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by BLKNSLVR 1213 days ago
> the Western "brutally honest" approach

Yeah, not so much these days, and probably not ever to extent that you may have meant it. Western folks are learning pretty quickly how well total reality denial has been working for... other regimes.

I am going to say Trump, but if I'm going to do that then I also need to mention an absolute procession of Western political and business leaders. Biden, Obama, Bush, Bush, Clinton, Abbot, Turnbull (he denied mathematics for god's sake), Morrison, Blair, Jobs, Ellison, Gates, Hoover, and so many other names I cbf remembering or looking up.

In fact, I think the "brutally honest" approach is exceedingly rare and always has been, in any arena in any hemisphere.

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I was talking about the contrasts with western culture as a whole. Not petty national-level US political discourse via their pet D.C. reporters.