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> It seems like extra weight and complexity for purely PR reasons. And that's the thing that gets a public supportive of your space program and thus the resou
by iso1631 5y ago
> It seems like extra weight and complexity for purely PR reasons.
And that's the thing that gets a public supportive of your space program and thus the resources keep flowing.
Drop the PR and you drop the funding.
- erdos4d 5y agoThis is a democratic model you are assuming, I don't think CCP needs the Chinese people to "support" anything they do, it really just boils down to whether the CCP leaders support it.
- melling 5y agoNational pride is very important in either model.
- sidlls 5y agoYes, but the people with the pride differ. In the genocidal dictatorship of China only the pride of the CCP matters very much. It can be coerced or ignored in other groups.
- shigawire 5y agoI don't agree. They still need to assert their legitimately through successful governance and projects.
- dr-detroit 5y agoI dont know any average people who support the western system of oppressive wealth consolidation.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. Those lead to highly repetitive discussion, which is tedious and usually turns nasty — therefore not what we want here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=mind%20amuse%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...