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    537 months ago

    Good luck to them!

    I think the only major contribution to humanity the CCP I would respect would be fusion research.

    It’s not complicated, just stupid expensive and politically impossible, but if they can figure it out, they have truly provided a transformative humanity.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 months ago

        Not even a drop whatsoever.

        Taiwan brought the same people with fewer resources far more forward and did it with respect for freedom and human dignity.

        While Mao basically murdered or caused the death of 50m of his own people from his own stupidity.

        I’d prefer the Chinese put their CCP against the wall before they invent fusion, I guarantee this will be a true golden age for China, but I think the CCP would try to take down China itself before it let itself lose control.

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        47 months ago

        I mean, that’s not the CCP, that’s just the Chinese people working like dogs to profit the corrupt party members.

        The CCP gets very little credit for modern China, it was Mao dying and Deng choosing a looser rein that lead to China’s shocking rise, the people themselves are great, the party is merely a horrible parasite that killed 50m of its own people from its pride.

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          167 months ago

          I mean, that’s not the CCP, that’s just the Chinese people working like dogs to profit the corrupt party members.

          If that’s true then it is also true that Capitalism didn’t do anything for America either. It was Americans working like dogs for the profit of corrupt leaders.

      • DessalinesOP
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        And poverty eradication. And high speed rail. And smartphone and chip tech, and space program… kind of a long list.

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      Fusion reactors are incredibly complicated… This is a research reactor, with the goal of figuring out how to create sustainable fusion for real world uses by 2050.

      This is not a performative action for a determinative outcome, this is aspirational and has no guarantee of achieving its goals, which is good. This type of research and science needs to be funded, even when it may fail.

      Maybe this will spurn competition between powers to accelerate their own fusion reactor research, and create a virtuous cycle that accelerates this technology becoming a major source of green energy in the near, or medium-term, future.

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        107 months ago

        I like democracy, but I don’t like our short-sighted (4-8 year) election-campaign-based governing. But between our public and private sectors I know we can meet this challenge and make this happen.

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          I disagree on the private sector aspect of this, but I agree on the democracy part. Although, I don’t really view America as true democracy at this moment in history, but that’s besides the point here.

          Fusion technology is at a point in its life cycle where it needs to be a public sector project. There is no path to profitability in the near-term, that would justify private sector involvement, except as a means to extract profit from the very expensive research process of even making this technology feasible.

          Not that I’m against the private sector within the nuclear power industry. I’m very excited to see what they can do with SMR technology. I’m just extremely skeptical of most private-public partnerships, especially in cases like this.

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            37 months ago

            I would greatly prefer public sector development. I’m just being fatalistic about how our oligarchy conducts itself.

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              One way they conduct themselves is by using the politicians they’ve purchased to advocate for forming public-private partnerships, in areas where they shouldn’t exist, which they can then legally siphon off the resources from.