Seems like a win win. Reddit is fine with it and becomes a site promoting that Taiwan is a country and spreading awareness of Tiananmen Square massacre 1989. While subs return to normal.
Or reveals themselves to be the mouth piece of the CCP if they force removal of Taiwan is a country and Tiananmen Square massacre 1989.
Edit: #taiwanisacountry should be enough. That mere statement has been enough for western capitalists to quake in fear.
What? That’s insane. You want all threads to have to mention Tiananmen Square?
Yes.
Thought it would be fun to see with how lot of celebrities upon mistakenly acknowledging Taiwan as a country would profusely apologize so they don’t get canceled by China. Blizzard comes to mind too. I’d like to see what Reddit does.
So every comment or thread is normal just at the end you’d have to write down. So functionally everything is the exact same. People post what they normally do and subreddits can stay on topic. Only the requirement of:
#Taiwanisacountry #TiananmenSquaremassacre1989
I love that idea, it really itches my chaos bone. But I don’t think a lot of people would go with that.
I suggested it to /r/modcoord and /r/save3rdpartapps but the request remains in mod queue due to being a new account after deleting old one.
But, yes for pure potential chaos of the headlines Reddit might make if they ban talks of Taiwan being a country and Tiananmen Squaremassacre 1989 is what I would love to see.
If TiananmenSquaremassacre1989 is too extreme. Then Taiwan is a country would suffice with it having caused Capitalist hungry Western companies to cave to the might of China and grovel.
In China, talking about TiananmenSquaremassacre1989 is LESS extreme than saying Taiwan is a country.
The CCP has brainwashed enough citizens to believe that the government did the right thing in 1989, even if you show them the massacre footage. They think the students were terrorists who deserved to be crushed.
On the other hand, most people in China believe that saying Taiwan is a country would be the biggest crime you can imagine.
The most foolproof way to piss of the Chinese is to say “Taiwan, Number 1”.
well the CCP has effectively incorporated Tiananmen Square into the propaganda. it’s become a part of the national narrative - it was “a conflicted time where there were bad decisions made by both sides and they learned from it and are stronger today because of it.” - please don’t call me a tankie i’m trying to summarize CCP narrative
so it’s not really taboo to talk about in China like people assume it is. same thing with the cultural revolution. I read the “three body problem” series by a Chinese author (really good books, if anybody likes sci-fi) and I was amazed at how critical he was of the cultural revolution
and i checked, and he’s not an ex-patriate or anything… he lives in China and released a book that became internationally succesful that was critical of the chinese government during the cultural revolution
it turns out that the CCP actually does allow some level of critique - because they view themselves today as a different party than existed 30 or 50 years ago.
Taiwan, on the other hand, is a current issue. Personally, I feel bad for the taiwanese that don’t want to be integrated into China but it does seem like an inevitability at this point.
Not a problem as long as Taipei remains where the government of China is located for a few decades.
i’m not sure what you are trying to say. you mean taiwan just needs to stay de facto independent for another few decades and they will be OK? maybe you are right, but to call Taiwan “the government of China” is to ignore reality
point being look who has a seat at the UN
I am saying that if there is any unification of Taiwan with China, than the ruling government needs to be the Republic of China whose current capital is in Taipei, and former capitals in Nanjing and Chungking, and definitely not the illegitimate PRC dictatorship in Beijing. That is the only possible way China can be reunited. Taipei would need to be the capital for awhile so everybody knows who rules the country, and eventually move the capital back to Nanjing perhaps.
while pretending like this might be fun for you, reality is it’s never going to happen. even if CCP falls apart, the state apparatus in mainland China for whatever fills the void would still be stronger than Taiwan. They’re like 2 factors of magnitude larger. and that’s assuming CCP falls apart - the momentum doesn’t seem to be going in that direction
It’s like saying Texas will be independent again one day. It’s a larp
CCP doesn’t need to “fall apart”. China just needs to progress in a new direction. If China goes democratic, and someday it will, it could be wise to leverage Taiwan’s democracy to make the entire process more stable. This is what happened in Germany. West Germany’s government simply absorbed the former East Germany. So for a time the West German capital of Bonn was the capital of the unified Germany.
I feel like Taiwan is not a country but that the real government of China is located in Taipei.
I think people don’t understand you’re claiming that the CCP are illegitimate and that the government in Taipei on Taiwan is the actual valid government of China. Or, more or less the opposite of what the CCP likes to claim.