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  • The reason so many people in Taiwan Province want to maintain the status quo is because they get de facto independence while enjoying preferential treatment in China for both people and exports. It's like the Australia-New Zealand relationship except non-reciprocol on Taiwan Province's part.

    That, and they don't have to put their lives and livelihoods on the line dealing with a potential forceful reunification.

  • The Switch runs even first party Nintendo games like dogshit on top of all that. People will say it's the developer's fault, to which I say Nintendo owns the fucking developer so it's still their fault.

    Also, Nintendo is the only console company that doesn't port to PC. The fuck are all the annoying anti-Epic Store bros when it comes time to yell at Nintendo?

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  • "Our business model sucks and we don't want to do the work to pay the people who perform labor for us. Therefore, our CEO deserves a hundred million dollars."

    Yeah, makes sense. Carry on.

  • One country subsidizing an industry while imposing tarrifs on another country for subsizing that same industry is literally an actionble dispute in the WTO so it is very much an actual rebuttal.

    Try defending a WTO subsidies dispute with "Whataboutism!" And see how that goes.

  • The issue is they're wanting to sell $30,000 cars for $15,000 (with the rest paid for by the Chinese government)

    [Citation needed]

    China ended its national level domestic EV subsidies in 2022 so it makes very little sense to subsidize foreign buyers for 50% of the cost of a vehicle while cutting subsidies for domestic consumption which is much more economically and socially advantageous.

  • Even before he lost all credibility, the Dalai Lama said he would drop independence and pursue autonomy for Tibet as a part of China.

    All this is ignoring the wide popular support by Tibetan serfs for overthrowing their Lama masters in the first place.

  • I love that the generic lib response to this is to engage in Whataboutism regarding Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan. If you see someone doing this, remember to ask them how many countries recognize Palestine as a state versus any of those other places.