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from a misguided refusal to be impressed by the regime's reputation
You have to thank the actions of the genocidal State of Israel that anything below it is somewhat acceptable. Reaping what they sow themselves.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/12/israeli-ex-com...
Or maybe that man is a hamas spy, right?
The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free
This analogy is not even remotely applyable to piracy. Piracy is about content that can be shared, you can't grab a surgery and share it with someone else after buying it.
China doesn't pretend to be a democracy, so as they don't are nor pretend to be a democracy the rest of us should abandon democracy? Should be stop begin democratic because China isn't?
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Thailand, Vietnam. That's not counting those relations that aren't close nor adversarial.
The only authoritarian regimes not allied, nor neutral, with the US are Cuba, Iran, NK, Russia and Venezuela.
It's not present day but let's not forget the series of military genocidal dictarships supported, founded and allied by the US in south america in the second half of 20th century.
Amazing how this site's comments have been decaying in quality since a few years now. Obvious propaganda article, from a media that doesn't even try to hide that it's mainly a propaganda media, is commented on seriously without any kind of reality filter, and it gets to the top comments...
Another "China will collapse in X months/years".
the book itself is about totalitarian censorship in the Soviet Union
Animal farm is a critic of any kind of totalitarian government AND a critic of capitalism itself. The book literally ends with:
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Right now an "expert" is whoever says something that is aligned with media retoric.
Even if it is just "some" restrictions that are been dropped i'm glad this madness is, apparently, finally ending.
Police abusing their power and attributions? What is the news? By now most of the people should be thinking about this things happening before supporting policies that can, and will, be abused and misused.
rather than relying only on news reports, I dug into the science myself
I think this is the most important phrase in the entire article, we know how untrustable is news reporting, specially when talking science, and specially when talking about government agenda.
Because they're the ones deliberately driving up the cost of __DISEASE__ care This applies for any disease that implies a lack of self-care, not only for covid.
prolonging the epidemic and undermining the effectiveness of countermeasures Even in countries with very high rate of vaccination the virus keep spreading pretty fast, even the OMS has said that vaccination does not stops the virus.
None of this two assertions is true.
Sad.
Is it open source?
By now it should pretty clear that covid spread will not be stopped and that it's another seasonal disease.
So, saying that vaccination should be primarily and aggressively focused on people with comorbilities can be "misinformation" but saying that booster jabs "massively" strengthen bodys's defense against covid is completely accuarate and acceptable.
I think we are really getting into a point of no return here, i'm actually seriously worried about all this.
Ok, i'm convinced, hope we start sending unvaccinated people to gulags as soon as posible.
Where is segregation by comorbidity.
not been double-jabbed will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, school, exercise and buying essential supplies
This makes absolutely no sense. The most terrifying is people actually defending and promoting this kind of orwellian and irrational measures.
The world is going completely insane.
This is beyond stupid.