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  • This is all just Japan from the 80s all over again. There are a bunch of movies from the period with Japan as the bogeyman. The peak probably being the backstory of Die Hard.

    The key difference this time is the USA was paying for Japan’s defense, had a massive military base, etc. China doesn’t have that problem, so they can counter American demands with their own demands.

    Interestingly, look at interviews with Trump from the 80s, he’ll talk about Japan almost with the same language that he uses for China now. The most famous was probably an appearance of Trump on Oprah.



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    3 months ago

    The reporter is a former IDF soldier, there is no way he would face any real blowback from Trump. There is a reason they had his number to add to the group and it’s because they were already feeding him information. The Atlantic is just a left coded mouthpiece for the State Department.











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    10 months ago

    I’m willing to be proven wrong but this ad is almost certainly fake. For one the logo used in the ad didn’t exist? In the early 60s McDonald’s did have red text but it wasn’t off-center, when it was later off-center the text was white or black but not red. Maybe that’s the joke and why it was created, but McDonald’s was never this edgy. It was more commercials about mcnuggets being born to die or the weirdness of the hamburgler and grimace.