What happened here?
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To find out what happened there, visit https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I love this inscrutable unhinged website
So, Jodie Foster's first feature film was produced in 1971 for 1972 release, and so it was a battleground of time travelers who either wanted to impress Jodie Foster or stop people from impressing Jodie Foster which splintered the timeline and we ended up in a bad one.
Edit: neither side are the good guys, mind you. The good guys with a time machine are creating timelines where Lenin gets a Gundam, not trying to impress/not impress a teenager
https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Best_Christmas_Story_Never
The American Dad theory of American imperialism. I like it.
Them quoting Hayek and linking to a Bitcoin white paper is the cherry on top of this. Talk abt an immaterial worldview lmao
That... doesn't really say anything. It's just a truckload of graphs showing that a lot of stuff around income and quality of life went to shit in 1971.
It does nothing to explain the why.
This website explains why https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
Does it? Because the question seems to be why there is an inflection point specifically in 1971 and not about the nature of capitalism in general.
I mean I was obviously being a bit silly. It explains why capitalism must do something like that but does not explain why capitalism in the US did it at explicitly that time
That's a bookmark.