[js2]

> It takes an unusual and frankly relatively rare amount of independent thought and personal research to believe something at odds with a reality that your entire social network accepts as obvious fact.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

[guai888]

I would like to point out that, Taiwanese people paid a heavy price to break KMT's stranglehold on Taiwan. The price that we paid is the blood of the innocent. Let me give you an example: One of the democrative movement leader Lin Yi-hsiung's mother and daughter were killed under suspicious circumstance while he was imprisoned. The KMT authority said it was a robbery went wrong and the killer was never caught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yi-hsiung. There were many cases like that under KMT's martial law rule. People in China will also has to pay blood price in order to break free of CCP. We have already hearing story that CCP is assassinating people in Hong Kong right now to put down current unrest in Hong Kong. Please remember, authoritarian regimes kill. The lucky one like Jamal Khashoggi got killed without torture. The unlucky one like Lin Yi-hsiung has to live with the pain that his mother and daughters died because of him.

[60325throw]

> Please remember, authoritarian regimes kill.

Exactly. Heck, even non authoritarian regimes will drone strike people if they get in their way.