The two grand themes of my twitter crossed today when. I asked my Tinder date about his time during the national service here in Taiwan and how he thinks he'll fare in an invasion: (thread)
"Well, if they call us up, I guess I'll go and be killed very quickly. The problem is, the training in the army isn't the best. There's a lot of moving things back and forth and weeding. And that with me being a paratrooper."
"I don't think I would be able to shoot very straight. I only got to shoot a gun with ammo once. We did do a lot of pull-ups though. Still, I wouldn't run. I'll just show up to get killed I guess."
"Increase the defense spending? I would reduce it to zero. What's the point? Anyhow. The Chinese ppl I play video games with never talk about politics. I think all the wumaos aren't even in China."
This is pretty shocking. The national service is 14 months and this guy was a paratrooper, so "elite". If he was weeding all day I don't know what other were doing. (/thread)
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