Taiwan is not for sale, and neither is it part of China, said Taiwan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, in a rebuke to Elon Musk.
Besides, insofar the comparison with Hawaii is accurate, it would be an argument for the independence of Hawaii not against the independence of Taiwan.
The Hawaii comparison make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
integral part of China.
How integral can Taiwan be to China if Taiwan has not been functioning as a part of China for a fucking long time?
Not very integral at all.
Talk about Double Speak
It also “arbitrarily” has its own currency, government, military, flag, infrastructure, foreign policy, trade deals, etc.
And anybody who knows the history of Taiwan and doesn’t perceive it to be an independent nation is willfully ignorant.
“Slams” equates to low effort shitposting, even by the likes of NBC. As a business bootlicker CNBC is no stranger to clickbait…
Alternatives to the word “Slam(s)” include: animadversion, aspersion, jab, obloquy, potshot, slap, slur, stricture, and swipe
Seems character count is apparently expensive even in bit format as a digital character.
@stopthatgirl7, I appreciate the downvote, however I’d like to add that this contributes to the conversation and the trend of using the word “slam” in every article that poses a reactionary comment by someone, or an entity against something another someone or entity officially says.
It’s apparent that it’s low effort in the attempt to generate clicks. Quite frankly, I agree with Taiwan’s comments against Elon “I open my mouth garbage spews forth” Musk. I just don’t agree with the headline.
Dude, look at the comments already talking about slam in headlines instead of rehashing it.
downvoting soley because of using “slam” in the headline. That shit needs to stop
Guess what, I can’t do anything about that. That’s literally the article’s headline. Feel free to go to the article itself and comment against “slams” there, where it might actually do something.
oh, I believe you. not intended to be directed at you specifically.
Not using news sites that use these headlines might be an alternative
This was the only site that specifically mentioned the “Not for sale” part in the headline. And NBC is a pretty big news source, so I’m not going to ignore it just because some folks get a bug up their butts over an overused word.
And I’ve had people yell at me on here for using “clickbait” headlines and tell me to change the headlines to be less “clickbaity” when they didn’t even read the article in the first place and changing titles to not match the headline is against a lot of news comm/magazine rules.
You’re 100% right for not changing the headlines. Thanks for sharing the article.
again, nothing against you posting it. And the fact that it’s a big site doesn’t matter one bit. It’s still a shit headline
If ur using a client on mobile it will most likely have word blacklist options
Words like “slam” drive engagement. Journalists have to pay their bills, and journalistic institutions can only really get money from advertisement or from wealthy patrons who bankroll them as a way of spreading their ideology. For both, engagement and clicks are absolutely vital - advertisers need traffic so people see and click their adverts, ideologues need traffic so people see and internalise their ideology.
If you don’t like clickbait headlines, get involved with anti-capitalist direct action!