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[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can they possibly be Taiwanese if they don't speak any of the Formosan languages?

[–] randint@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can Americans possibly be Americans if they don't speak American?

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] diablexical@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] robinn2@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Death. To. America. Every one of your soldiers will be spit on and shot.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If your views can only be propagated through violence, don't you think they should be reconsidered?

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

America has been at war for all but like 7 years of its entire 239 year existence and they started almost all of them.

so... Death to america.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

If your views can only be propagated through violence, don't you think they should be reconsidered?

Please share this pearl of wisdom with the US government, if you're successful you'll literally save millions of lives and no one on the planet will ever be more deserving of the Nobel prize. Please also share this sentiment with the soldiers in question, they're literally involved in killing hundreds of thousands when it's not millions to supposedly propagate American views on freedom and democracy (but in reality installing puppet governments for geopolitical power or to facilitate the theft of natural resources).

[–] robinn2@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love for a nonviolent approach to a different path. The PCI tried that in Indonesia and the US backed a massacre of over a million people and secretly bombed Indonesian territory under the pretext of popular discontent (see The Jakarta Method); Allende tried that in Chile, and the US backed a bloody coup, replacing him with the dictator Pinochet; this was tried in Afghanistan, in return for which the US backed terrorism with the express purpose of undermining reform, and with the result of worsening women’s and underprivileged rights and eventually returning to bomb the country and kill hundreds of thousands; Sankara was killed in. US-backed coup, so on and so forth, read Frantz Fanon “On Violence.” Instead of this critique being leveled at the US and their military apparatus, it is slyly redirected, and then the claim is put forward that the revolutionary only understands violence, can only operate through it. We see no peaceful road to liberating the third world from imperialism, not because this is what we wish but because any attempt is met with terror and bombs. I am not afraid to say that as a consolation the rabble will get on top by other means. Fuck America.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So crimes of our fathers then, Americans deserve to die. Pardon me, I don’t find this discussion constructive. May your keyboard warrior spirit never falter, good luck.

[–] Farman@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are still invading several countries rigth now. And messing with many others in lots of ways. That crimes of our fathers deffence only works if you stop doing it.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bruh they're still doing it. Love how you pearl clutch and pretend they said Americans should die and not the volunteer soldiers currently killing to maintain this order.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Ooh that period was a deliberate choice, and it is not paying off

[–] randint@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree with your sentiment, but we should refrain from using these emotionally charged words. We must remain polite so that people reading this thread will get a bad impression of Hexbear.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chinese Taipei of course, comrade.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that what the majority of people who live there would say?

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Only when they want to participate in the Olympics michael-laugh

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha you got me there! Guess that settles it.

Question - do you know if they include Taiwan's gold medal count with mainland China's?

[–] randint@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure they would rather use Taiwan as their name in Olympics if China allowed them to.

[–] randint@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

No, absolutely not.