Worse, some of them are Ethical Altruists, just like Sam Bankman Fried of FTX

…and this is why conservatives in the UK pushed for Brexit

That’s the one. The possessed one.

Any megachurch, to be honest. Any thing Pat Robertson did, that guy with the crazy demon eyes, Joel Osteen, etc

That was France, not the EU

On the other hand the christians that are ashamed of this are not doing enough to show their disapproval

The one good thing about this trial is that America is realizing how chronically inadequate its laws are for expecting people in political office (or campaigning for) to behave within the law. Everyone is human and bound to abuse and the law should set clear boundaries to prevent that abuse.

I guess both given the massive scale of the business and its massive impacts on the whole economy is reasonable

The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.

China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don’t have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).

In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy

Open elections when there is only one party in practice are moot

Apple can’t or Apple won’t?

Voters are schmucks unfortunately and a sizable portion won’t be alive to see the consequences.

It is exactly the same approach

Not denying that Biden is very old and that any vote for him carries a material probability that it also elects the VP for president, the vast majority of politicians are very old in the USA

UK consumers are always welcome to import seafood from those waters

He must have based it off that Goebbels picture when he realized the photographer was Jewish

And someone who won’t be paid anyway

Great opportunity to sentence the orangebutt in absentia for treason

One developer was so broke, but it still tried to make do:

The group’s real estate development income plummeted from 1.1 billion yuan in 2021 to zero in 2022, according to China Chengxin Credit Ratings. It has even started selling corn and jujube fruit as a new business.

The attitude of the medical director is so British