Not to mention the part about worker ownership of the means of production, which didn’t exist under Communist Party rule and still doesn’t exist now. If anything, Russian workers are even more disempowered.

Russia is a thoroughly rotten state-capitalist system, even worse now than it was under Brezhnev.

To them, “communists” and “socialists” are the same

Like “DEI” and “woke,” they’re just synonyms for “ME NO LIKE!!”

They have high approval within the Chinese populace.

Just like Trump has high approval among Fox viewers. Propaganda works.

You and so many are so deluded by propaganda about China.

And you’re not? Or do you just like the taste of jackboot?

Gotta buy that surveillance software in order to reverse engineer it.

keeping a lid on “politics” disrupting “social harmony”

Also known as punishing people who talk back to authority.

Or shorter. Obama’s 6’1" and, in photos where they’ve been together, generally appears taller than Trump.

So Trump wanted to legally harass and potentially imprison an innocent man in a vain attempt to not look like an incompetent asshole.

Typical.

My grandfather kept all his marbles until he died at 101. Last time I saw him, about a year before that, he was still whipping me at chess. I was a strong player at the time.

I’m 70 now, still doing software full-time in a highly technical organization, and I can still write tight, clean code more quickly than most. I mainly do it for proofs of concept, such as when the dev team are being risk-averse and say something can’t be done that I know actually can be. I have less physical stamina than I did in my 20s, but my mental acuity’s just fine so far.

Dementia odds do go up, but are still not that high in one’s 70s, and are even lower if, like me, you have good cardio fitness and eat a healthy diet. That lessens the chances of vascular dementia. Harder to say if it helps with Alzheimers, since there’s a significant hereditary component to that, and research isn’t clear on how big that might be.

So try being fact-based when you’re proposing political solutions. Every day, we’re seeing what happens when politics is being driven by prejudice rather than truth. We don’t need more of that.

I’m aiming this upthread, not so much at the post I’m directly replying to, which I agree with.

The asymmetries are weird, too. Like you don’t see many Asian men partnered with Black women, or Arab women with white men.

Billions of foreign invaders! EATING THE DOGS AND CATS!

It’s all such flagrant bullshit. And meanwhile Reform is being kept afloat with dirty foreign money.

There’s some evidence that they were rounded up and herded onto Ceuta by Moroccan cops and intelligence operatives. This smells like Trump or the Eurofascists are behind it in some way, and they’ve paid off the king of Morocco to stir up some shit.

Also, when Sanchez previously criticized Morocco for its continuing occupation of Western Sahara, there was a similar but smaller manufactured immigration crisis involving 8000 people.

And what other nation-states have an extremely powerful cybersecurity and hacking capability? This could be work for hire. And why Minnesota? That’s more a place on Trump’s shit list than Iran’s.

Yeah, Lowe’s making a bet that Farage will be forced out by his funding scandals, leaving Lowe to take over.

Yes, he is that thick.

And if he’s confirmed, he’ll order it again.

But mother nature (or events) have other plans for him.

Or they (or their owners) have an incentive to continually hype the prediction markets.

He never plans on much of anything except maybe stealing elections.