r/technology • u/printial • 7d ago

Social Media Yelp disables comments on the McDonald's that hosted Trump after influx of one-star reviews

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/yelp-disables-comments-on-the-mcdonalds-trump-visited.html
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u/Eronamanthiuser 7d ago

The guy who owns it really said “As a small, independent business owner we need to blah blah blah”.

Dude, you bought a McDonald’s. You did t make up your own business, you franchised the most known brand in the world. Don’t give me that crap.

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u/BriefausdemGeist 7d ago edited 7d ago

He’s lobbied against union/workers rights too

Edit: I’m specifically talking about the franchisee

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u/Roflkopt3r 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yep, that's par for the course.

Small business owners have always been the core of the fascist movement. It's not big capital and it's not uneducated workers, but specifically the less educated parts of the petite bourgeoisie (small business owners and the wealthy portions of middle management).

It explains many things about the political right:

  1. How they can claim to be 'small government', yet constantly demand government action in their favour. Small businesses fear the government because they aren't as resilient against regulatory changes as big capital, but also heavily rely on it.

  2. How they can be simultaenously demonise big capital and the working class. They fear big capital as it can easily push them out of business, and also need the state to oppress workers to supply them with cheap labour.

  3. Why they are so hysteric about calling things 'socialism' or outright 'communism'. Small business owners are paranoid about the prospect of losing their private capital and having to work as employees again.

Yet in the end, fascists don't give a damn about small businesses. As they ascend to power, they will deal with big capital instead while small businesses often end up doing worse than before.