What do they have in common? A lot sometimes. They can be both silly and good at shooting themselves in the foot.
The Pope, well, how is that possible in the 21st century? He said condoms are “dangerous”, bad etc. Great, let the poor people make kids like rabbits to worsen their poverty. And the others get some of those terrible diseases. We had another great thinker, ex-US president, who was about as sclerotic. Now at least the USA is restarting their family planning projects in places like Africa.
At least here in China they are a bit more clever than that. Yes, yes, prostitution is illegal but in all hotels and “entertainment” places condoms should be available.
Of course here we have other sclerotic people. The ones that shut down websites, like now YouTube, dead since many days. And why? For some isolated video clip? Just good enough for all to know about that clip and to show how scared they are.
Homepages at mac.com are dead here since months. Those government dinosaurs will never understand how to deal with PR and world opinion. They waste all their energy and manpower to police the Internet. Does it help? Of course yes – to make them look real paranoid and brainless.
So, China joins the ranks of the “silly-looking countries”, the ones that block the Internet. Nice club to belong to!
So, the Pope and the Dinosaurs should hook up together. They can invite some ultracons from the USA and the Taliban. A lot in common!