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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

We've had one, yes, but what about second proxy war?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Alright folks, time to get into the Taiwan flag business πŸ“ˆ . I have a feeling the market is about to grow, anyone invested in Ukraine flags still is a fool! πŸ“‰

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

My advice is to put in an order for about 100,000 flame resistant Taiwanese flags, and about 10 million Taiwanese flags that burn real good.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Just make sure you sell before the US opens its TSMC plant and drops Taiwan like a hot rock.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (78 children)

Imagine instead of complete surrender the confederacy retreated and held Texas, and China was selling them advanced weaponry. That’s what this is

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is like if the Confederacy retreated to Catalina Island, massacred everyone there, and continued calling itself the rightful government of the entire continent afterward.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Money should go towards the poor and not the capitalist war machine.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (6 children)

β€œThink of how many jobs building an aircraft carrier provides.” -An actual dog brained take, said to me IRL

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

I hate to quote fucking Eisenhower but even broken clocks etc etc...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Even he was warning us about the MIC, and now people say "what about those employed making bombers? Surely that's the only job they're capable of! What else would they do?"

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That'll be four F-35 fighters. The wonders of US Military-Industrial complex never fails to amaze me.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So... a couple of tomahawk missiles and a container of uniforms. Taiwan secured.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (106 children)

I got into an argument with a guy on Reddit because he kept insisting that Taiwan was a sovereign nation and I kept telling him that Taiwan does not view Taiwan as a sovereign nation. At one point he asked me if we sold weapons to China and when I said definitionally yes he lost his shit.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Im legit crying with how bad things have spiraled out in my end

IM FUCiKInfg DrOWNBING IN DEBT

HEALTHcARE??

FOOD ??????????

SOMETHING!!?!?!

PUHLEASE?!!?!?!?!?

[no you get slava ukraine and a bazillion guns to Taipei]

kitty-cri-screm

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

We will fight the Chinese to the last TSCM engineer

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I can’t WAIT for Taiwan to turn into the next Ukraine 😍! The final victory of liberal democracy over the global 99% is imminent!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

lemmitors: "if you're not anti-MIC at 15 you have no heart, but if you're not pro-MIC at 25 you have no brain"

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