鍾翔宇 Xiangyu
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Anti-imperialist rapper and political commentator in the age of dying unipolarity and rising multipolarity. Host of @StraitTalkXY Inquiries: [email protected]
Taiwan Province, China
Joined December 2020
Picture on the right is the dessert I had at a cold noodle restaurant in Rason, DPRK
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If the leaders of Cuba really wanted to live rich decadent lives while the people suffer, the easiest way would be to sell out their country and run it as compradors managing a US client state on behalf of empire. But here's the thing: that's exactly the path they rejected.
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The Periodic Table of Elements as we know it today was created by a RUSSIAN chemist—Dmitri Mendeleev. It's time to remove chemistry from US education!!!.
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@HowardA_AtLaw Why don't you move to Israel and fight "Hamassholes" yourself? You're in America, yet you're calling on hardworking Americans to spend their tax dollars on your "homeland" where you've probably never even lived extensively.
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The gains made by the Amazon Union prove Mao's teachings about the Mass Line, and I am more certain that if a revolutionary situation were to arise in the US, the backbone of the mass movement will be made up of workers who do not yet think of themselves as communists.
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If you want to claim that Cuba's failures are due to socialism and not sanctions, then let's test the theory. Remove sanctions from the equation and see what happens. If things don't change then you can rub it in our noses. What do you have to lose?.
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These are the same people who mock the DPRK for having portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il everywhere.
In bed with Zelensky: Pillows with Ukrainian president's face sell out
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Declassified documents of the CIA explicitly talk about fostering a "compatible left" to combat the communist left, but if you bring this up to those who are part of the "compatible left," they'll just dismiss you as some crazy conspiracy theorist.
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Your class consciousness is useless without geopolitical literacy.
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I hate whoever reduced politics to the psychoanalysis of individual leaders and divorcing current events from geopolitical, economic, and historical context.
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@MsMelChen @cremieuxrecueil I hate to break it to you, but at some point, you'll probably get accused of being a ching chong spy.
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Eileen Gu simply made the same realization I made many years ago: we'll always be accepted as a fellow compatriot by Chinese people as long as we maintain cultural ties, while Yanks will never see us as true Americans. Haters are simply proving us right.
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Shinzo Abe's maternal grandfather was war criminal Nobusuke Kishi. Look him up. This makes Shinzo Abe's denial of Japanese war crimes even more disgusting. Study this history before condemning Chinese or Korean people for celebrating a certain someone's departure.
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@jacksonhinklle I flipped through an atlas I saw at a bookstore there. In the middle east the entire country is labeled Palestine, and the Golan Heights were drawn as part of Syria.
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The existence of furries as a social phenomenon is a symptom of a broken, declining society. If this view makes me bigoted, then I'm sorry to say reality is bigoted.
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Suggested reading list of ML classics for beginner communists:. 1. "Karl Marx" by V.I. Lenin. A very basic introduction to what is and isn't Marxism, as well as a brief introduction to the man himself.
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When people in the global south say there's no revolutionary potential in the US, the healthy response is to try and prove them wrong while standing in solidarity with them, not get all butthurt and defensive. They feel that way for a reason.
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You realize how hard it is for an unpopular government to mobilize people?.
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I'm kind of flattered people who believed the smear campaign thought that the picture used in the doctored screenshot was me, but I'm sorry to say I'm kind of chunky. Fitness goals though.
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China: recognizes Koreans in China who have been in China for generations as one of the 56 Chinese nationalities, protects their culture and language, and gives their language official status in Yanbian, their autonomous prefecture. Gets called out for "cultural appropriation.".
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The problem with communism being so vilified in the west is it has a tendency to attract people who are not serious about being communists, but want to be edgy rebels.
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Funny how @CocaCola is temporarily pulling out of Russia for that PR because it "cares about human rights," but it didn't have a problem hiring death squads in Colombia to off labor organizers.
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When I was in Cuba, I saw no performative political correctness, and it got me thinking - it's because they actually do shit about inequality & injustice. In the US, knowing the latest PC buzzwords is such a huge deal cuz it's the only thing ppl feel like they have control over.
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China is willing to tolerate two systems within its own country. Meanwhile, western elites can only tolerate one system in the entire world.
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You don't have to think Russia is perfect or even good to oppose NATO's intervention in Ukraine. It was the US that destabilized the region in the first place by supporting a color rev in Ukraine in 2014. Western "leftists" who think US intervention will help are imperialists.
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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 🧵
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Screenshot from a news broadcast in Taiwan back in 1992. This is the map that showed up when she spoke of "our country."
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Chinese people aren't overwhelmingly pro-CPC because the CPC is good at propaganda. The CPC is actually quite bad at propaganda. The people are pro-CPC because the CPC delivers results.
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Where was your liberal outrage when NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days straight?.
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1. When Pelosi visited Taiwan, she met with TSMC founder Morris Chang to convince him to build fab plants in the US. When she visited Korea, she wanted to meet Yoon to pressure Samsung to do the same. So why did Yoon refuse to meet her?.
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Flowers placed on Comrade Stalin's grave on his birthday this year
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When the CIA was first formed, it recruited heavily from the anti-communist "left." Criticism of capitalism & US imperialism are okay as long as they remain in the abstract and don't get in the way of US foreign policy interests. In fact, they're good for providing a "woke" cover.
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1. During the final years of the Trump administration, the US made it near impossible for people around the world to send money to their family and friends in Cuba. This was done by sanctioning Fincimex, the Cuban company that works with foreign companies like Western Union.
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If imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, then anti-imperialism is the most fundamental type of anti-capitalism. Your baizuo "anti-capitalism" doesn't mean shit if your positions on foreign policy are more or less in line with those of the State Department.
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An Aboriginal friend told me his tribe doesn't speak its own language anymore, but that his elders speak in Japanese, though without honorifics. When he visited Japan, the Japanese asked him why he spoke so rudely. His response: we learned from the way you spoke to us back then.
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1. Just because Russia is not a socialist country doesn't change the progressive nature of its intervention in Ukraine. The conflict did not begin this month, but 8 years ago when the US-backed coup put neo-Nazi compradors into power.
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Good to know the Ukraininan regime today views the fall of the Soviet Union as a greater victory than the defeat of Nazi Germany.
OTD 30 years ago the USSR collapsed. The greatest geopolitical joy of the XX century!
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It's so twisted how we live in a society that considers Mao Zedong to have been an evil dictator while viewing Elon Musk as a fighter for the common folk.
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People will scoff at socialist states for "brainwashing" their citizens with art that encourages revolutionary optimism and solidarity, and ignore how the CIA funds arts that promote reactionary pessimism, nihilism, hyper-individualism, aimless hedonism, and color revolution.
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@ElijahSchaffer "All Chinese are rich and are our enemies.". Sounds like someone screeching about "Judeo-Bolshevism" but go on. It's okay, we don't like you either.
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Attributing Nazi Germany's losses in WWII primarily to the "cold Russian winter" is an insult to the strength and willpower of the great Soviet people and the wise leadership of the USSR, who made difficult decisions in real time while navigating through enemy disinformation.
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People who were communists and have studied Marxism-Leninism and actually understand it but become anti-communist are some of the most sinister people in existence.
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As a Taiwanese, I want Taiwan to be the envy of the mainland, but I believe for that to happen, we must be on a path towards reunification and friendly competition. Being a puppet of western powers takes so much resources from building ourselves up. Our leaders have taken us off.
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Next time I hear a liberal say “I miss Obama,” I'm just gonna say “I miss Gaddafi.”.
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When Mao wrote about landlords, the original Chinese was 地主, which referred to the feudal lords. He did not mean landlord as in some dude who saved up to buy an apartment unit to rent to college kids. Those are 房東. So yes, 地主 in China were in fact liquidated as a class.
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I've said this many times and I'll say it again: Sanders and AOC pushed the definition of socialism right much more than they've pushed people towards the left.
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So why isn't the "Russian bot" crowd crying about Gusano bots? Oh yeah, it's because they uphold US imperialism.
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For 45 days, the government of China tried to negotiate with the demonstrators on Tiananmen Square, consisting of a diverse group of people with various grievances, among them glowies serving US imperialists. The government kept capitulating to the requests of student leaders,.
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Saying you'd rather go abroad to kill people who never did shit to you than go to jail with your dignity intact is crazier to me.
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People who repeat the lies about the "Holodomor" (really a cyclical famine exacerbated by Kulaks) being orchestrated by Stalin for genocidal purposes have yet to come up with Stalin's incentive to kill Ukrainians.
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Why are westerners trying to stir up the whole "Free Tibet" bullshit again. I thought that got old in 2008.
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Years ago, a friend in Beijing told me that he thinks at this point, the Chinese firewall protects foreign sensitivities more than it protects the Chinese people. I didn't quite understand him at the time, but looking at recent developments with the TikTok exodus, I get it.
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Yellow Parenti: "What do you want me to write in this book? 'Fuck you all?'"
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The Tibetan name for Tibet is Bod. Part of the region is called Ü-Tsang in Tibetan, and it's this word that the Chinese name 西藏 Xizang is based off of. 藏 Zang has been used to describe the region and the people there since the Yuan Dynasty, long before there ever was a PRC. .
"THE NAME IS TIBET NOT XIZANG".Chinese govt’s ongoing attempts to rename #Tibet as "Xizang" are part of a broader agenda of CCP to erase Tibetan culture, history, & sovereignty. But together, World must stand up for the truth & ensure Tibet's heritage is not rewritten.#FreeTibet
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Who cares why Trump supporters are anti-FBI now? They arrived at the right answer. Now's not the time to castigate them, but to ride that energy.
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I'm with the DPRK.
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A guy from Taiwan and the mainland connect online to talk about politics and democracy. Clearly, this conversation made the Taiwanese guy question things a bit. This is why the DPP is actively discouraging engagement between the Chinese people on both sides of the Strait.
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One of the greatest victories of the people was the eradication of opium addiction in China. Sorry, drug-worshipping American edgelords.
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Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the stereotypical Russian woman was a big peasant babushka. After the fall when the country was open to foreign exploitation, the stereotype became that Russian women are all sexy supermodels. This was not a coincidence.
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As a Taiwanese who was taught by my parents that Taiwanese people are Chinese, I wanted to identify with the so-called "Republic of China" and the 🇹🇼 flag. But then I eventually found out, everything I wanted for Chinese people was being accomplished by the CPC: rejuvenation of.
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@aurorachaang You're welcome to go test your theory. Plenty of other insurance CEOs out there. (Not condoning violence btw, just saying nobody is stopping our friend Aurora here).
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@DrewPavlou It took you a year to pay off $1500? Turns out grifting isn't very lucrative. .
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Just listen to how condescendingly @VaushV talks down to @YaBoiHakim, an Iraqi, about US imperialism in Iraq. Please retweet this so more people know what a fraud and racist Vaush really is. Just drop the facade and join the alt-right already.
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Stop calling the US prison-industrial complex a "gulag." The two cannot be conpared. Even in the last century, solitary confinement was illegal in the Soviet Union. Gulag prisoners also ran prison newspapers.
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.@Shannon_Liao dawg are you a "fluent native speaker" from some peasant village in the Qing Dynasty? What kind of "fluent native speaker" in 2024 can't read "非常漂亮". 吹什麼牛屄啊妳？
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"so people are going to Xinjiang and noticing that Uygur people and culture are well and alive. How do we justify the disconnect between reality and our propaganda?".
The barbed wire is almost gone. So are the armored personnel carriers. Young Uyghur men are back on the streets. Beijing is slackening its grip on Xinjiang after a brutal mass detention campaign, but fear remains pervasive.
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Let's assume both the US and Russia are just as bad as one another for the sake of argument. Wouldn't it be more productive for US citizens to protest the government they can marginally influence and not the one on the other side of the world?.
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Had the whole world locked down seriously like China did in 2020 while guaranteeing rent/mortgage freezes, food supply, and survival in general, this all could've been over by now. Vaccine or no vaccine.
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1. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism;.2. Neoliberalism is the dominant form of imperialism today;.3. Today's neoliberal world order is led by the US, the #1 imperialist world power. Therefore, being against US imperialism is a PREREQUISITE to being anti-capitalist.
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The whole problem with making "lived experiences" the end-all and be-all of social analysis is those in power will pick the ones convenient for their interests and promote them in the name of "diversity" while everyone else is thrown under the bus.
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If imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, then anti-imperialism is the highest stage of class struggle. Class struggle divorced from anti-imperialism is incomplete and ineffective.
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@DrewPavlou Nowhere does it say those medals should belong to Africa. All it says is "Descendants of the African slave trade," and points out how they win so many gold medals for America, possibly implying "America treats these people like shit while also depending on them".
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When north and south Koreans encounter each other. I believe this was some sort of trade fair in Thailand. Notice how excited everyone is.
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Willing to bet the DPRK gets its major cities connected by high speed rail before the US.
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From the US' perspective, it didn't "fail" in Afghanistan. Making Afghanistan a stable country capable of providing its citizens better lives was never the goal of US imperialism. The US extracted what it could, and now China, Pakistan, and Iran are left with an unstable neighbor.
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How does censorship in Taiwan work? Chinese translations of works by people like Dr. Parenti are not published there and are definitely not put on display. Meanwhile, Park Yeonmi's book was seen everywhere. And liberals can deny that the ruling class had anything to do with this.
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One day people will need to confront the fact that most Americans who call themselves MLs, communists, socialists, etc. are really just petty bourgeois Tumblr radlibs completely divorced from the working masses.
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To Americans who want to be political on XHS: did Chinese users win you over by being overtly political, or by just showing their lives? Just share things about your lives and show them the real America, both the good and the bad. Show, don't tell. It goes a lot further.
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Everyone who whined about supposed Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election better be upset about the US threatening sanctions against Nicaragua for electing the Sandinistas.
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If Xi Jinping had a son whose shenanigans were anywhere near 10% as ridiculous as those of Hunter Biden, you know western MSM would never shut up about it and use it to discredit not just the CPC, but China in its entirety.
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Please explain to me why people think painting dumb messages on topless baizuo is an effective form of protest. .
« STOP PUTIN’S WAR ». Actions des @Femen_France sous la Tour Eiffel à Paris contre Vladimir Poutine et la guerre en Ukraine. #UkraineUnderAttaсk #StopPutinNOW
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How much you wanna bet that these diasporoid Tibetans (assuming that's what they are) can't even speak their own language, while most Tibetans in Tibet today can speak and read it. (Most were illiterate before liberation).
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