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I don\u2019t really have much to say about the situation in Taiwan, or have any inkling of an idea of how coronavirus response has been.\u00a0 <\/span>But when my friends showed me this story<\/span><\/a>, the photo alone was most definitely worth a thousand words.<\/span><\/p>\n I guess there\u2019s some nationalist party out in Taiwan who is less than satisfied with how the democratic party of the country has been handling the coronavirus, so they felt that their only appropriate course of action at this point, was to start a melee in the courtroom.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, there\u2019s all sorts of pacifist belief that violence doesn\u2019t solve anything, and I could make all sorts of smarmy jokes about the level of civility that exists coming out of Taiwan, but let\u2019s just skip to the part where one woman showed up to the courtroom, equipped in straight up MMA gloves.<\/span><\/p>\n Not only did she roll up to the courtroom ready to fight, she wanted optimal protection for her hands, so she could try and deliver haymakers without risking breaking any fingers or knuckles in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s almost as if there might be belief that Taiwanese law might be like Final Fight<\/i>, where defeating the opposing parties in hand-to-hand combat means your party takes over, no questions asked.\u00a0 <\/span>And those who show up ready to fight stand a better chance at possibly taking power, than those who didn\u2019t come to work with their own MMA gloves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t really have much to say about the situation in Taiwan, or have any inkling of an idea of how coronavirus response has been.\u00a0 But when my friends showed me this story, the photo alone was most definitely worth a thousand words. I guess there\u2019s some nationalist party out in Taiwan who is less … Continue reading \u201cReady to fight\u201d doesn\u2019t quite describe bringing MMA gloves to a courtroom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,194,45,53,83,19,49],"class_list":["post-48147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-coronavirus","tag-fail","tag-final-fight","tag-observations","tag-video-games","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48149,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147\/revisions\/48149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}