RE: The real world is a global wargame - But you are not a player

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kreur in OCD • 4 years ago

Great article! It's important to realize that Trump and Biden are two sides of same coin attempting to create illusion of choosing lesser evil while in reality vote is only about package and not its contents. You can't decide what you will get, but you can vote on whether you prefer it in red or blue box.

I have to disagree on Taiwan though (officially named Republic of China, not to confuse with People's Republic of China, which is state most people think about when someone says China)

Taiwan is one party of civil war that fled to island and took many educated people with them (they had basically options either to go or to be killed by Mao as class enemy) and they lived under martial law until 1987, still planning to retake mainland China. Only recently Taiwan abandoned plan to take back mainland China and focuses on their own island instead.

China (PRC) currently have policy that if you want to have diplomatic relations with them you cannot recognize Taiwan as country. And it is strictly enforced. Government around the world tend to prefer to do business with second largest economy rather than some island so they agree to it. Being in Taiwan's position would fuck up many countries, but they were lucky to take nearly all educated people when fleeing to Taiwan island and were able to offer cheap skilled labor (mostly producing electronics, way sooner than China(PRC)) on international markets despite strong political blockade from China (PRC). That allowed them to buy needed resources and weapons to prevent being crushed by China (PRC), which probably does not have means to invade large island that would defend itself (yet?)

Taiwan is not ruled by China (PRC), they are in hardcore cold war. This year Taiwan plans to change (or already changed, not sure) passports form saying "Republic of China, Taiwan" to just "Taiwan" to emphasize that they are not China (PRC) and China (PRC) did massive military drills simulating invading unspecified island.

As far as covid goes there are many factors:
Willingness to actually fight covid (instead of trying to get political points in first place)
Willingness of population to follow rules
Climate, temperature
Respect to infectious diseases (in Vietnam they take them seriously, Europe on other hand takes them as just nuisance that doesn't deserve attention, well until covid)
maybe bit of luck too.

I have no clue about covid origin, many theories, but I wouldn't give any more than 50% chance to be true. It could be attempt to harm China, It could be made by China to harm others way more, it could be made by pharma companies, it could actually be random mutation as official story tells, it can be accidentally escaped bio weapon. It could be tool of "elites" to cull unproductive old people. Or tool tool to push more control on population without any additional meaning. Who knows? I don't. If we ask "Qui bono?" we don't have clear answer, fucking up economy benefits many parties.

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felipejoys 4 years ago

Taiwan is not ruled by China

Yes, it is. "Cold war"? That's like saying Mexico is trying to go to cold war with the USA. Have you read @gooddream's post?

probably does not have means to invade large island that would defend itself

Yeah, they do. It's not hard at all, considering this age's digital technology.

As far as covid goes there are many factors

Those are regulated by the media industry. We're back to conglomerates!

in Vietnam they take them seriously

No, they don't. Not nearly as much as anywhere else. Have you read @gooddream's post?

fucking up economy benefits many parties

No, it doesn't. It only benefits multinational conglomerates.

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kreur 4 years ago

Yeah, they do. It's not hard at all, considering this age's digital technology.

Unlikely. Its not about technology but more about number of ships that can be used in landing. It would be significantly larger operation than D day in WW2 and China started building actual navy just recently. Landing millions of soldiers somewhere is no trivial task.

No, they don't. Not nearly as much as anywhere else. Have you read @gooddream's post?

Its about different mentality, We have quite large Vietnamese community in Czech Republic and it was them who started taking covid seriously here. They for example used masks when it made sense even without being forced to while Czechs were trying to find ways to "outsmart" rules or completely ignored them.

No, it doesn't. It only benefits multinational conglomerates.

Parts sure, but I don't think multinationals will benefit from lower globalization or calls for higher self-sufficiency that's happening in quite a few European countries. Multinationals would benefit from something like housing crisis 2.0 way more - basically same benefits without downsides. So for this reason I don't think that multinationals started covid.

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felipejoys 4 years ago (edited)

Landing millions of soldiers somewhere is no trivial task.

You can just bomb from afar. You can also use ships. But why would anyone do that? Despite being easy, it's unnecessary. It would break down their economy and ruin some of its assets - knowledge, location and economy. That's why no one wages war anymore. It's not financially worth it.

Its about different mentality

In a country with 100 million people, that reasoning is not enough when you can compare 35 deaths against alleged 100K+ deaths. Either the major lethality is there or it isn't.

Multinationals would benefit from something like housing crisis 2.0 way more

Cheap labor and harvesting natural resources are way more important than income. When you hoard something like oil, you are holding something that cannot get replaced by any means. That's the greatest form of scarcety. Think of Splinterlands print limits, but in real life.

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