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Horrendous, but the nice side effect... the more China, Russia, and other totalitarian states double down on these efforts, the easier it is to argue against them in the West.
Meanwhile GB is trying to make e2ee illegal (they stopped for now but were pretty close). Let's not pretend west can't implement social score
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We're not completely fine with that, it's just that there's literally nothing we can do to stop it as the EU is not a democracy in any real way.
EU is as democratic as your average EU country. Or have you skipped voting in the EU elections?
In your average EU country the elected parliament chooses the government. Not in EU.
Horrendous, but the nice side effect... the more China, Russia, and other totalitarian states double down on these efforts, the easier it is to argue against them in the West.
So what is the real totalitarian difference of Zhima from, say, Equifax or Experian?
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If you are winning without arguing you are not in democracy
Cut the bull. The political systems of the West claim to be superior in how we treat our own citizens and it is generally true. There is no need to argue about that between ourselves. As for the world where each country is an individual citizen - it is not a democracy. The only rule is: might is right except when some country might feel that bad PR is not good at this particular moment. We are however degrading and I…
I don't know. Speaking strictly objectively: if you look at polls, Putin is extremely popular amongst republican voters.
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Cut the bull. The political systems of the West claim to be superior in how we treat our own citizens and it is generally true. There is no need to argue about that between ourselves. As for the world where each country is an individual citizen - it is not a democracy. The only rule is: might is right except when some country might feel that bad PR is not good at this particular moment. We are however degrading and I…
> There is no need to argue about that between ourselves. I don't know. Speaking strictly objectively: if you look at polls, Putin is extremely popular amongst republican voters.
Russia is a separate subject I think. Putin being bad as he is I think the way situation is turning out could be the biggest US fuck up ever
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> When you reach the obsolete status then what? You either go to re-education camp or are able to obtain a passport, depending on many factors. However, if you do obtain a passport, then the regime's days are numbered.
This feels just like just another AI history, but I will imagine that is a real history > When you reach the obsolete status then what? ... Then, cannon meat. The same as currently. Prison holidays program to visit Syria Russia is actively looking for more soldiers and this system would be very useful in a few years to order the next meat wave (and most of all to justify it to the public eye). Then the system will me…
Horrendous, but the nice side effect... the more China, Russia, and other totalitarian states double down on these efforts, the easier it is to argue against them in the West.
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> There is no need to argue about that between ourselves. I don't know. Speaking strictly objectively: if you look at polls, Putin is extremely popular amongst republican voters.
The West had dealt with, tolerated and admired many dictators and keeps doing it. It does not mean that we import their way of governing. At least not yet. Russia is a separate subject I think. Putin being bad as he is I think the way situation is turning out could be the biggest US fuck up ever
But in any case, it's another example, in Russia there was no need to argue about the war because the pro war side (Putin) won by default without even considering what the other side thinks, and it only shows how lost the cause of democracy is there