AstroStelar [he/him]

Not at all surprising. I remember reading passages like this on Wikipedia:

In constructing their image of the “new Jew” or “Hebrew”, the early Zionists contrasted this image against the Yid, the negative caricature of European Jewry. In doing so, they employed language similar to that of antisemites. For example, the Russian-born Jewish scholar Ze’ev Jabotinsky, who developed Revisionist Zionism in the 20th century, wrote:

Our starting point is to take the typical Yid of today and to imagine his diametrical opposite … because the Yid is ugly, sickly, and lacks decorum, we shall endow the ideal image of the Hebrew with masculine beauty. The Yid is trodden upon and easily frightened and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to be proud and independent. The Yid is despised by all and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to charm all. The Yid has accepted submission and, therefore, the Hebrew ought to learn how to command. The Yid wants to conceal his identity from strangers and, therefore, the Hebrew should look the world straight in the eye and declare: “I am a Hebrew!”

I’ve been wondering what the current state of Bangladesh is right now, I haven’t heard about it in months.

This is my general stance as well, but I didn’t want to get too involved in a discussion I don’t feel qualified for, so I kept my initial question brief.

For the Hexbear post on this article the user Xiaohongshu wrote a long post claiming “local governments are the landlords”, featuring their common talking points of local governments strained for cash after the real estate bubble burst and that Chinese economists are all neoliberals and therefore unable to solve this.

I’ve wanted to ask Lemmygrad’s opinion on this user for a while. To what is their pessimism warranted in your view? Do you take issue with (their interpretation of) their observations?

Oh hey, one of Lemmygrad’s taglines