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TAIPEI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appealed to voters on Sunday to think of what had happened to Chinese-controlled Hong Kong when they cast their ballots next month, saying peace must be backed up with a commitment to boost defences.

Taiwan prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13 as China, which claims the democratically governed island as its own territory, ramps up military pressure to assert its claims, including two major war games around the island in the past year and a half.

China and Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), have cast the election as a choice between war and peace. China detests Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its presidential candidate, Vice President Lai Ching-te, calling them dangerous separatists.

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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Under FPTP voting that's literally the mathematical truth of the matter

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's not, though. In the US, it's possible to be both against the GOP and the DNC. This is quite common amongst leftists.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, neither of them are anything remotely like a left wing party. Not even slightly left leaning.

Hell, even Bernie Sanders would be center-right in most countries.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

No he wouldn't, this has been debunked dozens of times already, the mainstream of the DNC operates center left on fiscal policy relative to most functioning democracies, and significantly to their left on social issues considering how many of those functioning democracies are unofficial ethnostates that have only recently begun grappling with questions of national identity America has been dealing with since its founding.

Bernie would be considered a radical even among the nordic states for his stances on the complete nationalization of all medicine, not just point of service care.

Not to mention how, while we here in America discuss the ramifications of the republican party openly embracing fascist ideology and language, AfD, EDL, Vox, FI, PiS, Fidez, NF, and SD are all long and well established parties that all have deeply troubling roots among the literal og fascists from WWII, for god's sake Mussolini's granddaughter is an MP in italy, and the defacto leader of France's right is basically the princess of the children of collaborators.

Nevermind how all of them receive support from Vladimir Putin as part of his agenda to discredit democracy before Russians get too unignorable asking why they don't get to play with the west's cool government structural toys.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago

*among white "leftists" who see PoC and Queer folks as ideal victims to avenge, if only they'd just shut up and let the fascists kill them already

They prefer us as martyrs for their cause as opposed to active agents for our own. Martyrs are much more agreeable in their eyes.

It's why they betrayed us to the Nazis in France, and it's why they constantly threaten to do it again in America.