Yes insofar as I don't believe we should donate American troops or blood to the cause. I don't even believe we should make it a sticking point in our trade negotiations. Does Hong Kong fight the subversive communist elements of my government, educational systems, and citizenry known as antifa? Truth is we've all got our own problems we're not handling properly and we've spent decades supposedly trying to bring democracy to people that have no interest in it and actively reject it. The protesters wave our flags b/c we're in much better shape. The truth is we're both wounded animals on the chopping block. The same idiots obsessed w/ fascists would let corporations like facebook track their every movement and ascribe some noble purpose to their invasion of privacy.
So we shouldn't even provide moral and rhetorical support of the variety we did to the dissidents in the USSR in the '80s?
The protesters don't wave our flags because of our economy, they wave them because they're symbols of freedom. That is something we should encourage, not go "oh, but we're awful, too." The US ain't perfect, but we don't harvest organs of political prisoners or starve peasants for ideological reasons.
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