He’s a bog-standard leftist who’s probably no more read Marx than a bog-standard Christian has read Origen or Athanasius. Calling him a “commie” doesn’t make sense in 2024, it’s like calling someone a Wobblie in 1980 and expecting anyone to be alarmed.

You know how the Left calls everything they don’t like “fascist” regardless of whether there’s any literal connection to Fascism? Let’s not do that with “commie” especially considering that using the word just makes you sound like a Boomer (or older). It’s a hot button that is no longer connected to anything in the electorate.

I agree, but if you want to do tit for tat you need something that anyone under 70 cares about and sekrit Communism and Tiananmen Square is pretty low on that list. His travels to China 20 year ago appear to be completely innocent and makes people trying to read something sinister into it look nuts.

On the other hand, his support of shoveling children into the transgender grooming pipeline is horrifying, true, and relevant, same as his standing down law enforcement while BLM burned down his capital city.

I’m not sure what you are trying to make of this, but in China there is no official recognition that there is an anniversary of anything related to the massacre in Tiananmen Square and the date only has significance to the security services, who actively suppress any mention of it. Most Chinese people born after 1990 have probably heard the phrase “six-four” but they have not seen the footage or anything like that and don’t really know what it refers to except that it’s something subversive. It is not a safe issue to discuss in China, online or off.

As for Tiananmen Square itself it’s one of the major tourist attractions in China, and saying someone going there is tacitly showing support for the massacre is just nuts, as nuts as saying that going to the US Capitol is tacit sympathy with an attempt to “overthrow the government” on January 6, even if they went on January 6. I’m not sure you’re saying that but TJ seems to be.

If you think Walz for some reason should have avoided the date or else he’s a sekrit Commie, that’s just an exercise in mind-reading. You know about the date, I know about it, but not everyone knows about it or cares about it to the same degree. Some people have birthdays and anniversaries on December 7, October 7, April 19, May 31, June 4, and September 11, and no one can be expected to keep track of all the awful things tied to every calendar date so they know what to avoid in order to be accused of secretly being for or against whatever it is.

Upon returning stateside, Walz and his wife set up a company, Educational Travel Adventures, to coordinate summer trips to China for American high-school students.

So I think it makes sense to make a lot of trips to China if you are in the business of sending people on trips to China.

https://notthebee.com/article/in-minnesota-we-respect-our-neighbors-and-their-personal-choices-says-guy-who-set-up-covid-hotline-where-people-could-snitch-on-their-neighbors-for-not-following-the-rules

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