I’m still new to Chinese so I might be wrong but isn’t 紅包 also used to refer to bribes? The spokesperson might as well have said “you see she didn’t engage in bribery because she used a practice commonly used to bribe people”

N&P’s framework is also the conceptual foundation for Deleuze’s later works, including Anti-Oedipus, which is why it helps to read it first

Based on what my Deleuzian friend told me, it can be done but it’s advisable to read Nietzsche and Philosophy first. Anti-Oedipus is written to fuck with the reader and makes a ridiculous number of allusions to literature and philosophy, while N&P is trying to help you understand

I can check to see if I have access if you let me know what articles they are

I’ve always just referred to the “fascist in-group” narrowing but it definitely feels like there should be something more specific

If you know what documents specifically you’re looking for, they may be digitized on the International Institute of Social History website (or you can ask them to scan it for you and send you a copy—if it’s relatively small they’ll sometimes do it for free.)

Alternatively, it might be the result of using “would” to describe past habitual situations (“In the 19th century, workers would go on strike to support those striking at other businesses”)

Maybe it’s the product of youtubers explaining their plan in advance before it actually happens in the video? For example, “The plan was simple. Brian and John would go to the Nether while I…”

Also it’s just a ceremony—there will be vastly more important things to observe than some poorly performed pomp and circumstance