Over 100,000 (estimates go up to 200,000) people came out on Saturday, April 26, to protest Lai Ching-te's governance. Funny how western MSM is silent and continues to present Lai as popular in the media.
He won the election with 40% of the vote (less than 30% if we count abstentions) and with the legislature in control of the opposition, made up of the two oppositional parties, the KMT and TPP.

Radlibbery didn’t come from below. It was imposed from above—by state policy, NGOs, and HR departments. The Obama era was the turning point. Here’s how "wokeness" became a tool of elite control, not grassroots liberation: 🧵 Under Obama, the US establishment embraced a new neoliberal multiculturalism

✅ Superficial diversity
❌ Economic justice

Wall Street got bailouts and drone wars expanded while identity-based reforms became the acceptable face of progress.

Conspiracy theories aren’t inherently left-wing or right-wing—they tend to emerge among people who question the establishment. And more often than not, those people come from the working class. Real conspiracies do happen, and conspiracy theories are simply unproven suspicions of such conspiracies. Some turn out to be true; others don’t.

In the 2000s, conspiracy theorists tended to be on the broad left in America as the right rallied behind Bush post-9/11

Why can non-Latinos successfully run taco spots, but almost no non-Chinese person runs American Chinese restaurants? After all, they're both similarly priced with similar mass appeal.

So let's look at the barriers 🧵👇 You’ll find tacos sold by people of all backgrounds: white-owned taco trucks, Korean fusion taquerias, even Michelin-starred spots run by non-Latinos.

But when’s the last time you saw a non-Chinese person run a Chinese takeout place? Not saying it never happens, but it's rare.

Zuoren is a Chinese concept whose meaning is lost no matter how you translate it. On the surface, the characters for zuoren 做人 literally mean "being a person," but to the average westerner who did not grow up around this concept, this explanation is meaningless. 🧵 The closest thing I can think of is "being a man," but that's more about bravery than it is about conducting oneself properly in general. Zuoren is more of a combination of knowing how to conduct yourself, be a good person, and behave with integrity, all while knowing your place.

The imperative for communists to win over small business owners—including truckers, farmers, artisans, & other "owner-operators"—stems from a materialist analysis of their class position and the strategic necessity of building broad working-class unity against monopoly capital🧵 Dismissing them as inherently reactionary risks alienating a segment of society that, while formally "petty bourgeois," is often materially proletarianized and shares overlapping interests with the working class. Here’s why this alliance is crucial:

The 228 Incident (February 28, 1947) is one of the most misunderstood events in Taiwan’s history. Many narratives—both pro- and anti-China—distort the facts, often for political purposes. Let’s break down what really happened. 🧵 The conventional story: A woman selling untaxed cigarettes was beaten by authorities on Feb 27, sparking protests. The KMT responded with mass killings, slaughtering tens of thousands of Taiwanese civilians.

Well well well, turns out one of the people detained by ICE due to recent policy shifts is none other than Johanne Liou, who was dubbed the "Sunflower Goddess" during the 2014 Sunflower Color Revolution. She was arrested in Boston.
She entered the US in 2019 on a tourism visa and never returned to Taiwan. She was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and scamming. While in the US, she was actively fundraising for the DPP under the pseudonym Jojo.

Prior to the Vernacular Chinese Movement of the 20th century, spoken Chinese was not recorded in formal writing at all. Instead, ideas were "translated" into Literary Chinese (Classical Chinese), which is very different from how people actually spoke. 🧵 While Classical/Literary Chinese was not actually a spoken language, it had one great advantage: if you were a scholar, it did not matter what Chinese language you spoke, you could read this common written language.

Juche, written as 주체 in Korean, is the Korean reading of 主體, which is read as zhuti in Standard Chinese (think how 1 is read as "one" in English and "uno" in Spanish, but mean the same thing). To understand Juche, you must understand Zhuti, a Chinese philosophical concept 🧵 Let's break down the phrase 主體:

主 (zhu in Chinese, ju in Korean): main
體 (ti in Chinese, che in Korean): body

You can understand this as "the main body," or "the subject," or the "core entity."

I call it Taiwan separatism and not "Taiwan independence," because the majority of those who support "Taiwan independence" view Taiwan's history through a pro-Japanese and pro-imperialist lens 🧵 Taiwan separatists use "decolonial" language to justify their positions. You would think they would therefore be anti-Japanese, right? But instead, many look fondly at Japan's colonization of Taiwan.

Below is a picture of Japanese invaders massacring a village in Taiwan:

Recently, @GarlandNixon and @RealScottRitter had a discussion about the rapprochement between Trump and Kim Jong Un, but the way the facts were presented made it seem like the Koreans were forced by economic hardships to the negotiating table, ignoring other key factors. 🧵 In many people's minds, north Korea is nothing but a shithole. While the economic situation there is definitely not ideal for a number of reasons, including US sanctions, people don't seem to appreciate how much more powerful the country has gotten over the past decade.

1. Color revolutions work because those involved want to live the middle class American life they see on TV, but pretty soon this will all change. 2. As the US establishment fails an increasing number of people on delivering its social contract (work hard, and afford a house and family), we will see more homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, violent crime, and other symptoms of a failing society.

1. Redlibs honestly have no right to talk shit about Tsai Ing-wen or the ruling party of the Taipei regime, the "Democratic" "Progressive" Party. If they were Taiwanese, they'd be screaming at people who either don't vote or vote KMT. (Note: I've never voted KMT or DPP before) 2. If US redlibs were Taiwanese, they'd be in activist circles in Taipei deriding people in their hometowns as backwards, brainwashed, and bigoted for not being on board with whatever bullshit neoliberal NGOs are pushing at the moment.

1. US "communist" leftists are just like Ash's Bulbasaur refusing to evolve into an Ivysaur. Yeah, okay, having to deal with financial responsibilities sucks, and yeah the system in the US is stacked against the poor. The average person already knows that and feels it every day. 2. Despite having been "communists" for years, redlibs are still stuck making memes about how going to work and having your surplus value taken or whatever sucks. They don't use what they've supposedly learned to come up with any strategies or make sense of the world.

1. When I posted this picture on Instagram back in October when I was banned from Twitter, redlibs lost their shit and shared screenshots on Twitter calling me a Larouchite Cultist for attending an event organized by the Schiller Institute. 2. This, to me, was very funny, because these same redlibs also fashion themselves as China-supporters. What they don't seem to know is Chinese state media has invited Helga Zepp-LaRouche to speak on multiple occasions, and she's also spoken on a panel at the Think 20 Summit.

1. Though never a member of the communist party, Li Ao, an anti-KMT dissident who was locked up in solitary confinement during White Terror, was a major figure in my political development.

Here is Li Ao showing off the complete list of his books banned by the KMT: 2. Born in 1935 in Harbin, and moving to Beijing where he lived until he was 14 before briefly living in Shanghai and moving to Taiwan.

1. Decades of anti-communist propaganda has convinced the American working class that communism means slaving away while owning nothing. The financial elites, through their NGOs, are currently selling us austerity on steroids and presenting it as progress. 2. If all your life you're told that communism is just that, of course you'll be extra anti-communist now when the elites are threatening this dark future on the masses of working people.

1. It never fails to make me laugh how Asian-American diasporoids whose online political presence is 99% bitching about white people in general are some of the most whitewashed people of their respective communities, with mostly white social circles and dating partners. 2. Hey, date whoever you want, I don't care, but if white people repulse you so much, why are you swapping bodily fluids with them?

1. A not so small portion of MAGA people were drawn to that political tendency because they felt left behind by the liberal establishment and by establishment Republicans. 2. Trump arrived as a false messiah, saying the things they want to hear, addressing the issues that worry them. But he's unable to able to offer real solutions, and fails to correct false consciousness. I don't see why he'd be interested in correcting false consciousness.

One of my Telegram posts I made shortly after my previous Twitter ban:

1. Reconstituting a real anti-imperialist communist tendency in the west means restoring critical thinking. 2. For too long, the "left" has been utterly hijacked by radlibbery that expects nothing short of total compliance and punishes those who dare to ask questions with social ostracization (certain people should be ostracized, but sjws are psychotic about it).