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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower (youtu.be)
posted 1 year ago by XBX_X 1 year ago by XBX_X +34 / -0
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– Unknownsailor 20 points 1 year ago +20 / -0

China is what you get when a highly intelligent nation lacks the moral foundations of Christianity, and never had the Greco-Roman legal tradition. They are a highly tribal and amoral nation who steal without compunction, and look out only for their own families.

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– Ahaus667 14 points 1 year ago +14 / -0

highly intelligent

Press x to doubt. China pumps out lots of fake data to present a narrative. They’re a nation of bug people who still to this day cling to a modern emperor because the majority don’t have the capacity for self governance. The only reason china has any relevance whatsoever is globalists pumping them up for decades with investments which are now biting them in the ass because surprise, China is China.

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– AntonioOfVenice 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

They’re a nation of bug people who still to this day cling to a modern emperor because the majority don’t have the capacity for self governance.

You know what? Unlike most people here, I think democracy is a good thing, but looking at the complete mess that is Europe and the US, I don't think we either have it or that we're capable of it.

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– SarcasticRidley 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Unlike most people here, I think democracy is a good thing

Uterus detected, opinion rejected.

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– ModsAreAIDS 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

He is a European man. Your mistaken impression is completely understandable though, as it is impossible to tell their men and women apart when just going off of something they wrote.

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– AntonioOfVenice 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Your devices might be a bit off. Or you're a believe in transgenderism.

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– Agenda47 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0

I'm sure there were more reasonable and moral people there in the past, but the grandparents of the current chinese population killed and ate them.

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– ItLivesInTheWind 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

Yes. It was natural selection at work. I'd imagine there's a similar phenomenon with good eyesight in Cambodia after Pol Pot ordered the execution of anyone wearing glasses because they might be seditious intellectuals or readers.

China went through three sets of purges in the 20th century. One by the republic against communists, one by the Japanese against anyone brave enough to fight back, and one against artists, academics, and creatives who either remembered or could imagine something other than the CCP.

China is a product of biology, politics, and philosophy.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Only the civnat cucks who thought China could still be saved with reason and debate. The ones with any sense fucked off to Taiwan.

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– horstshort 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

China is what you get when a highly intelligent nation lacks the moral foundations of Christianity, and never had the Greco-Roman legal tradition.

How do you explain Japan then?

They are a highly tribal and amoral nation who steal without compunction, and look out only for their own families.

That's a result of Communism. Not because the absence of Christianity. Mao utterly destroyed any cultural and societal foundation China had and replaced it with pure, unscrupulous, terrorized egotism where people will fuck over even their own families.

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– Unknownsailor 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Even a thousand years ago, in the days when Confucius institutes were where you went to hopefully get a government job, the highest goal of many was to get on the government dole and direct government money to family members.

Now it is CCP membership that gets you access to graft and corruption. The labels have changed, but the overall culture is the same, a culture that has persisted for thousands of years.

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