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Think of what happened to Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says
(www.reuters.com)
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Shameless McCarthyism
The Chinese government are a ruthless immoral authoritarians. Say what you want about economic systems, but fuck authoritarians.
Technically I didn't, so who is putting words in whose mouth?
Please, explain how this is McCarthyism.
First you have to be stupid, like really dumb. Second, you need a fetish for authoritarian regimes. Third, bring up some irrelevant figure from the 50s to confuse everyone.
So I got that first part down, 100%. I didn't read the rest, but I assume it all came together, and proved this is McCarthyism.
So ya see, the CCP is the Chinese Communist Party. And McCarthy didn't like Communists. Any deeper understanding of the situation is irrelevant and unnecessary.
Assuming you are pro KMT, the irony of that accusation coming from the same party that carried out anti-communist witch hunts vis-a-vis the White Terror is just delicious.
Under FPTP voting that's literally the mathematical truth of the matter
It's not, though. In the US, it's possible to be both against the GOP and the DNC. This is quite common amongst leftists.
I mean, neither of them are anything remotely like a left wing party. Not even slightly left leaning.
Hell, even Bernie Sanders would be center-right in most countries.
No he wouldn't, this has been debunked dozens of times already, the mainstream of the DNC operates center left on fiscal policy relative to most functioning democracies, and significantly to their left on social issues considering how many of those functioning democracies are unofficial ethnostates that have only recently begun grappling with questions of national identity America has been dealing with since its founding.
Bernie would be considered a radical even among the nordic states for his stances on the complete nationalization of all medicine, not just point of service care.
Not to mention how, while we here in America discuss the ramifications of the republican party openly embracing fascist ideology and language, AfD, EDL, Vox, FI, PiS, Fidez, NF, and SD are all long and well established parties that all have deeply troubling roots among the literal og fascists from WWII, for god's sake Mussolini's granddaughter is an MP in italy, and the defacto leader of France's right is basically the princess of the children of collaborators.
Nevermind how all of them receive support from Vladimir Putin as part of his agenda to discredit democracy before Russians get too unignorable asking why they don't get to play with the west's cool government structural toys.
*among white "leftists" who see PoC and Queer folks as ideal victims to avenge, if only they'd just shut up and let the fascists kill them already
They prefer us as martyrs for their cause as opposed to active agents for our own. Martyrs are much more agreeable in their eyes.
It's why they betrayed us to the Nazis in France, and it's why they constantly threaten to do it again in America.