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8. Yesterday

7. Rolf, at Now and Next

… wrote:

“But Communism is not a nation, and does not love people. Everything, even its own most ardent supporters, can be burned on the altar of abstract principle. Informed that a general nuclear war would kill a third of humankind, Mao said good, then there would be no more classes.

And dictators, dressed in a little brief authority, ignore warnings.”

6. Over at Jstack is this

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/a-nice-summary

… on the topic of things going wrong in the west, part of which mentioned this sort of thing:

In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT. pic.twitter.com/c3anpvmlDX

— Friendless Churches (@friendschurches) November 22, 2025