#india has officially overtaken #china has the #country with the highest #population https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/india-.. This will cause a lot of trouble, but could be better for the world. I would rather a #world #leader be run by #democracy rather than #communism .
Looks like #us #congress will look to #bypass #democracy on the #decision to lift the #debt #ceiling and just print new #money https://www.axios.com/trillion-dollar-pl.. In this case, it will be a #trillion #dollar #platinum #coin with #arbitrary #value ... Fun! I'm sure *nothing* could possibly go wrong!
The problem with #debates is nothing to do with #trump - it just became obvious that there was an issue to many people in 2016: https://lemire.me/blog/2021/09/09/how-i-.. I agree that the ability to #debate is fundamental to a civil society and #democracy ... I believe the largest problems are the #platforms themselves only promoting #short and #fast #snippets - rather than #long and #reasoned #replies ...
#australia has now #deployed the #military to #enforce the #lockdown - the sign of a completely normal #democracy and *there is nothing to see here*: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia.. Very strange indeed.
Perhaps the #uk will finally be #withdrawing from #afghanistan https://www.lotuseaters.com/boris-johnso.. We'll see, I'm not going to hold my breath. Meanwhile we have let our existing ongoing obligations go unaddressed, with #hongkong suffering to the #ccp and #myanmar lose their #democracy ...
#cnn appears to support #china 's #ccp for their #anniversary - weird: https://www.lotuseaters.com/cnn-appears-.. Very very weird. I don't believe that #democratic Countries should put up with this at all. We should support #democracy in every capacity we are able to.