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bdonvr @thelemmy.club

3w ago

An article so aggressively stereotypically lib that I'm having a hard time believing that it's not just HB bait

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/01/16/an-initiative-so-feared-that-china-has-stopped-saying-its-name

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I literally laughed out loud, like a harsh sort of howling laugh, when I read "LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT"

- There's no way they still use the "but at what cost?" not ironically. That has to be an internal joke by now.
  
  China was mentioned in a meeting at my tech bro job the other day and some guy that I'm cordial with messaged me privately "BUT AT WHAT COST". So I think oh this guy is dog whistling at me that he is actually a China enjoyer, so I test that out by being like "yeah it would be great to work with China" and he immediately launches into a serious tirade about how they're fascists destroying the world.
  So uh...no I think they actually do say this seriously. I couldn't believe it
  
  for real, there even was one mexican NGO ghoul saying it in Spanish during an interview, it's like these people have a script.
- "But at what cost" is the West's trigger phrase for having their citizens imagine horrible things, get mad at their imagination, skim the article which confirms their imagination, and then go about their day like nothing happened.

This is just what happens you ask ChatGPT to generate an economist article.

Even tho op prefaced this in title, I still did not believe LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT was article text. My brain slid over that, assumed it was a little joke by op. Never. NEV-ER woulda believed. It's just... too on the nose.
- And it's literally the first three words LMAO

Quick, someone roll out the Lenin quote about the Economist
- Nah, I'd be specific.
  The position of the aristocracy of finance is most strikingly depicted in a passage from its European organ, the London Economist.
  Marx, the 18th brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
  
  Sometimes I forget just how old these institutions really are.

I'm convinced the Libs are being cheeky with the Harry Potter references now, they saw us making fun of them for it and now they're "owning it".
- Fine. I will edit a chapter of my magic college novel today
  
  Oh my God please let me believe you're fr working on a fanfic "hogwarts but college" spinoff. With Ron as a secret death eater (of course)

The Voldemort of economic plans
Holy shit lmao get the fuck outta here

Americans still haven't shut the fuck up about going to the moon so they can't conceive of a government doing something successfully and then not talking about it

A lesser lib would have put "green and innovative" in quotation marks because they believe China is not actually green and innovative. Putting "manufacturing power" in quotation marks is a level of liberalism that is physically unsafe for the human brain.

This reads like something that was generated by an AI trained solely on satirical Hexbear posts.
- You've heard buttery males
  now introducing
  
  butta wocus

literal infants
- Reactionaries really are children. It should have been obvious ever since they decided human extinction from climate change is worth it for the treats.

haaaa couldn't even get past the first sentence
- Millenials can't get past the first sentence without doing a harry potterism.

lol, I can only assume the text following the paywall block is something like:
And WOW did they succeed! Like, damn, they are completely eating our lunch and they aren't even engaging in terrorism and proxy wars!
Also, forgive my
ness, but the "good guys" were the ones afraid to say Voldemort...does that mean that the people abroad which feel the fear and loathing when 'Made in China 2025' is said would be the Death Eaters?
I really hope this article is just AI slop, cause otherwise

"Like Lord Voldemort..." and this is where I stopped reading that fecal matter written by billionaire bootlickers.

I assume economist feels the same way about made in great britain initiatives

I'm so sick of these articles. They never deliver. The cost is $14.99, plus shipping ubless you spend $45. Why can't their expert researchers find it out thenselves?
Don't even get me started on "how many roads must a man walk down?"

Okay who got a job churning out China bad articles at the economist as a bit?

When America pushes to buy "Made in America" and from "American" companies, its patriotic.
When China (or literally anyone else), its foreign nationalists trying to undermine our economic power.
(Please ignore examples like NAFTA allowing GM/Ford to make 99% of a car in Mexico and shipping it for assembly in the US so we can put a flag sticker on it. And ignore us being so treat brained that 80%+ of every product I've ever seen a tag on, that isn't food, is NOT made in America and that's ok until it suddenly isn't. And ignore that we've so thoroughly destroyed domestic manufacturing that its impossible for USA consumers to even try to willingly buy American.)

Oh noes! China made a plan, funded it, and it worked! The horrors of advancing your own society by your own bootstraps! AND IT WAS THE COMMIES WHO DID IT FIRST!

Here's a NATOpedia link on it

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