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One thing I was never adequately prepared for about late-stage capitalism is how fucking ridiculous it is, and how hard it tries to normalize that ridiculousness. Like not long ago a toy-manufacturing megacorporation sent menacing thugs to a guy's house for too enthusiastically giving their products free advertising, and we made a big serious thing out of it as if it wouldn't have shamed the most vicious poison-pen satirist to have written it. Absolute clownshoes ideology