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[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is your brain on Tom Friedman:

In Thomas Friedman's 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree the following statement was presented: "No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's"

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's not terribly far off from that octopus that was good at picking presidential election winners.