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Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy...
I think they might be using "mainland Taiwan" as a way of saying China - Taiwan is an island which China thinks is "theirs" for some reason.
It is literally official US policy that Taiwan is an island that is a part of China.
no one tell this guy what happened to the native taiwanese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
Tbf, it was theirs - until it wasn't. At this point, it is a bit like the British were insisting that the US was theirs.
"Yes, but history..." they will say.
And in history China used to be the opium export market of the Brits so by historic rules it has to be that again. I guess they'll say "but that's different".
There's a bunch of Taiwanese people who would welcome Chinese rule. I don't know why.. The CPC sucks my balls
That's kind of the history of humanity regarding religion. To some degree when the religious prophets were alive it make sense, but hundreds of years later it's a story book (or oral tradition) and people still strive for the authority.
We haven't really had that many teachers like Carl Sagan who describe the history and our favoring of authority - inability to question them. It's pretty weird, as they often aren't attractive or good speakers, but you see people just accept almost anything they say. I mean in the USA I witnessed so many people who would trust Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones kind of blindly, and there is some mechanism at play that humanity in total seems to keep engaging.