Dharma Wheel

As of Dec 1st facial recognition is a prerequisite to using he internet. No PRC card no internet. This will kick out the last of the expats and end an anonymous internet.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/10/ch ... ernet.html

Turns out they are bulldozing Yarchen Gar now too. Reeducation camps for everyone. https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/china-has-destroyed-large-areas-one-tibets-biggest-buddhist-sites-satellite-images?utm_source=Free+Tibet+email+updates&utm_campaign=4d8bfda879-OCTOBER_NEWSLETTER_2019&utm_medium=ema...

With the 70th anniversary just passed I don't think China's socialism report card is that great. What scores would you give them using the 12 core values they officially espouse? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Chinese_core_socialist_values.jpg/800px-Chinese_core_socialist_...

I give China till December to pull back from the brink. After that when all the loans turn over in January with dwindling dollar reserves China becomes incredibly unstable. They will have to sell foreign assets for dollars. 5-10 trillion of those 55 trillion in Chinese loans are dead if they get cal...

Communist tactics for public consumption vs long term strategy: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/media_pretends_china_isnt_communist.html Nicholas, don't make me tap the sign. https://serving.photos.photobox.com/826638376b2eef45cc871322d617c17ca22c503fd1f605fc608bf70580e0e9925c6a47e...

Communism is one of Nicholas's bug bears, WeiHan, and he is not amenable to a rational argument when it comes to this subject. I guess we can all agree that China is authoritarian and the state retains a lot of control over the economy, both of these being a feature of Communist governments (but no...

I have seen no criticism of Ms Thunberg on these pages at all...none. I am puzzled by the suggestion that there is any.. It was there. https://serving.photos.photobox.com/2768336806e50e48d7f3e0d41d9378138f08494c093041599b37f8a4d74e3a1601089cd4.jpg https://serving.photos.photobox.com/78557656db6de95...

The real issue here, I'm afraid, is that the pundits disagree, leaving us to decide if a rational response to the likes of Greta and her cause should be praise or pity, and if so, whether the two should be conflated or separate. https://lowenthal.house.gov/uploadedphotos/highresolution/24524dad-8af...

Does the discussion of climate change include aspects about pollution and its harmful effects to all living beings? ,.. plus all the observable flood damages (I even observed firsthand of the flood up to bridge base level at my local beach/park which lasted for all the spring months which only rece...

...The burden of proof is mostly on you [tatpurusa] here, you are the one making the assertion that anthropogenic climate change is some sort of hoax. ... Exactly. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" (Sagan said it, I think, but I can't be bothered checking since it's true whoever sa...

The flip side for her is she has seen that she can literally change the entire world through sheer force of will. This will greatly mitigate any long term damage. Most troubled teens feel vulnerable and ineffectual. I'm not so sure she does think that. She is intelligent enough to know Trump, the C...

The proper response, Mantrik, whatever her fate is... Pick up our shit and hump. She should not be carrying the weight. We are the shits who haven't done enough. I spent decades working with children in their teens, many thousands of them. I really am very worried for her, and were she in the UK an...

I think it will reveal just how corrupt the system has always been to more people. A deranged demagogue inevitably grows out of such a swamp.

Erm...that’s nice? Or alternatively that’s bad! Take your pick. I have no frak idea what point you are making. As usual. it's odd how someone would take their work experience and apply it to a situation? If not for various malign political machinations she would not have they psych trauma you see a...

Of course, none of us has the full story, and the truth is probably in the middle, but it is interesting the widespread resistance to the idea that a young, neurodivergent girl could be self-empowered. Here’s her take: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=767646880269801&id=732846497083173 I...

The proper response, Mantrik, whatever her fate is... Pick up our shit and hump. She should not be carrying the weight. We are the shits who haven't done enough. Agreed. People with Aspergers often have problems understanding lying. This is how my right wing acquaintances are processing her telling...

The secret of liberalism is pretending you are all about justice and equality but making property rights inviolable. That this inevitably leads to oligarchy was old news when Plato wrote about it. Liberalism is a scam. There will be no meaningful change through the center left parties. They have fr...

Working class white voters - in the past, they had their Blue Dog Democrats. Its not pretty, but I'll just point this out - working class white voters had people like Strom Thurmond - segregationists from the South - who kept the Democratic party bending conservative on certain issues. Thurmond qui...

Were you PSYOP? I don't know how it is in Canada, but the U.S. Army is terrible at this kind of stuff. I would take anything I got from the U.S. Army with a grain of salt given the abysmal failure in Iraq (and probably soon, Afghanistan). The problem is not the psych profiles of these ding dongs. T...

The problem is not the psych profiles of these ding dongs. The problem is oligarchs weaponizing them for their political ends. You could just as easily program then to be civic minded and helpful to society. We did it all the time in the army.