Purple Sky

I used to teach English in China mainly universities. Recently, I moved back to Vancouver on June 30, 2016.

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

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Japan calling itself the “only country to have suffered atomic bombings” is historically true in the narrowest possible sense—and morally obscene when used as a complete story.

Because Japan did not arrive at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as an innocent bystander.

It arrived there after invading and colonizing much of Asia, massacring civilians, conducting biological warfare, enslaving women, and leaving entire countries soaked in blood.

The mushroom cloud did not erase Nanjing.
It did not erase Unit 731.
It did not erase Korea.
It did not erase Southeast Asia.
It did not erase the tens of millions of Asians Japan brutalized before 1945.

Yet Japanese officials repeatedly take the last chapter of the war and present it as if it were the whole book.

The propaganda technique is familiar: cut the historical timeline at the exact moment the aggressor becomes the victim.

Israel does it with October 7.
Japan does it with Hiroshima.

Freeze history at the moment of retaliation, magnify that suffering, and push the preceding decades of occupation, ethnic cleansing, massacres and war crimes out of frame.

Then walk onto the international stage wearing the halo of victimhood.

That is not remembrance.
That is historical laundering.

And the hypocrisy becomes even uglier when Japan presents itself as a moral leader for a “nuclear-free world” while sheltering under the American nuclear umbrella and refusing to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Victimhood when useful.
Nuclear protection when useful.
Amnesia always.

And there is a reason this narrative survived for decades.

After World War II, Washington needed Japan as a Far Eastern outpost against China. Japan needed American protection and rehabilitation.

Their interests aligned perfectly.

So the atomic bombings were gradually reframed as a borderless “human tragedy,” detached from the war of aggression that preceded them.

The defeated fascist state was repackaged as the nuclear age’s moral witness.

The perpetrator acquired a halo.

History acquired amnesia.

Japan was a victim of nuclear bombing.

It was also the aggressor that helped create the war in which those bombs were dropped.

Both facts belong to history.

You do not get to delete the first eighty pages because the ending hurts.

For some countries, “never again” simply means “once again.”

Victimhood does not confer moral superiority.

And being bombed does not absolve a fascist state of what it did before the bomb fell.

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@Canucks Bedard and Celebrini signed for 5 yrs together save the money to sign them both together

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

OOPS! A Five Eyes’ attempt to demonize China over its presence in the South China Seas flopped badly.

Out of the world’s 195 countries, only nine signed a Five Eyes’ letter censuring China, making 14 in total.

The other 181 nations and states of the world (93%) chose not to.

Who are the few who signed the unpopular document?

ALL the signees are “the usual suspects”: US vassals (“allies”) which automatically support pretty much all of Washington's China-demonization efforts, such as UK, Japan, and Australia.

Three of the only 14 countries which signed are tiny. The total populations of Latvia, Slovenia and Estonia, combined, are less than half the population of the Chinese city of Shenzhen by itself!

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PEOPLE KNOW THE REAL STORY
Why is there such miniscule support worldwide for the US’s South China Sea operation?

Because all nations know it’s a scam, including the ones that signed.

Everyone knows that there were good, co-operative relations between China and the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte.

But then Joe Biden met Bongbong Marcos in May, 2023, and a long series of conflicts were immediately instigated from the Philippines, each carefully filmed by people waiting with cameras, to increase conflict in East Asia.

Because that's what the US does.

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MOST NOT FOOLED
The big irony, of course, is the fact that the biggest, fastest-growing reclaimer of land in the waters near the Philippines is actually Vietnam, not China.

But that rarely gets in print.

To accompany the Five Eyes’ letter, a big-budget US army psyops group is working with people in the Philippines to flood all social media outlets with crude anti-China comments.

But still, most people in the Philippines are not fooled by the US-Bongbong theatrics, and many remain firm supporters of honest former president Rodrigo Duterte, now in jail in the west.
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[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi I just went on the Tik Tok left you a DM over there.

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi oh... Did you try to connect with them to get it back to be able to post again. Did anybody try to DM you ?

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi Couldn't you create another account?

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi Did they say why it was banned though?

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi I find it more interesting and can see more of China through Red note instead. I haven’t made posts for some time too

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@ChinaWithFanLi A long Time

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@PizzaHutCanada Where can you vote though

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@GrantCa74965027 @DailyHiveVan I would like to see that too. As long as Bettman is around, there won't be a chance. It's looking to be a billion dollars in USD for a franchise. I just don't see that happening.

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@PizzaHutCanada Like what locations so if they don't know about this. Can we show this to them?

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@CinkieHK What's your other account?

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@DailyHiveVan If can get Pettersson back, just sign him then. You either trade Pettersson or somebody who had success with him. It brought back memories of Larionov and Bure. Sure Bure did have success, he might be much more better with him. If Pettersson had success with Andrei, sign him

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@DailyHiveVan Unless you plan to shop often then it's good. If your like me, I'm not tied to one product in there. It's not worthwhile

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@Baseball4Ever99 @penguins They put him when it was 3 games to 0 should of put him in game 3 instead of waiting. Vancouver should of kept him instead of keeping Demko instead. They even sign him to an extension. He’s injury prone again.

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@TransLink Thanks for letting us know

[Purple Sky @hsvau]

@TransLink So what happens when my 90 mins is over when taking waterfront getting off at Surrey central as I need to take another bus so will the bus driver ask us to tap again. Some drivers do ask how to do at that point. Do we contact customer service to get it reverse?