If the CCP invades, will you fight?

[crusher]

@BiggusDickus

Probably more for foreign residents. But, would you? I think I would.

I would join you , i can make improvised explosives if needed. My family can leave, but I am too old to start again but I could do a Tim McVeigh if needed against the CCP

@BiggusDickus would be the obvious man to lead. And for training.
But we would be better off leaderless in the long run.

[jimipresley]

I’m fat, old, and decrepit. I can’t walk more than a few meters without gasping. My only advantage is that I do know my way around firearms. I know how to take the safety off, and I know how to shoot. A problem is my eyesight, though. I can barely see my hand in front of my face, so a few instances of friendly fire may arise, thus rendering me possibly more of a hindrance than an asset to the Forumosa Militia.
Anyway, I’ll fight. I have nowhere else to go.

[Andrew]

@dan2006

A country that won’t allow me to get a passport without renouncing my original? Or puts up regulatory blocks for foreigners at every step?

“Thank you for your interest in joining the ROC Foreign Friends Militia. Please note that the system only accepts ROC ID numbers at present. Please ask a Taiwanese friend to help you register, thank you for your consideration.”

[Andrew]

@Wee

With what?

Haven’t you seen the posters on the Taipei MRT? If I remember correctly, you can choose between an umbrella and a rucksack.

[RBE]

You’d be surprised how effective these can be in a hand-to-hand to situation. Don’t work too well against missiles in a saturation attack unfortunately.

[jdsmith]

@the_bear

Let’s form a Forumosa militia so. First things first who is to lead us?

Without proper arms, I’d go with a Resistance, and not some ideologically uterine one…summin Old School full of yellowing bruises and thick fingers.

@keoni

I recall you are an ex-marine?

Did I know this and forget? Fucking brain.
Oh, and there’s no such thing as a ex-Marine.

@MalcolmReynolds

I’m prepared to fight. No question.

I’m beginning to see a pattern here.

@BiggusDickus

Hemingway only wrote about glorious deaths.

All death is glorious.

Oorah

[jdsmith]

@Wee

With what? Does the military have enough equipment to arm a militia of any size? I doubt it.

If the CCP invades, simple…kill them and take their shit.

[the_bear]

Our two chief weapons shall be fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency…

[OrangeOrganics]

Fucking Happy Mariam Militia

[jdsmith]

@the_bear

Our two chief weapons shall be fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency…

So we approach at dawn, coughing
in the nood on grinding knees
and gyrating hips.

[finley]

@keoni

No one wants to concede, but not everyone has military training or experience. I recall you are an ex-marine? That’s great, but some of us would be more useful serving diarrhea inducing food.

Indeed. I’d be a f’ing useless grunt. I’m nearly 50, hopelessly short-sighted, and I probably couldn’t kill anyone, even if they’re invading my country. I know nothing about soldiering. So I’d just get in the way. OTOH it’s one of those things where you can’t be sure what you’d do until it happens. Assuming foreigners aren’t told to leave prior to invasion (which seems likely) I’d probably volunteer to do something useful.

[MikeN1]

Too old to fight. Will meet them with passive resistance, which, given it’s against the PLA, will bother them not in the least.

[mokkie]

I say we pay an elite hacker to royally fuck up their computer, data and communication systems from Zhongnanhai to PLA so that their whole operation goes chaos and mayhem plus self destruct.

Game over!

[crusher]

@jdsmith

@Wee

With what? Does the military have enough equipment to arm a militia of any size? I doubt it.

If the CCP invades, simple…kill them and take their shit.

I like both of those ideas and when combined it is a win win

[jdsmith]

@finley

I know nothing about soldiering. So I’d just get in the way. OTOH it’s one of those things where you can’t be sure what you’d do until it happens.

This makes me laff. “I could never kill, but maybe if it came down to him or me, maybe I could…maybe.” I will admit though, without shame, that I had the same philosophical back and forth in my head the first time I took a deer. Lasted the entire time it took me to sight it in and flex my index finger.

Take the gun, point it in the right direction and squeeze the trigger until it doesn’t go boom any more. You’re not killing anything. You’re just carefully performing a series of tasks.

[flatlandr]

I can drive a truck or count boxes.

[finley]

Animals, people … different things. No problem with killing an animal for food.

I realise that soldiers become used to killing fellow humans quite quickly, and do just view it as “performing a series of tasks”. I don’t particularly want to get to that place, not least because I know I have it in me to do so.

My great-uncle spent many hours dropping bombs on German cities. It haunted him forever, even though he didn’t have to see the victims and knew it was a fight for survival.

I just hope China never decides it’s a good plan to put Taiwan in this position, but it seems to me that some governments get so full of themselves that they think they can do anything they like without repercussions. China seems to have already reached that point.

[jdsmith]

@finley

My great-uncle spent many hours dropping bombs on German cities. It haunted him forever, even though he didn’t have to see the victims and knew it was a fight for survival.

I’ve read about RAF pilots who flew over Dresden, turned around and dropped everything in the channel. Sorry to hear the old fella suffered.

[crusher]

@finley

Animals, people … different things. No problem with killing an animal for food.

I realise that soldiers become used to killing fellow humans quite quickly, and do just view it as “performing a series of tasks”. I don’t particularly want to get to that place, not least because I know I have it in me to do so.

My great-uncle spent many hours dropping bombs on German cities. It haunted him forever, even though he didn’t have to see the victims and knew it was a fight for survival.

I just hope China never decides it’s a good plan to put Taiwan in this position, but it seems to me that some governments get so full of themselves that they think they can do anything they like without repercussions. China seems to have already reached that point.

Do not look at invading soldiers as human beings…Dehumanize them.

[finley]

@crusher

Do not look at invading soldiers as human beings…Dehumanize them.

Not going to take a leaf out of the CCP’s book. If we become like them, what’s the point? Better dead than Red, as they used to say.