Imo you should at least give Princess Mononoke a watch, before you decide to hang up your Ghibli hat. Still a children’s movie, but with quite a bit more depth than Totoro and Spirited Away.

And I don’t understand why you don’t like them. What a world we are living in!

https://lo.se/english/the_collective_agreement

To me, it clearly seemed to be directed at the mayor.

This is purely an outsiders perspective here, but I’ve never really had much control over what my dad did in his life. Is it different in the US?

It’s definitely Van Damme, even got the forehead bump and everything. Honestly an impressive attention to detail