Dragomus

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[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Yes Schadenfreude is a good thing in this case.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The CCP is no longer what it was decades ago, it has morphed itself into a weird amalgamation between communism and capitalism... and seeing how it can change itself without great upheaval shows it has a lasting strength that should not be underestimated.

It's current strategy is that of patience and time, slowly it will erode away resistant forces or laws in a territory it wants to incorporate.
For the ccp time is not a pressing factor in this period, nor are human lives and living years of their ruling populace.
They currently have what they need and what they covet is extra, there is nothing that they urgently require.

Likely the same strategy is playing out in Taiwan, already there is a big political party that wishes to tighten bonds with "the mainland", in 5-10 years time there will be a loud voice, created through years long whispers and propaganda, to join China directly as a state-aparte ... soon after, the merger will be completed and laws and freedoms will be eroded away until Taiwan is as much China as Hong Kong is now.

And, for now, it looks like the West will bow out, they will have build their own semiconductor facilities, both Europe and the US are already working on this.
Which causes Taiwan to have less value to keep under its wing at any cost.

Looking at Hong Kong, I don't think the CCP would ever allow it to go its own way again, it is as it is with Tibet...

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

I also see it as an honest matter of balance ... what they're budgettary short on from not receiving anymore from the government they must fill from own means that will be deducted from outgoing federal contributions.

For example Fema is to be dismantled and states need to make their own local disaster funds, meaning less budget to go to the federal government...

Ofcourse this will be a sour pill for the maga government and they'll use the SC to thwart it and enforce full payments to the federal government if they can get away with it.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe it's only done to blame others, if there'll be a democratic government in the next decade they'll point and jeer "Look at how many pandemic, medical and environmental deaths there are now, while under maga we had none!"

They'll also claim that under maga's light rules and regulations the economy did better, cheaper cars because they can "pollute" more, cheaper food because of less restrictions on added chemicals etc.

It's always been to shift responsibility for negative effects forward.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Next it will be a maximum allotment for tornadoes? If the count reaches 12 no more tornadoes are registered?

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

If they already claim for citizenship revokal now, one can imagine how bad it can get when there are actual elections coming ...

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"Wearables" but they forget to mention it's about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.

Ofcourse it's also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.

The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup ... and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, let me see if I get this straight:

Books are inherently an artificial construct. If I read the books I train the A(rtificially trained)Intelligence in my skull.
Therefore the concept of me getting them through "piracy" is null and void...

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Isn't it weird that it almost feels like Iran has a better functioning democratic system than the US does?

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

The keyword is rebellion...

But it is not really about current protests ... it is to have all lights on green when there actually IS a rebellion cooking so the response can be swift and far beyond proportions.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting how you see this, I am not Jewish, nor have any ties with Israel, I even have serious doubt towards Israel as it is today compared what it was meant to be in spirit.

The greed has always been there, and will be there, look at Trump and his bungalow park ... as has been the manipulation of the original tribes of the Palestinian lands, who went from small numbers to millions thanks to non indigenous people coming in, over just a few decades... None of whom came to settle there to live a happy life but had a different purpose.

But there needs to be a point where both sides' leaders have said enough, we cannot let ourselves progress by throwing us endlessly in an ever consuming fire.
And if the leadership was not willing the population should have.
From the Palestinian side this realization never came, sacrifice has become the goal. Nor could they come to terms with the fact that Israel will never go away no more.

From Israel's side there was still some minor terror and humans in general have an ugly spirit to attack "the other". But inside Gaza the Palestinians could mostly fend for themselves, and were given a lot of funds from international sources, but whatever was done with it it was not used to enrich the Palestinians.
It was better for them to have build a shiny beacon that would outshine Israel ...

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

He thinks by killing the Ayatollah it will all be over .... quite naive imo.

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