Back in 2014, I was slamming communists way before it was cool. Now that everyone around me has a prefrontal cortex, they are stupefied that I resist the current trend of bemoaning China.
Why aren’t you joining the new cold war hoorah, Aaron? What are you, a commie and a China simp? Yes. Three reasons:
1: It doesn’t make sense to cry about the people that make the phone in your pocket. If you had real principles and weren’t just following a moaning herd, you would ditch the smart phone. That shackle in your pocket ties you to all the surveillance and slavery of the 21st century. Life is comfortable with that phone in your pocket though, so you bark without teeth. Replace [phone] with a number of other essential products. Walk into a Home Depot or a tractor supply and try to buy a well priced tool or glove that doesn’t have MADE IN CHINA stamped on it. Try to buy a washing machine with American components. The same Americans that moan and piss about Chinese Communism forget that Americans benefits directly from Chinese Communism every day. It is extremely convenient for us that there is another country across the globe filled with hundreds of millions of people willing to work jobs that are beneath us.
2: I still remember the spirit of 2020. Before militarism and salute emojis swept over public discourse, we were talking about police reform. We were talking about how insanely understaffed our hospitals are. We were talking about how we don’t have the capacity to make our own shit when a pandemic shuts down global trade. We were talking about the cost of education. We were talking about how absolutely fucked over working people are in the face of corporate profits.
I still believe that the best way to subvert Chinese Communism is to build an America capable of standing on its own two feet.
3: All the 21st century McCarthyists I meet tend to be virgins.
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