centered around "won't someone please think of the children".

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aaahhh, the old "won't someone please think of the children" line.  Earth, I'm sure, will disagree with you.

A small part of this issue is when did the public sphere, culture itself, because "family friendly", that we myopically focus on goddamn kids? So much utterly ridiculous bullsh*t gets ignored because it's framed as a discussion centered around "won't someone please think of the children".

Just so we're clear on this. You support beer ads that target children? Shall we include a toy with every six pack?

No, I missunderstood your initial position and thought you just wanted to ban advertising that promoted "bad things".  I didn't know your whole problem with it was "won't someone please think of the children".  My bad.

(but yeah, 18 year olds should be able to buy beer and the gun grabbers always include 18 year olds as children when calculating gun violence....so yeah, I do think beer should be advertised to "children"...and a toy might be cool...depending on what it is)

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<snip>WHOA!...did that guy just insinuate brown people are sh**tty, ignorant parents?  <googles>...oh, he's an asian so I guess it's ok.

I think his comments have more to do with the fact that poor Black and Hispanic neighborhoods are usually full of fast food restaurants, while being devoid of grocery stores. When parents are working non stop to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, sometimes they feed their kid whatever is most convenient. And if you got a cheap, fast alternative and the kids are screaming for it because they want toys.......

Well that and it's cheap, fast and easy.  I haven't gotten a "happy meal" for my several kids in many years (I buy the "dollar" burgers and a large fry or two....it's the soda where they make all their money), but my kids still want to go to these places all the time.  I occasionally oblige because it's cheap, fast and easy.

This law isn't going to change anything other take some sh**tty toys out of the hands of kids....some of them will still be chubby, some wont.  I guess if it fixes the authoritarian joneses lefties often get then I guess it's not a horrible thing.

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If a Republican from Mississippi said brown kids are chubby there would be a sh**t storm.

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It's not the kids that want the toy that are buying the food, it's their parents for God's sake. Why can't the parents discriminate about what to buy their kids? When I was five and I only got my Chicken McNuggets and not my toy, sure I was angry, but it's not like I had any control over whether my parents wanted to buy me a toy or not. THE PARENTS ARE THE ONE BUYING THE FOOD.

See, lefties think they are smarter than EVERYbody else (even other lefties) and they KNOW they are smarter than "brown" people.  Now by itself that's not a horrible thing, kind of dickish, but a lot of people are dickish.  Where the lefties go tragically wrong is that they think that their superior intelligence is something that should be forced on other people.  They know McDonalds is wrong and if it's given to kids it's child abuse.  For reasons the lefties can't even fathom, other people take their kids to this den of commercialism all the time.  Especially poor people and even more especially, poor brown people.  They know this must be stopped and since most of them are authoritarians at heart, they see the govt as the best hammer for this particular nail.  Expect more of this in the future.

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I think the label might not fit this time Batman.  Lefties are doing this because they know better than poor people what the poor people should feed their kids.  Acknowledging that and calling it stupid isn't a strawman, it's stating a fact.

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Very good...now THAT is a strawman!  You're getting it.

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You're wrong, dead0man.  'Intelligence' is set by economic class - society sets your intelligence by your place in the power hierarchy.  So capitalism has already made 'brown' people 'less intelligent' - in other words disadvantaged or oppressed.  Corporations like McDonalds merely feed off of this power differential - they are privileged, their victims are made prostrate by the State. 

To recognize this and object (the role of the white educated upper-middle class or 'liberal') is to critique power, not demean or insult the brown people.  Right-wingers such as yourself always make this mistake - when people are slaves it is not offensive to call them such, it is just honest and helpful.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

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Very good...now THAT is a strawman!  You're getting it.

Stop trolling.

Yeah, posting a giant strawman image is a bit of a troll, but we got 'em on the run now.  No worries little guy.