“Some of you may be willing to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” but unironically

Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285

  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Next you’ll tell me CPC members in Taiwan want one country, two systems.

    What do you mean? Taiwan is a part of China. It’s already one country

    • aport@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh boy can you start another dunk thread on this so I can flex my myopic, limited understanding of complex socio-political situations and make another fool of myself?

      • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        No reason to, you haven’t posted anything dunk-worthy with regards to Taiwan. I posted this thread to the dunk tank because I thought the callous disregard for human lives was dunk worthy, not because you didn’t know enough about Ukraine or something.

        Most of us here are westerners, we all se the same stories, we all know what we were told in school.

        There’s no shame in being misinformed, we all are - the shame is choosing to stay misinformed, when one is confronted with it. I try to read up on the takes that I disagree with, to see where they are coming from and wether I might be in the wrong.

        This also generally seems to be the culture of hexbear, which is why users are constantly asking for sources - it’s not to do some smug gotcha, but instead to do some investigation and possibly self-crit.

        I am not super well-versed in Taiwan, so if you want to know a lot I would recommend searching thru this site. There are lot of good effortposts with first-hand sources. I know @robinn2@hexbear.net has posted a lot and knows a lot about China, so you could also look thru his account for good knowledge.
        I will however just to be quick point out that the United States itself does not recognize Taiwan as a country - really no one does. They all recognise the one china policy.