So give me a break, I just read some Le Carre, but I think that there was some kind of rapprochement that existed between the West and the USSR throughout the Cold War that really enabled the Chicago School brainrot to take hold while there was no similar effort to establish a similar relationship with China. It might be trite, but the Oriental-Occidental mental block probably prevented the West from even considering capitalist ideological infiltration.

I just responded to a one-month-old-comment of my own :-\

A few years ago I went to Tempe to visit a friend and every-time we ventured outside of Tempe I was confronted by Yakub’s most devilish creations.

The law-brain-nerds at r*ddit have been debating the use of AI in the legal professions and some have made the earnest argument that: “Well yes it fabricates cases and lies to you, but it’s a great tool to use as a jumping-off point!” Staggering to behold.

These bozos never read Heinlein’s Revolt in 2100 collection and it shows.

Phoenix is a contradiction.

The desert is beautiful, but the people inhabiting that space are…

This city should not exist, it is a monument to man’s arrogance.

Actually it was great. But I acknowledge your incorrect opinion.

The success of the 9/11 attacks cannot be understated (see Jean Baudrillard’s The Spirit of Terrorism).

After a supposed victory over an ideological opponent (USSR), the US engaged in building the “rules based international order” and, after a frenzy of neoliberal export (Bosnia), began to show rot. The cultural angst of the late 90’s - unintentionally enunciated in Fukiyama’s “End of History” - reflected the hollow promise of the capitalist vision.

The 9/11 attacks forced the contradictions of this aimless and self-destructive impulse into overdrive and spawned an unfocused frenzy of jingoism which served to mask the profound disquiet festering at the core of the American psyche.

That ideological bankruptcy has forced into focus the fundamental inability of capitalism to build a resonant faith in structural stability and justice.

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Luffy diagnosed with oppositional-defiant disorder and dosed with lorazepam from age seven.

Goku in special education classes and sent to wilderness camp at age thirteen.

I know this is the most tired of tropes but … Wiemar liberals reborn.

You can definitely tell they they went … whoops and tacked on the last 30 minutes of the movie to make him seem like the bad guy. The entire film goes into a severe tonal shift.

Ahoyhoy, my Black Book of Agriculture has the count at trillions. Checkmate

Just like the experimental warship camouflage - it’s a weak floating structure

So I’m relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?

Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?

Laughing in hell eating pizza

The power of beans and rice compels you to succeed!

Liberalism is in the spinal cord - this move excises liberalism.

Ahhhh - well that definitely plays into the Midwestern dad who tells fish stories vibe he’s doing.