• @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months 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.

    • @musubibreakfast@lemm.ee
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      233 months ago

      This is the biggest crock of shit ever. Go to Taiwan, experience it for yourself. Go to their museums and talk to their people. You will find a democratic nation with its own values and beliefs. Then take your ignorant ass over to Texas and repeat the same drivel you said here and see what happens.

        • @vvilld@lemmy.world
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          13 months 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?

          • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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            03 months 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.

            • @vvilld@lemmy.world
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              Again, both are shitty. In fact, not just both, but all. All hierarchical power structures are just plain evil. I’m not interested in parsing which evil is more evil. The Chinese government is an evil institution. The US government is an evil institution.

              • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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                -13 months ago

                That’s a fine ideal to strive towards, an communism, including the Chinese government hopes to get there some day.

                • @vvilld@lemmy.world
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                  13 months ago

                  China hasn’t been a communist country in a long time. That was the whole point of the Deng reforms.

                  • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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                    13 months ago

                    China is still communist even if they allow non essential industries to engage in capitalism. The entire point of dengism is to prevent ussr syndrome and avoid collapse and temptation due to stupid shit. Over 60% of the economy by GDP including all essential services, is owned by the people. The private sector exists solely to grow technological and industrial capacity, and is shrinking year by year.

        • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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          (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?

          • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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            -33 months 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.

            • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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              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?

              • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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                -23 months ago

                For Texas, that’s their choice. They actively choose that, and have the freedom to do so. The US isn’t making them. They aren’t oppressed.

                As far as Taipei, in any group of people you’ll always have some people complaining about something. There are fewer people pushing for an independent Taiwan than there is pushing for an independent Texas.

                • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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                  Texas is willingly part of the USA.

                  Any real secessionist movement is a farce.

                  Taiwan on the other hand is not part of China, it’s a nation of its own and has as much claim to mainland China as the mainland does to Taiwan.

                  Taiwan being a democracy makes it the easy choice.

                  Tibet should be free too, but unfortunately doesn’t have the backing of Nuclear Powers to keep it so.

                  • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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                    -33 months ago

                    So you understand that the secessionist movement in Texas is a farce that never has majority support but despite that also being the case in Taiwan you don’t believe it?

                    The independence party in Taiwan’s local government never gets anywhere and has never had majority support. The current Taiwanese government does not support independence.

                    Also no. The last time Tibet was free that had institutionalized child sex slaves for members of their theocratic government. Those monsters should never be in power again, and now that their former slaves are free and members of a country that treats them equally, they agree.

                    It’s just former aristocrats that again owned child sex slaves, like the dalai lama, that think tibet should be “free”. But I guess it’s only natural people from the country with no law against child marriages would support Tibets return to their old society.