A few months before the law came into force, China’s Xi Jinping sent a message to the country’s military stating that Chinese soldiers should not be scared of death,

Huge difference, I’d say, if you message this within the military or to kids in a public class room.

It’s not like western soldiers never heard that they might have to risk their life for the country…

Those people are weird but also why is the National Trust giving in to those demands? Maybe we could have more harmony in the world if we don’t listen to every completely irrational nonsense?

I see your post doesn’t attract a positive like-ratio but let me just say to you as an ex-alcoholic, I really like your choice of words and it was a good read.

I just happen to be more on the software side so that’s where my mind naturally defaults.

That’s why I believe its worthwhile to put out reminders for other sides, too. ;-)

We, of course, both agree about the overall issue and I’m the last person who would be against open source software.

Open Source is not that automatic solution to all problems as some people make it sound. A lot of software used by tech oligarchs is open source. Netflix is in great parts open source. Open source software doesn’t give much power back to the people if it runs on server farms and communicates on data cables owned by billionaires. Verifiability is also in question for server code. If you want to take power away from tech oligarchs, you have to start at the physical infrastructure, not the virtual software.

how does it translate to “democratic union, democratic union, democratic union, democratic union”???

Sojus Sowjetskich Sozialistitscheskich Respublik - Union of socialist council republics

There isn’t even a single ‘democratic’ in the name, yet alone 4