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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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I guess if you stuck your head up your own ass until you turned yourself inside out you could say that modern China is somehow a successor state of the Mongolian Yuan state? And that... uh... somehow... the Song, and Ming states... did imperialism? And that Mao did an imperialism because.... the Yuan dynasty...
I'm sorry I'm trying real hard but I can't pull any kind of sense out of that.
Is this what NATOnauts are telling themselves about how the world works to justify provocations against China? I can't tell what is the work of one crank or the work of large numbers of cranks anymore.
Ah, we've been bamboozled. We're looking at it backwards.
You see, China bad. Mao bad man. These are the facts, the Truth. Now we just need to work backwards to find out ways China is bad and Mao is bad. I heard Mao smoked cigarettes, which is very uncouth behaviour. And he smoked them in China. Clearly he was hoping the secondhand smoke would kill millions! What an evil guy!
Damn aggressive Chinese and their expansionist strategy of...
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... getting conquered by the Mongols.
The impressive part is that that take is still better than ~~killing native populations and taking their land on purpose~~ "displacing native populations" is morally better than not understanding the ecosystem and accidentally causing famine by killing "pests"