I agree - Taiwanese posters from a purely Taiwanese background may need their own forum. I suspect PTT-style board culture might not be compatible with rules and expected behaviors on other forums.

Since I think I'm related to two of these three things you are criticizing, let me speak a little bit about each in turn:

(1): Frankly, it shocked me that Gossiping immediately jumped to me being a political saboteur.

Am I completely free of political motives? No, I told you all I'm green right at the start.

Was I paid? I wish! An actual translation project like this might cost thousands of NTD, nevermind the political sabotaging part.

I was not trying to make it part of the neverending struggle between DPP and KMT. Honestly, it is far more revealing wrt Gossipers than I, that people immediately used this as ammo for their spats within that board.

I actually agree that it's disappointing people immediately jumped to "kmt bad, dpp good" (or, for large parts of Gossiping, "dpp bad"). I intended to start a discussion on what I think are real problems facing Taiwanese society. I am not saying every Taiwanese man is a rapist or potential rapist or anything of that sort (I would be calling myself a rapist, in fact), but I think the matter merits some discussion, a bit more than people saying "ah, well, it's Gossiping! What can you expect?"

Also, that you felt necessary to call it a post about "政治正確", "壘西斯" (a very cute name!) and "安怎安怎" makes me feel you are not taking it seriously, already a priori dismissing it as mad rant from those "SJW" Gossiping and many PTTers in general loath so much.

Yes, I've often voted green, but I don't feel 1) that should prevent serious civil discussion or 2) that means I'm a paid shill shouting praise of the party every second of my life. You can't really talk with people if you just think that way.

(2): I actually agree with you on this. To be honest, that poster was probably a random redditor who just booed Pompeo's name on principle.

(3): Was there actually a post laughing at Chonglang TV here on r/Taiwan? I'd like a link if there is (I'm not sarcastic). At any rate, I posted on the megathread on r/China, and I'll say here again what I said there: it is not "naive" to call them what they are - desperate, nihilistic people who embrace absurdist gallow humor that are almost always racist and sexist. You are saying Reddit banned it because it's paid by Tencent. Might be, but I'm saying they've been flauting Reddit rules since forever now, and not in a fun way. I'm not trying to downplay the threat facing dissidents in China (if we can call them that), but the ronin themselves will be the first to tell you they are disgusting people.

Again, I don't consider criticizing them to be laughing at them during their darkest hour or something, especially not when they'd readily agree with my criticisms. Besides, being a dissident against China doesn't grant you carte blanche to do and say everything, or we'd all long have embraced Falun Gong.

I'm really not sure why you consider all criticism, either against Taiwan or against the ronin, to be lap-dogging for the CCP to crush their freedoms. I support them (well, to some degree, wrt those people in ChonglangTV), I don't want to see them under Chinese boots, and I also think they can do better. I don't think there's any need to go all realpolitik and say "any criticism of these people endanger them! We must circle the wagon for the greater good! If you're not with us, you're against us!"

PS: I know most of us are Taiwanese here, and the absurdity of us speaking in English with each other hasn't escaped me. However, we're at least supposed to pretend to be inclusive, so like Rule 10 said a synopsis at least for your post would be nice.