Are the Yankees still mad at the Cowboys?

Nope, still there.

Is he still alive?

Lucky bastard

Too late. The icebergs been hit. We’re going down.

“Alternate assessment”

If you’re patient enough, it always works out 💪

This might be a better system.

Thanks for this. More incite:

Marx’s point against the Luddites is well meant; but there’s a sense, too, in which he underestimated the Luddites’ anti-capitalist stance, giving short-shrift to their ties to nascent trade unionism and to the growing workers’ underground. Arguably, the Luddites offered a way into attacking not just the material instruments of production but also the form of society that utilised them. To that degree, their agitation and activism remains instructive, maybe even inspiring, in our own abrasively technocratic and technological age.

It was a concession. Your response reveals a paper tiger. 🐯

Interesting, the ROC doesn’t hold veto power? How can China join the club, if Taiwan is the rightful government representing all the Chinese people?

It’s fine. None of this matters.

America is defending Taiwan, ipso facto, you did.

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins mentions Brazil quite a bit.

Thank you Matt for your service. Now we know China has gravitic propulsion capabilities.

Lost Cause of the Confederacy

same vibe

Lifting of martial law means opposition political parties can be formed legally for the first time, giving Taiwan’s fragmented but increasingly vocal opposition a new chance to organize. Communist parties remain banned. Dissidents welcomed the development, but noted that a new security law immediately replaced martial law and still restricts political activity.

That’s quite a democracy.

It banned formation of any new political parties, gave the military wide censorship powers and was used by military courts to convict thousands of civilians of sedition and other crimes.

Even the UN 🇺🇳 doesn’t recognize Taiwan 🇹🇼.