Granted I would like to live in a more civil society and I thought we were at least going in that direction for about half my life but the rate we have been falling in the second half has been very sobering.
The “leaders” of the Democratic Party won’t even use the law to aid their constituents…
To be fair, there is precident for things to escalate to physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. It was just in the lead-up to the civil war, is all. Arguments getting so heated that legislators can’t resist the urge to just beat up the other guy probably are a bad sign for a country.
Isn’t that still better than legislators bowing to fascist pressure and letting them slowly gain more and more power until no one can stop them without a bloody civil war or a potential world war?
If the violence actually stops that and doesn’t just become a symbolic victory where the fascists get to keep the laws they passed at the cost of a punch at the legislative floor, sure. But that wasn’t my point. I wasn’t saying “violence in politics is a bad thing to consider under any and all circumstances”, but “if a country has reached a level of polarization where even the members of its governing body feel the need to resort to that with eachother, things have already gone wrong”. It’s a symptom of a serious problem coming to light, not the problem itself, in other words.
I agree with it being a symptom rather than the cause. Which is why, just like the case with Luigi, I don’t condone it but I don’t condemn it, either. He’s just a symptom to the actual problem going near critical status.
On the other hand, it is also a symptom of the system trying to correct itself, albeit forcefully. But that means I’m also worried when the symptom doesn’t manifest itself when I expect it to because it could be a sign of a lack of corrective feedback.
I’ll just leave this here
The DPP is fighting for their constituents (to be used as cannon fodder by America)
The KMT isn’t great, but status quo is infinitely better than having America turn your country into another Ukraine or Afghanistan.
China is a fascist state, which is why they want to invade and conquer Taiwan, typical nationalist micropeen overcompensation.
There is only one party to blame for starting a war of aggression against basic principles of self determination.
Cope.
Then get ordered by a “Marxist” state to pay $30k to Tesla because they killed your dad.
Do you understand that you are cheering for the total destruction of an island with millions of people?
I’d explain the history and actual politics, and why it’s hilarious to refer to the PRC as fascist in comparison to the RoC, but none of that shit matters next to how gross it is to call for the deaths of foreigners from half way around the world.
The best solution for the people of the PRC and the State of Taiwan (RoC), and to undercut US imperial goals in the Asian Pacific is for the PRC to recognise an indepent Taiwan, in return for not being excluded from semi conductors and having free passage through territorial waters (and throw in recognition of PRC claims in South China Sea if you like).
Without the threat of invasion and a normalisation of ties both will help both economically and socially, and the shared cultural links will pull them together over time; and it ties the US’s hands in meddling.