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That's not good because they should be a major speed bump on the road to fascism.

The US has been the biggest long term enemy to the working populations of the world since the end of the WWII, including its own. Throw a pin on the map, and you're likely to hit a place that's been affected by a war started or fought by the US, or a place where the US has had a hand in destroying worker power in order to for American business to extract resources and labour for cheap, or a sanctioned place where working people are made to suffer in order to overthrow their government, or a combination thereof.

If this information is true and the Chinese officials weren't bullshitting, then leaking this doesn't sound like a good move on the European official end.

Doesn't their economy have a way bigger production capacity than Russia's? Why would they want to replicate Russia's? China seems much more successful at manufacturing at scale.

Isn't some of this an indictment of the federal worker unions? Shouldn't the federal gov't been ground to a halt by cross-agency strikes by now? What's the unions' strategy here?

Use low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.

That would make the situation even worse by reducing the pool the rich have to buy to get the majority to contribute to their wealth even more. The problems we face with democracy aren't driven by poor education. Poor education is a component but it's a consequence of the main driver which is accumulation of wealth in few hands. Those use that wealth to keep it and accumulate more by buying elected officials, buying campaigns, running their own people, buying the media, defunding the education system that educates the majority, etc. Reducing the voting power of the majority would make this cheaper to do for the owner class, which would lead to increased exploitation and decrease in the living standards of the majority. Eventually leading to social unrest of some sort. Instead you want to introduce more democratic power for the majority, especially where the generated wealth is separated from them - in the workplace. If you get democracy in the work place, the workers would likely vote to keep more of the value they produce, leaving less to accumulate as wealth in the owner class. Leaving less money to buy elected representatives with the owners and more money with workers to buy political representation of their own.

I think if Vylan also said death to Hamas in the same sentence, they'd have defused the backlash. Zionists would have had really hard time untangling that one to make a big deal out of it. 😂

Which is to say that the lesson is that most people are idiots and have no idea what's going on in the world.

Not that the information channels that inform them blast high-octane corporate-friendly propaganda since childhood, leaving no attention for any other perspectives?

There's nothing that could possibly go wrong with this strategy. 😂

Ooh, so Iran is also involved in this one.

It's great but that fan is an overkill. 😂