Taiwan Hit By Massive Quake

Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Rescue efforts are under way in Taiwan after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island's eastern coast, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800. This is the strongest quake to hit Taiwan in 25 years.

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Godzilla!

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-04-03 10:00 AM | Reply

Godzilla is a Japanese social commentary about the bombing of Hiroshima.
jusss sayin'

The Taiwanese are a different group of Asians. Tawain's relationship to the US in East Asia is akin to Israel's position in West Asia.

#2 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-04-03 10:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2 facts don't matter to WillyTheAgent.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-03 10:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is a warning to diversify the locations of high end economy dependent chip making.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-03 11:00 AM | Reply

Destruction is destruction is destruction.

BTW, Godzilla vs. King Kong was the #1 movie last week. They know no borders.

Those are facts.

#5 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-04-03 11:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-03 11:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is a warning to diversify the locations of high end economy dependent chip making. #4 | Posted by oneironaut

Exactly what China would like to see happen, so that the US has less motivation to defend Taiwan when China invades.

What an amazing coincidence, that OneIronTurd just happens to want what China wants.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2024-04-03 11:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

OneEgg has also stated that China's One Child policy's slaughtering of females was good because it effectively eliminates feminism.

OneEgg is a CCP stooge.

#8 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-04-03 11:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

BTW, Godzilla vs. King Kong was the #1 movie last week. They know no borders.
Those are facts.

#5 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT AT 2024-04-03 11:05 AM | REPLY | FLAG PFFFTTTTTT

Hah! You put me in my place sourcing an American imitation of a Japanese sci-fi classic... but I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Maybe the thingie you watched the imitation Japanese movie with came from Tawain so you are confused.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-04-03 11:41 AM | Reply

Your last sentence is confusing. One thing I could tell for sure from that post, not even an atomic bomb could obliterate your exorbitant waterbed financing payments.

#10 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-04-03 01:10 PM | Reply

"China's One Child policy's slaughtering of females was good because it effectively eliminates feminism."

I wonder if it's the same guy who was helping China find The Gay Gene, so they would know with gay fetuses need to be aborted.

Once they find that gene, Republicans will suddenly realize abortion is absolutely necessary.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-03 01:15 PM | Reply

"Godzilla is a Japanese social commentary about the bombing of Hiroshima.
jusss sayin'

It's more accurate to say it was. It evolved over time.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-04-03 02:50 PM | Reply

And if want to bring up the atomic bombing of Japan, then that opens the whole can of worms of Japan's vicious and brutal imperialism in East Asia and Oceania leading up to it.

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-04-03 02:53 PM | Reply

Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895 to 1945. Many of its inhabitants are descendants of Japanese.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-04-03 02:58 PM | Reply

I wonder if Vernon (of the infamous "Vernon's calculator") got All Shook Up by the earthquake?

Maybe it'll rattle some sanity into him, but I doubt it. He was too far gone ...

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-04-03 04:21 PM | Reply

Based on the landslides and collapsed buildings I've seen, the death toll will likely rise quite a bit.

#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-04-03 05:05 PM | Reply

"This is a warning to diversify the locations of high end economy dependent chip making.
#4 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT 2024-04-03 11:00 AM"

President Biden is way ahead on this. He signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law in August 2022 (nearly two years ago!) to minimize dependence upon Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing.

#17 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-04-04 12:05 AM | Reply

It's more accurate to say it was. It evolved over time.

#12 | POSTED BY SENTINEL AT 2024-04-03 02:50 PM | FLAG: MMHHMMMM

It sure did! The original Japanese made Kong v Godz when they were examining the business relationship with the US. A decades later they crushed our auto industry with reliable fully loaded (as standard equipment)vehicles you can drive for 300K.

The US played a HUGE part in implementing sterilization, aborting, and limiting the number of people born in Asia. We were (are) happy as clams at high tide to do it.
As far as feminism in China and the one-child rule... now males (globally) outnumber females... it sucks. The last time that happened in China during a famine they had a civil war that lasted 45 years... It will suck when that spills over. They have enough lonely males of fighting age to replace every US American.

Even though males are continuously creating gametes and females have only so many... you can't make more people without us.

For every female fetus killed the potential of 7 living persons die with her.

#18 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-04-04 11:41 AM | Reply