It's like how people in America were somewhat upset about The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise because it's "cultural appropriation" but people in Japan were VERY upset about it because it was far-right fascist propaganda
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And they decided to directly lean into that "So what if he is? What's so bad about Qin Shi Huang? Sometimes history calls for a God-King At least Qin CHANGED something about the world"
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Anyway the attitude exemplified by that essay kind of demonstrates the bridge by which the CCP transitioned from the absurdly ideology-obsessed era of the Cultural Revolution to the kind of ideologically apathetic ordinary fascism they're dealing in now
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Every Very Online discourse prior to the existence of the actual internet is basically this tweethttps://twitter.com/ArfMeasures/status/964607359489314816 …
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I mean the various internecine conflicts of the first and second internationals were as Extremely Online as you can get in the 19th century
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