Shit, most of the world won’t even recognise Taiwan as a country.
The thing the article seems to neglect. China is winning the diplomatic game globally. Taiwan is less well recognized than Palestine.
He knows China doesn’t have the capability to invade Taiwan
Large scale ground invasions are generally a losing game.
But the Chinese strategy towards Taiwan has always been the same strategy as Hong Kong, Tibet, and Mongolia. Become economically invaluable and set policy through soft power.
The only real incentive to send in ground troops would be to respond to a Cuba Missile style escalation. And it no longer looks like the Americans are interested in installing short range missiles on the island, now that they have exhausted themselves arming Ukraine.
A lot of these folks have passive income streams that make falling for a four or five digit scam incidental to their way of life.
More importantly than being gullible, they often have substantial money and property.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
What am I urging people to do?
urging people to do the exact same things
Specifically, which things?
Is this code for “people who aren’t voting for Joe Biden”?
That’s basically Texas and Florida right now
And it got attacked by a ton of fascists.
Literally had to be protected by the military. It’s weird how that lead got so heavily buried. Imagine if this story had been written about Mexico or Brazil or China.
That’s certainly a take
Worth noting that, historically speaking, if a state official wanted to punish someone without going through the court system he could always just turn the prisoner over to a lynch mob.
So while suspending habeaus corpus is a danger to democracy, it is not a singular method by which mayors, governors, or Presidents have disposed of political opponents.
Ford pardoned Nixon.
Bush Jr pardoned Scooter Libby.
Governor Abbott pardoned a pedophile for shooting a black girl’s white boyfriend
Why is this even remotely surprising?
Careful or you’ll get called a tankie
Uh… If you don’t want your election stolen, you, uh, you gotta vote. Vote so hard they can’t steal it. Make your friends vote. Make your friends’ friends vote.
Because if we don’t win this year, we don’t get to have any more elections. No more voting. We’re getting rid of it because your don’t vote good.
Gun ownership should be abolished like slavery was.
I’ve got some awful news for you about slavery
totalitarianism is an actual distinct system of governance when the state controls every aspect of daily life
Imagine saying that in a country with the highest prison population in the world
Court Packing has been on the table for a while. Also, state prosecution is possible, if the judges are breaking state laws.
Nobody is going to try and do anything, because American politicians are generally fine with reactionaries running the courts. But they could do something if they wanted to.