• Flying SquidM
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    471 month ago

    “We’ll tell you what law you’ve broken after you’ve broken it.”

    • @[email protected]
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      391 month ago

      “Don’t break the law. Also, we are expanding the law. You are now breaking the law.”

      • Madrigal
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        261 month ago

        The law: Do what we say, don’t challenge us, give us all your wealth, we can change the law at any time.

  • @Aurenkin
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    331 month ago

    I wonder if voting in your home countries elections would be enough to consider you a “separatist” as a Taiwanese citizen.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 month ago

    It blew my mind when I learned that Taiwanese travel to Mainland China for work. The media seems to portray the two countries in a non cooperative stand off.

    • @[email protected]
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      -81 month ago

      Taiwanese citizens are in fact Chinese citizens because Taiwan is part of China, the political reality is more complex than I think people realize, but China considers Taiwan to be part of China.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Well before I got voted down, that was my point. China and Taiwan consider both territories as China. This literally means that Taiwanese see Taiwan as China, and both belief systems are in agreement about there being one China, they just disagree about how that works.

          Foreigners don’t get that Taiwanese see themselves as Chinese, and it’s just infinitely more complex than they are two different countries, mostly because that’s not really the case.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    It’s kinda like the terms in a license agreement. Company can change the terms at a whim.

    • Don_Dickle
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      41 month ago

      anytime I see the law change I think of Stallones Judge Dredd. I AM THE LAW