Status Updates From The Perfect Dictatorship: C...

quoting arendt when discussing whether or not china is a totalitarian state, not realising you are bound to fail here because according to arendt antisemitism is a defining factor of what turns a state totalitarian, but also not mentioning that arendt's model needs to be adjusted for non european contexts... hm

"controlocracy" 😭 were really just making stupid terms up as we go huh

praising South Korea as a successful welfare state... I'm sorry but when you are this wrong about (or this keen on misrepresenting) the korean situation to dunk on china i find it hard to trust anything else you say

comparing South Korea and China and mentioning Tiananmen and the 1987 protests in S Korea as the South Korean government being unable to react with violence because they are not a party-state while completely failing to mention Gwangju, a student demonstration similar to Tiananmen and which ended up with hundreds or more killed by the state military, and which was in 1980, is. certainly a choice