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Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  China is West Taiwan

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  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The USA is west Cuba

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      USA is East Alaska.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Occupied mainland Taiwan

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.

    The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.

    As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.

    As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.

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    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      4 paragraphs of response… Is this a bot response? Or did you just take my comment way too serious?

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a direct comparison to what calling the PRC “West Taiwan” means. It means you uphold the Nationalist Kuomintang as the wrongfully overthrown dictatorship that should have never lost the Chinese Civil War.

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• Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  inb4 this comment gets downvoted by tankies

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  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It is sad. Everyone is gloating, cheering on a possible conflict in the future. We’ve seen this kind of escalation and warmongering in 2013 in Ukraine. “Of course that country on the doorstep of our big geopolitical rival should be independent and join our military pact! Hahaha lololol!”

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• dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  [deleted]

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  • OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    average .ml user (aka tankie)

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You just throw that word around for anybody you fucking creep, fuck off and avoid labeling me in the future

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      • OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        srry, I thought you were sucking off the ccp

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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.

  The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.

  As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.

  As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being.

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  • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Holy copy-pasta, batman!

    Can I get a delicious cookie recipe as well?

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No?

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• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought Taiwan was an independently country?

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  • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t pull a muscle, prc boi

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So it’s not an independent country?

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      • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Try harder

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