• blobjim [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I like how they have a giant picture of a white South African guy in Taiwan half way down the article.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      'Any enemy coming here will have to consider that they won’t just be up against defence forces. They will be up against the Taiwanese people.' Tobie Openshaw [another white guy] talks on a radio from a spot in the mountains overlooking Taipei

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      “I will hold out in Taiwan for as long as I can and support and help as much as I can because this place has been better to me than my home country has,” Openshaw tells Al Jazeera from his car in the mountains overlooking Taipei.

      He has decades of emergency preparedness experience going back to his two-year national service in South Africa in the 1980s, and he regularly gives talks about the topic around Taiwan.

      hmmm

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        I didn't even skim it thoroughly enough to see that part, thank you for your service 07