• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    There are far more Chinese English speakers than American Mandarin speakers. Not that it matters, as we’ve had translation software for decades and quite a few people doing the yeoman’s work of manual translation for even longer.

    But it might say something about the insightfulness of Chinese political analysis that they picked out the flaws in our system way back when the vast majority of Americans were fully blind to it. Perhaps the Reagan and Clinton Eras should have been a warning sign we heeded a bit earlier. Perhaps there’s something to this historical materialism that you’re not giving enough credit.