Total commitment, Mandrake.
here's a interesting question: if COVID/2020 didn't happen, would we be taking about Mike Pence as President now?
Much of Taiwan's military would immediately flip if there was an "invasion". How much time have you spent there? I'm sure they appreciate your efforts to tell them all how they're supposed to live though, that always works out well for Americans.
its possible, COVID was the biggest thing that caused Trump to lose in 2020 (Democrat ballot stuffing theories aside), Pence would have been an absolute disaster though
Yeah, Vance is unironically a better option right now if he decides to run.
In any potential conflict, it'll be real telling to see if China evacuates the downstream of such an obvious target or not. Might be they'll see it as a decisive strategic victory moment.
how bad was he though? the media hyped him up to be extremely to the right. was he a expert Israel advocate or something?
Like there’s no difference between the quality of life in Taiwan and mainland China? And nobody has any concern that the CCP would make examples of them for not submitting earlier? Yeah what taiwanese dude would ever want to maintain independence
If they’re invaded by China, factory goes boom
I agree. If they let the commoners breathe more they wouldn’t be in this mess and if anything with their larger population they’d have more buying power. If China became more like Singapore, Taiwan, or South Korea they’d be in a much better position, however, the CCP would hold less power over its people.
I wouldn’t put any money on any of the princelings giving a fuck unless they lived downstream. If anything they wouldn’t tell people to evacuate so those in the know could gtfo easier. I also don’t expect the Americans to hit that dam because they’re more squeamish about casualties and dead civies. That being said I wouldn’t put it past Taiwan, Japan, or India.
I always pictured the Three Gorges Dam being taken out by a few a railgun launched rods traveling at Mach 30.
Quality of life where in China? Where in Taiwan? China has a population of 1.7 billion people. Taiwan has the population of Florida. Such simpleton thinking is a big reason we're in many of the messes we currently find ourselves in. Slava Ukraini! and all that...
Wow, where’d you get 1.7!? Most people agree that 1.4 is an over count
Yup, China's great problem is they now actively do not want to move past their current stage of industrialization. Leading up to Covid, they were fairly committed to trying to develop a middle class and services economy, to really catch up with the US wealth bubble and developer their own self perpetuating consumer class. What they found problematic was that the services consuming middle class expected more and more freedoms and control of their lives. Factory workers don't really worry much about what they're allowed to say or criticize, because their job is 996 on the factory floor. Meanwhile the creatives of the services economy actually do feel they need those freedoms to succeed or 'express themselves', and some of those freedoms ran anathema to the desires of the party.
When missiles and bombs are raining down, I doubt seriously that they are going to flip. Lol lmao. Completely disingenuous. That is do or die time.
I think someone outed themself
The true Jews, as in those who truly believed in God and faithfully practiced Jewish rituals, all converted to Christianity 2000 years ago. What's left are those the Bible described as running to the high places and sacrificing to Baal and Moloch when they thought God wasn't looking. All Jews today are the descendants of the power hungry sniveling Pharisees who murdered the Son of the God they so professed to love out of jealousy and fear of losing power. If you look at modern Jews through this lens their current behaviors make much more sense.
Wanting to move overseas and seeing yourself as Chinese are two different things. Literally every Chinese person living in Taiwan is descended from a Chinese person who moved overseas (or is one themselves). I don't think you have ever been to a city on planet Earth if you think Chinese people have some huge objection to relocating outside of China.
