Bonus points of course if it has no plot relevance

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

But it does sound maddening, very lib to take a fictional account of historical events and then try to give them the Hollywood treatment and then take that Hollywood treatment that bears no bearing on the original whatsoever and use it to fill in the blanks of their black and white "good guys are this team, bad guys are this team" kind of simplistic idealistic great man history thinking. I don't blame you for not wanting to bother, it sounds completely pointless and the sort of things libs make up to sound smart while refusing to actually understand history in the slightest.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I can't find it again, but I stumbled across this bullshit instead. CW for weapons-grade orientalism:

    https://thediplomat.com/2016/04/the-three-kingdoms-three-paths-for-chinas-future/

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Oh damn, this is like, advanced Xi cup of tea discourse. chefs-kiss

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Right?! THE PERFIDIOUS ASIATICS HAVE DEVELOPED A DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE CALLED "STRATEGIC ALLIANCES!" THEY HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THEM FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AS WRITTEN IN ANCIENT CHINESE TEXTS^*^

    *From the 1500s

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    They truly will say and do anything, no matter how vile or nonsensical, just to avoid ever getting close to class analysis. Like we know what China is planning, they're extremely transparent about it. But these guys act like the inscrutable orientals have been planning to overrun the western world with Labubus for millennia and ancient oracle bones are the only way to tell what they're planning, it's a coded message for today.

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