* blink, blink *
Posted by TFG on January 28th, 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.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:56 am
No you ain’t. I guess we don’t matter much, though.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Ah yes, the most famous Chinese Popular Discontent Reduction Initiative….
I guess if the totalitarians are not named Bush or Cheney, they get a pass? I mean, this is the same magazine that is all too happy to blast W for eroding the precious rights of terrorists held in Cuba, but apparently regards the Tiananmen massacre as just another initiative to reduce popular discontent. *sigh*
January 29th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Your not alone.I am right there with ya.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
We can only wish our hearts were so pure.