AmidFuror

If the biology is different enough, things like viruses wouldn’t easily cross between the planets. But bacteria could still probably exploit us (and them), and nothing would stop things with claws, teeth, and spikes from hurting us even if they couldn’t ultimately digest us.

The writers at Jacobin want it to be true, because they need a reason why progressives aren’t in power that involves conspiracies.

The first rule of Fight Chat is you can’t control Fight Chat.

Kidney might be similar. Both people are likely to be left with one functioning kidney, but one has to take anti-rejection drugs.

A partial liver transplant and a bone marrow transplant is even more along the lines of better to be the donor.

And fecal transplants are pretty easy on both parties, but moreso the donor.

That the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, or that the riots that allegedly preceded it were about democratic reforms.

If Communism can’t survive or requires totalitarian despotism in the presence of capitalist countries, then it’s an unfit system of government. Governments need to be able survive outside challenges.

“Communism hasn’t been properly tried” is the real bullshit. It doesn’t work, and devolves quickly to authoritarianism.