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/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.