• yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      Texas is a country. Now imagine $40 billion a year of various media and disinfo agents repeating that ad nauseum in every place they can literally all the time for nearly 50 years now, all so China can’t take revenge against Japan.

      You’d get annoyed and probably ban it since that’s the easiest way to get your enemy to waste money forever.

      Taipei is an autonomous region, like Xinjiang or Tibet. As long as they don’t grossly violate federal law they get to stay autonomous.

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            14 days ago

            Why do you have to pick one or the other? Can we not recognize that the governments of western nations and the government of China are all evil institutions that cause far more harm than they ever could benefit?

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              14 days ago

              ‘recognize’ is a weird word for ‘delude’.

              China raised more people out of poverty than any other government in history, and certainly more than any non government group. The amount of good they’ve done is truly amazing, with absolute minimal harm when honestly compared with their western counterparts.

              Would it be better to not have any institution and have automated luxury gay space communism? Sure. But we’re never getting there from a western society.

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            15 days ago

            (Yes, but since you clearly have the brain capacity of a toddler I guess I will be more direct.) What do you gain from oppressing Taiwan?

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              15 days ago

              How is Texas oppressed by being a state?

              As far as Taipei, it’s not oppressed, the opposite. It’s allowed to control itself under the guidance of the government, as it always has. That’s the definition of an autonomous region.

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                15 days ago

                Texas: They aren’t even allowed to get basic healthcare there, or have a gender.

                Taiwan: sure, that’s why literally nobody complains about CCP presence….oh wait. Are you usually in the habit of denying reality and ignoring your own eyes?

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        14 days ago

        This is just pure Chinese state propaganda. Taiwan has been an independent country since 1949.