#noconsequences — Public Fediverse posts
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@paul
The one I watched was a creepy weirdo who refused to answer a simple question on his personal understanding of DEI - I guess he couldn’t bring himself to say the words but he also acted as if there would be no consequence to him either. He was like something GenAI might have created: not-quite-human creepy weird. -
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland -
@arstechnica ☝️ It may not take any single scary subvariant to actually be a scary proposal.
Every infection — the #antivaxxers 'did their own research', so good on 'em 🤷🏻♂️ — attacks/lowers our defences and *reactivates* the prevalent #HSV and #EpsteinBarr viruses which appear to be behind lot of the #longcovid cases... we're approaching 100 million cases of long covid globally by the end of the year.
The best way to lower the risk of (long) covid to yourself and those you care about is by staying current on vaccinations and, yes, using a mask.
And thanks #CCP for *demanding* that in early 2020 flights had to be allowed to leave the #PRC and create this #pandemic it covered up.