Re: how to win an argument with a toddler

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:36:51 -0600, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

It is pointless to argue with rednecks-r-us types.

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Respectfully

But wait, wasn't Mao hard left while America has been taken over by
the hard right? Well, why do you think there's a big difference
between the two? I'm a believer in horseshoe theory, which says that
the extreme left and the extreme right are more like each other than
either is like the political center. For example, among Britain's
unions there is a hard-left faction that has no counterpart in the
United States. Some of its positions, notably making apologies for
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, look a lot like MAGA.
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Once you've seen the parallel between what MAGA is trying to do and
China's Cultural Revolution, the similarities are everywhere. Maoists
sent schoolteachers to do farm labor; Trumpists are talking about
putting civil servants to work in factories.

The Cultural Revolution was, of course, a huge disaster for China. It
inflicted vast suffering on its targets and also devastated the
economy. But the Maoists didn't care. Revenge was their priority,
never mind the effects on GDP.

Paul Krugman
Apr 21