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Basically. That isn't allowed anywhere in East Asia as far as I know but they'd have to actually catch you, which they won't. I've heard very occasional stories of people getting questioned about why they're entering and leaving so often. The bigger problem is how are you going to get a place to live? Healthcare? All that stuff isn't stable without a legal visa. The only people I know who have been long-term on tourist visas have a girlfriend who is a citizen/PR and they live with her, which doesn't fix all the problems but it at least gives you a base. E: Also right now you have to consider being put into quarantine every entry or just not being able to travel at all. I have a friend who has been trapped in the Philippines for six months now.
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GotLag posted:The endless division into smaller and smaller intersections of subsets isn't an accident, it's the entire point of woke liberalism. It exists to prevent fellow-feeling except within the tiniest possible groupings, by encouraging people to take on every possible identity except economic class. There is an entire sub forum full of this! Very nasty whenever it breaks quarantine. They do more damage to the left than the right does. Blistex posted:Two years ago I was listening to CBC radio while driving somewhere and they had a guest who was a big feminist trailblazer in the late 60s to the present day, who they were interviewing about why women voted for Trump despite it being (somewhat apparent that it was) against their best interests. Anyway, she was addressing the fractured nature of the left, and especially how extreme it gets when moving further left along the political scale. She cited a somewhat extreme (but in her opinion relevant) example of her observing this phenomenon years earlier before woke culture had a name (I don't believe she used the term woke). Bloody hell. That is some serious self salami slicing she saw. The idea of solidarity was completely lost to them. Shumagorath posted:gonna announce these espionage charges in a tweet nbd F
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GotLag posted:The endless division into smaller and smaller intersections of subsets isn't an accident, it's the entire point of woke liberalism. It exists to prevent fellow-feeling except within the tiniest possible groupings, by encouraging people to take on every possible identity except economic class. class consciousness isn't real hth
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Dont Touch ME posted:I've been looking online lately at some information regarding Taiwan, but I've been getting conflicting information and thought this thread might know better. You're not getting permanent residency unless you're working a Taiwanese job. Working in Taiwan in "3 month stints" is called doing a visa run for a tourist visa, and you can only get residency from a work visa. What you would be doing is "legal" in the sense that many people do this, but it is generally frowned upon. Since COVID started, people with tourist visas having been getting month-to-month extensions for their last tourist visa: https://www.mofa.gov.tw/en/News_Con...IdhAMoAiCvbjnE4 If you overstay that, you can ask for an extension (I think once...ever?) and if they catch you over-extended you're banned from the country. They are doing this because the number of flights, to any country (typically visa runs are to hong kong, which had flights back and forth every hour) are down like 90%, and you will need a mandatory 2 week quarantine whenever you enter the country. https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141465/141808/152932/ To put it in simplier terms, getting a APRC (alien permanent residency card) means you need: https://allhandstaiwan.com/blog/2019/02/18/opportunity-or-dilemma-work-aprc-vs-marriage-aprc/ quote:First, the housekeeping for this topic. As you may know, there are (at least?) three ways to obtain an APRC in Taiwan. Here’s a quick, general breakdown of each: I've posted in the Taiwan thread about when I got my APRC about 4 years ago now. The immigration office has your exact records of when you came in and out of the country, and when your visa time lasped. One of my friends was 4 years and some months in when our school hosed up and delayed his paperwork by 3 days, it was a break in his visa, and his clock started over. Supposedly that is supported to be laxing soon but I haven't heard about it. You could also try asking Qs here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TaiwanAPRC/?hc_location=ufi GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Fojar38 posted:class consciousness isn't real hth lol ok lib E: 
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Regarding the fracturing of the left wing: Politics is not the only place this happens. Slightly China related, as they recently had a border fight, here is an old Indian joke: An American went on a 2-3 week holiday to India. He traveled all over the country and did many things etc. When he came back, his Indian co-worker asked him how he had enjoyed his vacation. "Oh, I loved it. India is such a magnificent country." The co-worker then asked what he thought of the Indian people. "Didn't meet any." "Really?!" The co worker replied, astonished. "Yep. When I was in Calcutta I met some magnificent Bengalis. When I was in Chennai I met some wonderful Tamils. When I visited the Golden Temple, I met some amazing Sikhs. I went to Kashmir and had a fun time meeting some Punjabis. I met Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Brahmins, Dalits, Keralans, Goans, Kannadigas etc. But an Indian? Not a one." This is a major reason why India will never be a superpower, because it is less a country, and more a loose conflagration of warring states. But to the wider point, it is also an example of that feminist speaker showing how groups will always splinter.
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GotLag posted:lol ok lib loving brain genius response here
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oohhboy posted:There is an entire sub forum full of this! Very nasty whenever it breaks quarantine. They do more damage to the left than the right does. There's two, ack-chu-all-ee.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:loving brain genius response here Absolutely gutted I don't meet with your approval
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China's real mad about the Xinjiang bill. http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/06/19/china-fumes-over-us-xinjiang-bill/
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Grand Fromage posted:China's real mad about the Xinjiang bill. http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/06/19/china-fumes-over-us-xinjiang-bill/ ”This so-called bill deliberately vilifies the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang,” the commentary begins, “maliciously attacking the Chinese government’s policies in governing Xinjiang and flagrantly trampling on international law and the basic norms of international relations, amounting to gross interference in China’s internal affairs. The Chinese government and people express strong indignation and firm opposition to this.” drat that's like 5 bingo spaces in one paragraph
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GotLag posted:lol ok lib drat dude, you and rush just killin it!!! 
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uh guys the right wing vernacular is "socialist" now and "Lib" is flung from further left by socialists Oh and God forbid you get called a centrist good heavens
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Blistex posted:a big feminist trailblazer All names, dates, and locations have been removed to protect anonimity and prevent me from looking this story up.  GoutPatrol posted:Since COVID started, people with tourist visas having been getting month-to-month extensions for their last tourist visa That's what I've been doing with my work visa since February. Every time I go in, I get worried I'll be denied and have only a couple days to book a flight. 
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There's a goon in Taiwan who has gone back and forth between 90 day landing exemptions and a student visa once or twice. No one ever really questions him.
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Shadow0 posted:All names, dates, and locations have been removed to protect anonimity and prevent me from looking this story up. I want to say , Jessica, New York, and 03/04 but it was two years ago and I really only remember the  parts.I can't even remember who the CBC host was. Sorry.
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Atlas Hugged posted:There's a goon in Taiwan who has gone back and forth between 90 day landing exemptions and a student visa once or twice. No one ever really questions him. Yeah that could work, but I've never heard of someone being able to do that and get an APRC. That's work or marriage only.
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GoutPatrol posted:Yeah that could work, but I've never heard of someone being able to do that and get an APRC. That's work or marriage only. Correct. He's been in country long term doing that, but there's no way he can get an APRC.
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Thanks all for the info, it is as I feared. I'm not going anywhere abroad until there's a COVID vaccine, anyways, so that's being kept out of my head for the time being. If I decide I like Taiwan, and want to try and get permanent residency, I'm sure I'd be able to snag a job doing programming work for Google or something (they have an office in Taipei) and have that be my springboard for an APRC in the future. But to test the waters and see how I would enjoy living there, I had planned on a bit of a minimalist lifestyle and renting AirBnBs long term. GoutPatrol posted:Yeah that could work, but I've never heard of someone being able to do that and get an APRC. That's work or marriage only. So the solution is clearly to become a skeezy sexpat and do the ol' marry a local twist. Jotting this down in my notes under "Plan B"
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Grand Fromage posted:China's real mad about the Xinjiang bill. http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/06/19/china-fumes-over-us-xinjiang-bill/ Xinjiang Bill, the toughest cowpoke in the west.
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Grand Fromage posted:China's real mad about the Xinjiang bill. http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/06/19/china-fumes-over-us-xinjiang-bill/ I just read an article on Vice that the CCP is harvesting Uighur organs to sell them on the black market, especially to the middle east. This sounds pretty outlandish (and Vice magazine may not be the most respectable publication) but given the recent Chinese history, is there any truth to that? I mean, the concentration camps to which they admitted are already a huge human rights violation that would merit cutting the PRC out of all international relations (same as NK basically) but this is a whole other level of evil
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Chikimiki posted:I just read an article on Vice that the CCP is harvesting Uighur organs to sell them on the black market, especially to the middle east. This sounds pretty outlandish (and Vice magazine may not be the most respectable publication) but given the recent Chinese history, is there any truth to that? That rumor has been floating around for like years now. I definitely believe it.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-uighur-muslims-china-tribunal-tells-un-2019-9quote:Reuters said China has insisted that it "stopped using organs from executed prisoners in 2015."
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Shadow0 posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-uighur-muslims-china-tribunal-tells-un-2019-9 “Stopped”
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MarcusSA posted:“Stopped”
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Chikimiki posted:I just read an article on Vice that the CCP is harvesting Uighur organs to sell them on the black market, especially to the middle east. This sounds pretty outlandish (and Vice magazine may not be the most respectable publication) but given the recent Chinese history, is there any truth to that? It's not a black market. It's just a market. The rest of the details seems spot on.
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Chikimiki posted:I mean, the concentration camps to which they admitted are already a huge human rights violation that would merit cutting the PRC out of all international relations (same as NK basically) but this is a whole other level of evil The US has bigger camp/prison system tho and explicitly uses it for ethnic terror and corporate profits
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shovelbum posted:The US has bigger camp/prison system tho and explicitly uses it for ethnic terror and corporate profits America is also bad.
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Weka posted:America is also bad. America commits the one unforgivable sin of being loving useless
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Chikimiki posted:I just read an article on Vice that the CCP is harvesting Uighur organs to sell them on the black market, especially to the middle east. This sounds pretty outlandish (and Vice magazine may not be the most respectable publication) but given the recent Chinese history, is there any truth to that? 100%. There have been very recent studies including the UN that straight up say China is harvesting organs from living people up to including killing them or leaving them to die. Their numbers are so BS they don't even pass the most cursory of inspection. You can get an organ within days. Everywhere else it could be weeks, years or never. It is a market not a black market. They favour Uighur because they don't eat pork, don't smoke or drink alcohol. Uighur concentration camp has all the Nazi poo poo short of extermination. It's genocide. We should have sanctioned them ages ago but the higher ups still believed in "Engagement". There was a short stint where China more "Free" but Xi has set everything back decades if not all the way back to Mao in terms of personal power and oppression. They deserve every bit of poo poo thrown their way. Ugh, now I am angry.
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