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Jiang uses the phrase for the social discipline required to endure hardship, pain, and reduced expectations during decline.
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eat bitterness
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...period of hardship and decline and we need to, uh, circle eat bitterness. We need to, um, withstand the pain and suffering and misery...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...period of hardship and decline and we need to, uh, circle eat bitterness. We need to, um, withstand the pain and suffering and misery...."
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Jiang says the CCP itself has already framed the present as a coming period of hardship in which people must eat bitterness and endure pain, suffering, and misery.
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"...period of hardship and decline and we need to, uh, circle eat bitterness. We need to, um, withstand the pain and suffering and misery...."
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"...everything there is devil he had to come to experience the bitterness of death as well that's fine I replied the answer is good..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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