That’s weird, because libertarians hate handouts, welfare, regulations, and the Fed in general. All things which Trump is doing a fantastic job of burning down so him and his buddies can loot the corpse of our dying empire. Seem like the libertarian dream actually, where all that matters is how much can you snag for yourself before someone else does. If you can’t compete in an open free market, then just kindly die and reduce the surplus population.
“They are so powerful that they no longer tell lies” isn’t a take I think human history would support.
Naw come on, China’s not known for their extreme degree of control over what they’ll allow their citizens to see or post online, that’s just wild talk man. They certainly don’t have enormous human and technological infrastructures dedicated to making sure that their internet is squeaky-clean and government-approved for all their citizens who they totally trust.
Well I’d watch out from posting anything like this unless you have a degree in Political Science from an approved institution. You might accidentally influence me and get fined!
Needing the Chinese government’s blessing of your online activities, is, I totally agree, very un-American.
Surface-level, seems good idea. In practice, it depends entirely on who gets to define an “influencer”, what is a “serious topic”, what activities meet the threshold of “speaking on” that topic, and which universities’ degrees will be respected and which won’t. It seems like a very flexible framework that their government could use to remove nearly any person from any platform for any reason. If I post “fruit is good for you” on a social platform and someone else sees it, that falls under these rules as I understand them. I anticipate selective enforcement of these rules against those not aligned with the CCP, in fact the rules seems to be specifically written with that in mind.
There are always going to be monsters in the world, but they don’t have to be in power over us unless we never reform the systems that allowed them to come to power in the first place.
Well the good news is banks really don’t give a shit and they make it pretty trivial to get yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt whether you have a degree or not.