This is the best thing they've done since they named me person of the year 2006
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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https://archive.md/YAcVM
archived article if you're curious, I haven't gotten to it, its probably shit
Not gonna lie, the John Foster Dulles name-drop made me do a spit take. This author has gotta be one of those old as fuck Kissinger types. Let's check his Wikipedia:
Every “China watcher” is a satanically racist imperialist
What the fuck, lmao
prohibition of drugs in the countries i'm familiar with has been worse than the drugs
And those prohibitions didn't even result in Britain invading, which can't have been good for anyone's health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Invasion_(US_1964)
to be fair to my mom's musical taste the war on drugs didn't ramp up until after that period
There's zero chance this guy applies the anti-prohobition argument to the imperial core
Wasn't a bad read. It's full of drum beating about china being authoritarian and how they're preventing "ordinary people" from changing the country (ordinary to Time Magazine means millionaires and billionaires), but aside from those two issues it essentially reads as a description anyone here would make of China's reform and opening up being a clever trick that used capitalist power in socialist hands.
It's basically the ML take on China except with anti-china framing to make it palatable for liberal ears.
It's actually been very odd how many normies I've explained this to at work or whatever and the response been 'ohhhh, that makes sense. Good for them, they really bamboozled these guys'