a lib who got lost and wandered into hexbear once did the "read a book" thing about China, so I asked them what book they recommended and they recommended a completely unrelated novel and asserted they just meant read any book, not a non-fiction book about China

Uhh, just a little book called... the bible

The only value whatsoever to my business administration degree is using it as a middle finger when someone tells me to learn basic economics. I did and had a perfect GPA for that one because it was stupid baby shit for stupid shitting babies.

Kind of funny being lectured “didn’t you learn communism bad in middle school” by the bottom 10% of any given graduating class.

You're interacting with posers; REAL chuds would recommend Evola or some schlock in that vein (of course they won't have read it either but that is a given).

My favourite is "move to China!"

And I go "Yes I want to"

They get all shocked

I've gotten Basic Economice by Sowell, crank that he is, in response to this very question.

The Road to Serfdom by Hayek

Animal Farm
Gulag Archipelago

During the Bush years someone suggested I start with "the historian Ann Coulter."

Clearly they meant “Arguing with Idiots” by Glenn Beck

Sonic's Spacetime Adventure

The Prisoner of Azkaban

lmao one time had a white guy tell me to read Thomas Sowell.

"I'm reading, I'm reading" and then show them your copy of Das Kapital?

A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism

Read a book? Add it to the fuckin reading list you think there's not a backlog already

By "book" they mean Facebook, their uncle's unhinged Facebook posts.

They usually either say 1984 or just "a history book"

They clearly mean "Universe in disenchantment: Rational immunization"

They're just really big Tim Maia fans.