• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Yeah. The music still slaps though.

    RATM’s bassist is into some weird fringe right-libertarian stuff too if I recall

    Nobody’s perfect 🤷‍♂️

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      9 days ago

      or they changed. 30 years is a long time.

      their debut was released

      • 3 years after the fall of Berlin wall
      • a year after the dissolution of USSR
      • 9 years before the September 11 attacks
      • 15 years before iPhone
      • 24 years before the election of a reality tv entertainer/real estate conman as POTUS
      • China wasn’t a superpower back then
      • EU didn’t exist in its current form
      • Apartheid was still an actuality
      • internet wasn’t omnipresent
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        9 days ago

        How was China not a superpower then?

        They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.

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          China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.