plov_mix [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Imagine your job was writing stuff like whatever the hell this isEnglish
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1 year agoWhen you try to sound like an intellectual but don’t even know how to write
When you try to sound like an intellectual but don’t even know how to write
French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”
(Actual military history may vary)
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.
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?!”).
my conspiracy brain tells me it’s not actually aimed at average western readers. During this round of real estate downturn (which started in 2020) there’s been some concerted effort both inside and outside china in the business/finance journalism to force the gov to pump out massive amounts of cash and bail out those loser-financiers (perhaps à la USA in oct 2008?). Instead, not only is the gov reluctant to do so, but they’ve also done the appallingly unthinkable of jailing many CEOs and board members (the gov has also, to my limited understanding of macroeconomics, refused to let those real estate firms declare bankruptcy before they actually finish those construction projects for which people have already paid the deposits and taken on loans). Anyway, there’s probably a rather materially cynical reason for all this clamor of “Xi’s intentionally letting the economy go bust”