Haha nice

There are currently 5 parties vying for position here

I know you’re not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0

All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.

As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.

Which is extremely annoying

News title grammar is stupid and I’m rather annoyed at the journalists continuing its use.

Use an “&” ffs…

Can we stop it with journalists’ insane use of commas in place of “and”?

If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ’s sake.

Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.

They won’t because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.

It’s batshit that DFAT haven’t issue a travel warning, I agree. There’s warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don’t do anything political.

I’d never in a million years consider travelling to the US.

As a one of her foreign subjects. May I say god save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor General.

Fuck the queen, fuck the monarchy.

Is the Sabbath Sunday? I thought it was Saturday. But regardless, some countries start the week on Sunday.

It’s cursed as heck when we call Saturday and Sunday the weekend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

2015 can be written as Y-2.015E3S4

When would this ever be required, wtf hahaha

I routinely do this in emails and documents. No one has ever questioned me on it because they’re used to it from folder/file names.

Please do join me in slowly changing the world over to year, month, day order.

(Though I prefer the non-standard dots instead of hyphens, as they are non-line-breaking, and allows for hyphens to be used as separators for other parts in a file along with underscores)

YYYY.MM.DD is my fave

Fault based divorce is already a stupid concept (under the law).

Someone MAY be at fault, but you should never need to provide a reason beyond “I don’t want to anymore” to commence divorce proceedings.

Marriage is just legal protections for the partners in the event of a separation (i.e. rights to split assets and whatnot).

But it’s still entirely voluntary.

Well, in nice countries anyway.

They are asking for a revolution

This show was so freaking good

I think those were cancelled a while ago.

Other than the ones protecting capital, of course.

I stand corrected, forgot about that detail!

Holy balls.

Really hoping the Americans realise they need to rise up like yesterday. The world is so screwed. The US is far, FAR more militarily powerful than Nazi Germany ever was.

:(

This whole comment is strawmanning me.

Do you understand the difference between De Jure and De Facto?

Yes.

Taiwan is de jure a part of China but it is a de facto an independent country. China has an authoritarian government that gets butt hurt over every little thing. So the One China policy is all about them “saving face”.

Yes, but more accurately, the official government position in Taiwan, that there is one China and they’re the legitimate government, is a historical hangover. The One China policy from the mainland is also a historical hangover, difference is that because they have the bigger stick now, they reckon they can take over, by force or political/economic coercion.

I don’t disagree with you that the mainland government is authoritarian.

Maybe read up on strategic ambiguity as well if you want to be more knowledgeable about the subject.

You’re really just reading what you want to read to be able to call me an idiot. I am aware of what this is, and didn’t mention it in my comment because the original comment was specifically about Taiwanese claims on mainland China. Not writing a holistic comment on everything.

TLDR, Taiwan is a country. A lot of diplomacy is about piling on layers upon layers of bullshit, because bullshit is preferable to war. But unless you’re working for a country as a diplomat, there’s no need for bullshit… Taiwan is a country

This is the reason you’ve strawmanned me, because you’re ready to fight with anyone who says it’s not a country which I never said. I tend to agree that Taiwan is a country. It’s got its own government, and its own territory and existed that way for decades. But that’s just my opinion, and because of history the status IS UNDETERMINED because part of the current definition of being a country is that other COUNTRIES recognise you as a country. Again, I also believe it functions de facto as it’s own country - don’t get triggered.

The people in Taiwan have far more democratic freedom than in the mainland (in my view) - well, with the caveat is that capitalism is inherently undemocratic.

All I originally said was that the official ROC government position is that there is one China, and Taiwan is part of China, that the government in Taiwan claims to be the legitimate government of. This is a statement of fact, not my opinion…

That, and that OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE THERE VARY. Trying to paint them as a monolith is propaganda.

Yikes… Please chill before you decide to strawman someone who isn’t even arguing against you.

Seems to function mostly as a like/dislike button combined with whether a post/comment should be more/less popular.

What I meant here is that the commenter seemed to be implying we should only focus on the soldiers who carried out the order.

Oh, but haven’t you considered the shareholders of the refineries previously set up to refine the type of oil found in Venezuelan reserves?

The poor share holders want to make more money.

Yes? But also, he did order it.

I think the downvoted are because we don’t know what you’re trying to say.