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Given that we talk about mostly white European settlers, just the huge majority of native american lands, a good chunk of Mexico, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and several smaller places, areas controlled as "banana republics", Phillipines, and who knows, eventually Greenland, and even talk about Canada, unserious as it likely is.
And with no own ethnic population there to begin with or continuous historical ties to the area.
Canada, those oppressors of the natives?
As for the comparison, I don't think it's fair. The US has not yet invaded its neighbor, Canada, leading to millions of deaths and heavy casualties. Let's not adopt your binary view on this matter.
No, just bombed, invaded, overthrew governments, etc in dozens of countries all around the world...
Have been reading this for 25 years, even remember 2000s related efforts (also for Gnome). And does anybody remember Chandler? That went well....
That how it was sold, whatever Schuman had in mind, and increasingly encroached scope that Europeans voted again and again against.
The original actual scope was even more limited than a unified market: coal and steel control.
You need to hook something up to a network, and another device would have similar risks.
Another device might not give the free reign for all shitty malware like they do. Apple TV for one wouldn't.
That's for a general purpose computing platform that a smartphone is.
This is for a fucking TV.
If the courts are almost always sympathetic, does it matter?
It seems like the EU in general is struggling badly with how to control internet access.
It struggles badly with how to control everything more and more. What was an economic union of markets has become an uber-government that gives more and more power to itself.
Not that the US or the rest is far behind, but in this case it's accompanied with even more incompetence and disconnected to the real problems.
Just means they'll likely target the VPNs to give them data directly instead of forcing users not to use them.
Nobody that's pushing it has any incentive for fixing it - and they have all the opposite incentives.
Yes, because at least that won't be flattering you (not to mention it would be showing the actual garment).
And how's that been working out for you?
Not asking whether "reducing state capacity" helps with that. Asking how's that "reducing" going.
That would matter if officials on the other side cared and weren't oking it.
What work of Disney (company, not the man per se...) is more influential on the modern American Psyche (today, in 2026) than Ironman, X-Men or Spiderman?
All of them. None of those MCU movies really did anything to the "american psyche", forgettable entertainment.
And even if they had done, the question was "in terms of how Americans see themselves and how people around the world sees us". Nobody sees Americans in in 2026 the way Stan Lee or MCU saw them. Not even themselves. How they have been seen in general wasn't determined in 2026 or 2020 or 2000, but in the 20th century. And even how they're seen and see themselves in 2026 is not defined by the MCU either.
Concerning the general view on US, Disney movies (especially including Pixar) have had much more influence. But I mentioned other even more important things: Hollywood in general (pre-MCU, from early film to John Ford, and to Copolla and Scorsese), the western and the idea of the west/'frontier', rock n' roll...
Sleeping Beauty? That's French. Beauty and the Beast? Also French. Great Mouse Detective? British. Alice in Wonderland? British. Pinocchio? Italian.
In their Disney treatment they're 100% American.
And T.S. Elliot was a Bostonian, but adopted British!
Kubrick made all his iconic movies (except Spartacus and Paths of Glory) while settled in Britain, and shot most of them in British studios.
As an author no.
But as a director, they could be elevated to the status of creator, and perhaps directing is the truer American art form rather than ...epic poetry or the novel. Which speaks to the core of the question at a different level.
Besides, Homer didn't write his own plots either, he adapted original screenplays, so to speak!
Actor and Director and Producer would be more than enough for everybody. Especially combined with several Oscar wins as director and producer, and even Oscar nominations as actor (on top of iconic roles).
But he has also been an OST composer for some films.
British.
Stan Lee probably had more influence than Walt Disney in terms of how Americans see themselves and how people around the world sees us.
Seriously doubt it.
Both "how Americans see themselves and how people around the world sees them" was established way before both the MCU and before superhero comics became anything else than a preoccupation of the nerdy niche.
In the 60s, and 70s, and 80s, few fucks were given around the world for the Marvel comic universe (they still sold somewhat, just not that important culturally), and it was definitely not how people got to perceive the US: hollywood, the western, rock n' roll, all those were 100x more important. And Disney was way more important than Marvel at the time too.
yeah, the first one :)
Well, so authority figures tells us :)
Cue the variations of:
"No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame"
"Did you see the output of that Chat GPT 2? It's super lame code"
Nation wide NIH.
Well, I never said anything about one-shotting it.
What I said is, those AI companies push LLMs as the replacement of programmers, that can do everything code-wise, say their programmers "don't write code anymore" etc.
So how come they can't have the LLM write something better than "react for cli" for their flagship agent product?
And the idea that one location making all the horseshoes means each village is minus one living is ignoring the other effects.
Ignoring all the possitive other effects as well.
They said that, but it was already quite famous for centuries. As were other paintings, not copied, and not involved in some high publicity heist like it.
I don't think it's uniquely Fanatics. All kinds of "luxury" brands have been dropping their quality standards for several decades now. And not for making some mass market cheaper products, but on their regular supposedly "luxury" lines.
The real dupes are people without money to burn buying the originals at 10 and 20 times the cost, due to marketing convincing them goods made with the same materials, in similar (or even the same) factories, and often using sweatshop like labor, are somehow hand-crafted objects of luxury.