ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼
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Soft-inked greetings from ThePurpleOctopus 🐙 Queer, non-binary, trans, pan, polyam and many-armed, and thinking in several directions at once. I like curiosity, kindness, politics with teeth, art with feelings, and science done properly. I like languages, cats, cows, trains, and the Oxford comma. I'm a Translator and Teacher by trade, a Traveller by desire. Here to listen, to learn, to tangle gently, and to leave the tide a little warmer than I found it. [Berlin/Amsterdam]
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The United States is not the yardstick by which I measure whether a superpower is acceptable.
"Better than the US" is a very low bar. And China doesn't even clear it.
An empire is still an empire, even when it wraps itself in different colours.
Ask Tibet about "liberation." Ask the Uyghurs about "stability." Ask Hong Kong about "one country, two systems." Ask Taiwan why it has to live under constant military threats for the crime of existing.
I refuse this childish game where we are expected to pick our favourite empire. I don't collect great powers like football teams. I reject Empires.
Washington can be wrong. Beijing can be wrong. Moscow can be wrong. More than one government can be authoritarian, imperialist, and dangerous at the same time.
My loyalty is not to flags. It is to ordinary people who just want to live in peace, speak their own language, love whom they love, and decide their own future without someone else's tanks, missiles, or secret police.
No kings. No emperors. No dictators. No exceptions.
#China #HumanRights #Taiwan #HongKong #StandWithUyghurs #FreeTibet
