https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell

My t-shirt says “FORTRAN jock: I speak in GO TOs”

You can say they that already did the destruction in the Mao period, but of course, that debacle was imported from the West, unlike the library burning event. And now they imported rampant debt fueled economic progress from the West too. I’m expecting a bank melt down there, but I won’t be surprised if they’re smart enough to dodge that somehow.

I don’t disagree greatly with you. I don’t see anything standing in the way of Taiwan being subsumed into the PRC. I could be full of it on this next point, but I also would not be surprised if the merger happened without a shot fired. That is, Taiwan accepts the inevitable.

Gotta run for awhile. Today is repair work day.

“BAL, Basic Assembler Language

Tiny computers! Good times.”

Hard core! Kudos!

“(He’s actually kind of interesting, in that he’s mixed-race black/Japanese, and so has obvious sympathies with both communities instead of an interest in screwing over one or the other.)”

Well, we should be thankful for small mercies.

But he might be OK with screwing over you who are (presumably) neither?

The slightly saner progressive candidate for Seattle Mayor says he’s against abolishing SFR zoning in Seatttle.

Of course, he’s slightly saner, so that means the completely insane candidate will win in a landslide and SFR will go out the window.

(He’s actually kind of interesting, in that he’s mixed-race black/Japanese, and so has obvious sympathies with both communities instead of an interest in screwing over one or the other.)

BAL, Basic Assembler Language

Tiny computers! Good times.

Today, ‘tis all life in the rear view mirror

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-most-terrifying-map-in-world.html

My humble suggestion is to ignore the commentary and comments. Some of it is OK, but there’s always too much wishful thinking and Cope-ium (the Right seems addicted to this medication) in them.

There’s really only one thing to take home: The West and triply-so the USA needs to learn how to make things again. At scale. If that means autarky(*), temporary scarcities, and putting some MBAs and Bankers up against the wall, pour encourager les autres, so be it. There is no other way.

* Lolbertarians, Rothbardians, and Friends please step outside. Vlad awaits you. Don’t worry, we’d like you to stick around. On sticks.

Make no mistake. China’s rulers are Machiavellian Assholes. They’re just not the Cartoon Assholes you get fed by your Ruling Clown Show Assholes == Media, Think Tanks, Ivies, FedGov, etc.

There is no Reality in which you don’t get to be governed by Assholes. Or were Checks and Balances invented for a government of Fairy Godmothers?

If you’re thinking up China Failure Modes (and it’s fun, sure) you’re almost certainly going to get them all wrong because even your supposed Dissident Right is mostly operating with many of the same fundamental ****unexamined**** axioms as the GloboHomo Establishment — i.e. Open Societies Always Win. Totalitarianism Always Loses. And plenty more of these. There’s simply zero evidence one way or the other. Propaganda Victories in C20 don’t really count here as proof.

The PRC will hit an ice-berg one day… Inevitable. Every society ends up hoist by its own petard of Contradictions.

But you can bet dollars to donuts it won’t run aground on any shoals mapped out by Western ‘Experts’ — who would do better to focus on righting their own leaky boats.

PS: I’d hate to see my 2nd favorite weekend getaway location, Taiwan, be ruined by Mainlanders. I’ve got the usual natural sympathy with underdogs (provided they’re not total slum dogs — which the Taiwanese are not!) . Having said that, the best thing for the world right now would be a quick win for China over Taiwan before the USA made a gigantic cluster#$%^ of a debacle which would make the Afghan Own Goal look like a walk in the park. This is not a hill to die on.

A man’s gotta know his limitations.

Empires, too.

It’s also about Section 8 and making it impossible for non-Ruling Elite Whites to hide from the joys of Diversity.

A lot of it is driven by anti-White racial animus.