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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Twitter deleted someone's reply to me saying "Taiwan needs a nuke". It was probably deleted under the mistaken impression that they were saying Taiwan should be nuked, an interesting double standard considering how many tweets you see saying "Nuke Iran", "Nuke North Korea" etc.
I mean it's possible Twitter could have deleted it for the right reason: that the commenter was calling for nuclear weapons to be given to Taiwan, because that is what they were saying. But that would mean a lot of empire think pieces also need deleting.
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Twitter users call for Iran and North Korea to be nuked all the time, and always have. I've never once heard of a tweet being deleted for this reason. But saying nuke Taiwan is off limits.
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26 Nov
Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to each is obviously to move a lot of high-powered weaponry there, and NONE of them are questioning ANY of this.
This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it MORE dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the outlets people look to to understand the world aren't telling them it's dangerous.
The only danger you're allowed to discuss in mainstream western reporting about Russia and China is their scary aggressive expansionism, like this new bullshit propaganda piece here. Nowhere are you allowed to question if it's true, or to mention detente.
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25 Nov
You can tell people who freak out about Russia and China are either acting in bad faith or regurgitating propaganda because they all act like detente is not a thing. They always take it as a given that those nations will be aggressive and expansionist unless aggressively opposed.
At no time does it ever even enter their minds that hey, maybe these nations might be acting defensively here and the way to cool things off would be to move toward an easing of tensions. Image
Pilger has been writing about this for years. This article is from 2016. Yet it's still taken as a given by Serious News Reporters in the west that Russia and China are these reckless aggressors and the US is responding defensively to their aggressions.
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25 Nov
Efforts To Groom Us For War With China Are Getting More Forceful

If you thought western media have been pushy with their anti-China propaganda, wait til you see The Hill's new opinion piece titled "America must prepare for war with China over Taiwan".
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Would you like to know what this big brave warrior looks like? Would you like to see a picture of this mighty hero who has no fear of leading us all into a third world war?

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19 Nov
If your opinion about a legal case would be different if the political ideologies of those involved were reversed and all other facts in evidence remained the same, then it's probably best not to pretend your position on the case has anything to do with the facts in evidence.
If the above tweet bothers you then your issue is with your own cognitive dissonance, not with me.
Awful lotta people telling on themselves here.
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18 Nov
"You can criticize both Washington AND Beijing."

Okay. But you don't. Or if you do you don't criticize them proportionately to how bad they are. The US today is indisputably far more destructive than modern China; do you criticize it far more? Most westerners don't.
The US has killed millions and displaced tens of millions in its still-ongoing post-9/11 wars. It's circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it. Nothing China is doing comes anywhere near this level of evil.
Very few westerners apply this level of criticism to the US. Most westerners ignore US imperialism altogether while rending their garments about Hong Kong or Xinjiang or whatever they're instructed by the mass media to be upset about today.
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18 Nov
Criticize Beijing's Xinjiang policies all you want, but its deradicalization campaign was indisputably infinitely less draconian than the western "war on terror" which has killed millions and displaced tens of millions since 9/11.
And now it's winding down, while the US empire's "war on terror" has been continually expanding. These two things are not equal. They're not even comparable. The US and its allies are indisputably far, far worse.
All the western hand-wringing about Muslims in China is worse than hypocritical; it's a joke. The US empire pretending to care about Muslims is like Exxon-Mobil pretending to care about the environment.
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