Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
by Sophistifunk on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:55PM
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Absolutely nothing about the historical bad behaviour of the US in Central and South America has any bearing on the threat the CCP poses to a billion Chinese and the world today. Nothing.
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Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
by trashtester on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:44AM
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Not their actions in Latin America, but the USA did parttake in some extreme violence in Asia about 75 years ago that could be blamed for the CCP gaining power in the first place.
I'm not sure Imperial Japanese rule would be so much better, though.
Imperial Japan was arguably worse than Nazi Germany. Unbelievably bad.
Actually, they have a lot to do with each other, as the violence that the United States did to Central and South America was always justified with anticommunist rhetoric, like this. A Peter Kingsley quote, more about spiritual perception, also applies to the political:
"The only possible way to understand is by standing back in the stillness that lies underneath thinking and sees things as they really are. It's like watching hundreds of colors, each of them trying to persuade you it happens to be the most important one-then stepping back and seeing they all form a single rainbow. Thoughts in themselves are always leading to division and separation. But all thoughts, together, are a single whole." (from "Reality")