For instance, I have an aunt who is definitely MAGA, and is flirting with Q-Anon ideas. However, she has pretty good views on the environment and animal rights. For instance, after travelling to Ecuador, she donates to some Ecuadorian land trust run by locals. However, if you start talking to her about the border or gender, she goes full Orbán.
His hardline anti Coca-Cola stance (that the version sold in China has been altered and is an American ploy to sterilize the Chinese people to maintain hegemony, the version Americans drink and appear in film is to lure us into thinking it’s safe) is actually so absurd it’s kinda funny. Like none of the scientists and doctors in China has noticed this massive conspiracy, it’s just his gut feeling. He’s let go of that theory in recent years but still maintains it’s bad for you (which is true, but for a chain smoker who drinks 65% ABV grain alcohol, is kind of a moot point).
He does have a soft spot for Pizza Hut. I don’t know why, but he likes 洋饼子 (literally “foreign pancakes”). He has that in common with Gorbachev but he didn’t like it when I pointed it out.
I guess people of a certain age turn into conspiracy nuts or become a crank to internally justify why things are different and scary in [current year], but a fundamental understanding of the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism inoculates you against the worse, liberal strains of brainworms. He’s out here rocking moderate cowpox while American boomers have full blown smallpox.
You’re trying to turn me on your uncle, but he just sounds so fun.
idk, your uncle sounds like he has contradictory beliefs for sure… but other than the standard boomer shit that sucks, like homophobia and racism, he sounds way cooler than like 90% of the people I know in the imperial core.
the coca-cola conspiracy shit is awesome. its like a communist version of fluoride conspiracy theories in the US that cause dental carries, except the end result is dissuading people from drinking shit that is actually horrendously bad for their health anyway. Your uncle is fighting type two diabetes and an American symbol of consumerism all at once. o7 o7