plov_mix [comrade/them]

Bernie: CIVILITY!! NORM!!

I read it and I don’t have anything smart or rational to say, other than how tired I am of this one particular assumption palpable in the way many Western lefties think (including this piece, I feel): “y’all in the third world need to catch up with us — that is, become Western/modern AND THEN, ONLY THEN can we start building solidarity to takedown capitalism.” It seems really difficult for many on the Western left (whatever that definition is) to imagine solidarity NOT on the terms of their Eurocentric history and experiences. /rant.

I’m not an American so I can’t vote in your stupid elections anyway

Lmao I’m glad i’m not the only one who loves to troll the lib yanks this way.

French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”

(Actual military history may vary)

“Before Christ” and “In the Year of the Lord” are just factually wrong though — Jesus of Nazareth was born no later than 4 BCE, the year of Herod’s death.

Speaking from experience. I realized I was gay in high school in China and nobody around me from my teachers and classmates to my parents and extended family gave me any trouble — except the grand narrative on everyone’s mind was that, because I am gay, my future lay completely with the west, mostly cuz of this “western value” idea Chen seems to subscribe to. It was a big factor why I so eagerly moved the US and became an absolutely cringe Eurocentric lib till recently.

There’s perhaps something to be said about how queer people in non-western worlds might be assumed/pushed to identify with the western capitalist world that has middle-class-washed and hijacked the lgbt liberation movements. But this line of thought is always too close to home for me to rationally think about

Idk let’s do this with the military, I’ll just cancel my subscription and surrender whenever there’s a war, yeah?

ABBA = are bad bureaucracies all?

I used to have no idea why so many “rad” academics love their Arendt. Now I do.

ancient Chinese heaven didn’t take nukes into account

It looks like the US hegemony is getting only stronger, not weaker, no matter what it does.

“If Heaven wants someone to perish, it’d first make them go unhinged,” actual Chinese proverb (天欲其亡必欲其狂)

This is pure gold. On the sentence level, paragraph level, overall level, plus of course the absolutely savage satire. Just :chefs-kiss:

I work in higher ed and I wish I could receive something as good and REAL as this in my grading grind.

I typically only watch the first half of each episode, precisely for the bullying.

I don’t need the wholesomeness of class reconciliation in the second halves. (“CANT YOU SEE, BOSS, THAT WE CAAARRRRREEEE ABOUT YOUUU?!”).