NaibofTabr

This isn’t even my final form

Is this one of those military cosplay groups like the oath keepers?

The US government system was set up to be better than the monarchies its designers had grown up under. In this sense it has been wildly successful. But… it wasn’t really designed to scale to the size it has, nor to account for the massive changes in technology that have occurred since it was written.

The leaders of the time decided to replace the first attempt only 6 years after it was ratified, and I believe they fully expected any future government to do the same if they found the current system wasn’t working. They did try to make the new system more adaptable by adding the Amendment process, which was frankly genius and unprecedented in government systems prior to that.

I think it’s very important to remember where and when the system we have came from, and to try to think like the people who wrote it, and to remember that at the time they had no other models for successful government beyond the writings of Enlightenment-period historians. It’s very easy to criticize the current system. It’s far more difficult (and substantially more important) to draft a better system.

birdcage

chain gang

shot box

rollin’ rusty

grateful tread

chained to the wheel

“grill marks, bud”

cage against the machine?

DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

Ah, another appeal to violence as the source of morality.

It’s very funny for you to accuse anyone else of being authoritarian.

No, that is not the point that was made in this comment:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

This comment makes very plain that the writer believes that a nation only achieves independence through military force.

We’re not talking about what is ‘widely acknowledged’, we are talking about what you have expressed as your personal belief. And you do have a morality problem:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

You believe that in order to be independent from mainland China, Taiwan should have used military force - or again, that might makes right.

You made this statement. It is not about international law, or opinio juris, or any other deflection you want to attempt. It is about what you believe justifies a nation’s independence, and it is solely based on the exercise of military power.

No, you said:

I would simply win the civil war instead of losing

Which indicates quite clearly that you believe military power should decide whether a nation has the right to independence. You don’t get to try to deflect that ex post facto. You either admit that this is what you genuinely believe in spite of its obvious morality problem, or you admit that you were wrong to make such a statement and acknowledge that your ideas about national independence need changing.

I see, so “might makes right” for you then?

I appreciate you making your sense of morality - or lack thereof - so very clear.

Yes, an authoritarian government with a lot of economic and military power just made it a crime to even speak about their own country’s independence, so they have legitimate reason to be afraid.

I’m having trouble understanding your point. What is the “quiet part”? That representatives from a foreign government visited Taipei?

Vetting the employees isn’t really important when an observer can just watch a higher-than-usual volume of delivery trucks showing up.

Well the point is more to poison the source of information with bad indicators for anyone watching.

Trying to remove the indicator is one strategy, and it might work partially, but it can also just move the problem somewhere else. To use your example, serving the food in house shifts the problem from takeout delivery to food delivery to the in-house kitchen.

Of course the best strategy would probably be to do both - increase the availability (and quality) of in-house food to encourage its regular use, and also order takeout in large-ish volumes sometimes when nothing is going on.

The solution is to order takeout at random intervals in random amounts.

They’re getting ready for the competition.

Here is an album of photos from the protest in 1989, along with explanations of the historical context:

https://archive.ph/7Tdzh

Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death

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Let’s stay on topic. If you want to discuss NATO, we can do that after.

Imperialism is the main contradiction of our era. China presenting a viable alternative to US/European hegemony and helping to usher in a multipolar world is a major accomplishment that will improve global wellbeing.

You’re not capable of having a rational, on-topic discussion in good faith. You want to play stupid games with moving goalposts, so we’re done.

I don’t know man, this is a special level of stupid.