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The fundamental fallacy of antiauthoritarian movements is that power structures and authority end up being created organically without any checks and balances. Charismatic individuals gravitate towards positions of power and create implicit authority. It's much better to build power structures consciously and ensure that clear checks and balances exist up front. In the same way that privatized water projects don’t prioritize water conservation, P3 projects aren’t going to make the investments needed to limit emissions or guarantee projects are climate resilient. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/privatization-is-a-climate-killer @yogthos I remember reading that the black book of communism listed every "unnatural" death as a "victim". Including things like infection, before penicillin was popularised. And infections in Gulag inmates was seen as essentially executions, again, before there was wide availability of broad spectrum and gram negative antibiotics. So, like, then literally every country in that era had piles of "victims", and literally every prison was a death camp according to the black book. China puts out ‘most detailed’ map of the moon’s surface https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3181256/china-puts-moons-surface-most-detailed-map-yet Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrates a prototype proton accelerator that can to recycle spent nuclear fuel, making reactors cheaper and less dangerous. The Unjustified Criticism of High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s Visit To China https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/13/the-unjustified-criticism-of-high-commissioner-michelle-bachelets-visit-to-china/ Report reveals how US spy agencies stole 97b global internet data, 124b phone records in just 30 days https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268024.shtml China's economic numbers come in better than expected. Turns out that not only does zero covid policy save millions of lives, but it's also good for the economy. Who knew that not having large portions of your workforce debilitated is a good thing. 🙃 @yogthos True, but the country that wants to implement Zero Covid will need to have total control over its citizen’s movement. China can do it in cities by literally turning off every electronic payment system. If you can’t even buy a bus ticket and there are enough street corner checkpoints, you’ll stay at home. Pope Francis has said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was “perhaps somehow provoked” as he recalled a conversation in the run-up to the war in which he was warned Nato was “barking at the gates of Russia”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/pope-francis-ukraine-war-provoked-russian-troops |