I don't want to fucking hear any shit about how what we're going through in the US was inevitable and the quarantine/containment strategy was an impossible dream I have relatives in Taiwan who are going to work at the office, going out to eat, hanging out in bars
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ps9714
Is it possible that their environment is more exposed to fresh air than our air conditioned environment? You have to compare apple to apple buddy.
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Replying to @TheeNewAmerican @ps9714
No, it is not You have no idea what you're talking about Taiwan in the summer is the most miserable climate I've experienced in my life 100-degree heat and the humidity right at the dew point You feel like you're being steamed like a dumpling and inhaling a wet towel
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And then there's typhoon season from July to September People in Taiwan stay indoors A LOT It is a highly urbanized, climate controlled society -- very high percentage of people living in the city core, small apartments, packed subways
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Fuck's sake It's like asking if people in Florida get more fresh air and sunshine and exercise than people who live up north It only makes sense if you've spent zero time thinking about it
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Of course I'm not sure you even thought it through to that extent Maybe you thought Taiwan was a "Third World country" where AC and electricity don't exist yet I don't know what idiotic picture anti-maskers have of the rest of the world and honestly I'm not sure if matters
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Progressive writers have been BEGGING middle class Americans to travel abroad to see how the rest of the world works (without oligarchs) since Mark Twain.
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Replying to @messedupworthy @arthur_affect and
And how does it work without oligarchs? Any example county's for that?
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Replying to @ghunkinking @messedupworthy and
Lol, I'm not gonna pretend Taiwan politics aren't fucked up but there's no argument by which Taiwan "isn't a democracy" and the US is
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Taiwan has one of the most "vibrant" democracies in the world, different parties screaming at each other and brawling on the floor of Parliament and all that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ghunkinking and
Honestly if you just *look* at the way they do business compared to how we do business, even without being able to understand the language at all, our country looks a lot more like the obvious oligarchy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ghunkinking and
Democratic Senators just sitting there letting Mitch McConnell talk and not one of them so much as lets out a "BOOOOOO" or "BULLSHIIIIIIIT"
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