My brother in law used to work for them. I used to get a calendar every year.
Quit because he reckoned it was hard to move up/get promoted. Too many old guys occupying the positions.
I miss those calendars.
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I was speaking mainly of government and political corruption.
Stuff like this article covers. Government corruption is the worst scums of the earth.
Globalisation is indeed a big problem.
Too much emphasis on this has got us into our current situation. Letâs listen to the Davos crowd, try to change the behaviour of working folk on housing/transportation, and let inflation run rampant. 
Dinosaur farts
A notorious German once said this: âWhy of course the people donât want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people donât want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.â
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We tried telling that to Russia and China and they wonât listen!
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âŚNo? Taiwanâs actually fairly clean relatively speaking. There are always bad apples, but itâs not necessarily something Taiwan is famous for.
We definitely are famous for parliamentary violence more than anything in government.
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Whatâs the point training a militia if itâs illegal to have guns?
And what about carefully weeding out people with mental health issues? Would equipping such people backfire and create an unstable society?
What could go wrong? Everything is fine in the US.
Given the amount of unstable, vengeful, vindictive people I run into, Iâd have died multiple times both here and Canada if there was such a thing.
Seriously @Marco? What lead to the war⌠People should look into fine details from all sides.
West is not all Saint and Russia is not all evil.
Disclaimer: I am neither blaming West nor vouching for Russia.
Well said mateâŚ
Yes. A sovereign country was invaded without its consent. There is no dispute. Taiwan and Ukraine have the right to exist and their peoples have the right to self-determination to manage their own affairs. Might as well say well⌠letâs look into the fine details from all sides of the rape of that woman.
It has nothing to do with it and itâs a strawman argument.
Just because a particular woman is not a saint doesnât mean she deserves to get raped.
Russia doesnât have to like what Ukraine does. They may do whatever they want in their own country, but they do not have the right to invade. Full stop.
Itâs really simple. No means no.
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Why doesnât Taiwan get serious about conscription training again?
It seems the best way. To have a decently well trained reserved force of an entire country of 18-35 age men to be able to up and running in a few months of less.
I just donât get it. As much as tech gives militaries advantage and Taiwan keeps spending on more equipment. We all know what a local fighting force that is barely trained with less equipment can do to far superior occupying forces if they just put up a fight.
More budget should be allocated this way.
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Theyâre already talking about restoring it to one year.
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Keep it short but do it better. I havenât met one person who thinks they learned anything apart from how to smoke.
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4-6 months is probably enough if itâs serious.
They would likely still need to be go through another 1-2 month before combat ready in a hurry anyways when called from the reserves.
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I donât want to die.
But I was born a free man and I will die as a free man. I refuse to be a subject for their imaginary Middle Kingdom nonsense where I would just disappear for saying something.
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Not just that, but the red line keeps shifting and nobody knows where the fuck it is. Who wants to live in a world like that and with no accountability for who gets ensnared into the red line or ability to change the government when they do a bad job.
âWe donât know where the red line is,â the administrator of the CityU Secrets page told Rest of World. Requesting anonymity to avoid being targeted by the authorities, they said that the page, founded in 2013, used to be a popular place for City University of Hong Kong students to criticize the school management, including its lack of support for students participating in the massive pro-democracy protest movement in 2019. But in recent years, the page had grown quieter as the school stepped up punishing students for criticizing the school in public, said the administrator. In 2020, for example, City University disciplined a student for making a song satirizing the university president.
Clearly not sufficently patrioticâwhich in this context means âsinging the praises of the Chinese Communist Party and their local hatchet men in Hong Kong.â
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