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    I had forgotten how exhausting it is to hear libs go on about Trump after a few days like they’re just discovering what “decisions against their interests” are. I don’t think I was as aware the first time around either, it feels somehow more painful this time, like having spent years on and off trying to tell people a car is crashing and them mostly brushing it off or not taking it all that seriously and then Trump is in power and suddenly they’re like “omg car crash incoming, are you seeing this?!?”

    It would be one thing if they were like “I see what you meant now”. But the Trump narrative isn’t like that. The Trump narrative says that he is somehow uniquely bad and different from the rest of the system, not of it.

    And I think the most aggravating part to me, within that, is the “blame voters” narrative. Seriously gets under my skin. Guy is trying to wreck things and your priority is “hate on your fellow regular person”??? We (in the US) were presented with “genocidal top cop without a primary to vote on” vs. “genocidal shitty mob boss”. There was nothing voting could have done to fundamentally improve that short of being able to someone get millions to switch to a third party and then they probably would have declared it illegitimate somehow.

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      Recently I find myself thinking of Mao’s oft-quoted concept that one has no right to speak if they have not investigated the subject matter. I find so many liberals commenting on the affairs who, quite simply, lack even a cursory understanding of history. I’ve come to see most liberals as egoists at this point: everyone thinks they have something to say even when their education and knowledge on the matter is limited to an extreme degree. Having thoughts are one thing, but if you do not know what the Nullification Crisis is, or your historical understanding precludes any thought from before 1900 than I quite simply do not wish to hear what you have to say.

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        everyone thinks they have something to say even when their education and knowledge on the matter is limited to an extreme degree

        Yesss, so much this. That’s one of the things I’ve tried to address in my own thinking in becoming more communist and less liberal, is if I don’t know enough about something, I don’t need to have a “take” on it. Especially I try to apply this with countries I don’t live in. Most of the time, if I’m being honest with myself, I know little about the realities of them. And it’s one of the things that motivates me to learn Mandarin, so that I can learn about China from the perspective of China and Chinese people living there, not through a western imperialist “endless lies” filter.

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          Liberals have main character syndrome. and its fucking annoying.

          Also, I got on Redbook recently to see what the hype is all about. It’s been a really good, mostly wholesome experience. As a Westerner it’s been cool to talk with people from China about daily life and run into the odd culture clash.