skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Feb 2021
@yogthos@mastodon.social
the people have no say in how their country is run and opposition is generally met by a sudden disappearance
social and economic stability can be gamed for decades - the low standard of living in China pre-CCP gives plenty of low hanging fruit, when this stops, will the CCP reform to become more responsive to the needs of their people?
where is Jack Ma?
skells
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Any decision maker not subject to democratic control will eventually act against the common good and in favor of their own advantage.
All decision makers need to be subject to strong, direct and universal democratic control. Otherwise they'll not act in the interest of the commons consistently.
We need more democratic society, economy and state.
@csddumi historically this requires an independent and politically active middle class with some leisure
@yogthos@mastodon.social I'm under no illusions about the state of late stage capitalism, particularly in America.
To state outright that the CCP represents the people is not bourne out by their lack of political expression.
Let's assume for sake of arguement that the CCP and the people's interests are well-enough aligned at the moment (forgetting certain authoritarian and genocidal proclivities for the moment...)
What do you do once the low-hanging fruit are plucked? Can the CCP adapt to that situation or will is simply lockdown any and all opposition?
If the Tongs have more power and influence under the hood then I'm willing to listen, but you can sweep a lot of bullshit under the rug when you're in charge of a regime such as the CCP.
skells
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
@vriska
> mainly I sell swords BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY SOME GWENT
dialogue dreamt up by the utterly deranged
@yogthos@mastodon.social lel
@yogthos@mastodon.social no the state apparatus does that
skells
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@skells @wolf480pl
Would you rather fight an army decked out in full clown attire, and lose, or would you rather BE an army decked out in full clown attired, and win?
if Britain was a person he would spend most of his life stumbling blindly from room to room struggling to get his jumper on while late
no one is as surprised as us that we are still here and for that we are very grateful
@wolf480pl @cjd if it's any consolation the thought process for Anglos are the same for 1-4 except we win at the end
@wolf480pl @cjd they Anglos now
"why do we sell bitcoin, Master Wayne?"
@yogthos@mastodon.social China solves this, right?
skells
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school is really good at teaching you to dread things you could probably enjoy learning if you were genuinely curious about them
> there's nothing new in the market
> VAULTS FILLED WITH GOLD HAVE BEEN A STAPLE OF ECONOMIC LIFE SINCE THE UNIVERSE GAVE BIRTH TO THE STARS
skells
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Finished a jar of Aldi instant coffee today.
It's a glass jar with a plastic lid, which should last decades. So naturally I'm going to give it to some lads who'll crush it into tiny pieces, melt it down in a big oven and pour it into a mould to make a whole new jar.
That makes WAY more sense than just putting more coffee in the jar.
skells
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https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-very-concerning-data-from-scotland?s=09
"Full stop right here. Any public policy measure – from vaccine passports to discrimination – cannot be justified under the science, even if one’s conscience is OK with apartheid."
The #1 reason why they're pushing so hard to get everyone to get vaxxed is probably to make data like this go away by getting rid of the control group.
Joined Feb 2021
