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  • The Octonaut@mander.xyztoNews@lemmy.world•Newsmax pundit accuses Kamala Harris of 'doing blackface' to win presidency
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    20 days ago

    Are you sure it was an Irish plantation owner? Most of the time Irish people in the Caribbean were working on plantations, not owning them. From what I’ve read, the person in question was a British person from Antrim - which is on the island of Ireland, but is part of the UK and was itself “plantationed” by Britain.

    It would be weird for example to refer to George Orwell as Indian, Louis Theroux as Singaporean or Duke Wellington as Irish - after all, “being born in a stable does not make one a horse” as the Duke put it when ‘accused’ of being Irish.

  • The Octonaut@mander.xyztopolitics @lemmy.world•It doesn’t matter, VOTE
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    1 month ago

    So just to be clear, because there is a situation where literal fascists might win (which you believe is bad… right?), you feel aggrieved at the not-actual-fascists for this scenario arising. Which is understandable! As a person in a country that is a real democratic republic, I would hate for the less-bad option to be able hold my vote hostage or be punished for a third party vote.

    But to follow the logic then that as a result you are motivated to let literal fascists win (which is… bad?)…

    To what end? To see the establishment DNC face another humiliation, which will make you feel very vindicated for 3 months… before an actual fascist assumes more power than any American president has ever had before?.. To destroy the capitalist American empire with the expectation that the American people will forget 100 years of propaganda and suddenly realise collectivism is the way to go?

  • The Octonaut@mander.xyztoNews@lemmy.world•China says its recent threats of the death penalty effects "a very small number" of "diehard" advocates for Taiwanese independence, but others say these laws apply to nearly everyone in Taiwan
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    1 month ago

    These are not new laws. They are “guidelines” to the old ones. DemocracyWatch and one activist are the ones panicking. The article itself is at least balanced enough to have a voice that pretty explicitly says nothing has changed and this is just the usual theatre.

    That’s the crux of it. This repeated desire to make scary headlines out of political theatre when both sides play political pretend - that one of these days the Mongolian representatives will show up to Taiwan’s parliament; that China doesn’t recognise Taiwan when as you said they literally do every day. All to be forgotten in 6 months when none of it comes true but by then there’ll be another story to replace it. Not only that but you’re not even the target audience - it’s for American readers, who need to be reminded that intervening in a civil war on the other side of the planet is Good and Freedom and Worthy.

    Your suggestion that that is the “modern position of Taiwan” fails to mention that that is the position of one political party that’s had power for less than a decade and whose leader got 6.5% more than a party with a different view back in January.

    I am sure you worry about your safety - I would suggest that being told you are a pawn in a geopolitical game for a dying empire should be pretty scary.