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Lmao you think there were governments when early humans were wandering around the plains of Africa in tiny little tribes?

E: Downvote all you want but by the definitions being proposed here then all species have governments because they snatch food from one another, which is an immensely asinine description of 'government' since it describes and means effectively NOTHING

I wear one every day with only a few exceptions (lab work for university where it’s impractical and I’m only around a few people anyway). I have seen the effects of long Covid on my loved ones, and i want nothing to do with that. Still haven’t caught COVID this far in, and while I think my vaccinations have been effective it makes me uncomfortable that we aren’t continuing to boost and that most people haven’t had a fresh vaccine in a few years at this point. Waning efficacy is a real thing and many never got boosted at all

Until one of them starts to actually advocate for these policies i see no point in deluding ourselves into thinking voting blue will make any difference when they literally do not push for universal healthcare

China's approach towards foreign policy in the modern day is strict non-interventionism and win-win cooperation, which includes working with unsavory governments. They want to establish allies and trading partners to build their belt and road initiative which undermines old imperialist economic structures. While China is doing something progressive here, they have chosen to strictly respect international law wherever possible while constructing this project to prevent any imperialist powers from finding an excuse to sanction them/wage war/etc. This is why they end up working with reactionary governments, to build partnerships which allow them to create a successful and wide-ranging alternative system of international trade which undermines the old economic order to create the conditions for a less exploitative, mutually beneficial world.

While this model is less directly revolutionary than that of the USSR, which aided revolutionaries abroad quite directly, it is still a form of mutual aid to the existing revolutions and provides greater flexibility for the imperial periphery to seek independent economic policy without as great of a threat of sanction or invasion. China is doing everything it can to prevent the isolation and proxy wars that the Soviets and their allies faced during the first Cold War, but still supporting AES countries with their trade deals and infrastructure aid projects etc

Sorry if this is a roundabout way of answering your question but I think addressing the roots of these sorts of relationships is more important than this particular instance, because it also explains China's actions in other nations such as the Phillipines

Most of those with a D next to their name are fighting just as hard against universal healthcare while collecting campaign donations from pharmaceutical companies anyway. Both parties are rotten servants to the capitalist class

Google pay might work to look at your cards or something, but if you try to pay for something with your phone you’ll find that the tap-to-pay is disabled because of Google’s safety net bs.

Disgusting imperialist provocation

E: Downvote me all you want bootlickers, it doesn’t make it any less true

Flatpak is fantastic. I think containerization is definitely the future of Linux app distribution, because the security and portability are so much better than native packages. Flatpak is the best implementation of this concept IMO, because it has a robust permission management system, is completely open unlike snap, and is performant with fast load times, solid deduplication of dependencies, and no garbage loopback devices