My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded “So we’ve been told.” She looks at me like I’m crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) “I’ve not seen any evidence of that.”
“Because they’re such a closed country!”
“Which means you have no evidence to your point either?”
“Well, missionaries… anyway!”
FOUR DECADES AGO. I am reminded of people who think Russia is still commie
It’s always bizarrely funny to me when someone’s conception of a foreign country is frozen in the era when they grew up. Like a guy I knew who, when I tried to explain that Japan is a semi-colony of the US, responded “actually the US is a semi-colony of Japan because they make all our electronics and could paralyze our economy by cutting us off from trade.”
This guy after learning the bubble burst:
my parents’ generation grew up hearing some variation of “finish your dinner, because there are starving children in China” and they can’t really let go of when they were kids and it was one of the poorest countries in the world
Russia defeated the nazis and the world will never forgive them for it.
the soviet union. not just russia
Thanks for the correction, it’s easy to conflate the two due to decades of western propaganda
commie just means bad to a lot of assclowns.
Guess I’m down bad then