gladstein
· 45w
The “China was ripping us off” is such a gaslight
US policymakers intentionally designed a system where we could get cheap stuff and labor from China to reduce inflation and costs of living here ...
We (regular American and Chinese people) have been getting ripped off. They (American and Chinese ruling class) have been ripping us off. The issue is the statist linguistic trick of getting regular people to identify with the regime.