The genuinely evil things that happened in Taiwan - the repression, the White Terror - that was under your orders, Americans
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Multiple generations of Taiwanese lived under martial law under vague promises of joining "the free world" under US leadership
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It's been 20 years only since Taiwan has genuinely been in "the free world" and I guess you all don't care anymore now
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People whose national pride and sense of morality are deeply offended by "One China" have gritted their teeth and upheld it to save lives
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Here's a take: My dad grew up a hard-right commie-loathing reactionary w whom I disagree with about most everything, and yet
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He said as a young man the people he hated most in the world after all Communists was the US government, "leader of the free world".
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Why, he said? Bc "to them it's all some kind of game"
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Bc the Cold War was a long litany of the US starting some shit and then deciding not to finish it
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The US's intervention in Vietnam was one of the worst mistakes we ever made. Who suffered worst from it? Not us
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The Vietnamese boat ppl, the Hmong soldiers of the Secret War, the whole litany of poor bastards who signed up to fight for the US's wars
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Fuck I'm getting emotional abt this. The 20th century was some bad shit, and PotUS Donald J Trump is literally adding insult to injury
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Trump giving his historically ignorant speech "It's time America started putting itself first" is a big sticky loogie in the world's eye
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America making out the struggle against Soviet imperialism this big spiritual war only to become a fascist buddy of newly right-wing Russia
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