u/KoxingaVision

It seems

Dragon king = good but expensive

Hanbon forge = good for custom but not much else?

Jkoo= budget friendly but mid tier?

This creator wokenbrownie, made a video where talks about how feels that the American left(liberals) is complicit in pushing people to the right. He uses an example which in essence is about how he feels that liberals treat diversity as "an end in itself and not a consequence of a more equitable society." Specifically, he talks about how congress becoming more diverse, hasn't stooped it from bombing the Middle East, or in a general sense, more diversity hasn't necessarily stopped U.S. aggression or foreign policy abroad. I think this issue is salient for Asian Americans because foreign policy strongly affects our diaspora experience, due to many factors such as the perpetual foreigner myth. Whether it be the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the Red scare, the murder of Vincent Chin, covid, or modern-day Sinophobia, American foreign policy and who it portrays as its geopolitical enemies has a direct effect on our experience. And it is often true that while party difference do yield different policy outcomes domestically, this is often not true about foreign policy. Being hawkish on China/anti-China or being pro-israel tends to be largely bi-partisan, acts to authorize force in Iraq and Afghanistan for example passed both houses of congress with huge bipartisan support. This is a very real issue that does affect peoples political affiliation. The recent 2024 election is a recent example of this in which Dearborn Michigan, a city with a majority MENA population, went from voting 72% for Biden in 2020, to only 36% for Harris in 2024, with 18% going to Stein and 42% for Trump. This was largely driven by the genocide in Gaza, and Harris and the broader unconditional government support for Israel. Michigan, a swing state, went to Trump in 2024, after Biden won it in 2020. Not only that Dearborn gave significant votes to a third party candidate Stein, in protest of the bipartisan support of Israel. It is also true that some of the loudest anti-war voices in this day are coming from the right. Further back, while Trumps kung flu and china virus rhetoric were indeed harmful, both the right and left have spent years demonizing China and fear mongering. To say that had no effect on the spike of hate crimes against Asians would be disingenuous.

That is to say, I find it understandable that liberal rhetoric, and often its hypocrisy, drives people away, and the inability for the American left to break the mold of aggressive and imperialist US policy, is harmful not only in terms of what their actions do, but also in the way that it hurts them politically and thus giving the right more leverage to do harm domestically. I think for asian Americans, foreign policy is important in many ways, and as such we should be cognizant of whether our politicians are actively trying to build a better more equitable world or if they're simply paying lip service to representation.

I am curious to hear other's thoughts on this.