Blunt tools shouldn’t be used for complex real-world things. Other examples would be mandatory sentencing in courts (you should let the judge assess the particular situation), or things like “I don’t go out with guys under 160cm” (you should get to know him)....
Deng Xiaoping (Chinese: 邓小平[a]; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, Deng rose to power and led China through its process of Reform and Opening Up and the development of the country’s socialist market economy. Deng developed a reputation as the “Architect of Modern China” and his ideological contributions to socialism with Chinese characteristics are described as Deng Xiaoping Theory.
PS Not OP, I just searched “Deng political leader” and found the above wikipedia article, the age matches so I think this is the person OP is referring to, but I may be wrong.
On 2 June, Deng Xiaoping and several party elders met with the three PSC members—Li Peng, Qiao Shi, and Yao Yilin—who remained after Zhao Ziyang and Hu Qili had been ousted. The committee members agreed to clear the square so “the riot can be halted and order be restored to the Capital”. They also agreed that the square needed to be cleared as peacefully as possible; but if protesters did not cooperate, the troops would be authorized to use force to complete the job.
According to Ezra Vogel, Deng at 2:50pm told General Chi Haotian that his troops could use all possible methods to clear the square.
On 9 June, Deng Xiaoping, appearing in public for the first time since the protests began, delivered a speech praising the “martyrs” (PLA soldiers who had died). Deng stated that the goal of the student movement was to overthrow the party and the state. Of the protesters, Deng said: “Their goal is to establish a totally Western-dependent bourgeois republic.” Deng argued that protesters had complained about corruption to cover their real motive, replacing the socialist system. He said that “the entire imperialist Western world plans to make all socialist countries discard the socialist road and then bring them under the monopoly of international capital and onto the capitalist road.”
Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access....
Typing in python leaves a lot to be desired… Being looking at peps for quite some time, but it’s really hard for the language to make progress without breaking compatibility.
Hopefully at some point MOJO becomes mature enough to use in a professional setting.
It’s a lot, just that when I having eye contact my mind gets overloaded. Fan fact, I avoid eye co tact even when watching a show or a movie, I rarely look at characters faces and I miss a lot of facial expressions.
I am trying it out, got a subscription a couple of weeks ago. I went to unlimited searches right away since on a work day I heavily rely on search engines.
To be honest, I have nothing to say about it, which feels like a good thing considering that lately I have been complaining a lot about Google.
I am reading “Unmasking Autism” by Devon Price and the introduction has an exercise that requires you to come up with 5 moments in your life where you felt fully alive. I have spent the better part of yesterday trying to remember such moments, but I am not even sure what it means… I was hoping the community here can...
IMO Lemmy is a social media, it allows people to socialize over shared interests. It doesn’t need to facilitate IRL connections, even though they are likely to happen.
VLC’s is broken atleast for me and i would like to know if any of the other video player from fdroid’s main repo jad a good subtitle browser/downloader inbuilt . Searching got me nowhere and I’d rather not download try uninstall every video player from fdroid . So if anyone uses any do recommend as there is a fuckton of...
I don’t know if this has been used before, but there is a good reason not to:
The concentration of power would be a huge problem for such a system. If a single person gets the majority of votes, then they get to make the decisions. That’s a system with a single point of failure, if corruption is bad right now, imagine what it would be then…
Keep in mind that voters tend to focus on a few key individuals. In a system which you don’t need more seats if you have the votes, the concentration of votes to a few individuals would be taken to new extremes.
One could make the counterargument that if the voters want to be represented by a single person, then it should be their right to get that. However, it’s more likely that such a result would be driven by the choice for the lesser evil.
Maybe a completely different electoral system, (a) without a fixed number of seats (aka a single vote is enough to be part of the decision making body) and (b) really frequent elections (6 months or even less), would work in the favor of the people, but there a tonne of practical issues with both requirements.
PS A single person is the extreme but not unlikely case, instead it’s more likely a dozen or two candidates will gather that decision making majority, but the corruption argument is still the same.
I need a bit of clarification, are you suggesting that every candidate that gets even a single vote gets to be a representative? or is there some selection mechanism? (minimum votes, fixed number of seats, etc…)
You may not know,
But don’t mix steroids and ritalin, that was an interesting 22 hours.
Age caps on political office are a bad idea
Blunt tools shouldn’t be used for complex real-world things. Other examples would be mandatory sentencing in courts (you should let the judge assess the particular situation), or things like “I don’t go out with guys under 160cm” (you should get to know him)....
Self-hosted diary
Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access....
My Hotel Has An Adaptive Outlet
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b3fde6a0-ce01-40b2-a134-e142712ec6cc.jpeg
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (www.theverge.com)
Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?
Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)
am i just bad at devops? (lemmy.world)
How do you experience eye contact?
I’m still on my journey of understanding the differences between autism and other. My focus today is eye contact, so let’s have a discussion!...
Anyone else switched from googhell to kagi.com?
I’ve been using it for a year now and it is giving absolutely phenomenal search results right now....
What's a moment in your life where you felt fully alive?
I am reading “Unmasking Autism” by Devon Price and the introduction has an exercise that requires you to come up with 5 moments in your life where you felt fully alive. I have spent the better part of yesterday trying to remember such moments, but I am not even sure what it means… I was hoping the community here can...
Doctor recommended trying Strattera, looking for other users experiences
Hi !...
Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?
I had this discussion with a friend, and we really couldn’t reach a consensus....
Τον Ιούνιο θα χρειάζεσαι 3 ευρώ για τον καφέ στο χέρι (www.news247.gr)
Όσοι κυκλοφορούμε με έναν καφέ στο χέρι, θα χρειαστεί να προχωρήσουμε σε αναθεωρήσεις ως προς τις απολαύσεις και τα έξοδα μας.
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. (techcrunch.com)
Me irl (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14974194...
Any android open source video player app with inbuilt subtitles downloader ?
VLC’s is broken atleast for me and i would like to know if any of the other video player from fdroid’s main repo jad a good subtitle browser/downloader inbuilt . Searching got me nowhere and I’d rather not download try uninstall every video player from fdroid . So if anyone uses any do recommend as there is a fuckton of...
Has there ever been a political system where legislative votes were weighted by how many votes each legislator received?
Let’s say you have multi-member constituencies. You hold an election with an outcome that looks roughly like this:...
Το Ισραήλ έπληξε με πύραυλο το Ιράν, λένε οι ΗΠΑ (www.naftemporiki.gr) Greek
Η ισραηλινή αντεπίθεση άρχισε. Αμερικανοί αξιωματούχοι επιβεβαίωσαν στο CBS ότι το Ισραήλ εξαπέλυσε πύραυλο κατά του Ιράν.
my insurance stopped covering name brand vyvanse
And guess what is on back order at every nearby pharmacy? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not the $300 per month name brand....