American leftists cannot imagine a world that isn’t totally dominated by capitalist imperialism or one that isn’t ruled by capitalist elites, where the wealth has been removed from these evils so they cannot exert control over the masses, so they wont even entertain the idea of “maybe everything doesn’t have to be done in the most evil fucking way possible.”
“people of Venezuela are happy for Venezuela” oh you mean the “people of Venezuela” in fucking Florida who are, very coincidentally, much more wealthy and much more reactionary than the actual Venezuelans living in their native country?
Taiwan does have some cool history when it comes to resisting colonization efforts, like the Hakka shooting up the Japanese forces when they first landed in 1898 (and then getting murdered in retaliation unfortunately) (also the Hakka were themselves settlers or descendants of settlers, of course. “The history is complicated”)
and the indigenous Seediq chopping off heads of Japanese occupation forces a couple of decades later (and then getting murdered in retaliation unfortunately)
but for some reason I don’t expect that guy to know any of that. I may be wrong but I’m going to assume someone calling themselves Chicagofire, complaining about “sweeping generalization of americans” and using terms like “PRC” and “Formosa” is, in fact, a USian, and like most USians, know nothing of world history
American leftists cannot imagine a world that isn’t totally dominated by capitalist imperialism or one that isn’t ruled by capitalist elites, where the wealth has been removed from these evils so they cannot exert control over the masses, so they wont even entertain the idea of “maybe everything doesn’t have to be done in the most evil fucking way possible.”
“people of Venezuela are happy for Venezuela” oh you mean the “people of Venezuela” in fucking Florida who are, very coincidentally, much more wealthy and much more reactionary than the actual Venezuelans living in their native country?
Believing in self-determination of Taiwan is calling it what the Portuguese called it.
Taiwan does have some cool history when it comes to resisting colonization efforts, like the Hakka shooting up the Japanese forces when they first landed in 1898 (and then getting murdered in retaliation unfortunately) (also the Hakka were themselves settlers or descendants of settlers, of course. “The history is complicated”)
and the indigenous Seediq chopping off heads of Japanese occupation forces a couple of decades later (and then getting murdered in retaliation unfortunately)
but for some reason I don’t expect that guy to know any of that. I may be wrong but I’m going to assume someone calling themselves Chicagofire, complaining about “sweeping generalization of americans” and using terms like “PRC” and “Formosa” is, in fact, a USian, and like most USians, know nothing of world history