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  • This mostly correct.

    But the US isn’t responsible for Taiwan’s increased interest in independence. Taiwan is.

    After the Sunflower Movement and witnessing what happened to HK, young Taiwanese are overwhelmingly in favor of independence. So much so that independence has become all but stated as the platform of the DPP. The KMT is now the pro-unification party, but outside of the last mid-terms, they have been getting slaughtered in elections and had to tone down their pro-China rhetoric.

    Status quo is definitely still the overall majority, but that is going to change with demographics and the next generation overwhelmingly favor independence.

    As they should. China was not the first owner of Taiwan, and over the course of Taiwan’s history, their control of the island was relatively short. This is not even speaking of the Indigenous Taiwanese who are always left out of the conversation about Taiwan and have never been citizens of China or had Chinese heritage.






  • Can you name all of the actors that played Putties in the original English run of Power Rangers from the 90s?

    See, I can set arbitrary, movable goal posts, too.

    It doesn’t work that way. FBI documents remain classified for 50 years before being accessible to FOIA. That means that we don’t have the means to confirm culpability outside that 50-year window.

    I can throw names at you. But here’s what I know will happen in response. You will either;

    A) Claim the person was not innocent. Despite conflicting claims, they either had a weapon, attempted violence, whatever. So they deserved to be murdered.

    Or

    B) The situation is not clear. Nobody was outright blamed. Details are fuzzy. Investigations were inconclusive.

    Regardless of what I post, the outcome will never be “Wow, you’re right. I guess law enforcement does kill innocent people without impetus sometimes.” You will always move the goal posts and claim that I did not meet your burden of proof. Because you’re arguing ideologically in bad faith. And since I’m not a fucking idiot, I’m not going to waste my time.

    And if you want to say that you are, in fact, arguing in good faith, then my rebuttal is simple;

    I’m not doing your fucking homework for you, Billy.



  • It goes beyond that.

    With Saudi Arabia leaning increasingly towards BRICS and being more erratic in its support of the West, Israel is the last firm diplomatic beacon and region of influence the US has in the Middle East.

    It also just so happens to be an apartheid state.

    Even if public opinion sharply turned on Israel (it won’t), the US would still hold firm in supporting it. Not because it’s obligated to Israel or even because of sunk-cost fallacy. But because it would remove any chance of the US playing a part in regional hegemony.