In a statement, Access Now says it was “told that diplomats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were putting pressure on the Government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.”

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    Stupid take. By this metric the true government of the US are the confederates.

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      Can you point to the region where the Confederate government retreated to after the American civil war and remains in power to this day?

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          I get what you’re implying but it’s not factually correct in this case. The Confederacy was dissolved after it lost the civil war, there’s no continuity with any of those state governments.

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            Living in the Deep South: my ass. Even Operation Paperclip was modified off what the US did with the Confederate scum: placed them in government and other positions of power and influence.

            Sherman should have burned it all and salted the earth, besides.

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              Let’s say there is a public school. I kill the principal, build a new school, hire 30% of the old school’s teachers, and completely change the rules and curriculum.

              Is the new school the same as the old school?

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                  …trust me on this. Even the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras weren’t equivalent to what was going on prior to the Confederacy. I know from personal experience that the south is a shithole, but you got to give them credit where it’s due.

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                    I’m not trusting anyone who says “trust me.”

                    I know it was bad. I said what I said.