Yet he still managed to overturn Roe, stack the scotus and thousands of judgeships for a generation, and sabotage countless government agencies which has been a nightmare for our rights, environment, and the rule of law. We’re still feeling the repercussions and this time is shaping up to be an order of magnitude worse.
Yet still VASTLY cheaper than Grainger.
Solar panels are incredibly thin and light. There is no reason not to include them.
I saw old women with straw brooms sweeping the side of the (active) freeway.
Nobody gives a flying fuck about campaign finance laws with this supreme court.
My impression is informed primarily by visiting several small and medium sized businesses across China. What I saw in these industrial regions was an incredibly widespread entrepreneurial spirit. Everyone wanted to get ahead and have their own business. When the money gets really big, I don’t have direct experience, but it stands to reason the autocracy takes control. Greedy pieces of shit who Elon it up like Jack Ma find this out when they get too big for their britches.
As I’m sure you’re aware, many democracies around the world are largely performative (see e.g. USA) and based on fear, lies, and social engineering. Nothing and nobody in the world could honestly achieve a 90 percent favorability rating, and having observed thousands of workers in China I cannot believe such a number.
The most obvious flaw in your narrative is the assertion that China maintains a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is patently false. China is an autocracy of the party elite, with one man at the top. A dictatorship of a dictator. The fact there may be high level power games and intrigue among the upper echelon doesn’t significantly change this. It doesn’t matter that Xi happens to be the dictator du jour.
What this means for day-to-day life of the citizenry is something very divorced from socialism or communism. There are some elements of safety net and job placement, but just beneath that is a hyper-capitalist libertarian hellscape punctuated by fearful, feigned, and forced reverence of the party. As long as businesses play along and grease the right wheels the exploitative accumulation of wealth is sanctioned and encouraged.
My theory is that men evolved much higher grip strength due to incessant masturbation.
But they’re Sooo cool!
The US MIC doesn’t give a fuck because the DOD will never pay a reasonable price for anything, ever.
LLMs: using statistics to generate reasonable-sounding wrong answers from bad data.
Tens of thousands of innocents dead? Uh… No. I would think there were far more effective methods that should have been used.
Every Logitech mouse I’ve owned has failed mechanically.
Of course most don’t actually even believe it, that’s just the pitch to get that VC juice. It’s basically fraud all the way down.