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Based. Why only try one thing when you can do both.

Voting as harm reduction so literal facists don’t get elected and pushing for revolution through more grassroots means.

Xi Jinping 🤝 Putin

Kidnapping people into “camps” to wipe away their culture and indoctrinate them.

It’s funny though, because despite some leftover socialist aesthetic its hard to get more capitalist. I mean it’s pretty obvious state capitalism. You can’t have billionaires 80 years into your “socialist project”.

There’s no US military stationed in Taiwan. The closest US bases are in Okinawa and the Philippines.

The only “military” the US has in Taiwan are some training consultants for the taiwan army, there’s no boots on the ground.

What’s so sad about Hong Kong is I know we’re probably all going to watch this go down again in Taiwan.

Don’t forget https://quiblr.com/

which I think is the only one that has a true algorithm.

happy cake day!

What, centralisation has the opposite effect. It makes things worse. Imagine lemmy.world shutting down (the biggest instance), lemmy would be fucked.

Decentralisation is to be encouraged. So if an instance shuts down, it’s not the end of the world.

Like how basically all lemm.ee communities were migrated.

That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.

Yup, things like temperature, humidity, and atmospheric makeup can change quite a bit depending on geological periods.

There’s a bit of an evolutionary necessity to adapt on those timescales.

But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.

Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.

And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.

But

• Who decides who is the experts?
• Who gets the opportunity to become an expert?
• What are the experts taught at school?
• Who picks the experts?

All this is political.

What you’re describing is technocracy. And it has major limitations.