• Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    it reads from spanish: Americans when they need to explain the terrible consequences of a war: okay, imagine a McDonalds…

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    This is your brain on Tom Friedman:

    In Thomas Friedman’s 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree the following statement was presented: “No two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s”

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      It’s not terribly far off from that octopus that was good at picking presidential election winners.