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Ah, yes. "When life gives you lemons, get a superpower on another continent to subsidize you to diversify your lemonaid production to within their borders."


It would be fascinating to get a glimpse of US scenario planning around an invasion.

I assume one of them is “provide enough support to make China bleed heavily, remove anything of value, but don’t start WW3”


How do you start WW3 when China is the (hypothetical) aggressor? It's not possible.


You support Taiwan, not just with weapons, but also with shooting at China's invasion force. China of course shoots back. One side or the other loses that encounter and decides to escalate rather than backing down. If that continues, yes, you and China can jointly start WW3.


So you are saying China started WW3 by attacking Taiwan?


How do you think WW1 and WW2 started?


So China is the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this scenario, initiating WWI or Axis Powers NAZI Germany and imperial Japan?


You have a long history of posting flamebait to HN. I've been asking you to stop it for years, and it's getting old. Surely you know the site guidelines by now? If you keep breaking them, we are going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625160 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29655736 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29569298 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547334 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477147 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272727 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072367 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19936285 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103742 (Jan 2018)


That really wasn't intended to be flamebait. It was intended to be a funny twist on "when life gives you lemons" combined with what TSMC is doing, building a fab in the US.

And I honestly don't see how you're taking it as being flamebait. Could you point out why it comes across that way? (It's been flagged, so I assume that you weren't the only one who read it that way...)

You rate-limited me, and bumping against that from time to time has been a good reminder to not flame people. I have been trying to watch both my words and my attitude when posting. As I said, I wasn't trying for flamebait here - more for a bit of a joke. (Yeah, I know, I know, guidelines on that too...)


Ok, I'll take your word for it that I misread you. Sorry!

It read like politically charged snark to me. The thing is, I can pretty well guarantee you that if one of us is taking it that way, probably lots of us are.

The cure for such misunderstanding is to add enough information to disambiguate your intent (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).


Well, humor... sometimes it fails, especially over the internet. I wasn't thinking of how it could be misinterpreted.

Thanks for listening!




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