[ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[Will Steinberg]

An optimistic scenario is that China will lose the war with Taiwan.  Also,
a realistic one.  They're going to get annihilated when they try.

Alao: for the love of God please stop imbibing news from whatever echo
chamber you're in or just go to /pol/ so you can at least get it
undigested.  It is at least interesting to see how things trickle down to
the mainstream, I suppose. Stick to engineering.

On a related note, didn't we make another list for politics as to
facilitate this one to discuss science and transhumanism instead of vapid
mass media punditripe?  This is as bad as John K Clark's Trump derangement,
albeit presented with an avuncular "aw shucks" façade.   But just as toxic
and just as irritating to listen to.  I'm also not a fan of a list admin
displaying political bias.



On Mon, Dec 5, 2022, 12:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…China can't be doing Zero Covid because of health concerns.  Anyone
> with elementary knowledge of virology knows that most viruses so widespread
> become endemic in a population that largely but not perfectly has herd
> immunity …-samantha
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> I get the feeling China is doing Zero Covid policy because the Dear Leader
> is hoping to dissuade the masses from lopping off his Dear Head.
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> That being said, I am thinking about the Dear Leader’s options if the
> pissed off masses start closing in on the presidential palace with dear
> bloody goddam vengeance on their dear minds, which would be understandable
> considering all that has happened.  I thought of a most worrisome scenario:
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> The Chinese president looks around and finds that Russia is busy in
> Ukraine, NATO is (for the past few decades) temporarily weak with little
> willingness (and even less apparent actual ability) to project force, the
> USA government is at war with itself, occupied in putting together a
> massive taskforce aimed at deriving strategies to get the American people
> to stop talking about a laptop computer.  He orders the military to grab
> Taiwan and calls on the protestors to stand down and contribute to the
> glory of China’s reunification, after which the Dear Leader controls most
> of the world’s computer chip production capacity.
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> Oy vey.
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> Someone offer a more optimistic scenario please.
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