Isn't it weird how exactly zero communist dictatorships decided to keep the dictator's policies after he died?
No one ever stops to question why, after the USSR broke up, none of the satellite states decided to stick with communism. Why East Germany used their very first election to vote to become West Germany.
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I'm getting flashbacks to the Venezuela protests when they found a protestor with a Washington Nationals hat, and decided that must have been a CIA agent who forget to take his hat off. This is not an exaggeration or a simplification of the theory, this was the real belief.
Think about what you'd have to believe to make that make sense. First you'd have to believe that only someone from the government could wear a Nats hat. Then you'd have to believe he walked around in a full America get up, and only changed into his Venezuela costume later.
Then there were the analyses of the whiteness of the protestors based on aerial shots. That was very normal.
Seems to me that a Super Smash Bros cinematic universe is a giant pile of money no one at Nintendo wants to pick up.
I'm sure there's far less interest in an 8-episode season of Pikachu teaming up with Solid Snake than there is of whatever the fuck Loki was about.
Close your eyes and picture the post-credits scene of the first Mario movie where they're celebrating Wario's demise and then a toadstool comes in and says "Princess, this just came through a warp pipe" and it's a turtle shell. Tell me you don't have goosebumps.
The New York Times has a proud history of being wrong, but nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever beat the last paragraph of their endorsement of Abraham Lincoln.