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Duke of Qin

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5 Jan

Black pill for my American followers; virtue matters more than legal proceduralism or political formalism. Laws are ultimately tools of and creations by men, thus their utility will always depend on the quality of men writing and executing them. This isn't something explicitly

stated by the eunuchs who constantly repeat rule of law as a catechism but it is true. Good men nor good people require much in the way of laws, they are primarily tools to constrain the wicked. Perhaps the reason why your elected representatives are so uniformly shit is because

the American people, or at least the majority that makes up the gestalt consciousness of the American vox populi are now equally pieces of shit. No one likes to think Ill of themselves or their families, but ponder if you will the exponential increase in laws and complexity of

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

2 Jan

The fundamental error that China Watchers make is their inability to reconcile contradiction. Part of this is due to intellectual inadequacy, they just don't have sufficient neurons, bust mostly due to faith. Their stupid takes are functionally an intellectual auto de fe directed

against China ordered by Moldbug's proverbial Cathedral. What is the contradiction that drives them to denounce the Chinese as heretics? Chinese society is becoming more functional, coherent, and all around nicer while simultaneously becoming more illiberal. This is the great

Heresy that strikes at the heart of their faith. Their belief that the former is only possible through the process of a society becoming more Liberal and adopting the socio-economic arrangements that the US seeks to impose on it's vassals and satrapies. If the society is not

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@qin_duke

29 Dec 20

If I were head of the CCPs propaganda department, just theoretically speaking of course 🤗, the way I would wage psy-war in the West wouldn't be through funding English language CCTV or even bothering with counter-propaganda but rather with amplifying existing anti-social trends

Giving people your version of the truth is a sisyphean task because introducing new facts doesn't actually change other people's minds. Hunan's aren't rational to the degree most people think they are. Instead of countering anti-Chinese propaganda that plays through their priors

head on, the United Front would be better off amplifying anti anything else propaganda to the hilt. For 99% of of people, China is a distant abstraction. There are always more personal immediate hatreds that take priority. Chinese disinformation campaigns should instead serve to

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Duke of Qin

@qin_duke

26 Dec 20

I've always found the liberal imperialist case for more immigration rather interesting. The justification is that draining the rest of the world of its smart and capable youth via economic hegemony to maintain aforementioned hegemony is a good for America. The unsaid second order

effect of said socio-economic vampirism on the rest of the world is unvocalized. The imperial Metropole having cannibalized the vitality of its it's own demos has now resorted to feasting on the human tribute of its satrapies. It's curious how practically no one is willing to

attack immigration from the Left despite the ample ammunition that is just lieing on the ground to pick up. That the West's liberal immigration plot is a way to kneecap the underdeveloped world by stealing precious and even more rare human capital from the third world and prevent

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@qin_duke

17 Dec 20

Honestly the way the US constantly screams like a little bitch about spying while running the world's largest espionage network that indiscriminately spies on everyone is less amusing now than it is insulting to everyone's intelligence. The reason they do it is to control

domestic politics by pushing into into public awareness and thus setting the narrative as America, the eternal victim, and secondly as a stupid schelling point for their own bureaucratic Nomenklatura. The stupider the better because believing patent falsities is more useful for

group cohesion than what is self evidently true. No one with two brain cells to rub together is willing to speak truth to power regarding this issue which is reflected everywhere else in its society where no one is quite willing to speak truth about anything and instead dances

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@qin_duke

16 Dec 20

The retreat of the Chinese left to more a more parochial and national direction is in part mis-attributed to state cooptation by arrogant and deluded Westerners who refuse to accept the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party because they have arrogated to themselves as the

only arbiter of political validity by virtue of magic. The other perhaps more critical factor is the complete disintegration and emasculation of the international left outside of a few Communist die hards. The post Cold War political environment has seen the left atrophy and die

with it's corpse eaten away by neoliberal vultures. The farce that is nu-labor isn't singular, but has been replicated in practically every Western state. The original mission, of workers protection and anti imperialism having been abandoned in the face of overwhelming American

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