They put kids in age categories that can't talk to each other, completely ignoring the fact that kids of different ages want to interact. I know kids with several accounts now of different "age" depending on which of their friends wants to play Roblox with them today
Practically, this doesn't make a difference. It's all symbolic. And symbolically, I think this is all wrong. I want people to be able to go where they please, within a country but also between countries. Calling it illegal to exist in a place, when they have done no harm to anyone, is all kinds of fucked up to me.
I am very critical of it. It's authoritarian and can only lead to horrible dictatorships. This is because "the public is too dumb to decide what's good for them" is built into the ideology. You will end up with strongmen or party loyalists corrupting any good intentions there may have been in the beginning. They're going to enrich themselves and give themselves more power, every time.
New aristocracy, same as the old aristocracy
I'm going to stop here, give you the last word. Thanks!
You don't understand, diplomacy takes time and small steps. You can't take such a drastic measure in public or they will stop listening altogether. They are doing everything they can behind closed doors to drag this out as long as possible and wait it out until it is out of the news cycle and everything goes back to normal. Meaning harassing Palestinians every day and crying foul when they fight back
No, I think you should lay off the communist theory to be honest. I'm with you politically, socialism is the greatest and we should promote equal distribution of wealth, power and knowledge. But beware, ML/Tankie is like a conspiracy theory that you should be very careful not to fall into. It's not the same what the book says and what the politician waving the books did
They have had ample opportunity to renounce their authoritarian bullshit. Stop the fantasy. I do not believe in good intentions looking at China's civil rights situation right now
China only wants centralized power. Don't get suckered into any government structure with China or lose not just democracy but all political rights and human rights. Beijing owns your ass
We live in a late-stage-capitalist hellscape, where large companies are run by aspiring robber barons who have no serious convictions beyond desiring power. All those companies want is for obedient engineering drones to churn out bad code fast, so they can goose the (largely fictional) stock price. Meanwhile, end-users are left holding the bag: paying more for worse software, being hassled by advertisements, and dealing with bugs that are unprofitable to fix. The only thing an ethical software engineer can do is to try and find some temporary niche where they can defy their bosses and do real, good engineering work, or to retire to a hobby farm and write elegant open-source software in their free time.
Taking action on climate change is a test if democracies can do things in the general interest at all, and up to now we've been failing