Timothy Huson

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@simonmaechling But honest medical doctors will indicate the opposite, where medicine functions today to profit the pharmaceutical industry, which then shares part of the booty with the doctors, at the cost of health. This is not an assumption, but is based on evidence. Confer Dr. Suneel Dhand.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@simonmaechling "Dose makes the poison" is too smart by half when we don’t actually know the dose and have no solid long-term safety data. Common sense says the chemical must be proven safe over generations BEFORE being treated like something as well-studied as water.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@simonmaechling They differ in source, concentration, purpose, and effect, exactly what is commonly meant by "chemicals." Saying "but water is a chemical too!" is like responding to complaints about lead in drinking water with: "relax bro, lead is a chemical just like the oxygen in H₂O."

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@ThatEricAlper Who says all countries even want to turn their population into factory-raised swine? You also make a crazy generalization about 32 countries, but ignorant oversimplification is the general rule today.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@mcsquared34 What changes when you make food a right? Would it mean you don't have to pay for food? Would that make food more abundant, or usher in a genuine world-wide famine? Think before you post slogans.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@ShangguanJiewen @XuAndre2 @experimentalis It's not just a discourse, Jason. Even what you are doing now, posting on X, is forbidden in China. You are breaking Chinese law, and expecting exception since you are bashing the US. Pretty disgusting activity whicher angle you take on it.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@XuAndre2 @ShangguanJiewen @experimentalis You pick a bad example to justify your angle. Not many people clamouring to go back to the days or real communism. The fall of communism is not a good basis for attacking the US.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@ShangguanJiewen @lambchopnosauce You are being selective. Right now you are breaking Chinese law by posting on X. If you love the Chinese government so much, you'd should obey their laws, right? And you would be running a risk by posting critically from China. You don't have that freedom either.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@ShangguanJiewen You are using "free" in a selective way. You are not free to criticize the government or protest. You are not free to breathe fresh air. You are not free from arrest if you do those things. And you are not free to use X. You are breaking the law as you now post.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@Uniquecomics1 @0xDavecryps Why don't those complaining become billionnaires themselves so they can give it all away? Here's the place to talk about putting their words into action.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@carsonight @0xDavecryps Right. And companies to go bankrupt, jobs to disappear, tax base to shrink, general economic collapse and bread lines. The billionnaires and everyone else would be in bread lines.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@0xDavecryps Those with billions actually ARE using it to benefit others when the money is invested in business that provides jobs, and it would not do this if the capitalist gives his wealth away.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@buherithomas @YeVer18 @HELIOFLOAT @jacksonhinkle Many sorts of democracy, but not all equally democratic. One would be where Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, and Buffet had control over police, military, courts, economy, media, and elections, and said "We protect the people." It would have the key features of Chinese democracy.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@buherithomas @HELIOFLOAT @jacksonhinkle I said "no real elections at national level." That is factual: no campaigning, no criticism of opponent, winner gets 95% or more of vote, and voters are not general populace, but Party members. Somewhat real elections on local level, but only in countryside, not in cities.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@ItsMattJason @jacksonhinkle This is exactly right. If we wanted China's system, we give Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, and Buffet complete power with control over police, military, justice system, economy, media, and election system. There might be some advantages. But better know what it is.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@Londoner256 @jacksonhinkle Dore's argument there is exactly what the Party in China says. No credible thinker simply repeats what any govenrment says as fact. Jimmy is a comedian. Don't take him seriously. Listen to Dave Chapelle. A far more knowledgable source.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@DawoodA38015953 @jacksonhinkle There is corporate influence in China too. The huge corporations are closely aligned with the Party, if not under private ownership by Party elite. Certainly, China has advantages. But there is no need to ignore the facts. China has as many billionnaires as the US.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@orskyai @jacksonhinkle China has a very large private sector. The state share is comparable to Western capitalilsm. And China's private sector, of course, is aimed at profit. What else? Wealth gap is much bigger in China than in the West.

[Timothy Huson @husontc]

@SharonJohn59376 @jacksonhinkle So what is the purpose of society? To repress criticism of the state. What Jimmy has chosen to spend his life doing here would absolutely not be allowed in China. Your point makes zero sense. And Jimmy is a comedian. He knows very little about politics and freedom.