For instance, I have an aunt who is definitely MAGA, and is flirting with Q-Anon ideas. However, she has pretty good views on the environment and animal rights. For instance, after travelling to Ecuador, she donates to some Ecuadorian land trust run by locals. However, if you start talking to her about the border or gender, she goes full Orbán.
Grandma went on a rant about illegal immigrants, supports Palestine. I don’t really get how they square that circle
My uncle still hates Deng for ruining communism and regrets the sino-Albanian split.
He also dislikes the PC police for erasing the fact that Mao smoked cigarettes and complains that portrayals of Mao these days doesn’t include him with cigarette in hand anymore.
He’s certain Maoists could have led another protracted People’s war against Dengists and believes Shanghai and Shenzhen and that are capitalist hellscapes. Xi has been the only secretary of the CPC he has liked in decades. And even then it’s critical support.
Spring Festival every fucking year he has a hot take about X host or comedian or actor in the Gala looks gay. He also chain smokes indoors while drinking 二锅头 and it makes the room smell like rubbing alcohol poured into an ashtray.
I mean at least his brain worms are mostly better than western brainworms (obviously aside from the homophobia and some racism towards south Asians), it’s just that he’s more critical of AES nowadays in a boomer way than he is critical of western imperialism (which he definitely is against, but when he complains it’s about like how North Korea has strayed from Leninism or how breakfast 馒头 costs too much these days 80% of the time and America bad 20%). He’s also critical of China’s reluctance to intervene in global politics, if it were up to him, the People’s Liberation Army should have been deployed to defend the revolution in Burkina Faso or Argentina like how Mao sent troops to defend the DPRK against the 美国鬼子. I keep saying “hey look maybe not getting involved in foreign conflicts like the late USSR is a good thing” but he still thinks the Soviets, for all their faults, could have won Afghanistan if they tried harder.
