Balaji Srinivasan

Just got them coming and going.

This crazy, crazy thing, which basically this is, you know, the kind of thing they cover up is reporting on themselves, right?

No account, you know, really, if you just liquidated NYT and took the billions of dollars and gave it to the Ukrainians for reparations, that would be justice, right?

If you go and click the next link, back one, Edgar Snow,

Right.

So this guy, yeah, click this guy, Edgar Park Snow.

There we go.

This guy, American journalist and the most important Western reporting on the communist movement in China in the years before the power.

Right.

And what was that reporting?

It was like red star over China remained a primary source.

And he's like, oh, yeah, you know, they're they're for the people and so on and so forth.

And everybody got misled by this.

Yeah, actually, that's right.

Snow depicted.

See that thing on scroll up a little bit.

Snow depicted Mao Zedong and his followers not as opportunistic red bandits described by the nationalists, but as dedicated revolutionaries who advocated domestic reforms and were eager to resist Japanese aggression in China.

They just wanted to reform.

In reality, by the way, the Chinese nationalists were the ones who spent most of the blood fighting Japanese aggression.

The communists let them fight, and then they attacked them from the back, and their reforms consisted of shooting landlords in the head and, you know, all this bad stuff.