He actually did, he just didn’t wait to hear back that it was a terrible idea.

Down with socialism? What the fuck? Does PP think that’s a legitimate reason to overthrow a government?

4°

Good background, thanks. Ya, catch 22 is a good way to put it… It makes it tough for other countries to recognize both PRC and ROC without offending PRC.

archive.is seems to be down right now.

The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different governments that both claim sovereignty over mainland China and Taiwan.

They both want to unite China, but only one of them is in the position to do it.

Internal to Taiwan, there are parties that support reunification and support independence (opposing views), but Taiwan has not yet reneged on its claim of mainland China.

An odd question. Why would being a (single) parent be a defining factor?

Well, I would expect different answers if they were married 🙂

It’s not a neighbouring country, it’s the same country. Ask Taiwan.

Apparently that’s enough to make her a “moderate”.

Ya, I agree it looks like blogspam, but even most blogspam links to their sources.

Well ya, you can retcon anything you want.

Uhh, Jesus wasn’t around yet when the tower of Babel was built.

Pre-revolutionary Malone

Occam’s razor.

Laws are made through a long process of consideration, debate, and revision. Govt institutions regulate and apply laws with extensive transparency and oversight. Its decentralised, cautious, and robust.

Congress has been ceding it’s power for a long time and it predates Trump by decades. Trump is just the first to take advantage of it in such a large scale.

Five of the region’s island nations – Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Lucia – offer such citizenship by investment (CBI) from as little as $200,000 (£145,000).

Base 1 is the only universal counting system.

They are using base 1111 and base 1111111111. Instead of digits, you can represent numbers using rocks, if needed.

such an epic song

I can’t stand it

Why is Musk’s opinion on the FDNY “news”?

Yikes, although I guess I shouldn’t expect someone 91 years old to have very progressive views.

Or, more likely, Russia supports China’s annexation of Taiwan and China supports Russia’s annexation of Ukraine.