From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 25/12/2025 11:15 pm, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:46:33 GMT, Jan Panteltje    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> "Don" wrote:   
   >>>> john larkin wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> I use Huawei stuff .. 4G USB modem stick, gives me internet on laptop or   
   Raspberry's anywhere in Europe.   
   >> Huawei makes very good stuff.   
   >> My Chinese made Xiaomi smartphone is very good too.   
   >> Always remember: China invented the gunpowder too:-)   
   >>   
   >> China has a better political system than that crazy nutcase now in his   
   goldplated Warhouse in the You Ash with its 2 parties fighting each other..   
   >> Beep!   
   >   
   > US parties compete and police one another for corruption.   
      
   US politics institutionalises corruption. It has worse income inequality   
   than any other advanced industrial country.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(Wilkinson_and_Pickett_book)   
      
   > "Communism" is all about corruption and thuggery and torture and war.   
      
   Actually "communism" is Karl Marx's version of socialism, and his   
   insistence on the "leading role of the party" got him thrown out of the   
   international socialist movement.   
      
   "If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute   
   power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself." Mikhail   
   Bakunin.   
      
   Communist regimes are no more enthusiastic about corruption, thuggery,   
   torature and war than their autocratic right-wing counterpart - look at   
   Donald Trump.   
      
   China has done some work on cleaning out corruption, but autocratic   
   regimes do tend to fall back into bad habits remarkably rapidly.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman. Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)