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    2 months ago

    It was used against the British during the American Revolution. Saying it is the same as supporting police allows zero historical understanding or nuance. Everyone in America originated from the Revolution as all were affected.

    Also, the don’t tread on me flag which originated from Virginia used to be more clearly anti authoritarianism and has been co-opted in the past few years by MAGA fans



  • Couple thoughts.

    One from his wiki:

    In a 2022 piece for the Gatestone Institute, Chang suggested that Taiwan could deter the PRC by threatening a conventional missile attack on the Three Gorges Dam and signal that they are “prepared to take Chinese lives in the hundreds of millions” by drowning the population downstream of the dam. This would pack “the wallop of a nuclear” strike. Chang believes that the United States should help Taiwan manufacture more missiles with such capabilities.

    His father is from mainland China and he himself worked there for 20 years and he thinks Taiwan should drown 100s of millions? Huh? Who would want to do that to their own people?

    In what The New Yorker described as the “loopiest” speech of CPAC 2023, Chang alleged that Chinese government had “deliberately spread [COVID-19] beyond its borders to America and to the world”.[1] He has also claimed in relation to the second wave of COVID-19 in India that “it is entirely possible [China] released another pathogen.”[22] He also made claims that China was “likely planning to launch pathogen” from an illegal California lab.[23] However a federal investigation into the lab in question, had not substantiated those claims but instead determined that it wasn’t trying to make biological weapons, but instead was simply growing antibody cells to produce test kits for Covid-19.

    Huh?

    In a 2019 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Chang stated that Donald Trump is “the only thing that stands between us and a world dominated by China.”

    Ah okay, so he’s just a standard highly conservative Chinese American. Both Chinese and Chinese Americans are both pretty conservative but in my experience the latter takes a much weirder route than the former. Actively supporting people that are racist again themselves, pro-stop Asian hate but anti BLM, see migrants and homeless as bad when they themselves were migrants once.

    He seems to either be very Falungong conservative anti China nonsense, or the my parents moved to America so I must hate China for the rest of my life guy.