• Flying Squid
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    8 months ago

    “We’ll tell you what law you’ve broken after you’ve broken it.”

    • andallthat
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      8 months ago

      see? It says it right here: “that thing you just did”

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I wonder if voting in your home countries elections would be enough to consider you a “separatist” as a Taiwanese citizen.

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    8 months ago

    It blew my mind when I learned that Taiwanese travel to Mainland China for work. The media seems to portray the two countries in a non cooperative stand off.

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      8 months ago

      They are and that’s not necessarily exclusive.

    • SlothMama
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      8 months ago

      Taiwanese citizens are in fact Chinese citizens because Taiwan is part of China, the political reality is more complex than I think people realize, but China considers Taiwan to be part of China.

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        8 months ago

        Wrong. China is part of Taiwan.

        • SlothMama
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          Well before I got voted down, that was my point. China and Taiwan consider both territories as China. This literally means that Taiwanese see Taiwan as China, and both belief systems are in agreement about there being one China, they just disagree about how that works.

          Foreigners don’t get that Taiwanese see themselves as Chinese, and it’s just infinitely more complex than they are two different countries, mostly because that’s not really the case.

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    8 months ago

    It’s kinda like the terms in a license agreement. Company can change the terms at a whim.

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      8 months ago

      anytime I see the law change I think of Stallones Judge Dredd. I AM THE LAW

  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    lol This is the same shit your average America racist would tell black people.