Average Yankistani politician
Whenever someone says "authoritarian," you can mentally substitute in "Anyone the West doesn't like, regardless of their actual poltics."
Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an "authoritarian populist" and the people are "brainwashed."
Hey while we're at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.
How did Chiang Kai-shek become president again?
Pretty sure it was because he ran a solid campaign and focused on the fundamentals
say what you will about mass killing your opponents, but a corpse cannot stand for election in the Republic of China
EXTREMELY NORMAL for a "democratic leader" to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors'
Sun Yat Sen still has a big one on the mainland, literally built on the same site as a bunch of old emperors. China's just kinda like that I guess.
He even resigned without much fuss to make compromise, but they guy he resigned for literally crowned himself.
Also Sun mausoleum was build in 1929, so by the very same party who build that one in Taiwan too.
SYS is worthy of being venerated though, the Xinhai revolution gets kinda dwarfed by the tumultuous events of the latter half the 20th century but all republican revolutions are really fucking cool and worthy of study.
in any case no mao statue, even that one is as large as that fucking eyesore lol
Ha, the irony that entrepreneurs built a statue of Mao only to be denied by the CCP.
Oh shit. I was there last month lmao I drank too much water before going and had to pee really bad the entire time
he was elected, tho
we need a LowTierChen emoji
