TBH I don't think "legitimacy" matters. They function as an independent country. They issue passports, and flights between them and the mainland function as international flights despite both countries making up legal mumbo jumbo that calls it "cross-strait travel". There are countries with more widespread "legitimate" recognition that are functionally less of a nationstate than Taiwan.
GivingEuropeASpook
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The ideological makeup of Taiwan has nothing to do with whether or not they are entitled to sovereignty from a diplomatic perspective. International relations isn't about right and wrong. In fact, the KMT and CPC are in agreement in maintaining the status quo - the KMT and the CPC work together to oppose any attempts at renouncing claims to mainland China by Taiwan and formally becoming the Republic of Taiwan.
Sovereignty as a concept in international relations stems from the Treaty of Westphalia, in that each nation has an absolute say within its own borders and that said borders are inviolable.
Being a sovereign nation is when you don't have a seat in the UN and most sovereign nations refuse to recognize you as an independent nation.
I really don't think this is the view people on the left should hold. Someone could say the same thing about many nations or groups that don't have a seat in the UN and aren't recognised but are still supported by communists and anarchists.
You can't censor someone simply by blocking them from showing up on your own personal experience of a given platform.
Can any of them speak or are their mouths decayed from being reanimated?
With them getting rid of the block festure supposedly, why not just go further and straight up remove people's ability to choose who they follow?
meanwhile the US government will still not apologize for nuking Japan twice, pulverizing primary schools and killing 30x as many people in the blink of an eye.
I'm uncomfortable with jokes about anything where innocent people dying is the punchline. I don't agree with the reasoning that because the US Government hasbt officially apologised to the Japanese people, then its justified to nake light of the deaths of people in the WTC.
In my view, it's not that 9/11 can't be joked about, but rather where the punchline lands. One that satirises Bush or the jingoism afterwards is different than one that implies the joker is happy about the deaths of random secretaries and janitors just because most of them were US citizens.
Well, people from like 40 countries died, including China 🇨🇳
Supported the USSR intervention in Hungary. Anything else is too nebulous and pointless. I've seen anarchists get call tankies for having Marxist economic views.
Apparently they think we'd ressurect older leaders instead of having new ones that aren't believers in 20th century mainstream social values?
The emojis issue won't be forever though