* blink, blink *
Posted by TFG on 28th January 2008
Sometimes, you read something that just makes you stop and say to yourself, Did I just read that?
(While the Chinese government need not stand for popular election, it generally tries to reduce sources of popular discontent when it can.)
They are the RED CHINESE. CHI-COMMS. Remember? They “reduce sources of popular discontent” by jailing or killing those who might be discontent. Christ almighty. We’re not talking about your basic benevolent monarchy that allows democracy to take root and flourish. We’re talking about Long March / Cultural Revolution stone Commies here.
We can all sit around and pretend they’re not real Communists, and buy their clothes and their cheap furniture, and let them hold the Olympics, but — they’re Commies. Commies kill their ‘discontent’ every damn day. Everybody seems to forget this, and it makes me spitting mad that James Fallows and the Atlantic magazine can only parenthetically acknowledge this on page four of a long-ass article. Well, I’m probably the only one bugged by it, so screw me.
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