TimothyOilpants

Except I already know the claim is bullshit… Hence the challenge.

You’re a propaganda bot.

So 1 actual study from 3 years ago, which concludes that the water specifically in Wuhan meets the countries safety standards and 2 unsourced travel blogs…

You are spreading propaganda in bad faith, as expected

Go away bot…

Yet you can’t provide a source…

You’re claiming that 80% of the Chinese population lacks access to clean water? You’re gonna need to provide a source on that incredulous claim.

Only that doesn’t move the needle on the underlying problem at all. After the civil rights movement in the US they busted up Klan rallies, made it more difficult to be openly discriminatory in the workplace and essential services, and made it more difficult for assholes to do their thing. None of that changed them, it just pushed then underground… Where they festered and grew in numbers for 50 years.

We either need forums to engage with these in the hope we can guide them to more enlightened perspectives or, more cynically, we need places we can reliably look for them if we develop the fortitude for more, radical solutions.

Why do you believe that?

Yeah…people in reeducation camps don’t get to participate in politics or democracy…

~150,000 tonnes of Canadian origin methane (LNG) are lost into the atmosphere from infrastructure and transportation leakage annually, prior to end-user combustion.

Because methane is a significantly more potent greenhouse gas, this is the equivalent of ~17,880,000 tonnes of new CO2 emission. Annually.

Since methane takes time to break down, there is a cumulative effect. Over a 20-year timeframe, just the leaked methane has the equivalent warming impact of ~2,367,500,000 tonne-years of CO2.

The older I get, the more rational re-education camps seem. Is there a more humane way to stop a bitter under-educated minority from constantly fighting the forward progress of humanity?

America took over for Britain as the seat of power for white christian capitalist hegemony; they have been rotten since 1776.

Racism. The primary motivating force behind the current US administration is making racism public policy again.

The Canadians who envy the US are the ones who think immigration is ruining our country.

Journalists avoiding publication options based on ideology is literally how we end up with echo chambers…

On this topic specifically, don’t you think it’s important to try and communicate directly with the people who are being misinformed?

As one of the nations most impacted by the specific coastal ecological impacts of shipping and accidents, is a toll really out of line?

There are a multitude of social, legal, and economic policy changes that need to happen to make societies more resilient against this kind of culture war shit in the future. For extant populations the only way to de-radicalized them is with education, whether that’s voluntary or otherwise.

I’m certainly going to get down voted to oblivion, but the Chinese model is worth looking at. No civilization in human history has provided a higher standard of living to a larger population of individuals.

I like the idea of a true secular humanist end state, but as populations explode, I think we need a system that can function and deliver value at scale first; then we can gradually expand technological and ideological infrastructure for more direct democratic decision making.

It strikes me that finding ways to expand ideological freedom and democratic participation in the Chinese model would be orders of magnitude easier than scaling something like the Nordic model to more than a billion people.

Nationalize all lending.

There is no reason for profit margin in any essential product or service.

Freedom of choice is a capitalist myth.

The wrong side of history is always the side where more bullets land…

Straight, cisgender white people are having a real hard time not being the loudest voices in the room anymore and it shows…

The planet

You don’t think critical infrastructure being on fire stifles businesses?

As a leftist that’s just me playing nice. I suspect you would find my ideal solutions… unpalatable.