THIS COMM HAS MOVED
I took a Chinese history course in college since US high school does a piss poor job of teaching anything not western-centric. I can recall at least a half dozen times I was completly shocked by a death toll from a war/rebellion, or just by the sheer madness of the situation.
What do you mean? China didn’t exist before the Portuguese!
Sincerely,
A public school student
Woah woah woah, this Marco Polo erasure will not stand!
Found the Italian.
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Ya the history of China is rough. Basically everyone does great for a minute, lots of art, philosophy, and other neat things. Then everyone dies. Rinse and repeat.
Lemmy.ml accounts about to all wake up and come riot in this Wendy's
What the hell did you just say about China, you bourgeois puppet? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Marxist-Leninist dialectics, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on western propaganda outlets, and I have over 300 confirmed posts defending the PRC online. I am trained in cultural warfare and I’m the top debater on all of Lemmy.ml. You are nothing to me but just another capitalist running dog. I will wipe you out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this platform, mark my words. You think you can get away with mocking China? Think again, imperialist. As we speak I am contacting my network of comrades across the Fediverse and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your meme. You’re done, kid. Not only am I extensively trained in denial of historical events, but I have access to the entire arsenal of Chinese state media, and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your smug western grin off the face of the internet. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little 'Tank Engine meme' was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price. I will rain essays all over you and you will drown in them. You’re absolutely finished, kiddo
"I will rain essays all over you"
Actually so real
Pretty sure they have stock replies ready for any sort of critique. It explains why they go on for two pages of text and two dozen links and it doesn't even have anything to do with the actual topic at hand. It's just bizarre
I've read a couple of the essays. On top of stuff like fawning over Stalin randomly and portraying everyone asking him questions in interviews or whatever as morons, they didn't even answer the questions raised in their premise until the conclusion, and when they finally did, the answers were just completely unsatisfactory. Basically a waste of half an hour or whatever.
They do. I see constant threads in. Ml leftist communities where they ask how to response to a certain talking point and come up with a standard response.
A good meme
So not the train from the dark tower's The Wastelands?
China in eastern history books looks more like China in western media.