I will say that I donated to this same campaign and was not blocked by any anti-fraud, so it's probably bank specific or even semi-random.
Per here
In December 2021, two organizations in Taiwan separately published opinion polls supposedly addressing whether Taiwanese public would be willing to “fight on the battlefield” should China invade. One organization’s poll had 62 percent of respondents say yes and 27 percent say no, while the other survey, with a slight difference in its wording asking whether “you or your family” would be willing to fight, found only 40 percent said yes and 51 percent said no.
If most Taiwanese are unlikely to be engaged in the fighting, who would be? It’s a surprisingly small slice of the population. Taiwan’s military currently has at most 188,000 active soldiers, or 0.7 percent out of a total population of 23.5 million. It might be tempting to imagine that Taiwan could mobilize the supposedly two million strong reserve force, but as I have explained in a previous report such a “reserve force” exists only on paper. For one thing, the military’s stockpile of spare service rifles could barely equip more than a few brigades, or about 10,000 to 20,000 of reservists concurrently. It is also widely debated among Taiwan’s defense analysts how useful, if at all, these hastily organized infantry units armed with only small arms would be facing the onslaught of the modern PLA in a war expected to be conducted predominantly over air and sea with missiles and other means of long-range fire projection.
My guess is that no, most people in Taiwan (or really anywhere) would not put their life on the line to fight the PLA. The major cities along the coastline would be secured quite quickly; I can foresee some kind of guerilla activity in the mountains of Taiwan (which are numerous and often covered with dense jungle) that would take decades to stamp out however. Most Taiwanese will just get on with their lives, though, as not much would change about their day to day existence outside of like more state supported housing and things of that nature.
I remember briefly studying a part of Volume II in uni and being intimidated beyond belief, an unedited, unreleased volume of Capital is always a terrifying thing. I guess this is my signal to pick it up again.
I think that "quiet vacationing" is just like, going on vacation without taking PTO. Don't tell anybody, don't ask for PTO, just don't do any work and fuck off to Bali for a week or something. Only works for remote workers of a specific email job class.
The people of Ireland overwhelmingly support recognizing Palestine as a state, and their Oireachtas (parliament) unanimously voted to do so in 2014. However, their foreign ministry hasn't "implemented" this yet because they wanted broader EU support (much to the chagrin of many TDs). I assume they're doing it now because Spain and others in the EU are in agreement, so the Irish won't be doing it alone. Disappointing but at least it's happening.
more and more people are saying this
Macron operates in this very interesting space where he's a ghoul but he's a ghoul who can at least read the way the world's going. Pushing for EU autonomy from the US, just met with Xi, wanted to negotiate with Russia rather than arm Ukraine, etc. It won't work, and he's going to be replaced by a fascist/is already morphing himself into a fascist domestically and in New Caledonia, but he's a fascinating figure nonetheless.
It's actually insane how they're just willing to say the quiet parts out loud now. Barbarism is here baby.
I love cacio e pepe but dandan noodles or Lanzhou beef noodle soup blows it out of the water