You may be interested in some of the lore and mechanics around Sigil. It doesn't exactly escape the D&D tropes (in some sense it's at the center of the universe, in a universe where good and evil are physical places you can go), but it does present a framework for an actually politically and culturally diverse metropolis. It's also a city of infinite portals, so you can kind of make things intersect with whatever story you're trying to tell. The Bleak Cabal are kind of vulgar materialists, the Athar are anti-theists (or anti-divinists, or whatever), there are multiple flavors of anarchists, labor unions, and there's all the extraplanar politicking and backstabbing you might need to keep things spicy. I think the authors of the Planescape setting managed to avoid some of the worst real-world tropes of your average D&D setting, and the spiritual successor Numenera may be more actively positive in this direction.
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That insulin is an industry at all is enough to condemn the West to permanent jihad. May the entire employee directory of Eli Lilly be rendered into life-saving hormones forever.
Antimetabole is the refuge of the inane.
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The kind Vladimir Ilyich had evidence leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
lmao, the Shark caucus Discord split echoes throughout history. Fondly remembering that incredibly toxic drama and the very normal posting.
The liberal brainpan cannot tolerate encountering a political position that does not admit compromise unless that position harms groups large enough to be considered undifferentiated "other"s. Many such cases: racism, trans rights, animal rights, children's rights, refugees, and I'm only hitting the highlights. To be firmly and immovably on the liberatory side of any such issue is purity politics, but there's always room to kill a few more "other"s so the frothing blood cult will consider not voting down a non-binding procedural motion too hard. On the other hand, we know every billionaire by name, so it would be uncivil to suggest 
I don't think it's quite that Pokemon Black and White, but I guess it's possible he might spend an evening in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Let me be Pokemon Crystal clear: all that will visibly come of this is a pack of QAnon Pokemon Detective Pikachus tooling up with their Pokemon Sword and Shields and forming a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team on Twitter.
Alors, zis will be ze end of La Guillotinerie! But wait, could it be? Mon dieu, zat's Stalin's music!
I feel like Romeaboos would be less taken with the language if they realized that the Italian accent didn't just come out of nowhere. The vision they have in their heads is all movie-badass-voice Euromerican-accent Latin, but the reality is much funnier. 
Real mirror universe Brandon Sanderson type shit, here, lol.