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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 17:56:03 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   US senator, after the #TikTok president explaining that he's Singaporean over and over again: Are you a member of the CCP?

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   https://youtu.be/3989hQLbBw8?si=5njJr93shiNKWk9R

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     Secret 3rd South African (monsoonrains@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:43:46 JST Secret 3rd South African

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     @liztai Oh my God. He did so well not to call that guy a dumbass. I would've flipped my lid if I had to explain again and again that I'm not English.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 18:43:46 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Secret 3rd South African

     @monsoonrains As a Malaysian, I feel for my Singaporean neighbour lol

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 22:38:18 JST Sean Bala

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     @liztai

     This got me so angry.

     Tom Cotton is such a tool.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 22:42:55 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Sean Bala

     @seanbala the whole tiktok interrogation got me mad actually. It was so racist and we have a saying, only Malaysians can insult Singaporeans (and vice versa), so if we see a Singaporean bullied like this we get cheesed off too 😏

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 22:46:12 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Sean Bala

     @seanbala but I have to also say that the entire thing was hilarious and American politicians literally know nothing about Singapore.
     And geography, apparently.

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 03:01:18 JST Sean Bala

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     @liztai It is 100,000% a racist dog whistle. Tom Cotton knows PRECISELY what he is doing.

     What makes it funnier is him saying "Have you now or have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?" is an exact quote from disgraced anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the Red Scare in the 1950s.

     But you are right - most American's wouldn't be able to place Singapore on a map.