A dear friend, model of refined politesse, offered me a gentle course-correction this morning, around the attached QT—less the argument, more the aftertaste. Perhaps she's right. I did go a little Hunter S. Thompson, I confess. Then again, context frames the rhetoric. Your read?
![2025 return
On August 5, 2025, McDonald’s published a press release announcing that the character, along with other characters from McDonaldland series, would be returning after two decades since its last appearance. The characters would be returning to promote a meal in a new commercial.[15]](/media/1976335504347173060-G21aqnybIAAc38A.jpg)
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2025 return On August 5, 2025, McDonald’s published a press release announcing that the character, along with other characters from McDonaldland series, would be returning after two decades since its last appearance. The characters would be returning to promote a meal in a new commercial.[15]
@gracie88888 @silvopasturist @TornadoNate @simoningall Corporate bodies? Call Ronald McDonald what he is: not a clown but a lurid, grease-slick idol astride the gate between childhood innocence and metabolic catastrophe—every ad a syringe-full of cartoon euphoria into the developing limbic system. The diabetes cult? Hook ’em young.
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