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Refers to the act of writing and illustrating comic books, specifically, superhero ones.

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Brer is watching the sunset durn the dusk air into a shade of indigo before transitioning into a quit darkness.

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Jonny’s bedroom is a wreck; this line describes a few things near him as his alarm begins to go off (including cookies, peanut butter, tennis balls, and a Japanese chicken clock).

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Jonny’s alarm wakes him up, but he hits the snooze button to catch just 8 more minutes of sleep. When it goes off again though, he’s too tired for it to wake him up again.

A successful venus fly trap (a plant that eats flies) would have closed around its prey. Johnny doesn’t want to wake up and his eyes are closed.

Notice how it even looks like an eye lid

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The pro-war bloc insists that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were justified and heroic. The adjective “Quixotic” alludes to Don Quixote, who was a slapstick “hero” character in Spanish literature. He generally fucked everything up while trying to be a big goddamn hero.

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Quadrennial refers to something that happens every four years. Like Presidential elections, the Olympics, and the World Cup. But mostly elections. Election years always foam at the mouth with over-the-top patriotism and grandstanding, and it always has to do with the war(s) the nation is currently involved in, if any.

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“Red-blooded” is a term to describe something that is very, very, very… American (foreigners' blood is what color now?). In the buildup to the Iraq war and in the time since then, American leaders have relied on patriotism to keep support for the war(s), with varying success. The narrative they present is you’re not a real American if you don’t want young Americans in the desert fighting for oil.

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Phenylethylamine is a natural monoamine alkaloid that is commonly found in chocolate and is thought to drive chemical processes in the brain that have to do with love.

However, it’s rapidly metabolized by the enzyme MAO-B, preventing significant concentrations from reaching the brain, thus contributing no perceptible psychoactive effect without the use of a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Obviously.

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Populist movements can be wished away by elites, and they often blow over or lose steam before anything actually changes.

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Marwar is in India and Cochabamba is a city in Bolivia. They are quite far apart geographically, meaning the Flobots' movement is equally widespread.

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