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rather than say anything likely unconstructive myself in direct response to this, i would very much like to see you elaborate on your understanding of mao and w
by nagaiaida 1y ago
rather than say anything likely unconstructive myself in direct response to this, i would very much like to see you elaborate on your understanding of mao and what value and predictive power you find in this comparison.
- Snow_Falls 1y ago[flagged]
- kristopolous 1y agoI've seen people use the USSR hammer and sickle for the O in GOP. It's from people who think horseshoe theory has legs: that wanting to shut down prisons is the same as wanting to build concentration camps or that the people who want to say nationalize the banks are also the people who want to privatize the post office. It's from centrists being unable to understand this difference
- eli_gottlieb 1y agoMaoism and Trumpism share a certain self-sabotaging ideological fetish for the virtues of rural life that expresses itself politically more in destructive resentment of urbanites and urban institutions than productive development of rural ones.