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US approves potential $500m sale of military equipment to Taiwan (www.aljazeera.com)

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

For context: the DPP is the pro-indpendence ultranationalist party founded by local landed elites who collaborated with the Japanese empire during wwii. To this day many Taiwanese ultranationalists around the DPP deny Japanese atrocities such as Nanjing and Unit 731. This may not be the most reliable source, three pinocchios!

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Anyone who says they support the DPP is openly saying they support fascists.

[-] randint@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I don't support the DPP, but they are far from being fascists.

[-] randint@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Not to defend the DPP, but I find the claim that some people deny the Rape of Nanking hard to believe.

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course it's a thing. It's huge in Japan, but its also common enough in Taiwan that you get the occasional international scandal when some government dipshit (Most famously Lee Teng-hui) opens their mouth to talk about it.

Edit: oh. But you dont actually give a shit. You're literally just here to start shit

I agree with your sentiment, but we should refrain from using these emotionally charged words. We must remain polite so that people reading this thread will get a bad impression of Hexbear