What would your wonderful communism do with this?

UBI? Reduced working hours? Better social services? Public works? There’s no such thing as not enough work; only not enough work that benefits the ruling class.

And also, you know, consumers create jobs by their very existence so the whole idea is economically nonsensical.

First off, there’s no need to be that combative. Second,

Here’s a hint, look at the first 3 letters of the word “oxidation.”

There’s plenty of oxygen dissolved in water.

But then again there’s only a few countries that do and none of them are superpowers.

Really? Which ones?

Not quite, but they’ll probably be a factor (obligatory here’s hoping we’re wrong on both counts). Israel’s conduct in general (this is in no way restricted to a particular faction or part of the Israeli political spectrum) is making antisemitism more mainstream, but the West is due for a fascist takeover and it’s not like fascists need much reason to go after Jews.

Scholars of fascism whose job literally is to study it: Am I a joke to you?

Didn’t this guy want to make English the official language of America?

I mean even pragmatically there’s literally no reason to do this. Not having to do that is the whole reason neocolonialism is a thing, and that’s a game the US are already masters at. Really it’s just the dementia again.

I mean I think most people would agree that a meme template is necessary for something to be a meme. Microblog “memes” that are just a funny post on Twitter or Mastodon are fundamentally a different thing.

Uh… modern young earth creationism is pretty much an American thing, and modern flat earth beliefs only became a thing in the mid-19th century. I know Lemmy likes to dunk on Christians, but this is historically illiterate.

I mean yeah, but they’d usually not pay even a small fine (or pay for legal proceedings), so it’s a lot more efficient to use conveniently placed loopholes.

Then they might get in trouble for false advertising.

Um… hell no? There’s no way more than 3-4/14 are true unless you’re working with some kind of alternate universe China. Nothing about China is traditionalist, anti-modernist or anti-intellectualist, for one; they’re probably the most technocratic nation on Earth.

Fascism is more complicated than that, and while China is nationalistic it’s not running on the kind of ultranationalism that, say, Nazi Germany had. Modern China doesn’t meet any credible definition of fascism.

I.e. the volumes of gases under the ideal gas law scaled linearly with degrees celcius by about 1/273rd between 0-100C - which led to the prediction that the lowest possible temperature a gas could be was -273C (because that would be the point where it theoretically would have absolutely zero volume).

No horse in this race, but this is cool as fuck. So that’s how the first tries at measuring absolute zero were made.

For either Mandarin or French to supplant English as the world’s most widely spoken language we would need not just a large and wealthy segment of the world that natively speaks it, but a mechanism that encourages people who know neither French nor Mandarin nor English to learn one of the former and not the latter.

The latter usually follows from the former. Wealthy people buy things, sell things, create things and go to places, all of which requires those on the other end of the deal to be able to talk to them. China is also investing in its global image, and in a few decades they’ll be forced to import immigrants to make up the shortfall in their labor force.

Similarly, Mandarin is the second language of a bunch of non-native speakers who live or work in China, most of which are presumably Chinese natives whose first language was a different dialect like Cantonese.

Chinese is also gaining steam in Russia and Africa, though admittedly it’s probably going to be at least a generation before it becomes an actually popular language to learn.

Being widely spoken in one particular region (or even a few regions) doesn’t automatically connect to being a global lingua franca. If that was the standard we’d be speaking Hindi or Mandarin here. Francophone Africa is projected to experience a popular boom, but even in the best case scenario (i.e. one where francophone Africa experiences better economic growth than other parts) that’d only make it more widespread in Africa. Globally there’s no way it can compete with the rising utility of Mandarin.

It’s more like conservatism isn’t a coherent ideology; it’s just nostalgia for the good old days fueling reactionary support for entrenched power structures. In places where rhese entrenched power structures are liberal conservatism is liberal; in places where they’re not it’s not.

Sure that’s a fair point, but then we’d expect other polls to produce similar results. It’s not like we have to take their word for it.

“The entire political spectrum” doesn’t mean “every single person ever,” or even “every single politician ever.” The implication is only that the statement applies to all political segments of the population. If the left, right and center (and any other significant political blocs) mostly agree on something, then the whole political spectrum supports it, even if some people don’t.