• circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    5 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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        5 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.