How do you think Confucius would react to someone with a reputation

>>1939988
Depends on which point in his life we're talking about. He changed quite a bit over the years.

>rulers are meant to lead by example
>everyone in America becomes a meme

>muh filial loyalty

I doubt Confucius would be so simple minded and non-independently thinking as to fall for media narratives.

>>1939988
>Trump background: Merchant
TAKE A GOOD FUCKING GUESS....

>>1940032

technically closer to landowning nobility.

>>1940037
He has no pedigree nor roots in the military aristocracy nor background in scholarly-bureeaucratic training, nor ever held government office.

So this makes him a merchant and therefore belonging to the people classified under "subjects."

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>>1939988
>"I think he'll do great. I mean, like really great. I mean look at me, he is basically like me so I think he'll serve very well. And I love walls. Let me tell you nobody builds walls as good as I do. You can ask the Xirong Barbarians that, and they're not coming in. I heard this guy likes walls. And I think he'll do fine."

>>1940071
>just conscript your citizens as slave labor
>it certainly didn't lead to any revolutions

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>>1940076
Nah. Qin Shi Huangdi was possibly loved by the peasantry. He outlawed slavery, opened government service to everyone, and ended the wars. Corvee Labor was something a lot of people in China did either to pay off debts, aid farmers with bad harvests or the unemployed, and a productive use of imprisoned convicts. Qin wasnt the first to do this: all kingdoms did.

Much of his supposed tyranny comes from the fact that the latter dynasties are all confucian too boot (one of the people Qin Shi Huang terrorized into silence), who got to write Qin's history. In addition, the people that brought his dynasty crashing down eventually were all the assmad sons/scions/descendants of the defeated royal houses of the Chinese Kingdoms who lost their positions not to mention angry at Qin Shi Huangs virtual annihilation of the aristocratic feudal class, chief of them Xiang Yu, who was descended from Chu Kings.

Confucius say, man with penis in peanut butter jar, fucking nuts

In the Confucian vs Legalist debate, Legalists were in favor of expanding The Wall and garrisoning more soldiers while Confucians were the "shower barbarians with our gifts and splendor until they submit to Chinese civilization" camp. Funny how history repeats itself.

>>1940000
Witnessed