The term “Potemkin village” really fucking pisses me off.
It’s always used by smug, selfish, narcissistic crakkker neoliberals and other reich-wingers that project their inhumanity and oxygen thievery onto everyone else. It’s almost always used to imply that people of color, namely Russians, Koreans, Chinese, or whoever the fuck the spin-the-wheel of the daily new target at the State Department is, are lowly, subhuman savages that don’t know how to build their own settlements and manage their own affairs without the aid of YT motherfuckers.
Especially when it’s literally exactly what West Germany and South Korea were/are. The US Empire poured huge amounts of money and resources into them to pretend that capitalism is better, and in both cases their communist counterpart was keeping up or even beating them until disaster struck (liberals in the USSR falling for that very propaganda).
The term “Potemkin village” really fucking pisses me off.
It’s always used by smug, selfish, narcissistic crakkker neoliberals and other reich-wingers that project their inhumanity and oxygen thievery onto everyone else. It’s almost always used to imply that people of color, namely Russians, Koreans, Chinese, or whoever the fuck the spin-the-wheel of the daily new target at the State Department is, are lowly, subhuman savages that don’t know how to build their own settlements and manage their own affairs without the aid of YT motherfuckers.
And this is precisely why it perfectly describes how these imbeciles see China.
Especially when it’s literally exactly what West Germany and South Korea were/are. The US Empire poured huge amounts of money and resources into them to pretend that capitalism is better, and in both cases their communist counterpart was keeping up or even beating them until disaster struck (liberals in the USSR falling for that very propaganda).