Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 12:09 AM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
8 Comments:
Excellent video. Honesty and openness is always best in the long run. I wish more people in government felt that way here and people at large. Happiness isn’t money and power and control. When will people here learn that?
Well spoken and nicely done.
I enjoyed this a lot.
I've always found his insights about China to be very valuable.
If I had to choose to live the rest of my life in either China or India, it would be an easy choice. Freedom and democracy are essential.
I dunno if I mentioned it... Apple is moving a lot of it's manufactring from the PRC to India. For quite some time (and I buy a lot of IT stuff - it's my job, sort off) I have, where possible, bought none Chinese stuff. I'm typing this ona a laptop from Taiwan. Asus really kick the llamas ass!
NickM: I've heard that a lot of companies are leaving China. An increasingly erratic dictatorship doesn't make for a stable business environment. If they insist on having enormously long and vulnerable supply chains instead of manufacturing at home, better to put the work in a democratic country (India) where things are at least likely to be more stable.
A lot of it depends. You'd think the joint venture laws (giving the PRC rights to your IP) would stop them, but the demand for cheap labor (which can be forced to live on-site) and lack of product liability laws and the like (If I believed in the supernatural, I would assume Marx would be spinning in his grave with each new "communist" regime.) keeps them there.
And yet more and more companies are leaving China, nevertheless.
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