I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

I did this long before I had ever heard of or read any political analyst or pundit make that indeed rather controversial connection.

Of course every time I mentioned that here, maga types viciously insulted me personally as they always do when their dear cult leader is presented in any kind of negative way.

Well, my oh my, it turns out in recent months I started to hear the same thing on other media from various commentators.

And now this.

 

Many people in CHINA of all places, and they would know, are most definitely and clearly seeing the connection. 

 

In China, some see the ghost of Mao as Trump upends America and the world | CNN

 

Hong KongCNN — 

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be stirred by a sitting US president.

In 1966, at just 13 years old, the son of poor farmers became one of Mao’s Red Guards. He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party – with the stated goal of preserving communist ideology.

Nearly six decades later, Ding is a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics based in Hong Kong, with a PhD from Harvard and a career teaching about the catastrophic movement he embraced.

But in recent months, he has begun to see uncanny echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

LOL...that's all I have to say. 

20 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

I did this long before I had ever heard of or read any political analyst or pundit make that indeed rather controversial connection.

Of course every time I mentioned that here, maga types viciously insulted me personally as they always do when their dear cult leader is presented in any kind of negative way.

Well, my oh my, it turns out in recent months I started to hear the same thing on other media from various commentators.

And now this.

 

Many people in CHINA of all places, and they would know, are most definitely and clearly seeing the connection. 

 

In China, some see the ghost of Mao as Trump upends America and the world | CNN

 

Hong KongCNN — 

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be stirred by a sitting US president.

In 1966, at just 13 years old, the son of poor farmers became one of Mao’s Red Guards. He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party – with the stated goal of preserving communist ideology.

Nearly six decades later, Ding is a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics based in Hong Kong, with a PhD from Harvard and a career teaching about the catastrophic movement he embraced.

But in recent months, he has begun to see uncanny echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

 

CNN. Great. Is this your daily vent? So boring.

44 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

I did this long before I had ever heard of or read any political analyst or pundit make that indeed rather controversial connection.

Of course every time I mentioned that here, maga types viciously insulted me personally as they always do when their dear cult leader is presented in any kind of negative way.

Well, my oh my, it turns out in recent months I started to hear the same thing on other media from various commentators.

And now this.

 

Many people in CHINA of all places, and they would know, are most definitely and clearly seeing the connection. 

 

In China, some see the ghost of Mao as Trump upends America and the world | CNN

 

Hong KongCNN — 

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be stirred by a sitting US president.

In 1966, at just 13 years old, the son of poor farmers became one of Mao’s Red Guards. He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party – with the stated goal of preserving communist ideology.

Nearly six decades later, Ding is a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics based in Hong Kong, with a PhD from Harvard and a career teaching about the catastrophic movement he embraced.

But in recent months, he has begun to see uncanny echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

The similarities are strikingly obvious. The MAGA masses are easily manipulated and a cultural revolution is their dream.

51 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

CNN. Great. Is this your daily vent? So boring.

Then don't read it.

25 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

The similarities are strikingly obvious. The MAGA masses are easily manipulated and a cultural revolution is their dream.

I was surprised the idea took so long to enter the public sphere.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I was surprised the idea took so long to enter the public sphere.

 

The only thing it entered was your small fantasy world 

1 minute ago, nauseus said:

 

The only thing it entered was your small fantasy world 

Ad hominem garbage is all you've got.

 

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I was surprised the idea took so long to enter the public sphere.

 

Last week, Trump was a fascist.  Now he is a Maoist.  I'll wager you will invoke Stalin next. 

32 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

The similarities are strikingly obvious. The MAGA masses are easily manipulated and a cultural revolution is their dream.

Maoism is a political ideology rooted in the communist theories of Mao Zedong, a Chinese revolutionary leader. It's characterized by a focus on peasant-based revolution, the use of guerrilla warfare, and the importance of collective action and self-reliance. Maoism, also sometimes referred to as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) or Marxist-Leninist, emphasizes the role of the masses and the need for a revolutionary transformation of society. 

 

This is 100% a leftist ideology.

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Ad hominem garbage is all you've got.

That's not an Ad hominem

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Ad hominem garbage is all you've got.

 

Another crock. Pot calling.

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

CNN. Great. Is this your daily vent? So boring.

 

Trump ain't the only one that dumps a big'un online during his daily poop.

Only to those living in bizzaro world. 

To me, all your posts look like you are definitely an Anti-Trump Whiner. What about the last four years under the Biden administration? I guess you like it all!!

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

I did this long before I had ever heard of or read any political analyst or pundit make that indeed rather controversial connection.

Of course every time I mentioned that here, maga types viciously insulted me personally as they always do when their dear cult leader is presented in any kind of negative way.

Well, my oh my, it turns out in recent months I started to hear the same thing on other media from various commentators.

And now this.

 

Many people in CHINA of all places, and they would know, are most definitely and clearly seeing the connection. 

 

In China, some see the ghost of Mao as Trump upends America and the world | CNN

 

Hong KongCNN — 

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be stirred by a sitting US president.

In 1966, at just 13 years old, the son of poor farmers became one of Mao’s Red Guards. He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party – with the stated goal of preserving communist ideology.

Nearly six decades later, Ding is a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics based in Hong Kong, with a PhD from Harvard and a career teaching about the catastrophic movement he embraced.

But in recent months, he has begun to see uncanny echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

This is some serious low-level thinking. 

42 minutes ago, TedG said:

 

 

Last week, Trump was a fascist.  Now he is a Maoist.  I'll wager you will invoke Stalin next. 

Maoist, Fascist, Pope -- The Unholy Trinity of DJT! 

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

 

Please articulate your thoughts in point form from most to least important. I cannot understand WTF you think you are saying.

10 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I started commenting about this long ago.

My feeling that there were similarities (obviously not exactly the same thing!) between the maga movement and Mao's cultural revolution.

I did this long before I had ever heard of or read any political analyst or pundit make that indeed rather controversial connection.

Of course every time I mentioned that here, maga types viciously insulted me personally as they always do when their dear cult leader is presented in any kind of negative way.

Well, my oh my, it turns out in recent months I started to hear the same thing on other media from various commentators.

And now this.

 

Many people in CHINA of all places, and they would know, are most definitely and clearly seeing the connection. 

 

In China, some see the ghost of Mao as Trump upends America and the world | CNN

 

Hong KongCNN — 

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be stirred by a sitting US president.

In 1966, at just 13 years old, the son of poor farmers became one of Mao’s Red Guards. He joined millions of young people across China to participate in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval set off by an aging Mao to reassert his absolute control over the ruling Communist Party – with the stated goal of preserving communist ideology.

Nearly six decades later, Ding is a distinguished scholar of Chinese politics based in Hong Kong, with a PhD from Harvard and a career teaching about the catastrophic movement he embraced.

But in recent months, he has begun to see uncanny echoes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

 

As someone with a degree in history from a US top 75 university I can state categorically I see and that you've made zero case for any similarities between Mao's cultural revolution (which US lefties were on board in 60s) and the MAGA movement. 

 

If anything the blind following of Biden woke dogma through all the criminality, the blind support of Biden, Harris mirrors your presupposition best. Dogged fealty to the worship of drag queens and chemically castrating children. Of .. by any means necessary.

 

Unsurprisingly, you've got it ass backwards

 

This is yet another post, yet another example in a litany of posts in which you are wholly entirely incorrect.

6 hours ago, Tom100 said:

Please articulate your thoughts in point form from most to least important. I cannot understand WTF you think you are saying.

 

He will never do so. This is so typical of the subform.

 

If you ask these leftist precisely what issues that they have with Trump it'll be just a bunch of whining and complaining as women often do

 

If you search the forum there was a thread asking precisely what problems people had with trump. This was pre-election. The thread went on for 10 pages yet no leftist could articulate anything whatsoever that they disliked about trump.

 

Lots of gay activist from broken families, never sorted themselves out, never became adults now they visit Thailand in rare moments in some of these posters don't visit at all. I dare say there are posters on this form that have never been to Thailand. Peter Pan's

8 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

This is some serious low-level thinking. 

 

Why would you expect any better? Consider the source. He's have the main sources of low quality posts on this forum. If you have any doubt just go back into his posting history and have a look.

 

And the only time he makes the least bit of sandwiches when he's discussing his social security problems

8 hours ago, TedG said:

Maoism is a political ideology rooted in the communist theories of Mao Zedong, a Chinese revolutionary leader. It's characterized by a focus on peasant-based revolution, the use of guerrilla warfare, and the importance of collective action and self-reliance. Maoism, also sometimes referred to as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) or Marxist-Leninist, emphasizes the role of the masses and the need for a revolutionary transformation of society. 

 

This is 100% a leftist ideology.

 

Obviously entirely missed by JT in race to bait the forum.

 

The disease is legion. The board is on life support

10 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Cultural Revolution in an unexpected place: Donald Trump’s America.

No cultural revolution is underway in the US of those in the center and right of center. It’s happening in the extreme left and it’s sucking in those left of center. Enjoy your USA communist revolution attempt.

Lefties don't understand that THEY were the revolutionaries. The present-day Right are the counter-revolutionaries, trying to reinstate traditional normality and morality in a society that has been overwhelmed by debased Marxist collectivist ideology for 60 years. 

 

Most Leftist's strongest personal trait is cognitive dissonance. Only by doing comprehensive and complicated mental gymnastics could one conclude that the restoration of traditional societal values practiced for millenia is a bad idea.

 

 

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Ad hominem garbage is all you've got.

I'm not sure you should use the word "garbage". Some might say this is what the entirety of your post are.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any weirder here - well let's jump the shark higher.  🤣

6 minutes ago, jimmybcool said:

Just when I thought it couldn't get any weirder here - well let's jump the shark higher.  🤣

 

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I was surprised the idea took so long to enter the public sphere.

The thing that strikes me is the purging of historical material from military archives.

Trying to re-write history is only done by authoritarian regimes.

Purging records and photos of Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, and Rosa Parks if I am not mistaken.

 

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

I'm not sure you should use the word "garbage". Some might say this is what the entirety of your post are.

Brilliant rewrite of "I know you are but what am I".

Congratulations.

13 hours ago, TedG said:

Last week, Trump was a fascist.  Now he is a Maoist.  I'll wager you will invoke Stalin next. 

 

No, that's not what is being said. The OP is talking to authoritarian techniques and changing the World Order which is the path path Trump and his enablers are going down. To quote from the article...

 

As Trump upends the very institutions, alliances, and free trade order that have underpinned America’s global dominance since World War II, some in China are reminded of their own former leader — one who wielded revolutionary zeal to tear down the old world more than half a century ago.