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This is really beautiful @bokane.org.
First, thank you for introducing me to this poem, it's amazing!
I also really appreciate the linguistic breakdown and the thinking behind translation decisions, I learned a lot.
An inspiring holiday gift to 古文 nerds!

Look, I knew my man manufacturing consent here was a Russia-pilled asshole for many years but now it’s revealed he’s at least sex-pest adjacent, I just don’t know what to do with such information.

Hugely important though because we thought this era was about geo-political competition, but these guys do not care about national self-interest so this neo-royalism or emergent network of personalist authoritarians may be as if not more important than US v China or US v Russia.

He's right.
He can come back tomorrow and say that the economy grew by 25% this year and there are enough folks who take it at face value to carry the day.
No consequences.
No downside.

As they get more desperate, it's going to get even more ghoulish.

THIS is why Veronica is the best.

The PRC is one of those countries that doesn't allow you to be a dual citizen (they're even really pissy about people who have renounced and want to visit as tourists) so a birth tourism kid is functionally barred from participating in the party-state structure

Man, the chyrons are just a running punchline as well.

CONCEIVED IN SIN,
BORN IN INIQUITY,
NURTURED BY TYRANNY,
DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH