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If you still have an account on x; see this retweet I did; and the "you're shadowbanned" award I gained immediatly after it. One can certainly understand why some govs like #Nepal want to ban western social media.
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How many more #Ukraine, #Nepal are needed before governments understand...? If you let the guard down, USA will just come and take the country as their property. Especially if your country holds geopolitical importance, or resources. As long as USA controls the planet; it works by power, not rules.

#Nepal doesn't have a fragile unique global chip building facility like Taiwan. Washington sees it as completely expendable, just like Ukraine. If you're a smart Nepalese and don't want to certainly die in a futile war against #China, get out NOW!

It's the very same every time. "Corruption". "Regime". "Democracy". The same empty words, the idiotic popular spark events, the violence, the useful idiots, the printed english signs. They're even all color-themed, ffs. #Nepal belongs to USA now. It'll be used as a disposable weapon against China.

It's very simple, really. From now on, #Nepal belongs to the United States. Who controls it sits in Washington, not in Nepal. And the only thing it can be useful for USA is as a China battering ram.

I can see the future!
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I can predict the future!
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What I can't see in my crystal ball is how India will respond. But everything else seems certain. The ones losing their lives to force neoliberalism for corporate profit are the Nepalese, the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Palestinians, the Middle Easterners, the... It's easier to just say the poor.

3-Since Nepal is expendable, and, again, the Empire is in a hurry; just attack China right away. No time for subtlety.
4-Nepal is rubble as China reacts.
5-Show how aggressive China is in that social media Nepal wanted to ban.
6-Show India your power of media control to push them to your side.
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#Nepal. After so much repetition; I can predict the future.
1- Get away from the news.
2- Just neoliberal is for stealing resources. But Nepal isn't Venezuela, what it has is China proximity, not oil, and USA is in a hurry. Fascists make war, so, it'll be fascism next for Nepal.
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Will psychology professionals ever find out a lot of what they do is being 1984's thought police in real life...?

Most importantly; will they change anything if they do?

"Science is for profit. Its purpose is to maintain social hierarchy."

That's why Capitalism needs an army, intelligence agencies and mass psychology to bomb, sabotage and manipulate anything without this massive progress drag to be able to show itself as top dog. And why reason is moving East.

The total market value of the USA's 10 biggest companies is $22.08 Trillion USD.

The USA's current nominal GDP is $29.962 trillion USD.

Soon, just 10 USA companies will be worth more than the USA's nominal GDP. Interesting, isn't it...?
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Incarceration shortens life expectancy Each year in prison takes 2 years off an individual's life expectancy. With over 2.3 million people locked up, mass incarceration has shortened the overall ...

Working through Karakatsanis’s “Copaganda” and he cites this astonishing @prisonpolicy.org report:

“Each year in prison takes 2 years off an individual's life expectancy. With over 2.3 million people locked up, mass incarceration has shortened the overall U.S. life expectancy by almost 2 years.”

Anyone should be able to go live anywhere on the planet they want without any barrier.

As long as we have such a thing as "immigration laws", the world is not civilized, or free.

I do not believe it's one or the other, in no way. We can have both, it just didn't happen yet.

Maybe the Aztecs would find their own idealization of scientific progress while "in harmony and balance with the world around them", if they were in a such way, or maybe not, maybe they would stagnate without adversity, I don't know. I do idealize a world with both social and scientific sanity. >>>

Don't confuse social systems with scientific and tech progress. The "North" conquered, enslaved, looted, deforested, stocked division, wars, etc., around the world, yes, and that is awfully bad; but there were also groups of thinkers that used that bloody loot wisely. Nothing is all bad or all good>

key eras where the idealization of progress took place. Ancient Greek philosophy, The Enlightenment, were periods that dramatically accelerated progress in short periods compared to the slow pace adversity produces. "Natural evolution" is very slow. Makes sense; one is active, the other, passive.

Adversity is much broader than just competition. Rocky mountains, snowy seasons, small land, well; scarcity in general is adversity.

But it's only a relevant factor driving progress in the absence of the idealization of progress, that can drive progress much quicker than scarcity. Just look at >>>

Ah, see, you understood I wasn't talking about moon landings and AI, didn't you?
And this meet development, just not quick enough. The speed and scope of change in those times; worldwide; is/was, unfortunately, mostly driven by adversity rather than the idealization of progress, is what I'm saying.

Sorry, I do not believe you didn't understand what I meant.

"Develop" as in, going to the moon, and making AI. I'm talking about science and technology, not good socioeconomic systems. This last, we still lack today.

I'd like to be wrong on this; but where is an example that proves otherwise...? I think only rationality and progressive ideology can make this dynamic any different. Or that interaction; peaceful. That's what we still lack and need, today.

I wouldn't hold my breath, however, expecting the Aztecs, Mayas, or Incas, to develop much. Unfortunately, in those even less rational times; only adversity, not ideology, seemed to push innovation, kind of mimicking evolution. And with such lush tropical paradises, they didn't have much of that. >>

The #Zorhan, Bernies, AOCs, and so on, manage to delude people because they appeal to an easy path. Most people don't care if it's not real, as long as it's a comfortable answer they can run with. It's the same irrationality of any other irrational belief, like religions, or republican beliefs.

Nah, it's just moving East.

If a country cannot have nuclear weapons, no country can have nuclear weapons. If a country can have nuclear weapons, all countries must have nuclear weapons.

No country should have nuclear weapons; but exclusive ones having them brings more misery than all of them having them.

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