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I should have disengaged as soon as you spewed out that abhorrent take on Palestine, but you people are always a fountain of otherwise entertaining word salad. Re-read my comment - I never said the CPC was a state, I said the CPC's state (i.e. the PRC). Note the possessive. All states are ultumately bullshit, even the hypercapitalist dystopia you're slobbering over. It's all arbitrary and the only thing that really matters is what the people on the ground want. In the case of Palestine, it's unequivocally NOT to be a part of Israel. For the Taiwanese, >90% do NOT want to join the mainland. It's only authoritarian imperialists like you and Likud who still choose to impose their will on others despite their most vehement refusals.
I'm going to assume you're just trolling at this point, because this is a bald-faced lie even by tankie standards. Not only is this obviously false if we consider Taiwan a de facto state as most western countries do, several other countries even still support Taiwan's claim over the mainland (which is absurd, but that's another story)
You should have disengaged the second the dissonance in your brain kicked in — now you are the one with the desperate word salad. Take the L, work on your ego and your ideological bias.
TFW bias is when I consistently apply the belief that everybody should have agency rather than lick the boots of totalitarians
How is the historically accurate take on Palestine abhorrent? The racist white supremacist empires did not and most still have not acknowledged Palestinian statehood. That's a fact. They should be recognized as a state, but my saying so doesn't make it true. Is that what's abhorrent to you? That I don't insist that morality supervene on reality? I never said Palestine should be part of Israel nor did I say Palestinians should become Israeli citizens. Like, what do you think I said that was confusing to you that you are accusing me of positions diametrically opposed to my actual position on Palestine?
If you think it's a bald-faced lie that Taiwan has never been a nation-state, never claimed to be a nation-state, and never been recognized as a nation-state, then source your claim. Of COUSE people recognized the KMT as the legitimate government of China (not the mainland, China. Again with the category error.) The KMT laid claim to being the legitimate government of the state of China, which includes Taiwan as a province, and many nations supported this claim. Eventually most nations changed their official stance and instead recognized the CPC as the legitimate government of China (the nation-state, not just the land, but the legal entity known as the nation-state of China).
Again, if you think that's wrong, go find me sources of either Taiwan claiming to be a nation-state that is not China or find me examples of other governments official recognizing that Taiwan is a separate nation-state from China. I can wait.