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she. i translate stuff. random chinese culture/history/politics and writing shitposting
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it’s not distinctive of US democracy at all. Which democracy lets people from countries it’s bombing vote in their elections?
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it’s not like foreigners get to vote either way. who were the chief victims of US Cold War crimes? not Americans. The US is not in any way accountable to the victims of its foreign policy, they have as much as a vote in it as they would in a dictatorship
Kissinger is dead. A(nother) chance to reflect on a rather distinctive feature of American democracy: that it can grant an unelected person the power to do tremendous harm.
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seems a bit gauche to crow about how cheap the war is when the reason it’s cheap for the US is because Ukrainians are the ones paying
We’re weakening Russia for pennies on the dollar and without sending a single American soldier to Ukraine. It’s a chance Reagan would have jumped at. It would be completely foolish to walk away from Ukraine now.
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Gaza is now at risk of extreme famine and disease. People cannot find any painkillers or antibiotics which are the most basic forms of medicine. Many poor families are only able to have one meal a day consisting of boiled water with lentils. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.
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a US$500,000 bonus*. like sure, not taking it reflects better on his moral character than taking it. but I don’t think that matters one jot to the people being deprived of water
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I knew an I-banker who walked away from a US$500,000 because the project it was attached to would deprive millions of impoverished people of affordable water. they just gave the project to someone else
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I also don’t feel the individual moral choice is all that interesting tbh. walking away means you get to feel like you don’t have dirty hands, but so what?
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the thing I can’t get over with that story is that societal happiness in exchange for one miserable kid is such a massive better deal than any of us are getting. what’s the dilemma, you think outside we aren’t enmiserating a hell of a lot more people for a hell of a lot less?
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true, but a lot of people—institutions—were involved too. US Cold War policy is still killing people, despite the Cold War long being over. The problem isn’t just one evil guy, it’s the whole policy making apparatus, and the ruthless logic great power conflict makes attractive
Every year, a significant number of unexploded bombs laying in fields in Laos and Cambodia detonate. In other words, even in death, Kissinger is still killing people.
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the godawful thing about Kissinger discourse is the people who replaced him are even worse, and are using his reputation now to undermine the actually good parts of his legacy and push toward the power-conflict type conditions that led to the war crimes in the first place
The thing is, in the long run, Kissinger actually didn’t win! The neocons displaced Kissinger and his approach to foreign policy by the 1980s and then reigned for decades. Kissinger has an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands, but his successors were even more bloodthirsty.
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the lovely thing about China hawks on Twitter on Henry Kissinger is that you can tell their biggest problem with him is that he wasn’t enough of a war monger
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most brilliant american who committed war crimes, but his worst offense was being an agent of chinese influence. weird take but ok
Henry Kissinger is dead at 100. Kissinger's obituaries will be mostly about his opening of China, his crimes in Vietnam, Laos, and India, and his wit. But Kissinger was also an agent of Chinese influence, and, for the last forty years of his life, a businessman masquerading as a
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another tedious invocation of agency to deflect from criticism of the US’s role in mass atrocities. you realize that more than one actor can be involved in producing an outcome, right?
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who actually thinks or says this, he’s just less insane/bloodthirsty wrt to China than the rest of the US foreign policy establishment. says more about the US foreign policy establishment than anything that they make Kissinger look like the peacenik
I hate to tell you this but Kissinger did not spend the last decades of his life sucking up to China because he opposed american empire
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“ccp destroyed Chinese traditional culture” okay but I just saw a character in a mainland Chinese video game use 吾 and 汝 as pronouns so, invalid you’ve heard of neopronouns. now presenting paleopronouns
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good points on the KMT’s own reading of traditional culture being selective, and how they drew on foreign ideological strains as well. while KMT guys did present themselves as defending traditional culture from communism/new culture excess, we shouldn’t take that at face value
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(also, the idea that Taiwan or whatever preserves traditional Chinese culture whereas the mainland does not is premised on a very selective interpretation of “preserving traditional culture.” eg. no one binds feet anymore nor treats Classical Chinese as the written standard)
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love enacting gun bans while on the run through rough countryside with my revolutionary army trying to escape encirclement by a much larger force while bleeding troops
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(needless to say, this discourse does flatten traditional Chinese culture, which of course was not static or uniform and had its own points of contestation. at many times it might be better to say “Confucianism” in particular, but not always)
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and while it was influenced by foreign ideologies, sometimes very significantly, it was also very much an endogenous reaction to the existing social/political/economic conditions in China at the time
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