At 3/1/23 06:30 AM, Skoops wrote: Well sheesh, I'm gonna dedicate some time to this one sometime to get all my thoughts out. I've built a life in Taiwan, so I've got opinions. The short version is that the Chinese government is the cancer, but civilian little pinks and wumao aren't blameless, and less people are unwilling captives of the dictatorship than you might think. A sizable chunk of Russians genuinely support endlessly murdering Ukrainians at all costs, and there's probably a bigger fraction of Chinese that would cheer-on turning everyone I love into a red mist. I got more to say than that, but ehh.