Something I wish East Asian leftists would talk about more is that nominally "progressive" pro-democracy people support Trump not just because of China-Taiwan-Hong Kong geopolitics but because the democracy and human rights framework is at best

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incapable of liberating anyone and at worst actively feeds into the American right wing, who use it as a sort of Trojan horse for capitalism. Once you've accepted the nation state and the bourgeois parliament you're essentially locked in to the

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continuation of the capitalist system and the party par excellence of capitalism is the Republican Party. If you want to break this cycle you need a different kind of politics altogether.

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed