Portugal is really an interesting country: percentage of those 65-79 that have been vaccinated is equal to those 18-24
You may well ask why. The answer would involve a little digression into political philosophy
You have to understand the country is organised around the rule of corporations: corporatism. So the police will get vaccinated, the firemen, the Nazare fishermen, the supermarket cashiers, the bus drivers, the volleyball players, the politicians...
Only at the end the elderly because they are a mere age group and don’t even have a union, the poor fellows. (Spain and Italy used to be just as corporatist but maybe they grew out of it)
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Not quite sure how this is compatible with the classification as genocide
The way I read it Biden is saying China has a justification for doing what it is doing in Xinjiang but Biden cannot afford politically not to criticise it, which Xi understood and accepted
The worst in a way is that Biden seems to say China needs to be united in order not to be victimised - and united means HK, Xinjiang ... and Taiwan
"I think that Islamo-leftism is eating away at our society as a whole, and universities are not immune and are part of our society," Minister for Higher Education Frederique Vidal told CNews television on Sunday.
Further proof that that for the government the problem is not Islamism
Marine Le Pen defends Islam. French Interior Minister says she is not tough enough
French Interior Minister accuses Le Pen of saying that Islam is not a problem (she had said, plausibly, that only Islamism is a problem): “vous dites que l’islam n’est même pas un problème”
Her expression is just everything you need to know
The US and the international order. Two approaches in recent years. First, Trump consistently dismantling or ignoring it in belief American power is greater outside its limits
Problem was without the guidance of the existing order, policy became lost and erratic. What was the goal in confronting China? Either a random one like the trade deficit or no goal at all
Now Biden: recover the international order as created by the US. American power greater in that framework and it also provides stable guidance, north star and compass. But...
My latest piece on how financial markets are breaking apart into the same alternative realities that already rule US politics city-journal.org/gamestop-and-t…
Question I would like to ask is whether Bitcoin is the historical answer to this problem. How can you prevent any of these alternative realities from becoming dominant? The only way is to remove the power centers from which it can rule. Decentralization follows from “truth wars”
But doesn’t Bitcoin rely on truth? Yes, but it’s a manufactured truth (inviolability and acceptance have been manufactured through proof of stake) and thus appropriate for an age where truth does not naturally exist