• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ok, I’ll argue.

    But not in the way that was intended.

    It’s pretty evident throughout the TV series that the Krusty Krab is an exploitative capitalist business with an incredibly greedy and rich owner that openly flaunts his wealth, stinginess, and poor treatment of his employees. They’re always busy, but the food is probably crap, because every time a new restaurant opens in town there’s an episode about how the Krusty Krab is suddenly empty. But when the new place gets shut down through some sort of nefarious hijinks, everyone is flocking to get back to the Krusty Krab.

    The Krusty Krab is China.

    Then, in the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, we get the Krusty Krab 2; more or less the same thing, with a giant fancy logo, and insanely inflated prices, that (per the founder) exists solely to make money.

    There’s the US.

    The rest of the world is probably best represented by a restaurant not in a city called “Bikini Bottom”.

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    4 days ago

    Forgot to add the apartheid ethnostate in with the US.

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      3 days ago

      We might as well expand the list to US, Israel, China, Russia, Iran, and SAE.

      EDIT: And Venezuela. Any others lmk I’ll add it in.

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          4 days ago

          China is perhaps the worst offender, currently. They’re probably the largest threat to this entire world.