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Due to their commitment to Christian pacifism, the Moravians did not take sides during the American Revolutionary War, which caused them to be viewed with suspicion by both the British and the Americans. As the Moravians were collecting crops, Pennsylvania militia encountered them and falsely promised the Moravians that they would be "relocated away from the warring parties." Once they were gathered together, however, the American militia rounded up the unarmed Moravians and said that they planned to execute them for being spies, charges that the Moravians rebutted.

The Moravians asked their captors to be allowed to pray and worship on the night before their execution; they spent the night before their deaths praying as well as singing Christian hymns and psalms. Eighteen of the U.S. militiamen were opposed to the killing of the pacifist Moravians, although they were outvoted by those who wanted to murder them; those who opposed the murder did not participate in the massacre and separated themselves from the killers. Before murdering them, the American soldiers "dragged the women and girls out into the snow and systematically raped them."

As they were being killed, the Moravians sang "hymns and spoke words of encouragement and consolation one to another until they were all slain". Believing in nonresistance, they pleaded for their lives to be spared, but did not fight back against their persecutors.

Moravian missionary David Zeisberger declared the slain Lenape and Mohican as Christian martyrs, who are remembered in the Moravian Church.

Reliable accounts regarding the Gnadenhutten massacre come from the Moravian missionaries, as well as the two Moravian Indian boys who escaped—Jacob and Thomas, as well as those who survived such as the Moravian Indians at Schoenbrunn. Many of the soldiers who participated in the slaughter denied their involvement, and neither did their descendants acknowledge their actions. At the time of the massacre, although many settlers were outraged by it, frontier residents generally supported the militia's actions.

Despite talk of bringing the murderers to justice, no criminal charges were filed and the conflict continued unabated. However, as "the details of the Gnadenhutten massacre [published by the Moravian missionaries] became generally known, it was recognized as a crime against humanity."

I’m guessing that while some people may be “true believers”, the majority of the higher ups know it’s all bullshit and don’t really have much of an ideology beyond Chinese nationalism, the desire to make China rise to the status of a great power.

China as it is today has kept the one party dictatorship from the Mao period, but has abandoned the Soviet style socialist command economic model for a type of state capitalism. But Mao remains useful for propaganda, as the current regime draws its “legitimacy” from the mythos of Mao ending the “Century of Humiliation”, so they can’t outright say they have rejected Marxist Leninism as that would undermine their own authority.

I hope so, I hope my fellow Michiganders are smart enough to not reward the Republicans their outrageous behavior the last two years of the Trump administration. But El-Sayed is a leftist Muslim, I can see bigotry being enough for independents to give Mike Rogers the victory.

The little I’ve seen about it seems pretty good but I’d like the thoughts of people here

He was a political activist and is considered an important philosopher and political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence".

Martí was killed in battle against Spanish troops at the Battle of Dos Ríos, near the confluence of the rivers Contramaestre and Cauto, on 19 May 1895. His death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt. He is also regarded as Cuba's "martyr".

We are all well aware that there is a problem of police corruption and accountability in America, with unjustified police violence, often racially discriminatory, going unpunished.

It’s also true that our justice system often fails to protect the public from violence criminals, and people feel unsafe. “Abolish the police” and “defund the police” were confusing and alienating political slogans to the general public, only doing well with a small activist demographic who either agreed with the plain meaning of the text or else interpreted it differently.

Obviously we should support police reform. Police are supposed to protect, and those who harm instead should be held accountable. We should have it as part of a general attack upon corruption and the lawlessness of MAGA, which is in its leadership a criminal cabal. I think Democrats should embrace a social and economic progressivism that raises up the flag and Constitution.

There is no reason on Earth we should surrender those things to MAGA, or let their gang pretend to be “law and order“ as they crucify the Constitution. Attack both white and blue collar crime, don’t concede the narrative to the Republicans that Democrats are soft on crime.

And obviously, as liberals and progressives, we should be “tough on the causes of crime”. Fight poverty and housing, bring down the costs of living. Increase funding to schools, make higher education more affordable, make housing more affordable, universal healthcare, job programs, etc.

This position contrasts with support for Chinese unification under the One China stance advocated by the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Kuomintang (KMT), as well as with maintaining the status quo in cross-strait relations.

Taiwan's political status is ambiguous due to two historical issues—the competing claims of the PRC and ROC to the entirety of each other's territory due to the technically ongoing Chinese Civil War, and the circumstancessurrounding the Treaty of San Francisco, which relinquished Japanese control over Taiwan without officially granting sovereignty to any party. The meaning of "independence" is likewise contentious. Supporters may be referring either to Taidu, the notion of formally creating an independent state called the "Republic of Taiwan" by abolishing the ROC, or to Huadu, the notion that the ROC is already an independent state synonymous with the Taiwan Area.

Regardless of Taiwan's current political status, the ROC exercises full autonomy in internal governance of the Taiwan Area and conducts official diplomatic relations with, and is recognized by, 11 member states of the United Nations and Vatican City. Since 2016 the government, led by the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has asserted that formal independence is unnecessary as Taiwan is already an independent country called the Republic of China.