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Kevin Castro Riestra's avatar

It was the dumbest of times, it was the stupidest of times, it was the age of idiocy, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of bad faith, it was the epoch of credulity, it was the season of outrage, it was the season of seething, it was the spring of ignorance, it was the winter of grift, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all canceled, we were all posting—in short, everything was so dumb.

I don't know how you find the fortitude to follow and untangle the outrage. Thanks for keeping us informed.

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Kevin Castro Riestra's avatar

It's remarkable and concerning how effective advertising can be. I used to not care about Twix, but when the launched the Left Twix Right Twix campaign, my brain decided eating Left Twix was a way of showing pride in being left-handed.

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Joseph Mangano's avatar

The GOP cares more about candy marketing than children...yup, that tracks.

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J.K. Anderson's avatar

I don't watch or listen to Reichwing talking heads (see Auntie Fa repostings, tho), but have heard them shouting for a few decades now and sometimes tired brain will go-off on "What would they say" conspiracy tangent which often comes true (them shouting it on their propaganda). Lots of "Love Boat" commercials... "Princess Cruises as in Jewish-American Princess, PEOPLE ARE SAYING! and of course drag queens come from drag Princesses WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!! Visiting foreign countries and who knows how many children they are trafficking?!?" Put all the anti-wokesters on the Muskrat mission to Mars Inc; they are angry *just* for the sake of CHAOS. "I'm too old for this sh**" really hits hard nowadays:/

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Edward Kazala's avatar

Great piece, but the second link at the end goes to the same NYT story about chocolate companies using child laborers as the first link.

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Parker Molloy's avatar

Ah! Will update shortly!

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