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The consequences of this Cultural Revolution will be felt for decades.
by jahnu 1y ago
The consequences of this Cultural Revolution will be felt for decades.
- oceansky 1y agoI would say at least a century
- PartiallyTyped 1y agoWe can agree that decades of soft power are gone. So it’d take twice as much to ameliorate.
- consumer451 1y ago> soft power This term appears to have been redefined by podcast and twitter bros as something really, really bad. They can't define it, but it's bad. Similar to that four letter word that starts with "w."
- slumberlust 1y agoA rose by any other name would smell as sweet. What do you want to call it? Then we can focus the discussion on the issue and not semantics.
- consumer451 1y agoFor soft power: non-violent projection of national interests and influence.
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- drstewart 1y agoYou would say that based on what?
- hermitcrab 1y agoThe effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are still very keenly felt in China.
- linotype 1y agoIf an alliance decades in the making can be undone in six months it wasn’t much of an alliance in the first place. Just a bunch of countries subsidizing their defense budgets off the backs of the poor and middle class in the US (NATO).
- oceansky 1y agoDestroying is much easier than building something, including alliances, trust and deals.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoChildish destruction is really in its own category too. I would say different US leaders over the decades have had varying degrees of financial acumen when it comes to being able to afford things like NATO, without contributing most strongly to pressure on poor & middle class. Though no doubt a truly rich country has been able to afford it through thick & thin, as long as there is decision-making consistently at above-average levels, with no undercurrents or personal tendencies toward financial incompetence, malfeasance or outright criminality in sight. When the fool who drops the ball is closer to the top though, expect it to take a whole lot longer to recover the same yardage that was lost, if at all. Every now and then there are shameful milestones that just can not be recovered from. Some things you just can't fix.
- jahnu 1y agoLet’s not forget the party that does everything possible to help fool and cover for his behaviour and choices. It’s madness. I’m deadly serious when I call this a Cultural Revolution. It makes Brexit look like a kindergarten game.
- jahnu 1y agoIt wasn’t undone in 6 months. This started with the GWOT and ramped up in 2016. This year was just the tipping point.
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- dist-epoch 1y agoNo they wont, the AIs which will rule the world decades from now will not care. It would be like us caring about some chimp wars from time forgotten.
- buyucu 1y agoI think a comparison to China's Cultural Revolution is the best analogy for what is happening in the US right now. Ideological purity takes priority over everything else.