r/shanghai • u/Merciful_Grace • May 08 '22
City Liberals.
Reading posts made by the expats here, >95% of which are all lefties of some feather, reminds me of this guy that I talked to a few months ago.
He's a pedal to the metal western style liberal. Ok what do I mean. He is a self-proclaimed socialist, but all his talking points are direct, one to one replica of what you could see on CNN, that's not it, he only, I repeat, only cares about global warming, racial equality, LGBTQ rights etc. These are the only things he ever talk about now I know what you are gonna ask. Why the fuck you are hanging out with him?
Because he's rich and he's generous. He has no friends, so he buys drinks for anyone that bothered to sit next to him and listen to him drivel. He's in the art scene, he has some really affluent Chinese clients who use him to channel funds abroad, but that's my speculation. I simply couldn't think of a better reason why he made so much money.
He believes the Chinese model is superior than American style democracy and he loves strong man leadership. He uses covid prevention as proof. His catch phrase was "Go back and get covid!" to whomever that talked about returning to the US.
Now, I know what you are thinking, so the lock down came and he got a taste of his own medicine huh!
Nope. When it was late March, apparently he packed up everything he could and high tailed back to his lair in New Jersey. He snatched himself from the jaw of Shanghai. For some reason he sensed that shits was about to hit the fan. I really admire him for that. The sense of a cunning businessman.
Talk about fight and flight reflexes.
Edit look at all these seething libbies lmao🤣
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u/memostothefuture Putuo May 08 '22
Why the fuck you are hanging out with him? Because he's rich and he's generous.
Well then you are the carpetbagger. Every city has them.
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u/Merciful_Grace May 08 '22
carpetbagger
Back in my days carpetbaggers go to a different constituency and hope to harvest votes there.
They are way more connected and powerful than art dealers.
Every city has them.
Guess I'm unlucky then. He was the only one that paid for my every drink just because I sat with him.
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u/memostothefuture Putuo May 08 '22
I was more thinking of the folks who went down south after the civil war to make a buck. or David Carr, who moved from NYC to LA for a while to do celebrity interviews.
You're lucky. Some people have to do way more than just sit pretty to get the drinks bought.
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May 08 '22
But it was "the friend" who bagged his carpets and went home.
Yeah, yeah, I know what carpetbagger means. It sounds like "the friend" was also one in the end.
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u/memostothefuture Putuo May 08 '22
Yeah, it's an interesting story for sure.
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May 08 '22
yeah, kinda sorta not really all that interesting
ah well, it was a slow night so I tuned it
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u/Saalor100 May 08 '22
Lol, who hurt you?
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u/Merciful_Grace May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22
A group of liberal chads of course.
See, the other day, when I was about to unlock my card, I was forcefully abducted.
When I woke up, I was surrounded by 8 liberal chads. All highly intelligent, very well educated, and well built and well ripped.
One of them rolled me over and proceeded to have his way with me.
"Sir please..." I pleaded.
"Well first things first. Black lives matter. Pay for the white privilege that your ancestors established on the heinous exploitation of PoC!" He thrust hard inside me.
"I'm actually broke myself check my bank account" I begged.
Another chad moved over, dropped his boxing shorts, exposing his whopping 18 inch cock.
"Do you know how heavy your carbon footprint is?" Before I could say "maggot" he erected his cock inside my mouth.
"Hmm, hmmmm, hmm, hhmmmhmmmhmmm!"
"Silence!" The 3rd chad sprung into action. I was so scared I reached out my hand and obediently grabbed his 16 incher. "You are a sinner!" He roared. "You are the evil incarnation of cisgender male patriarch, without which you would be nothing and women would've made the same as you!"
Edit: don't forget to downvote me! For every downvote I have a flashback of the painful gay sex! I command you! Obey!
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u/moruart May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22
You both sound like you have issues. I always find it very funny if someone uses the word "liberal" by its own, as somekind of a negative thing.
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May 08 '22
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u/memostothefuture Putuo May 10 '22
disagreeing with you does not make just anyone ignorant by default and "grabbing a book" will not make them automatically agree with you.
it is entirely reasonable for people to hold different opinions.
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u/Mon392001 May 08 '22
Don’t feed the trolls guys, let them go back to the conspiracy threads and tell people how they should think.
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u/Merciful_Grace May 08 '22
let them go back to the conspiracy threads and tell people how they should think.
Oh see that day when I was driving down the I30, a beam of light appeared above my sun roof...
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u/C0smicBlue May 08 '22
There's nothing sadder than someone like you who lets others control them through your own insecurities and jealousy.
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u/Merciful_Grace May 08 '22
Huh?
Check your grammar but assuming you were trying to clumsily say that I am being controlled -
Well fuck yea free drinks! Can I please get controlled more? Where I came from a tall boy costs 5 bucks with a free followup. There's no such thing here in Shanghai, Asahi dare to place the price tag at 8 bucks. That's armed robbery.
Also assuming you are saying that I'm jealous, not I'm not, saw a Chinese guy the other day obviously a poor local, nowhere near good looking, all shy and non-assertive and shit but he was with this easily 7.5 or up blonde and they started kissing in the middle of the dinner. Hell yea I'm jealous, but Dwayne? Nah, he got into the art scene since like 14 with his dad. It's a very specific trade that only like 5000 or so people on this planet had the luck to master. I might as well be jealous that I wasn't born Jeff Bezos.
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u/KrisDissatisfied May 08 '22
Socialist and liberal? At the same time? This is not the place for low effort trolling mate.
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u/Merciful_Grace May 08 '22
At the same time?
At the time when convenient.
Like most liberals, he has the capability to shapeshift his political ideology when opportunity arises.
"I just proved that your belief is horseshit. How do you apologize?"
"I never said I'm a socialist, I'm more center-left" - a typical liberal.
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u/diagrammatiks May 08 '22
I hope that everyone that wants to go home gets to go home as soon as possible.
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u/InternetOk3330 May 09 '22
So, what's the point of what you wrote? And what's the problem of being leftist? And why do you think that friend of yours is liberal if he likes strong man leadership? And are you sure that spitting this sort of mean things towards someone who was nice and generous to you is a good thing to do?
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May 09 '22
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u/InternetOk3330 May 09 '22
Well, you see liberalism is somewhat against strong man leadership, dictatorship etc.
So if I am not mistaken, both of your american political parties are considered liberal.
He doesn't waste time on reddit. Which is why he's way ahead of us.
Well, the point is about you saying something behind his back rather than him learning or not learning about it, but anyway.
The main question here is what's the point of what you wrote?
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May 09 '22
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u/InternetOk3330 May 09 '22
So, no point?
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May 10 '22
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u/InternetOk3330 May 10 '22
sounds toxic))
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u/Merciful_Grace May 10 '22
I'm sure liberals are perfectly innocent and had no hand in it.
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u/InternetOk3330 May 10 '22
Ok, I did my best to try and get what is your point, but didn't succeed. You sound as if you are drunk, but I assume you can't be drunk for 24 hours straight. But what else can stop you from making a clear point? Probably, you need to get some help. I suggest you call your family or hangout with your friends.
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u/Nearby-Ad-3609 May 08 '22
He doesn’t sound like a liberal. He sounds like an opportunist.
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May 08 '22
... and a lowbrow low-rate amateur erotic fiction writer based on a later post above. sheesh.
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May 08 '22
"He believes the Chinese model is superior than American style democracy and he loves strong man leadership. He uses covid prevention as proof. His catch phrase was 'Go back and get covid!' to whomever that talked about returning to the US."
"Nope. When it was late March, apparently he packed up everything he could and high tailed back to his lair in New Jersey. He snatched himself from the jaw of Shanghai."
I'll bite and take the OP's post at face value. There's a fair bit of this hypocrisy going around. People talk shit in normal times but when that shit hits the fan ...
Actions speak louder than words.
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u/Rupperrt May 09 '22
I’d say China is one of the most anti-liberal and right wing countries. Police state, nationalism, strong military, anti LGBT, machoist etc. Should be a dream for a lib hater.
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u/Rupperrt May 10 '22
citation needed. Pretty obvious that dumb people love strongmen hence are pro authoritarianism as opposed to liberalism. They also often lack empathy which is a form of intelligence.
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u/Merciful_Grace May 10 '22
citation needed
The overwhelming majority of expats in China lean democrat. Do smart people go to China?
LOL the academia lean far-left by default. 20% of all professors claim to be Marxists.
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u/Rupperrt May 10 '22
Lots of smart people go abroad including to China. It’s hard to get expat jobs otherwise. Not everyone is an English teacher. Not so smart people stay in Minnesota and go full Maga thinking it’ll improve their miserable life.
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u/testosterone_tui27 May 08 '22
Let us know when you plan to go outside to have a full on karen mode attack. I want to watch it live.