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I think that's kinda naive and short-sighted. A powder keg is always eager

To be fair, there's a non-zero chance of a CJD outbreak, and same for wasting disease that originates from deer. If or when they cross over to humans, it's going to be nasty.

The biosphere has literally billions of tons of carbon already. Limiting excess carbon is not a bad idea, especially when it throws the whole system into balance.

Nearly no scientists are making doomsday predictions either, and that's a bad thing. Even most scientists tend to underestimate the present danger of the current situation.

If I see someone shooting up a street, should I not call for help because I personally can't stop it?

I love the concept of geoengineering, but it shouldn't be used as an excuse to not address the problem

I implore you to not dismiss carbon capture as a whole as bullshit. Don't let crackkkers make you think it's a magic "solution"

I look forward to when the supposedly dead horse rears up and kicks her goddamn teeth in.

I hate this psychopathic, racist, lying, white supremacist shitbag.

She's a reich-wing nutjob who deserves to be hanged upside down and beaten the shit out of with bats with nail spikes.

I get behind and totally support "ruthless criticism" of everything. And dialectical materialism is baked into my blood.

I'm also skeptical if China does have a bourgeoisie class. I can definitely see China currently having something analogous to the bourgeoisie class, but the relationship to the means of production and capital is in my view, too different to directly describe as being bourgeoisie. Words have specific meanings, but also the general sentiment often matters more. There is no doubt a metric-shit ton of work still to do, and even China isn't exactly a worker's paradise.

I have no doubt that billionaires and corrupt CPC members have lots of power, but my partial understanding was that most of China's billionaires seemed to be "billionaires-in-name-only." Sure, they may have net worth in the billions, but only if they are at the head of or play an important part in state-owned enterprises or if the CPC thinks it's necessary to have the capitalist on a leash, which I think is fundamentally different than classical bourgeoisie and proletariat. I still kind of scoff at people that point out that China has billionaires, and view it as a false equivalence. How often does the CPC seem to kick their shit in, fire or imprison billionaires, expropriate their wealth, and limit their power and reach at every step of the way? The BiNO's can afford slightly fancier cars and houses, but they seem to have almost zero real practical power. I'm not naive about the risks, though.

Though I do think that no government is ever likely 100 percent efficient or 100 percent uncorrupt, and for instance I think it's a fucking travesty that the 696 work schedule and culture still exists, and that the CPC should do more to combat it.

I used to like Fellow Traveler, but I immediately view with suspicion anyone who denies that China is socialist.

China is arguably "more socialist" than the USSR was, and if China isn't socialist, than the USSR never was.

While there are many ways and thought experiments to quantify socialism, and there isn't and probably shouldn't be just one ultimate factor, I think the simplest measuring stick is something like this:

Is China run as a country where the means of production are used to produce things primarily for use value? Yes.

Is private property and investment and commodity production tolerated and all, yet limited to a way greater extent than in neoliberal "democracies"? Also yes.

Is the commanding heights of the economy controlled by the proletariat, or at least by the state in the name and practical results of favoring the proletariat? Yes.

That isn't to say that China isn't above criticism or that socialism isn't a constant struggle, but I can't take seriously anyone who seriously questions if China is socialist or not.

I 99 percent of the time think that blockchain stuff is horseshit and unnecessary, but I admit this concept interests me.