yeah serious missed opportunity there. that might’ve gotten trump to actually just die of embarassment

This is unironically true. Part of the reason the American hegemony was able to reproduce itself for so long was because there was knowledge of how to do things wrapped up in individual people. Just as an example, how to properly redact documents was probably something written down SOMEwhere, but nobody knows exactly where, so in practice the only reason anybody knew how to properly redact shit was due to a handful of geezers nearing retirement. Then those people all got shitcanned and never bothered to come back, so you get a shitshow like the half-assed redactions of the Ep files. I’m sure there’s hundreds of microcosms of this same instance happening across the empire, all the people who actually knew how to do the ghoulish shit and win got fucking fired cause of DEI and woke or whatever.

That sounds bad

Real talk what does congress even do? if they pass laws do the laws even happen anymore? it kind of feels like everything just churns onwards, machine reproducing itself independently of any real governing body

BF has a long way to go in some respects of its social development but watching them build up their productive forces and take control of their destiny has been truly inspiring

“Thanks to this capacity—and a tendency to set itself easy targets—China has exceeded, or is on course to exceed, most of the pledges it has made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change since signing the Paris agreement ten years ago. The politicians, negotiators, lobby groups and hangers-on gathering in Brazil for the 30th UNFCCC’s COP summit will do so in a context shaped by China’s latest pledges to more than double the country’s renewable-energy capacity and make a modest but quantified cut in emissions by 2035. (Both targets may well be exceeded.)”

This paragraph is so fucking funny

Edit: holy shit it gets funnier: " This anti-emissions machine is powered by self-interest. More clean tech elsewhere lowers China’s own climate risks by reducing global emissions."