Could not agree with you more. I was maybe --in my defence-- more pointing towards the irony of the word which I happen to know (as an outsider) is so ingrained in Chinese state messaging that it even has an "internet slang", namely: river crab.

Wrt my own political-economic convictions, im a socialist far more left than "typical left wing american", which are not socialist (so not actually "left" of anything) and this mere right wingers in disguise imho. Im not from the US btw.