Still run. And still have a majority, got a third straight one last year.

Exactly. 100%.

We have 2 de facto governments and 1 de jure country. This is where all the problems arise. Who ever wins, wins the entire country.

Or they could do an Armistice like what North and South Korea did.

Lol what a stupid take. All democratisation processes took place during population expansion with large young populations, not with old and shrinking populations.

In this very decade look at all the Gen Revolutions in the third world. All growing young populations. You’re sooo wrong on this.

They don’t like it when you apply colonial analysis on their puppet government.

If Taiwan pursued decolonisation, they would not be a puppet government anymore.

Look at South Africa and Zimbabwe.

It’d be better if the Han Chinese were repatriated rather than stayed in Taiwan. Give Taiwan to the indigenous.

You have yet to give the Treaty showing the Partitioning of China into PRC and ROC. I’ll wait.

For your other examples, you think are good points, but in reality support my position:

Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland (ROI separating from UK): https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1922/act/1/schedule/2/enacted/en/html

State Treaty for the re-establishment of an independent and democratic Austria (separating Austria from Germany after WWII): https://treaties.fcdo.gov.uk/data/Library2/pdf/1957-TS0058.pdf

Indian Independence Act, 1947 (Partition of India and Pakistan): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/30/pdfs/ukpga_19470030_en.pdf

Pakistani Instrument of Surrender, 1971 (Independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan): https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/5312/Instrument

United Nations Armistice of the Korean Conflict (Boundary between North and South Korea): https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/default/files/document/files/2024/05/kp2bkr530727agreementconcerningmilitaryarmistice.pdf

United Nations Resolution 2758 (Declaring PRC, not ROC, as the recognised government of China): https://documents.un.org/doc/resolution/gen/nr0/327/74/pdf/nr032774.pdf

I use primary sources from the governments of belligerent countries and the United Nations.

You on the hand state unsubstantiated feel-good arguments. Provide primary sources or get lost. Don’t waste my time. The PRC is not the Borg, you are.

Yes. Exactly. Hence “Taiwan” is not a country, nor a nation, nor sovereign power. And the statement that ROC de facto lost the mainland but de facto kept the island is the One China policy.

One country, China, with two competing governments. There is no Peace Treaty and no Partition of China.

Something people who don’t understand anything complain about.

What really matters isn’t meetings, it’s profits.

I guess it’s time for Operation Iraqi Irani Italian Liberation (O.I.L.).

North Tower: Iraq

South Tower: Afghanistan

Building 7: Iran

Don’t you know. When I kill people, it’s called freedom; when someone else kills people, it’s called tyranny.

People who think this don’t deserve an /s.

And you give the link?

“Fool me once… …shame on… …shame on you. Fool me – can’t get fooled again.”

MOSSAD

It is all wordplay. Furthermore, there’s nothing stopping Cubans from leaving, plenty have left already. Why do they complain? Why do you want to stop a country choosing it’s style of government but not how companies are run? Why interfere in an another country’s internal affairs but keep private power sacrosanct? If private companies are private, other countries are other countries.

You and I both vote. The more time spent on this, the less time sent on actual issues.

Cuba has always been used as a bad faith argument against public services. I want public services. That is my position. What is your position? Privatisation? Same thing with healthcare. Public healthcare is tyranny but private healthcare is freedom. Public transit is tyranny and private cars is freedom. Public education is tyrannical brain washing but private education is school choice freedom.

This has always been an ideological debate, never serious.

What is it about “freedom” that you love so much? The signing of nom-competes, NDAs, Terms and Coditions, rentierism to rent forever? Physical infrastructure here is at least better here than the US (if I was in the US or UK, it’s literally crumbling) but our public services are going down the drain, do you like that? There is no future due the cost of living crisis and cost of housing, do you want to never own a home and always have increasing costs of life? Do you want a high-paying tech job (because a pizza job is not enough) to just leave the country? (https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=leaving+canada)

Oh, well look at that. The same thing. Again, just preferences.

The truckers who left for Mexico and Miami are just as serious as the Cubans who left to Miami.

noun a government, especially an authoritarian one

The Liberal regime froze the bank accounts of the trucker convoy protesters.

Authoritarian is subjective not objective.

It’s solely a matter if reference.

You don’t know Curtis Yarvin (ally of VP Vance) where he rightly points out that tech companies run like dictatorships not democracies. Yet we don’t opose them. Why?

Again a matter of preference.

Ment to down vote the post not comment.

The COVID trucker convoy labeled the Liberal government as a regime. They also say the liberal government suppresses dissent and the freezing of bank accounts as totalitarian. They also say most Canadians oppose the Liberal regime and that Trudeau got fewer votes then the Conservatives.

Many such people emigrated to Mexico saying leaving is better than fighting.

Are you going to say the Liberal government is a regime?

I bet there is at least one Cuban who labels the government as the government.

“Cubans” don’t view their government as a regime. You do, then found a Cuban that agrees with you and then put their quote in bold.

You just proved my point. Government I like is called a government, government someone else likes is called regine.

If you are consistent with “regime” you’d call all governments as regimes.

Don’t you know? When I kill citizens, it’s called freedom. When someone else kills citizens, it’s called tyranny.

Governments I like are called governments, governments someone else likes is called regimes.

Don’t you want to support freedom? Why are western governments so against freedom? Why is Canada playing pussyfoot with oppressive tyrannical communist regimes?

The person who thinks this post is legit doesn’t deserve an /s.

Talking to Iranian expats is like talking to flat earthers.

They believe the Islamic Republic was a CIA coup while the Sha was not, when in fact the opposite is true.

What the expats fail to understand is that, at the time in 1979, the majority of the people (i.e. people outside the cities) wanted the Islamic Republic.

This same dynamic is playing out in Turkey with Erdogoun. His support comes from the countryside. The secular support is in the cities. That’s how he put down the military.

Same thing happened with the Taliban. They were popular in the country. And overtook the country when the US withdrew. But you would be stupid to say the CIA backed the Taliban government.

It’s very difficult for them to understand that their viewpoint was in the minority (at the time). They have to say the government was imposed on the country instead of confronting the reality that it was not.

These governments were not imposed, they were chosen. Negative consequences came as a result, like a lot of ultra conservative movements, but chosen none the less.

The current government fucked up though with killing protesters. The majority is prob against them now.