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Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
It is actually my poor reading comprehension, I looked at her wiki which says this about her father:

他與妻子經營汽車修理店,為駐臺美軍及美國籍顧問們維修汽車,後來成為房地產投資者。他共有四個配偶和家庭,蔡英文的母親張金鳳是最後交往的一位

"He and his wife/wives operated car repair shops, working for american military contractors stationed in Taiwan, repairing cars, and later became a real estate investor. "

The verb operated also means manages... so he wasn't a worker there... but I didn't catch that, just "repairing cars" which is part of the description of who he repaired cars for

"Altogether he had four spouses and families, Tsai's mother was the last to have a relationship with him. "

The verb for relationship wouldn't be used if they were married, it means more like dating, or even just sleeping with

My chinese blows, and so does my biographical knowledge about the president of Taiwan despite it being in the news a lot

Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 16:29 on Sep 22, 2019

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Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

tino
Jun 4, 2018

by Smythe
I stopped following Taiwanese news about 10 years ago and only started again recently. The most striking thing about Tsai ing-wen to me is not that she was a minor child of a minor mother of a local rich man (which reminds of...Osama bin laden), the weirdest thing to me is that the Taiwanese public voted in a single woman who never had a successful marriage life, and no child to be their president.

I still haven't read up on the 2016 election so I don't know what opponents she faced inside her party and against the KMT were so weak that an all around mediocre person would come out ahead in the presidential competition.

LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008

tino posted:

I stopped following Taiwanese news about 10 years ago and only started again recently. The most striking thing about Tsai ing-wen to me is not that she was a minor child of a minor mother of a local rich man (which reminds of...Osama bin laden), the weirdest thing to me is that the Taiwanese public voted in a single woman who never had a successful marriage life, and no child to be their president.

I still haven't read up on the 2016 election so I don't know what opponents she faced inside her party and against the KMT were so weak that an all around mediocre person would come out ahead in the presidential competition.

Are you for real calling a woman mediocre because she isn’t married and doesn’t have children.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

tino posted:

I stopped following Taiwanese news about 10 years ago and only started again recently. The most striking thing about Tsai ing-wen to me is not that she was a minor child of a minor mother of a local rich man (which reminds of...Osama bin laden), the weirdest thing to me is that the Taiwanese public voted in a single woman who never had a successful marriage life, and no child to be their president.

in south korea park geun hye used those as a selling point to argue she couldnt be corrupt since there was no one she could trust to embezzle money for her

politifact rates this as true

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Some Guy TT posted:

in south korea park geun hye used those as a selling point to argue she couldnt be corrupt since there was no one she could trust to embezzle money for her

politifact rates this as true

corruption with korean characteristics.

tino
Jun 4, 2018

by Smythe

LimburgLimbo posted:

Are you for real calling a woman mediocre because she isn’t married and doesn’t have children.

No a woman, but a presidential candidate of any gender. I know in Europe a lot of heads of states have no child, but one with no significant other is very rare.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
I bet she fucks

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:29 on Mar 23, 2021

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
She ran un-opposed within her own party and the KMT was at the end of an 8 year unpopular presidency, put up an unpopular candidate, plus James Soong as a spoiler. If clinton got the nom in 2008 she would have won as well.

Plus at that time a Taiwanese Kpop idol was punished for showing the Taiwanese flag in China. Likewise, the HK protests have also I think drivin up support for the green party in this election, along with support for Tsai after gay marriage was legalized

She obviously also set up a strong position within her party before 2016, and has repaired a lot of the damage from the 2018 9-in-1 elections that demolished her, her party and her platform

Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 18:25 on Sep 22, 2019

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

didn’t she also ride some support from youth dissatisfaction following the Sunflower Movement protests?

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Bip Roberts posted:

I bet she fucks

There are many rumors about her being a confirmed bachelorette

ltugo
Aug 10, 2004

If there was a grading scale for torture I would give sleep deprivation and waterboarding a C-.

GoutPatrol posted:

There are many rumors about her being a confirmed bachelorette

So was Elizabeth II, but that didn't stop her from getting freaky in her spare time.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

sincx posted:

HK has gotten better at keeping the airport open.

Also, hahaha:



they are dishonoring the flag under which brave PLA soldiers fought under to liberate them

gently caress.every.one.of.them

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/nrg8000/status/1175353408749891584?s=21

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Australian brown moses found a routine prisoner transport, hold the presses

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

lol meanwhile in the US African-Americans are literally being hauled off into slave camps under worse conditions and liberals don't say poo poo about it

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Typo posted:

lol meanwhile in the US African-Americans are literally being hauled off into slave camps under worse conditions and liberals don't say poo poo about it

Actually, the liberals run said camps (see Harris, Kamala).

Deep State of Mind
Jul 30, 2006

"It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."
Fun Shoe
I really didn't think you guys would stoop to actual genocide apologia holy gently caress

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Horseshoe theory posted:

Actually, the liberals run said camps (see Harris, Kamala).

yeah and whereas at least in China the concentration camps gives prisoners good and cool education in job training and marxism in USA the camps exist so white racist liberals don't have to be scared of walking into a black person at night

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Bloodnose posted:

I really didn't think you guys would stoop to actual genocide apologia holy gently caress

But enough about ICE.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Bloodnose posted:

I really didn't think you guys would stoop to actual genocide apologia holy gently caress

I get that during your day job you have to toe the company line, but I don't understand why you are so personally invested in this narrative. 4 years ago it was RFA publishing accounts that the uighurs were being genocided by HIV infected han sex workers. The reporting has only gotten more thin and more hysterical ever since.

Your favorite state broadcaster isn't even coy about how racist they are against Chinese people:





Looking forward to the broadcast board of governors releasing "the eternal celestial" in a few years in ramping up the racism and sinophobia.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

I get that during your day job you have to toe the company line, but I don't understand why you are so personally invested in this narrative. 4 years ago it was RFA publishing accounts that the uighurs were being genocided by HIV infected han sex workers. The reporting has only gotten more thin and more hysterical ever since.

Your favorite state broadcaster isn't even coy about how racist they are against Chinese people:





Looking forward to the broadcast board of governors releasing "the eternal celestial" in a few years in ramping up the racism and sinophobia.

it's amazing how many hours of "yellow peril" propaganda you have to consume before thinking thought modernization, job experience and vocationary training in a re-educational concentration camp are a bad thing just cuz it's ran by chinese people

Rabelais D
Dec 11, 2012

ts'u nnu k'u k'o t'khye:
A demon doth defecate at thy door
What's happening in Xinjiang is a tragedy, and anyone equivocating, engaging in whataboutery or brushing it off as vocational training doesn't deserve to be engaged with.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Rabelais D posted:

What's happening in Xinjiang is a tragedy, and anyone equivocating, engaging in whataboutery or brushing it off as vocational training doesn't deserve to be engaged with.

it's not just vocational training they are being educated in good and correct anti-racist, anti-capitalist marxist ideas.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Rabelais D posted:

What's happening in Xinjiang is a tragedy, and anyone equivocating, engaging in whataboutery or brushing it off as vocational training doesn't deserve to be engaged with.

it's only a tragedy if white people decide it's a tragedy. indonesians are literally bombing and replacing west papuans with nary a peep from the woke american left, probably because indonesia is getting courted as a counterweight to china's influence in the region.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

it's only a tragedy if white people decide it's a tragedy. indonesians are literally bombing and replacing west papuans with nary a peep from the woke american left, probably because indonesia is getting courted as a counterweight to china's influence in the region.

lol the average minority in america probably has it worse than a prisoner in a socialist chinese concentration camp

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

it's only a tragedy if white people decide it's a tragedy. indonesians are literally bombing and replacing west papuans with nary a peep from the woke american left, probably because indonesia is getting courted as a counterweight to china's influence in the region.

Or the Rohingya.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
it's getting closer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re8BDba-X44

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Horseshoe theory posted:

Or the Rohingya.

or you know, el paso

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
hmm...



CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Horseshoe theory posted:

Or the Rohingya.

Liberals were shoveling awards and honorifics hand over fist to Aung San Suu Kyi before she came out as an unrepentant genocidaire who would love nothing more than to have every Rohingya murdered or driven out of Myanmar. That poo poo got covered up when Obama was making overtures to Yangon, but now that it looks like they're firmly in the PRC orbit you see some tut tutting in the white media every now and then. Their ongoing, slow motion genocide of the Karen people has been ignored now for 40 years now too.

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
The only moral sectarian militias are the sectarian militias that I ARM AND BACK

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
I actually agree that whataboutisms are bad, we should be focusing more on how good and cool it is to receive marxist education in a western china concentration camp in addition to talking about how lovely white liberals are

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Blindfolding prisoners is bad.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Gripweed posted:

Blindfolding prisoners is bad.

correct, at the moment all those prisoners (much like white liberals) are being blindfolded by reactionary ideologies their eyes will be opened in the camps

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

Australian brown moses found a routine prisoner transport, hold the presses

lol you weren't kidding

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1175355680783421441
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1175369504890556418
https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1175375597759029248

He's even taking guesses at what goes on inside

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1175597498561220609

tino
Jun 4, 2018

by Smythe
If you add this tree shadow and this pole position and divided by

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

tino posted:

If you add this tree shadow and this pole position and divided by

Reading tea leaves is a science, fool.

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Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Horseshoe theory posted:

Reading tea leaves is a science, fool.

did you know in ancient china they read turtle bones?

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