Botond173
11hr ago
Are you arguing that this is how Democrat politicians were actually behaving back then? I won't say the death itself was manufactured. The scandal, on the other hand, very much was, I think.
Botond173
18hr ago
I'd like to add that there used to be many more male bloggers like him, roughly between 2006-2015 or so.
Botond173
21hr ago
the great leap forward, the cultural revolution, and, my favorite, the four pests policy.
The local SJWs and ardent supporters of these policies, unlike in Western societies, were never permitted to grab structural control over social life after marching through the institutions, and were only deputized as mindless executors of the political moves of the supreme leader. Once he was dead, all power was stripped from them by his successors, they were suppressed and their legacy was undone under the official slogan of Setting Things Right. (I briefly described this period here on the old subreddit.) Due to political and cultural peculiarities I’m afraid this great feat is something that will never be achieved in any Western country. If anything of this sort will ever come to pass, it can only happen through bloodshed and complete collapse. In this sense, I think OP is right – the Chinese are doing it all better.
With respect to the one-child policy I think it needs to be pointed out in defense of the Chinese commies that pretty much everyone else in the world was falling for the same nonsense back then. The notion that runaway overpopulation was causing mass poverty, famine and wars seemed irresistible.
Botond173
23hr ago
As far as Japan is concerned, I’m aware that the social concept of the idealized Japanese woman is established so well that there is even a separate phrase for it. According to this concept, the ideal woman is basically dignified and modest and yet at the same time alluring and determined, polite and delicate, graceful and elegant. Naturally female JPop idols are generally expected to adhere to this so I guess your overall point does stand. In other words, in this case we are indeed talking about ‘conscripting real-life women into doing so’. In general, it seems these societies are still conservative enough to retain the concept of idealized femininity whereas in the West this has been thrown with resentment on the trash heap of history decades ago.
It’s part of a larger false narrative that is in essence Awokening denial. Liberals will keep promoting the notion that the Great Awokening never existed, that it was all manufactured, exaggerated and misconstrued by evil MAGA propaganda.
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