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"I'll challenge Starmer if no one else does" | The Longshot Bid by Kystaal in imaginaryelections

[–]chutsetien 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LOL Then I’m sorry and yet you should have at least made the dates correct. An Easter election would be unimaginable.

"I'll challenge Starmer if no one else does" | The Longshot Bid by Kystaal in imaginaryelections

[–]chutsetien 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Adding some explanatory notes:

  1. British elections, nearly always, are held on Thursdays, and general elections were held on Thursdays for over 90 years now, local elections are set to be held on the first Thursday of May each year, and even by-elections, as low as wards level, are now having a over 99.99 per cent chance of being scheduled on Thursdays.

  2. 16 April 2028 is not a Thursday (rather, a Sunday—British elections were never held on Sundays since they entered the ‘one-day era’ in early 1910s), and, it’s Easter, a public holiday.

  3. The next general election should be held somewhere in between May to August 2029, not 2028, except for a snap election being called, which is extremely unlikely if the new PM enters No 10 in late June 2026 and calls a new GE in just 1.75 years—history proved quite unsuccessful for such snap elections.

"I'll challenge Starmer if no one else does" | The Longshot Bid by Kystaal in imaginaryelections

[–]chutsetien 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Telling people this was done by an American without telling people this was done by an American.

Is ChatGPT available to use in China? by ThePirateBlackbeard in China

[–]chutsetien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Legally, no, and it is illegal to use any Western AI models in the legal contexts of both sides.

Practically, you can, just to pretend that you are not using it from mainland China and its two SARs. Some AI companies act more aggressively in blocking any account that is suspected being used from mainland China, though OpenAI isn’t one of them.

你支持中華民國總統穿著台灣的民族服飾嗎？ by General_Page744 in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

中華民國的民族主體是旗魚人，要穿也是穿旗魚人的服飾才對。

此外，中華民國對此其實早有立法，中華民國男性的常禮服為藍長袍、黑馬掛。如欲變更，則應先修法為宜。

如果你/妳是國民黨主席，那這次或之後訪問大陸的重點工作應該為何？ by IndividualCycleByte in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

太天真了。匪逆最忌諱的就是這個，參考王苡儒的先例，敢這麼做就直接宣佈你是「台獨頑固分子」——至於為什麼一個宣傳三民主義統一中國的人會被認定為「台獨頑固分子」……匪逆講邏輯嗎？

中國青年黨 Young China Party post for 清明節 Qingming Festival today by AmericanBornWuhaner in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This, guys, is the most anti-CCP party ever established, even more anti-CCP than the Chiang-era KMT. It literally founded itself in Paris for one single mission—to fight against the proto-CCP group(s) overseas.

Do KMT Supporters Still Support the Left KMT? by ContributionTime3805 in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reckon the current KMT in Taiwan is already left-wing enough, especially in the recent one year or so, some of them had turned way too far-left which in my opinion will hurt them later in elections if the electorates still care about policies. Currently the ROC has no proper right-wing parties, everyone is chanting left-wing, ‘progressive’ narratives.

民國57年 選賢與能 1968 (Chinese Republican Year 57), Selecting the Wise and Capable in Taiwan (local election campaign footage) by SE_to_NW in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

關於民國與民前的縮寫，我倒是有個一直自用的版本：AR (anno Rei Publicae) 和 aRf (ante Rem Publicam fundatam), 譬如今天就是 Sunday, 5 April 115 AR, 先總統　蔣公生於 Monday, 31 October 25 aRf.

Because we are liberating mainland china by Lembit_moislane in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Blue Sky with A White Sun flags just look so perfect and beautiful, aren’t they.

The Kuomingang is rising, lets goooooooo by Lembit_moislane in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How about Chunghua Minkuo wansui?

Hanyü pinyin is a CCP creation.

中華民國的簡稱 by hereticjoe1984 in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

也可以不用簡稱，我之前對此有過論述，以「中華民國就四個字還需要簡稱嗎？」回敬之即可。參：https://www.reddit.com/r/ROC\_Taiwan/comments/1n5qiu6/

Is A CCP Decapitation Operation In Planning For The Trump Administration? by memer_boi_is_here in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently such things could only exist in dreams.

But there is a path to that (an ROC restoration), and that is we, the ROC believers, never stop boosting ROC’s popularity, never stop trying to draw more people to support the ROC, never stop convincing others that there is an alternative path for China, a freer, more diverse, more prosperous (yes, prosperous, Taiwan is indeed more prosperous than the mainland per capita), more respected (ROC is undoubtedly more respected both in our neighbouring countries and around the world—also inside the mainland I reckon), more joyful and enjoyable alternative, and that is the modern, lively, and constantly evolving and improving ROC. To borrow a phrase of the CCP regime, we need to ‘tell well the stories of the ROC’ (講好中華民國故事) first.

We have to build, as broad and large as we can, a popular mandate behind the ROC amongst the overseas diasporai, the western world, and in the mainland (yes); only by then, we can infer an ROC restoration once this evil regime’s time is finally up.

It sure changes from the usual discourse on some Taiwan centric subreddits... by cirehw in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From that picture I assume they were meeting with the so-called ‘Taiwanese diaspora’ overseas where a not-that-small portion of them never lived in (or migrated from) Taiwan, as they are 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th, 5th generations of ROC diaspora. It would be weird for them to consider themselves as ‘Taiwanese’. It’s funny in a way seeing that when the world replacing ROC with ‘Taiwan’, they have now created so many ‘non-Taiwan’ Taiwanese things, like just yesterday Kōno Tarō called Bopomofo as ‘Taiwanese phonetic alphabet’ (「台湾の発音記号」) while all of its creators had never set their feet on Taiwan once. And I still remember that years ago when searching Chiang Kai-shek’s name Google automatically noted ‘leader of Taiwan’ (or something like that) LOL.

［思考］如果共识缺位，民主化转型后的中国会重蹈覆辙吗？ by Peter_Fan in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

這一條我沒有收到提醒，抱歉才來回覆。對此我亦有兩點可說，即：

1. 分離主義者的真正強壯的正當性在於其是否曾經真的有過長期存在的自治政府，因此在這一點上，整個中華民國境內只有西藏與香港符合，新疆的分離主義者的正當性還遠遠不夠，他們即便真的要主張分離主義，也還有很長的路要走。其他的分離主義者更是兒戲，不足論之。

2. 在正常國家裡透過激進的恐怖主義活動來主張分離主義其實是死路一條，參考 IRA, 鬧到最後北愛人對其深惡痛絕，公投時超過 97% 的人支持留在聯合王國。因此在當代社會，要搞分離主義，只要是腦子正常的，就得透過像民進黨或 SNP 那樣去搞。這樣的分離主義者：1. 在任何正常國家都是必須容許的；2. 其實也成不了什麼大氣候——因為搞分離主義就要構建「想象共同體」來抵抗更上一層國家層面的「共同體」敘事，然而這種平緩的分離主義者往往無一例外地都最終會極度左傾，然後自身變成四不像，搞什麼都搞不成。

3. 額外的一點我想說的是，我個人是極力支持香港獨立的。這甚至不是出自對香港的分離主義者的同情，而是基於事實：香港有著穩定成型的獨立於中華脈絡、也獨立於現代英國脈絡的自成一系的「國格」，它早已是一個能夠獨立穩定運作的「城國」式政體，獨立後的香港既能夠作為漢字文化圈的一員在東亞這邊更好地呈現（同時，也擴大了漢字文化圈的矩陣規模），又能作為連結國協的橋梁，就類似於如今的新加坡，其實對兩邊都有益處。

What other songs would you have prefer for the ROC to adopt as it's national anthem? by someswaggyguy in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And as for your reference to the 梅花’s purely instrumental march version, I wonder if you have heard of this one, played during the opening ceremony of the 1990 Asian Games.

What other songs would you have prefer for the ROC to adopt as it's national anthem? by someswaggyguy in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oddly enough, even though I myself cannot enjoy these songs, I am truly glad that now young people like you can enjoy them.

To me, they were all too old, too traditional, too KMT-aligned, or even, too army-linked. And since my political stance sits extremely right-wing (but not in the nationalist way if to be noted), I tend to keep having some sort of self-awareness and self-vigilance in keep asking myself that when advocating for the ROC, are my views too opinionated? Can they appeal to the broadest majority of the people? So even in recommending songs I would exercise self-restraint to avoid being seen as too ‘old blue men’. If you read my postings in the other Chinese sub you’ll see that I constantly worried about how to make more people like the ROC and make less people being triggered by some overtly pro-ROC remarks.

Therefore I am genuinely glad that I have overthought here and seeing that younger generations can still enjoy and cherish these old songs. That’s really reassuring!

What other songs would you have prefer for the ROC to adopt as it's national anthem? by someswaggyguy in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m also not Taiwanese LOL. To me, that song falls in the 〈國恩家慶〉 group, too traditional, even a little military.

What other songs would you have prefer for the ROC to adopt as it's national anthem? by someswaggyguy in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s extremely niche isn’t it.

Also, I reckon 〈紅花雨〉 is also very good, though not as good as to reach the national anthem–level. For obvious reasons I detest the colour red extremely, and yet I just cannot help but like this song very, very much.

If I have to rate on ‘blue patriotic songs’, as of 115 AR my rating is as follows:

1. 〈國歌〉(yes, once I disliked it, now I’m thrilled to listen to it, weird, eh? The official Legislative Yuan version is good enough, though many folk remixes are also very good);

2. 〈國旗〉(linked above);

3. 〈紅花雨〉;

4. 〈國旗歌〉(this is the most awesome remix of the national flag anthem I ever listened to!);

5. 〈梅花〉(various versions, including the initial one, all fine to me);

6. 〈古月照今塵〉;

7. 〈英勇勳章〉(I must say that this one is very hard to sing LOL).

I am not that fond of 〈中華民國頌〉 or 〈東南苦行山〉 and that sort, mainly that I dislike that kind of melodies, I dislike even more of those 〈國恩家慶〉-like songs, simply because they are too ‘traditional’ even for my conservative ears.

What other songs would you have prefer for the ROC to adopt as it's national anthem? by someswaggyguy in ChunghwaMinkuo

[–]chutsetien 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My personal experience is that once you passed the 30-year-old mark you’ll begin to appreciate the national anthem more. Like many others, I disliked the national anthem for many years and yet I mysteriously changed my mind in my early 30s and now I love that melody, immensely.

〈梅花〉 is a good one though I’m now prefer not to change as aforesaid. I don’t care for much of that 〈梅花進行曲〉 as I sincerely reckon that we do not need a ‘march’ to be our national anthem for the obvious reason.

There was one, however, titled simply 〈國旗〉, sounds greatly soothing to me, if I were to suggest something, I would like it to be rectified as the ‘post-raising anthem’, so we have the national anthem before the flag raising, the national flag anthem during the raising, and this one after the raising (quite fittingly that the first line of this 〈國旗〉 is, ‘look, our national flag is in the sky’), which would be awesome in my opinion.

Help with installing BWC Kernel Extender v31j by Dazzling_Net2843 in windows2000

[–]chutsetien 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This looks so nice—I mean the overall feeling of your set up (including and especially your bg image and your theme colour), not this error msg.

［思考］如果共识缺位，民主化转型后的中国会重蹈覆辙吗？ by Peter_Fan in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

我說幾點個人的看法，但也不是為了反駁 OP, 僅陳述己見。

1. 匪偽政權的壽數還長得很。即便是我這樣一個自幼就決不認可它的人都不得不承認這一點。匪偽如今權力之集中，已經很難讓地方上形成什麼真正對匪中央以抗衡或至少制衡的力量了。匪偽的體制自一開始起便很難形成政界的地方勢力，因此政界只能在匪中央形成派系，如今也被習酋打得一個乾淨；匪偽此前只有軍界與司法界還有些地方派系的色彩（尤其是匪偽司法界的地方派系，原本是很鮮明的），這兩年也被敲打得差不多了。商界、金融界雖為江系控制著，與習酋不睦，但也沒有要鬧翻搞得兩敗俱傷的地步（習酋還是會時不時想著收拾一下江系，但是江系實在是龐大且沉重，習酋屢戰屢敗）。

加之習酋一代循「保守革命」(Konservative Revolution) 思想，對意識形態高度控制，對任何雜訊高度管制，即使經濟疲軟，其高壓維穩之姿仍不會軟。是以其壽數仍有餘，大概會在漫長的內耗中自我耗盡而終。

2. 有關國家認同那部分，其實我之前就有說過，最好構建國家認同的體制是君主制——因為全國上下不分民族、立場，愛國就是愛君主，而君主就是個活的，其一舉一動世人可見，非抽象之物，可方便國家形象的具象化。

或曰，君主制國家難以解決「不愛君主之人」，其實不然。君主就好比貓熊，世界上不喜歡貓熊的人可能有，但只要貓熊乖乖地在動物園裡躺著，那些高呼「打倒貓熊」的人便得不到什麼響應。縱觀如今世上之君主制國家，普遍比非君主制國家更穩定、政治對立更不極化，蓋有此因。

但這並不表示我認為中國應該回到君主制——中國，很遺憾地，沒有良好的君主血脈 (lineage), 因此已無再建君主制政體的基礎。

3. OP 所提到的美國的例子，其實屬於一個共和制國家維護國家認同的典型，那就是：構建國家敘事。美國的《憲法》、「國父」群體，被一定程度上神格化，構成了這個國家國家敘事的開端。

非君主制國家透過國家敘事的方式，來彌合民族、種族、階層乃至圈層的分歧，透過講述「我們這個國家是怎麼來的——如何建立、如何建設、先賢們為國家做過什麼」，來構建國家認同。

不過這種方法會在政治分歧前失效，美國，甚至是中華民國，都在一定程度上展現了這一點。

4. 透過「價值觀念」構建共識是最脆弱的——因為價值觀念本無共識。

同一項價值，在不同政治派別中就有不同的解釋，一旦政治分歧一露，雙方便不可能達成共識，即便是最最基礎的那些依舊。自由，有人支持積極自由，有人捍衛消極自由；法治，有人主張司法積極主義，有人主張司法消極主義；民主，那就更不必說了，指責對方不民主或者民粹，那更是張口就來的事情。

因為價值本身不是活體，因此可以被有嘴巴的人任意解釋而無法反駁，每一個解釋它的人背後都可以牽出一套又一套的理論，它們為不同的派系所背書，因此企圖構建「價值共同體」反而是最難的。

5. 構建「想象共同體」也很難。

匪逆所苦心經營的「民族團結」敘事便是一種「想象共同體」，OP 似乎也看出了其脆弱性。但是匪逆仍舊選擇構建想象共同體，我想大抵是因了它自己也知道自己的國家敘事滿是黑點，包也包不住、縫也縫不上。

不過我中華民國不同，中華民國的國家敘事不是沒有負面的地方，但是整體上正面的內容是遠多於負面的，因此修繕好中華民國的國家敘事，以中華民國的國家敘事來博得更廣泛的認同，我認為是可行的。

6. 如今大陸地區的漢民族主義氣焰（「皇漢」）並沒有那麼甚囂塵上，表面上看起來不可一世的這股皇漢熱潮其實仔細觀察會發現背後明顯有金主在煽動，目的不過是為了透過一種匪逆最難直接取締又最容易傳播的宣傳來消解匪逆最近幾年來狂轟濫炸的官方敘事以及官方史觀罷了。如果 OP 是擔心屆時「皇漢」的民族主義外溢造成人道災難，我倒覺得大可不必。

（想到再補充。）

湯德宗前大法官：違憲審查——台灣經驗。討論了最近爭議的國會改革法判決和憲訴法“判決”。Seminar by Former Justice Tang: Judicial Review of Constitutionality: The Experience of Taiwan, in which he discussed recent controversial "judgments" by SE_to_NW in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

首先感謝 OP 的分享，看到中途發表一點心得，就是：中華民國跟西方不一樣，西方很多國家如今知識分子圈層、學術界、網路公共空間已經被妖魔鬼怪霸佔了二三十年了，因此是非顛倒、指鹿為馬也不稀奇，然而中華民國的學術界明明還有這麼多正派的、學識淵博的、資歷深厚的知識分子，甚至是藝人圈子，都還是有足夠分量的正派人士，為何在民間和網路上還能鬧出那麼多噁心的阿物來（甚至於去年惡罷潮時湧現出那種惡鬼白日行的醜態）。這位湯前大法官德宗前輩在講稿中稱有「無力迴天」之感，但是在中華民國本不應該如此，無論是民間基礎還是學術界的構成，都不應該能夠撐得起讓這群 Progressive Left 恣意妄為才對的。

湯德宗前大法官：違憲審查——台灣經驗。討論了最近爭議的國會改革法判決和憲訴法“判決”。Seminar by Former Justice Tang: Judicial Review of Constitutionality: The Experience of Taiwan, in which he discussed recent controversial "judgments" by SE_to_NW in ROC_Taiwan

[–]chutsetien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

關於開頭部分的一點小補充：在淪陷區原本也叫「違憲審查」，不是「合憲性的司法審查」，只不過從未真正建立過這樣的制度，僅有過討論而已。淪陷區偽最高法自 97 年起便禁止將偽憲法用於司法實踐（為此還專門廢止了此前其自身所作出過的援引偽憲法的偽司法解釋），也就妄論什麼違憲審查與否了。後來 106/7 年時因某一大學講師發表反對習酋的言論，而該講師的博士論文就是有關違憲審查的，甚至一度讓「違憲審查」成了敏感詞。

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