many locales simply did not have formal policing forces, which was still a cutting-edge innovation from Britain
A formal police force is not a British invention. It existed in other European countries (especially France) hundreds of years before the British. Peele's Principles doesn't really have anything to do with that.
I guess they finally managed to condition people into supporting their hypocritical censorship.
It definitely was that back in Ea's time as well. The concept of the nuclear family is very recent, its dominance of Western culture is hardly a century old.
That is the wrong interpretation though. It is the person in the house pretending to have friends when the pizza delivery guy arrives.
It always felt like a Christian beachhead into internet culture
That is because it was. So much internet bro culture is deeply rooted in US religious nuttery.
Not "good for him". Religious nuttery in full display.
Americans are desperate to come up with any other explanation than their beloved toys being the cause.
They can afford it. After all there are only two entries on the Republican federal budget: 1. grifting money. 2. money to the paramilitary to foment and subsequently suppress dissent.
That is not their point either. It is to virtue signal the submission of the airforce to Führer Trump.
That is true for a lot of companies, but not for Lego.