Having access to information about who voted on a post would allow people to locate brigading1 efforts and detect bots spamming down/upvotes on posts. Currently, only admins can access this information, which makes it harder for users to report such behaviour to them.
Or provide the empire controlling most of the bots, extra ammunition to have AI determine a social credit score for everyone. Winner gets a free trip to El Salvador.
Whatever sensible conditions to prevent people from owning firearms, should apply to even more deadly weapon. They should still be able to have access to a motorcycle, or the vehicle class that is Citroen Ami, which is a 25mph maximum speed car classified as somewhat close to a bicycle. License still needed, but 14 year olds can access.
They are saying that attacker has mental health issues. He may not hate Philippinos specifically, but hating people in general is apparently not terrorism.
No. Just that where gun licensing/purchase criteria apply to cars and/or SUVs.
The point about charges is fair. Custody is more important than the process/speed of listing all charges. I’m just not liking the setup for an insanity defense
Gas chambers come after “we can’t afford a bullet for everyone we want disenfranchised from interference of fascism (or tourists accused of trading housework for lodging) without due process”
Containers as cheap home starting points in US is also a function of this dynamic. No need to ship empty ones back to Asia.
It should for Europe and others. Also good news for less drilling, and more US energy failures, more renewables.
I mentioned UBI/Freedom dividends. The right/obviousness of that is that all citizens have an equal share in nations revenue/taxes. No nation is at that level of freedom yet. The next best thing is not corrupting nation’s resources for oligarchist/corruption power maximalism, and governing for shared prosperity. Corporations also often have a management bias in arguing that investing in growth is better than a dividend. While they can be right, even in hindsight, and so the mildest corruption, it is always less corrupt to pay dividend, and let the shareholders reinvest that dividend if they want for greater promised returns from the corporation.
China does a fair job in distributing investment across regions, with overweight on its less developed provinces. It doesn’t meet my perfection ideal. Corrupt supporters of US empire cannot justifiably criticize it as worse than their clear corruption.
Many key European rulers are US loyal/agents, as demonstrated by Ukraine war support, and tolerance for extortion/infrastructure terrorism by Biden administration. Subjugating their people to US rule is the goal of some of these rulers.
OTOH,
The free (independent and unsubjugated) world is far better off economically to stay free, or join the free side. Trade with China is already a bigger partner than US for most countries in the world. Canada and Mexico are somewhat forced to anchor themselves to a sinking US ship, but Europe must resist a US enemy, and benefit from economic destruction of US, where its capital can then buy the ashes cheaply. Far more to gain from closer Asian cooperation, and participation in China led development of global south.
The worst repercussion of locking into a slaved vs free world is it significantly increases risk of war, and of civilization ending war.
Like I said, the state behaves like a capitalist.
Communism doesn’t get rid of property ownership. Communal ownership is still property ownership, including the right to sell/rent to private/outside interests.
The right framework for judging an econo-governance is the level of oligarchy, capital, corporate supremacy/power maximalism in the rulership/policies. Corporate/Capital vs Labour power is a primary political axis, but fights among supremacist forces makes democracy automatically corrupt.
UBI/freedom dividends provides a market based power equality between capital and labour, and always ultimate solution. But countries that are able to control oligarchist/CIA excess will continue to do better than those who can’t. We/our media labels them authoritarian for resisting evil.
$102B trade surplus in March. $279B in first quarter. 1/4 of exports to US. Less than each of ASEAN and EU.
42% growth in solar over last march. Many other key sectors high growth too. https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202504/10/content_WS67f7315cc6d0868f4e8f192b.html
Someone got fired for unauthorized leak today. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-850238
I’m only aware of 30% tariffs on Chinese steel in Brazil, which is same mistake any manufacturing country can make. This was under Biden. They are unpopular, and Brazil still does significant trade with China.
Lots of comments that “this is a false distraction to justify war on Panama”. War on Panama is about interdicting Chinese commerce with Brazil and other countries south of US. Including FDI in Panama to boost its cross ocean trade volume through a railway.
This is more of a classified leak exposing US weakness and impotence. This does compromise stupid people’s faith in US protections across the world, and their rulers corrupt submission to US under propaganda of US protection.
Vietnam GDP doubled from 2008 to 2013, and doubled again by 2023. It has no debt. FDI has grown just as fast, and dominated by Asian countries. It imports twice what it exports from/to China, and its Chinese imports match its US exports. Exports are almost equal to GDP (though imports almost as high, and close to net 0 effect on GDP).
Like all neighbour countries, their best options for prosperity is close ties with “anchor neighbour”. Only corruption could cause it to become Ukraine/Philippines-like thorn in Asia.
Of the deal discussion in OP, it looks like Boeing will get shut out of Vietnam.
It is a ridiculous premise that most people are highly motivated to vote at all. Certainly, passports are a high income trait, and birth certificate preservation, a stable organized family trait. The real GOP bias is allowing drivers licenses as sufficient ID. Rural people need them. Urban, not so much.
Dangerous times that could lead to war. Philippines or South/Central America.
I don’t know China to be corrupt.
Oligarchist corruption specifically privatizes profits for social losses. Destroying/diminishing country is a sacrifice they are willing to make. But sure, bribery for foreign imperialist privatization is just as bad.
Last Taiwan election had US hawk oligarchist President elected, but Parliament majority was won by the sensible survivalist party. To help start a war, there is a proposal for McCarthyist military tribunal system where, like recent ROK martial law, “do you now, or have you ever, considered war to not provide a path to glorious happiness?” in order to jail anyone blocking war, and measures that would force China to intervene.