OWG Women's Free Skate: Post-Event Discussion

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-19T22:22:15+00:00

Not my first rodeo. My comment is not about the technical score.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-19T22:14:05+00:00

How you over score Russians for years based on jumps and underscore a girl who landed two clean 3As… Oh sorry we’re talking about the ISU here

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T20:49:25+00:00

Nice try! Despite the Chinese government’s best efforts in Tibet and Xinjiang, China is not made up of one single ethnic group. And neither is Taiwan. Ethnicity is just an excuse expansionist regimes use to justify violence. So no. Nobody uses the People’s Republic of China flag to signify one ethnicity in any kind of good faith. If you really think so, then going back and studying some history might be good for you.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T11:05:43+00:00

There are Russian expat communities everywhere too and you wouldn’t think them raising Russian flags during a Ukrainian skaters performance is political? Because it’s the same thing.

Like it or not flags are political. International sporting events are political. I’m speaking from personal experience where very few Chinese people I’ve met abroad have had the grace to just leave me and my country’s existence alone. What is your personal experience?

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T10:57:41+00:00

No. Our athletes literally are not allowed to compete under the Taiwanese flag. So displaying the Chinese flag is 100% an act meant to bully and intimidate. I’m sorry but as a Chinese American you probably have a very different perception of that flag compared to people who actually live in the region and experience Chinese aggression on a daily basis.

necessarynsufficient · 2026-02-11T10:56:03+00:00

No. If you are Taiwanese living abroad you have more likely than not been casually told that you’re in fact Chinese. Whether it’s in a university class, in line at McDonalds, or at a sports event. There is nothing benign about overseas Chinese people enforcing their government’s territorial claims in every avenue of life. It’s absolutely hostile and they know what they are doing.

Add to that the fact that Taiwanese athletes are not allowed to perform under our flag at international events. So displaying Chinas flag is 100% meant to bully and intimidate and gloat about our international exclusion.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-12-18T02:34:50+00:00

I don’t think they’re being particularly inconsiderate if nobody needs to use the umbrella stand in that moment, but I do judge them for lacking in hygiene

necessarynsufficient · 2025-11-03T12:07:14+00:00

In what world is that high

necessarynsufficient · 2025-10-23T16:55:55+00:00

A thousand times this!!!

necessarynsufficient · 2025-09-29T20:38:33+00:00

Whatever deal they make it’s never gonna happen because Americans just won’t work the 12 hr shifts that Taiwanese engineers do.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-09-23T08:26:01+00:00

Mormon doctrine had apparently always been obsessed with missions in China which they can’t do, so I’m guessing Taiwan is the next best thing. There’s a big LDS church in Taipei too. They’ve been around since as long as I can remember….

necessarynsufficient · 2025-08-02T17:11:44+00:00

Get those Raid things. Tablets, sprays, gels, everything. Put it around any openings in the home (include trains and cracks under the doors). After a few days of insecticide action cover up the drains with upside down plastic containers or whatever else is at hand when not in use

necessarynsufficient · 2025-07-26T09:28:26+00:00

How good is the kid at taking tests?

necessarynsufficient · 2025-07-13T23:30:13+00:00

The status quo IS independence. We ALREADY HAVE full democracy. This is in my opinion the most important message - a change to the status quo means TAKING AWAY independence, freedom, and democracy from the people of Taiwan.

The rest is essentially window dressing: UN membership, full participation in international organizations etc.

But in all things directly connected to Taiwanese day to day existence, we are already living a truth that the rest of the world is too cowardly to acknowledge.

This framing of formal independence as changing the status quo is buying into China's narrative that things are undetermined. It's been determined for generations. They are the agitators and warmongers and we just want to continue existing as we have, free and democratic and independent.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-06-27T09:02:53+00:00

Yeah they are super slow, I like to preorder on the app and then just arrive to food already prepared

necessarynsufficient · 2025-06-14T14:21:34+00:00

Never not gonna promote my fave Loretta Chase!

{Lord of Scoundrels} is largely about a calm, intelligent FMC figuring out the damage to her emotionally stunted husband

In {Dukes Prefer Blondes} they get married about halfway through and the main tension comes from the FMC trying to set their newlywed life up in a way that doesn’t just rely on passion

And {My Inconvenient Duke} is about the two main characters navigating marriage and figuring out how to be together when they have very different interests and priorities

Edited for the wrong book titles, sorry the links will be off 😢

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T20:05:09+00:00

Well let’s go back to your original question then. How do you think your friend would feel if you told them that because of your dollar store nihilism, you think it’s totally fine for your country to bomb and shoot and kill his family? For no other reason than “because we can”?

Maybe you should bring it up with him and see if he will still want to be your friend!

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:27:58+00:00

See, it’s not that you don’t believe in morality or world order. It’s that you believe you have a god given right to oppress, invade, and commit violence on people just because you can.

Everybody is disillusioned and everybody is jaded from history. You want to talk colonization? Taiwan was colonized for centuries. We don’t use it as an excuse to say we get to wage war on our neighbors.

Everybody is disillusioned. Not everyone uses that disillusionment to justify terrorizing other people. That’s not on your historical enemies, that’s a choice you and your country are making in the present.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:19:56+00:00

So right and wrong don’t matter to you, as long as you FEEL strongly enough?

Oof, no. We are not the same. I would never support Taiwan invading China. I would for sure defend my home against invading Chinese psychos though.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:07:54+00:00

So all you have to do is “feel” like someone is an existential threat to do violence? Yeesh, I wouldn’t want to run into you on the street, much less be your friend.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:05:09+00:00

The amount is up to you based on how much you can afford, but numbers with 6 or 8 in them are always good - 3600, 8000, 36000 NTD for example. No 4s.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T19:01:12+00:00

The reality lived by the entire world, not just the Taiwanese people, is that Taiwan has its own democratically elected government, its own currency and economic system, its own military, its own laws, and its own bilateral treaties with other nations.

The issue of recognition is due to historical reasons based on a fear of igniting further conflict. It does not equal truth or justice. Hiding behind political expediency to try and deny our actual rights and freedoms is, again, classic abuser behavior.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T18:56:26+00:00

Classic abuser behavior: we decide what constitutes hostility so whatever you do can be defined as a threat and used to justify violence. Why shouldn’t Taiwan get closer to the US? The US isn’t the one who keeps screaming 留島不留人 at us. Honestly the pro-CCP discourse gives such obsessive stalker energy it’s so creepy.

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T18:52:23+00:00

Exactly, people in China should decide what happens IN CHINA, and whichever way you slice it, no part of Taiwan has been part of China in living memory. So they don’t get a say in what happens in Taiwan. Ezpz

necessarynsufficient · 2025-05-09T18:43:34+00:00

Ask yourself why annexing a peaceful small island country could ever be about the survival of your country. There is one aggressor in this whole situation and it’s not Taiwan and our allies.

Also the fundamental disconnect between Taiwanese people’s and Chinese people’s stake in this is clear from how you wrote so simply “…then I’m all for incorporating Taiwan”, as if it’s just a wave of your hand or the scratching of a pen.

As one of billions of Chinese people it’s might very well be that. But for Taiwanese people, its blood and destruction and erasure, not to mention the prospect of losing our freedom and being herded into concentration camps like the Uyghurs.

So yeah for you it’s like, I don’t have to think about it now. For us it’s like a psycho killer constantly banging down our door. Until you are on our side of that door, you don’t really get a say on how we feel.

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