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Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by exceptione on Thursday May 29, 2025 @01:36PM (#44128288)
It is weird, but what we do know is that is surprisingly easy to compel people into self-harm.

  > Patently counterproductive
Yes, but that is the gist. What you have got is the problem of the few who fear the numerous. Where you have power and wealth concentration, there will be a push to autocracy. Zero sum. Might makes right.

It is an international phenomenon, where (political) organizations and people copy and sync each others playbooks. Look at the Brexit, look at Orban, look at the tariffs, look at expelling talent and science, look at the killing of the free enterprise.

Fundamentally, parasites don't care about the host. If the host dies, they jump on the next one. That is why the Kremlin focuses on Ukraine and the rest, while the USA starts to talk about Greenland and Canada.

For normal people it is too crazy to believe, so we don't believe it.

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Re:US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine by ethbr1 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:43PM (#44128949)
> Where you have power and wealth concentration, there will be a push to autocracy.

Agree, though I think the why/how is interesting.

In watching it play out in several countries: (1) wealth concentration builds resentment against a minority (wealthy/elites) by the majority (poor), (2) someone from the wealthy/elite hijacks the majority dissatisfaction by saying they'll "get" the minority, (3) democracy sweeps that someone into power, (4) turns out, anyone wealthy/elite doesn't really give a shit about egalitarianism, and enriches themselves

I mean, when Brits vote in Boris Johnson or Americans Trump, do they really expect either to compromise their own wealth for the good of the nation, when it comes to that?

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