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Despite all the saber rattling and meddling by China the people made their own decision, effectively giving a big middle finger to Dictator Xi. As a casual wat
by tjpnz 3y ago
Despite all the saber rattling and meddling by China the people made their own decision, effectively giving a big middle finger to Dictator Xi.
As a casual watcher of Taiwanese politics it's obvious that this is something they deeply care about and wouldn't give up easily. The campaigns were vibrant, the election itself was conducted in an orderly fashion and people voted in droves. It's fundamentally incompatible with how things operate across the strait and the people couldn't be more different, especially the younger generations. The Taiwan the CCP wanted is dying, if not already dead.
- cknight 3y agoYep. As an Australian in Taipei today, what struck me most was the effort involved. People have to go to the physical voting location where they are registered, which for many can mean a long trip. Traffic was subsequently awful today, driving out to Taoyuan to visit a relative ended up being a 5 hour round trip, double the usual. People go to the effort even though voting is not compulsory - unlike where I'm from. There is also no postal or early voting. Despite all this, the turnout is 70ish percent.
- Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y ago[flagged]
- mindslight 3y agoTry imagining that people themselves can earnestly want to live under democracy. Then you can start to untangle that broad list with some shreds of nuance.
- Qiu_Zhanxuan 3y agoUkraine only feigned their interest in democracic but they didn't want it hard enough? that's why they're at war ? The same mentality that led to the iraq warn is still so pervasive it's disheartening.
- gmerc 3y agoNot despite. Likely because.
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