I saw a tik tok from a soc dem that made be want to stab my eyes with a fork
Caption was "I'm tired of leftists pretending like China is good"
And then he mocks two types of people (China good person and China bad person) before ultimately concluding that china is complicated and neither good nor bad
Oof! Recognizing that something is more complicated than a simple binary but then immediately jumping to a third option equidistant between the two is peak galaxy brain. Like shit is a complicated evolving and interlocking process, that doesn't mean 50/50 is good! A 50 50 position between piss and cheery-o's just gets piss in your cheery-o's.
It's almost like China is a massive place with lots of moving parts and social groups and binary distinctions about it are over simplifications huh.
I saw a tik tok from a soc dem that made be want to stab my eyes with a fork
Caption was "I'm tired of leftists pretending like China is good"
And then he mocks two types of people (China good person and China bad person) before ultimately concluding that china is complicated and neither good nor bad
The answer is centrism! Yay!
The immortal science of "both sides make good points akshually"
Webster's dictionary defines China as a land of contrasts
ummm this but unironically I guess
That would be a substantial improvement over the linked thread.
Oof! Recognizing that something is more complicated than a simple binary but then immediately jumping to a third option equidistant between the two is peak galaxy brain. Like shit is a complicated evolving and interlocking process, that doesn't mean 50/50 is good! A 50 50 position between piss and cheery-o's just gets piss in your cheery-o's.
Nah, can't be that!