• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Just add some brown people and throw a wedding. The factory will be leveled within hours.

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      6 months ago

      You know what doesn’t convince people to rethink how they view America, or empire?

      Arbitrarily inserting comments like that into topics where they’re disconnected and off topic.

      Wait a minute…are you a DoD contractor whose mission it is to make any critic of America look whiney and detached from reality?

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          6 months ago

          It’s wrong precisely because Taiwan is a client state…

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          6 months ago

          Mitch McConnell’s wife and Trump’s Secretary of Labor - Elaine Chao - is from a family of enormously wealthy Taiwanese shipping magnets.

          California is flush with Taiwanese-born politicians, business owners, and investors.

          Taiwanese’s ruling class goes to school in the US, owns property in the US, and has a very friendly relationship with the American financial system.

          I would put them more on par with Israel than, say, the Philippines or some Latin American Banana Republic. They’ve got much more influence over us than a traditional client state like Puerto Rico or Guam.