I know some people will piously chant "material conditions" and try to ignore the intersectional influence of culture and media (no one is immune to propaganda, after all), but something shifted and got a lot worse since gate took off a little before the regime.
the base shapes and maintains the superstructure
the superstructure maintains and shapes the base
As long as it isn't going in a "fight clubs would have happened on college campuses with the exact same timing and frequency with or without Brad Pitt's movie because material conditions" direction, yeah I agree.
It's so weird what happened. The internet before 2016 was a completely different universe.
I know some people will piously chant "material conditions" and try to ignore the intersectional influence of culture and media (no one is immune to propaganda, after all), but something shifted and got a lot worse since
gate took off a little before the 
regime.
the base shapes and maintains the superstructure
the superstructure maintains and shapes the base
As long as it isn't going in a "fight clubs would have happened on college campuses with the exact same timing and frequency with or without Brad Pitt's movie because material conditions" direction, yeah I agree.
i was agreeing with you
just phrased it more marxism-ly
i apologise, i'm very tired
Me too, me too.
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Ah, remember the rainbow baked goods craze of like 2011?