If the CCP invades, will you fight?

[jdsmith]

Good find. I tend to forget Orwell’s ass kicking days.

[BiggusDickus]

He got shot through the throat, IIRC.

[jdsmith]

Yurp. They sold off the scarf.

George Orwell: scarf he was wearing when shot going on sale

[Charlie_Jack]

@BiggusDickus

He got shot through the throat, IIRC.

He managed to make a joke out of it:

The wound was a curiosity in a small way and various doctors examined it with much clicking of tongues and ‘Qué suerte! Qué suerte!’ One of them told me with an air of authority that the bullet had missed the artery by ‘about a millimetre’. I don’t know how he knew. No one I met at this time–doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients–failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

–Catalonia

[Liam_Og]

If the CCP invades, will you fight?

I can commit to continuing the bickering and moaning

[arcticsquid]

Question is: on which side?

[DesiInTaipei]

The tenderfoot Taiwanese youngsters are not gonna fight. Why should I? In any case I’m not a citizen here so I won’t.

[QuaSaShao]

The only real fighting that’ll be going on will be fighting for seats at the airport.

[dylanh724]

Pretty confident if they invade, it’ll all be said and done before we can even step out the door. Communications would likely be cut, so you wouldn’t be the first in line at the airport unless you lived next door.

[QuaSaShao]

Chapter 3: Warning Signs: ninety days ahead of an invasion warning signs would begin. Thirty days ahead clear signals would emerge that it’s time to go.

https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Invasion-Threat-American-Strategy/dp/1788691768/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UB2SYCJ1WHQ3&dchild=1&keywords=the+chinese+invasion+threat&qid=1609487442&sprefix=chinese+invs%2Caps%2C339&sr=8-1

[BiggusDickus]

Thinking about it, if the ROC military were desperate enough to want me to fight the war would be almost over. Like those old guys with panzerfausts in Germany in '45.

[cake]

My guess would be once the mass of CCP soldiers enter districts, anyone with a penknife thinking they would put up a fight, would put the penknife away and say to themselves, that was rather stupid of me.

[cake]

Anyone getting their hammers and knives ready just in case?

[loser]

They treat us like shit, so no.

[BiggusDickus]

@cake

Anyone getting their hammers and knives ready just in case?

I’m pondering who to use as a human shield

[jdsmith]

Get some fat kids together and paint panda faces on them.

[vibekiller]

I just have this lethal weapon and a couple of fruit knives

[divinecomedy]

Fight my way through to the Taoyuan airport? Absolutely. If not that Songshan airport.

[QuaSaShao]

The real question is will Taiwanese fight? WithTaiwan’s unserious four month conscription and rinky dink military training regime it’s hard to believe Taiwanese people really intend to put up a fight when the inevitable day of reckoning comes.

[BigDave]

I spoke to a Taiwanese coworker yesterday. She asked if I was worried about China. She told me she was so she changed a lot of her TWD to Euros. I was like if shit hits the fan, the problem will be getting a flight out. She looked confused. I am not thinking about that, I am just thinking about the Twd going down. I bought some RMB too. Wtf?

Wonder how many others decided to change their money into the money of the country threatening them.

She didn’t even entertain the idea that Taiwan will put up a fight.