Taiwan does consider itself China. In fact, declaring they're not might verywellbe the trigger for the invasion. I get that they're de facto two separate countries, but de jure, PRC and ROC are two sides of the world's longest and coldest civil war.
...Y'know what, let's try and dumb this down a bit, middle school style:
The post you're replying to accentuates the words good and bad. Why is that?
When the post talks about actions, what adjectives are used to describe them? How does that relate to the actors doing them? What is the causal relation implied?
The action used in the post is genocide - why is that, in particular used as an example? Is the post justifying genocide? What does the example of genocide mean for the causal relation implied?
What is the opinion of the author on the sentiments expressed in the post?
Does the post take a stance on real-world political actors? Does the post even mention any? If so, does it justify them, or condemn them?
No, see, we are good persons, and they are bad, so when they do genocide, it's bad, because they're bad, but when we do it, it's good, because we're good!
You make the mistake of conflating "patriarchy" with "men". Patriarchy both harms, and is upheld, by both men and women - even plenty of would-be feminists.
The thing with slotted screws is that the screw itself is awful, but a flathead screwdriver in and of itself is such a useful tool you're always gonna have one, so the screw kinda hangs around.
There were no (or only very few) cold warriors in the EU
Glances at the Baltics...
The point is, the "new cold war" crowd is imagining it invariably between "the west" and "the east", with them being inherently "the west"(it's why they instantly fell back on the old 'asiatic hordes' language). In actuality, the only reason the original cold war was between the Yanks and the SU was that Europe kneecapped itself twice in a row, and the vacuum left was filled by "the west" (US) and "the east" (USSR), and Europe split between them.
Before the Wars, you had, for example, the absolutist, profoundly religious Russian Empire ally with the secular French Republic against the Germans, because for all their differences neither could allow Germany to dominate the other, because they would be next. Meanwhile, you had the Austrians join their direct rival Germany and their ancient enemy Ottomans in an effort to contain Russia, for the same reason. Consequently, if you, now, have a severely weakened Russia, and a united Europe that is now rebuilding it's military and attempting to break away from US dominance, it wouldn't be that much of a surprise for the US to try and bolster Russia to counter a resurgent Europe - much to the disappointment of NAFO mouthbreathers.
Incidentally, now that I think about it, it's kind of a part of how WW1 started, IIRC: Kaiser Willy started a massive naval buildup, in his mind, against Japan, and was completely shocked when King Eddie took it entirely the wrong way...
I fiuly agree. In fact, I have a multi-step suggestion:
In Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.
The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Is... Tharg unusual? Like, the rest are exaggerated for humor, but I've met more than one Tharg. Hell, at one point if I switched majors I'd be Tharg.