頭腦蠻清楚的嘛
Cypherpunk manifesto 🥳
The results are interesting! First time since 2000 the elected president hasn't gotten majority vote, no party holds majority seats in the legislative yuan (think congress), all front running presidential candidates taiwan-born, first time the incumbent party was able to retain control over term limits (8 years) since direct elections started, decent turnout across all demographics and locales. Unlike any previous election, no candidate or party holds a mandate 🥳
This means in the next legislative session, legislators will be forced to cross the aisle to get things done rather than rely on the crutch of pushing majority advantages through obscure legislative processes. Taiwan's democracy will have to continue to evolve. Lots of firsts for Taiwan, election didn't go "my way" but still thrilled at the results!
為了一點福利就放棄家鄉應該不多吧🥹
福利也是要繳稅的🤣
不會啊! 當時中華民國帶來了不少大陸普通老百姓 🤭
如今從大陸願意搬來台灣的中國人有很多種，譬如配偶，工讀學生，等等
It's fun to look into how the process came to be like that. Some of the earliest elections were rife with fraud, like there was a case where officials would dump out all the votes and shut off the lights then announce a winner 🤣
"Wait, you can't do that!"
"Oh? Where's the rule where it says I can't?!"
🤬🤬🤬
Taiwanese democracy in a nutshell
It's a gamble every time I click on global in public 🤭
It's true, Taiwan could have easily become another North Korea if it wasn't for people standing up to authoritarians 🥲
Fun fact, the Republic of China attempted a nuclear arms program that got shut down by the CIA. That's a whole other rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️
Republic of China's 🇹🇼 constitution does make it difficult for Taiwanese to take control, it's setup in a way that makes the 113year old constitution hard to change. Taiwanese are still chipping away at it 🥳 for example it'd take an almost impossible 3/4th legislature to make amendments, Taiwanese are kinda stuck with the Republic of China
People's Republic of China 🇨🇳? Literally zero influence over the island 🤷 taiwanese elections are often won on very thin margins, if the communists could control who could get elected ....the results show they really suck at exerting influence
Perhaps I'm still a bit of an NPC, but I'm still thrilled I just cast my vote in the Taiwan election 🥳 Taiwan's path to democracy is really special and hard-fought it's still amazing all the different faces of people willing to participate, can almost feel the energy at the polls -- somehow it feels that every vote matters. I don't feel the same way about my votes cast in the States Taiwanese don't see eye to eye on a lot of issues yet somehow after all the votes are counted they find common ground to chart a path forward.
compared to the last election cycle I pretty much haven't been paying attention in politics and even around the dinner table the topic is seldomly brought up (the aunts and uncles used to always discuss the topic-du-jour). It's been a nice change, who has time to pay attention to clown world when there's Bitcoin and Nostr anyways?!🤣
ostrich origin came from an AI chatbot attempting to make a nostr joke which eventually caught people's attention. The "biggest bird' is but an interpretation.
Regardless, bigger bird, better app 🤣
What a hilarious way to debunk the efficient market hypothesis 🤣🤣
Some of my more memorable childhood memories are my grandma reading to me stories from journey to the west (西遊記). The deeper meaning of the story was obviously lost on me as a child. I was too distracted from cheering on the most-snarkiest psychotically-impulsive hero taking on epic battles with demons with magic and mystic artifacts instead.
I discovered this YouTube channel awhile ago that retells it in such a fun way (in English!), happy to see that it is still being worked on years later. The narration is hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDb22nlVXGgdg_NR_-GtTrMnbMVmtSSXa
Journey to the West is one of the great Chinese classics, it takes one on a perilous journey to enlightenment and has lots of fun along the way 🍿
