TheGamingLuddite

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't know how the war will end, but i do know the 2022 left lib pro-NATO ukraine video essays will be extremely funny in 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no valid argument for Taiwan's independence as a Chinese settler colony. As proof, the entire DPP argument depends on Chinese settlers pulling a Liz Warren and pretending to be native. It's also totally incoherent to claim they're a separate country but were also justified in looting billions of dollars worth of gold from "its" land, as if Beijing isn't a thousand miles away from Taipei.

As for the civil war being easy, the KMT had the support of every US president, Stalin, and Hitler, which is just to say they had everyone's support. The KMT flag would be over China right now if they had simply not tried to murder the communists in cold blood. I guess they did make things hard on themselves.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

For context: the DPP is the pro-indpendence ultranationalist party founded by local landed elites who collaborated with the Japanese empire during wwii. To this day many Taiwanese ultranationalists around the DPP deny Japanese atrocities such as Nanjing and Unit 731. This may not be the most reliable source, three pinocchios!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Taiwan is currently a Chinese settler colonial regime that functions as an American military base and microchip factory. If they want sovereignty, they should give the land back to the natives they stole it from and return the billions of dollars worth of gold and artifacts they looted from the Qing coffers after they (catastrophically) lost the easiest civil war in history.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're missing the point (even though you're also wrong about that because half of America's political class is advocating an invasion of Mexico right now), the line you're spewing is deliberately obtuse sophistry designed to dismiss NATO's obviously duplicitous behavior as acceptable.

It's a hollow state-created line designed to erode critical thinking, like calling the Iraq War a "US-Led Intervention" or calling the Ukraine War a "Special Military Operation for Denazification".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every aggressive act that has ever occurred, even Putin's invasion of Ukraine, has been justified as a defensive action. So it's important to look at the means by which NATO has expanded which is by arming far right stay behind groups, electoral subterfuge and massively destabilizing coup d'états. Look into operation Gladio, in no way is this an authentically defensive organization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know in my heart of hearts that if Xi Jinping tried to use a technicality like this to build a Chinese military base in Mexico or smth that you would be calling him a racial slur so offensive that the last person to utter it was a British imperial explorer who wore a pith helmet and died in 1921.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It was commonplace among leftists to oppose US military hegemony, NATO, and Raytheon pre-2022, even for relatively lib leaning spaces. This position became basically unacceptable if not bannable in so many left leaning spaces within a matter of months, which should scare you a lot more than the existence of one community where the sentiment has remained the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit is this a bit? Do people on here really still believe in a neutral or unbiased press? Shouldn't virtually every event from the Iraq war onward have already disillusioned you of that?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

China is ruled by a military dictatorship, and under that form of government the people have 0 rights and 0 say in any government policy

Not even the most devoted ideologue for the US state department would claim something this ludicrous. How do "leftists" arrive at this conclusion?

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Reddit is a disinfo network staffed and mediated by intelligence and defense consultants. The accusation that anyone who disagrees with the narrow set of acceptable ideology allowed on reddit is a paid shill is an intended side effect of routine exposure to it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

That's fine but why are they banning socialist parties, integrating fascist paramilitaries into the army, and privatizing land? That all seems a little familiar.

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