hell, it's basically how the Imperial Japanese justified their attacks on China! the underlying sentiment behind the CPS was one that feigned de-colonialism and modernization

it's funny that if you modified this post you would get Trump's rationale for attacking Iran

i am unashamed in saying that taiwan is one of the best places to live on the planet and the PRC, if you enjoy things like free speech, does not crack the top hundred

if this is a terrible argument for why the PRC isn't responsible for maoism then ok. the current PRC still sucks and taiwan like very much does not though so

literally how are taiwanese people responsible for the white terror, a thing they overthrew themselves. is france responsible for louis XIV

you never, ever see anybody on a average wage or lower explain what they think they will be given by Farage. they will tell you what will be taken away from somebody else. you can't expect normal rules to apply because appealing to the worst in people circumvents them.

In journalism, I want to see an overthrow of old media and a flowering of something new. I don't agree with people who want to prop up legacy outlets out of fear that journalism itself will die without them.

Journalism is already dead if the likes of WaPo, NYT, NPR, or CBS are our only hope.

But too many good people are going to have to sacrifice too much, and all because the leaders in politics, business, academia, and journalism let things go this far.

I hope theres a reckoning for at least some of those people, because they put us here every bit as much as Trump.

Americans have roundly rejected this, and more and more the more they've seen. They're putting their bodies on the line to defend the principles of freedom, equality, democracy, and human rights.

I believe we will win. It's too big a country for such small, stupid men to take it by force.

Everything we're seeing, and much worse, was baked in once they made that traitorous and foolhardy choice.

Some, particularly in the tech sector, actively cheered for replacing American democracy with an autocratic nightmare, but most denied the obvious and/or pretended it wasn't their concern.