It's extra bad because the Soviets had already experienced similar problems under Stalin decades prior and their advisors were pushing China to avoid them, although in a way China probably reasonably found subordinating and condescending. That brought about the Sino Soviet split. While that might not have been one of the biggest factors, it definitely didn't help. Ironically, while Mao failed to learn from Stalin's mistakes, future leaders reversed course on a lot of Stalinist and Maoist policies. China became an industrial world power. I guess we'll see where it goes from here.

Honestly, that's the exact kind of marketing that I'd expect to work well with the brand.

The commercial could be about the ceremonial process of making the shorts in feudal Japanese tradition, especially including a part where one person throws regular jeans at a blindfolded person with a sword who cuts them midair into the perfect jorts.

That's a terrible deal even in 2026 dollars, but $19.95 in the 80s is over $70 now. If you or someone you know are struggling to look like an ass for less than $70, please DM me. I can achieve similar results at half the cost.

You can shove pork into buns, but that don't make them hotdogs.

This is the core of bravery: not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Gotta get the kids started on Orwell early.

I hope it was farce, but it's still pretty accurate. The secret is cheating and then declaring victory after the opponent refuses to play.

I have never been more afraid to ask for explication.

That's so weird. Why do they even care what the replacement reason is?

It's like, "Just deactivate them and send new ones to the address on record."

Maybe they were stolen. Maybe they were slid through someone's buttcrack as a joke and merchant's won't take stinky buttcards. Shouldn't matter. The cards are now unusable for whatever reason. They should send new ones.

Your house after your package arrives on time, traveling at over 100 gigameters per second

Oops. Good catch. Should have said megameters. Now the whole planet is scorched. My bad.

Hmm, that's the kind of thing that might create a brave new world.

Somewhere out there, there's a printout of this, sincerely pinned to a cork board under a thoughtfully arannged web of red yarn.

Bunneling technology has advanced significantly by leaps and hops over the last few decades.

That mugshot goes hard

That's a pretty good start

Agreed, but how dark and or grotesque are we willing to go?

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