Good grief.
I suppose this is social media.
Whatās that supposed to mean?
Oh well glad I donāt have any mistresses in the closet that would feel free to come out now.
āIām going to tell your wife!ā 
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Yeah, maybe they should include economic intercourse. 
But if they renounced original citizenship then where do they send them ? Some random airport?
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Brian Hioe at New Bloom comments on the constitutional court decision here:
Guy
Iāve been wondering too. One would probably just be stuck stateless in Taiwan until you recover your old citizenship.
Except for that most countries, to recover means immigrating thereā¦with a passport like a foreigner.
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Is this effective now or a later date?
I was waiting for someone to post that.
If anyone wants to hand over their data to that sketchy Canadian company, donāt let me slow you down! 
Guy
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All of the people I know that became stateless were indeed stuck here until the system rectified the (self imposed) problem. Some for decades. It is an insanely retarded system clearly setup by people who think their university degrees mean something credible.
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No. Itās an insane system that was created in a time when there were no checks and balances at the whim of a nationalist and Han chauvinistic dictatorship that believed that foreigners would pollute the mighty Han race. The system is not broken, itās working as it was intended to by Chiang Kai Shek.
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I suppose our inly disagreement is that the system is broken in todays market. Frankly.i can understand a lot of Taiwans funky rules when taking in history. As it stands today the system is broken. One could, legitimately, argue the system is solid it .is the outside factors such as culture and environment that make it seem.broken and thus it is the outside factors that are broken. But if we use human rights as the narative the old style has become obsolete and fhere for ābrokenā. perhaps the word dysfunctional would better serve the purposeā¦
I call it broken because, unlike before, the Nationalist gov of china (Kmt then taiwan) didnt actually require international friendship to.achieve its goals as they were basically pieces of shit .not caring about the populace. Different now, and thus a broken system with tweeks that are not working .for what is generally needed to allow the Republic of China to survive oppression.
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Or just simply it needs to be replaced. A Super Nintendo is not broken because it doesnāt play N64 games. It, and this law do exactly as intended, to prevent foreigners from joining while milking their benefits. We WANT it broken or replacedā¦in our favour.
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Fair enough. But the break and replace scenario is what is needed everywhere. Be it chinaās grip on taiwan, americas racism, or taiwans nationaljst ways. I have always argued for starting with destroying.househd regjstration. But even.that wknt happen and that alone would help with this issue and also indirectly help with the china issue on independence. But this break and replace issue likely wont happen in reality.
I agree with you.fully but in this.situation like to.call the situation at present broken as the likely.useful situation you describe doesnt seem feasible with current mentality. Could be wrong.
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Me too! They (Ashley Madison) are so full of shit. They claim to have 1.9 million members in Taiwan alone.
Remember when they got caught years ago? When they looked into who was posting and who was actually paying, it was just a bunch of guys chatting with a handful of other guys (who were pretending to be many different girls).
Who here believes that 1.9 million Taiwanese are on Ashley Madison hoping to cheat on their spouse?
Iām guessing there are fewer than 10,000.
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Shit, really?
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A year after the Constitutional Court ruling, Taiwanās anti-adultery law has finally been abolished.
Guy
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A bit bloody late at my age. Next they will legalize weed ! Oh no they wonāt I forgot this is Asia, hey ho anal sex ok Cannabis no way!
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