• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Last I checked liberals are all about respecting rules and international law, so we’re just holding you to your own standards here.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not obligated to respect laws when the laws don’t respect human rights. Slavery was legal at once point. The holocaust was legal at one point. Was I ever obligated to respect those laws?

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        1 year ago

        As an actual Chinese person, my disdain for the KMT runs a bit deeper than that.

        Fuck Chiang Kai-Shek from the bottom of my heart. He pleaded for help from the CCP, then betrayed and butchered the communists who were helping him. Just look at the Shanghai massacre. He then purged anyone even vaguely left wing from the Kumingtang.

        I never abandoned my ideals, they were always fuck the ROC to begin with. How do you think he lost the civil war in China? He lost popular support because he was a backstabbing vermin. He should be in a deeper layer of hell than even Reagan and Thatcher.

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          1 year ago

          god it was so confusing having a prof explain this whole history while adamantly backing the KMT/ROC. I was a lib at the time so I didn’t know how to process it but even then I was like wait he seems like a fucking asshole wtf is wrong with you.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Nice try, but pointing out liberals being hypocrites has nothing to do with abandoning our own ideals. What’s being said is that you lot claim that’s how things should work and you don’t follow your own rules.