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The lie made into the rule of the world - Ezekiel 23:20

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that do not engage with politics in China

There's no such thing. A person nor company can unilaterally decide "not to engage with politics", as politics engages with them in thousands of ways. The best they can do is self-censorship, which, even when successfull, is in itself a form of political engagement.

which one is the dictatorship?

False dichotomy 🙄

We need them more than ever now that the US has decided to go full mask off.

Who's "we" in this case? And why would they "need" someone now, because of stuff in the US?

I wonder if complex numbers predate the discovery of electromagnetism

Man I love a good stick so rare these days

Further, the guy above goes "look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!"

I think you're the only one reading it that way. The rest of us understand that it happens within a context of an autoritarian regime.

which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government

Independent untill the party decides they're not independent. (Eg).

the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

Nobody of right mind takes this at face value. This isn't a pro wrestling heavyweight championship belt, with Jinping suplexing the Hong Kong protestors.

It's obviously as head of an autoritarian communist regime, using corona measures and a militarized police to suppress people for the extravagant act of desiring freedom from the CCP.

In a hierarchical society, those on top will use any existing govt structures to their benefit

That's exactly why there's separation of power! The idea being that executive, legislative and judiciary are of equal power. One can block or strenghten the behaviour of the other on an independant, case-by-case basis. Those properties should, imo be strenghtened, not weakened.

people affected by a decision should be the ones to make it, not merely to vote for those who promise to do right by them.

Samesees. My utopia would be liquid democracy.

But even here, there would be law! It's a necessary good, to combat arbitrary prosecution, imo.

Oui, papa a fait une blague

Would you say we'd be better off by merging executive and judiciary, doing away with legislative?

Yes! Same with trains:

• Can't even drive on roads: they have to have their private infrastructure no one else is allowed to use.
• Can't drive around even the smallest of problems.
• Tremendous noise and environment pollution, blasting entire mountain sides, destroying habitats, just cause a train isn't nimble.
• Very dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists, wildlife. Breaking distance is ridiculously long.
• Extremely inefficient, as they usually only get goods and people halfway where they need to be.
• Often are diesel gusslers

I think about it quite similar to you. I'd even go a bit further: shortsighted and bad laws are the biggest source of problems.

Often the kind of law that a populist gains popularity/notoriety through.

Plenty of examples where both public and executive and legislative would've deemed certain behaviour problematic, yet the perpetrator, of marginal power, walks free.

I'd say the law also gives power to the marginalized, when the judicial behaves independently, as they should.

I agree with you there are perversions to this ideal, such as elected judges, plea bargains.

Caveat emptor

Nice 🤜

Infinite library cards!

There's never been a time where the world was conflict free, and people merrily skidoodled around.

Happyness is as much internal, as it is influenced by your environment. It takes both. And the relationship is bi-directional.

Blaming the latter for the first, is a dead end.

I don't have an account on other social media.

Once in a while I do searches like "alternative to X site:reddit.com" for software, movie recommendations, etc. So I do use it, just don't participate. Mostly because it's designed to breed hate and distrust.

I am lucky enough that there's a lot of bats already.

I worry about poison, because I fear it might kill other insects, too. The place is one of the only places I know of that still has fireflies for example.

Thanks for letting me know not to bother with the ultrasonic gadgets and other gizmos.

That sounds too good to be true.

You're right! Climate zone is cfb. The place is shaded by trees.

Wintering indoors is sadly not possible, as there's no climate controlled indoors nearby.

Thanks

Birds of a feather flock together