I got into an argument with a guy on Reddit because he kept insisting that Taiwan was a sovereign nation and I kept telling him that Taiwan does not view Taiwan as a sovereign nation. At one point he asked me if we sold weapons to China and when I said definitionally yes he lost his shit.

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (85 children)

A June 2013 poll conducted by DPP showed an overwhelming 77.6% consider themselves as Taiwanese.[140] On the independence-unification issue, the survey found that 25.9 percent said they support unification, 59 percent support independence, and 10.3 percent prefer the "status quo." When asked whether Taiwan and China are parts of one country, the party said the survey found 78.4 percent disagree, while 15 percent agreed. As for whether Taiwan and China are two districts in one country, 70.6 percent disagree, while 22.8 percent agree

Taiwan #1

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 years ago (30 children)

How can they possibly be Taiwanese if they don't speak any of the Formosan languages?

[–] randint@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can Americans possibly be Americans if they don't speak American?

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. Death to America!

[–] diablexical@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bring it loser.

[+] robinn2@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] diablexical@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If your views can only be propagated through violence, don't you think they should be reconsidered?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

If your views can only be propagated through violence, don't you think they should be reconsidered?

Please share this pearl of wisdom with the US government, if you're successful you'll literally save millions of lives and no one on the planet will ever be more deserving of the Nobel prize. Please also share this sentiment with the soldiers in question, they're literally involved in killing hundreds of thousands when it's not millions to supposedly propagate American views on freedom and democracy (but in reality installing puppet governments for geopolitical power or to facilitate the theft of natural resources).

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

America has been at war for all but like 7 years of its entire 239 year existence and they started almost all of them.

so... Death to america.

[–] rjs001@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago

That sounds like some Nazi defending to me. “Don’t attack Nazis, debate them”

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Ooh that period was a deliberate choice, and it is not paying off

[–] randint@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with your sentiment, but we should refrain from using these emotionally charged words. We must remain polite ~~so that people reading this thread will get a bad impression of Hexbear.~~

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