I’m now curious. Is Xi known to make the sort of speech Putin is making these days, about traitors and fifth columnists etc? I’m now starting to wonder if there are any differences at all, among authoritarian playbooks.
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It’s remarkable how you can’t even caricature this stuff. It’s like a formula: foreigners, purity, traitors, oyster-eating decadence…
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Gender nonconformity seems to be a newish fear to play on. Xi banning k-pop and stuff seems in the same vein.
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That he has the same list of enemies as all the fascists have ever had but also includes “nazis” on the list is the gonzo innovation
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Opposition to western liberal hegemony necessarily takes on nationalist socialist traditionalist form because global liberalism and liberals function the same everywhere. The anglos do assimilation much better than the French like this
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