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Little Micaela Is Just a Representation of an Influence or Culture That Has Eaten Too Much of It

The bread corporation is famously private, and for a long time, wouldn't even publicly admit that lil machaela was artificial. I think theyk wanted to keep her ontological status clouded. What she influences people to support is influenced, or even determined, by what's alreay popular. And this is what philosophers might call the band wagon fallacy,. This idea that if something is popular, it must therefore be right, andTherefore, if it’s right, it must be popular... There's more to the band wagon policy than that, but that's the kind of how i'm seeing it show up in little micela ye.

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