• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    I’ve got an old high school friend who is now a deep-in-the-weeds Texas Republican (photo-ops with Greg Abbot, dinner parties with Dinesh D’Souza, etc) and she’s a Taiwanese ex-pat. It blows my mind, because she’s in the heart of the beast and she’s constantly eating shit for looking Chinese. But she’s so heavily invested in the GOP as her meal ticket that she keeps eating their shit day in and day out.

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      A lot of 1st generation asians who immigrate to the U.S tend to be conservative (hell, it doesnt stop at asians, this also applies to most immigrants)

      Its the second generatiom who lean more left, and how left they lean usually is on how deeply family oriented they are.

      Taiwanese usually land on the richer side of asian immigrants and the prototypical “model asian” stereotype so I wouldnt be suprised they landed on the more right leaning side of the spectrum reletively speaking.

      Edit: it alsp doesnt help that asian news networks tend to be right leaning.

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        It doesn’t help that communists are banned from immigrating to the US.

        “The inadmissibility ground for immigrant membership in or affiliation with the Communist or any other totalitarian party is part of a broader set of laws passed by Congress to address threats to the safety and security of the United States” from the US government

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          Theres like lines about that I would believe. How would the government define whose communist, as there are many civilians who come from communist countries and are known to be very conservative (e.g Cubans)

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            I think strictly speaking it’s party membership that would reason for inadmissibility, but I suspect that a “vibes” based approach might be in use, due to the possible difficulty in figuring out who exactly is a member.

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              Hence why I dont think that law really enforced unless you were obviously communist (e.g big name politician or figurehead).

              Immigration is extremely lax on actually verifying identities of people (e.g some people sponsored for immigration gave it to a reletive or a friend if they chose to ultimately stay in their respective country)

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        Even then, its amazing to see what she’ll do to get in with a party that clearly hates her. My ears practically bleed when I’m listening to her apologize for someone like D’Souza or Vivek, as though a thousand cocktail party niceities make up for the latest racial slander they’ve rolled out to the mainstream.

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        She’s a lawyer with a clientele of conservative families. She’s had a number of appointments to municipal and state commissions by Republican elected reps. And she’s worked as a family law judge for a few years after winning one of the local way-down-ticket races.

        Also, her husband works for a foundation funded by conservative donors and does consulting work for the party.

        Her livelihood is literally tied up with the Republican Party.