Welcome to the last Friday of May: It’s May 30, 2025, and June begins in two days.
It’s also Mint Julep Day, celebrating a drink that’s excellent when made with good bourbon and fresh mint: here’s one served in the traditional way, in a frosted silver cup:
It’s also National Heat Awareness Day and National Creativity Day.
Posting has been and will continue to be light as I’ve had another bad attack of insomnia, but also because there seems to be adearth of interesting news. Or maybe it’s me. Bear with me, though: I do my best. Today I have a Zoom call and a 1.5-hour podcast to do (more on that later), so don’t expect much today.
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the May 30 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
Lots of Trumpy news today:
*After a fractious tenure as head of DOGE, Elon Musk is finally leaving the Trump administration.
In the post, Musk thanked Trump for the “opportunity to reduce wasteful spending” and said DOGE’s “mission will only strengthen over time.”
A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed Musk’s departure and said his offboarding will begin Wednesday night.
A day earlier, in a major break with the president and Republicans, Musk said he did not approve of Trump’s spending bill — officially known as the One Big Beautiful Bill — with its massive tax cuts.
“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk said in an interview with CBS News.
Trump — who in February sat alongside Musk for a Fox News interview that saw the two men praise each other effusively — has yet to comment on Musk’s departure, though the president has posted unrelated memes and video on social media since Musk’s announcement.
For weeks, Musk has signaled that he plans to wind down his government work and refocus on his companies. Privately, he has grown frustrated with the challenges of achieving results within the federal government, along with the backlash he has faced — both personally and toward Tesla, his electric-vehicle company, The Washington Post has reported.
Well, all I can say is “good riddance,” but it’ll take years until America heals from the slash-and-burn cost-cutting strategies of Musk in collaboration with Trump. Musk, the world’s richest man, can go back to blowing up rockets in his futile attempt to put people on Mars.
*Federal judges have blocked many of Trump’s new tariffs, including the steepest ones on China and other countries (article archived here).
A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the world.
The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his primary leverage as he looks to pressure other nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States.
Before Mr. Trump took office, no president had sought to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law, to impose tariffs on other nations. The law, which primarily concerns trade embargoes and sanctions, does not even mention tariffs.
But Mr. Trump adopted a novel interpretation of its powers as he announced, and then suspended, high levies on scores of countries in April. He also used the law to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico in return for what he said was their role in sending fentanyl to the United States.
On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade, the primary federal legal body overseeing such matters, found that Mr. Trump’s tariffs “exceed any authority granted” to the president by the emergency powers law. Ruling in separate cases brought by states and businesses, a bipartisan panel of three judges essentially declared many, but not all, of Mr. Trump’s tariffs to have been issued illegally.
Below is a graph that tracks the lawsuits against Trump, taken from The Washington Post, which adds,
Judges have blocked — for now — his efforts to punish law firms and Harvard University, as well as to deport migrants without due process. Courts have allowed Trump to fire independent regulators while litigation continues. On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade blocked the 10 percent tariffs Trump imposed on all foreign products as well as the higher levies applied to imports from several dozen nations.
Most of the rulings are temporary. Their final outcomes will go a long way to shape what Trump is able to accomplish in his second term. Here is our rundown of some of the biggest cases.
*Speaking of China, Secretary of State Marco Rubio (those words stick in my craw) has announced that he’ll revoke the visas of many Chinese students—”aggressively”:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday evening that the Trump administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.”
He added that the State Department was revising visa criteria to “enhance scrutiny” of all future applications from China, including Hong Kong.
The move was certain to send ripples of anxiety across university campuses in the United States and was likely to lead to reprisal from China, the country of origin for the second-largest group of international students in the United States.
Mr. Rubio’s brief statement announcing the visa crackdown did not define “critical fields” of study, but the phrase most likely refers to research in the physical sciences. In recent years, American officials have expressed concerns about the Chinese government recruiting U.S.-trained scientists, though there is no evidence of such scientists working for China in large numbers.
Similarly, it is unclear how U.S. officials will determine which students have ties to the Communist Party. The lack of detail on the scope of the directive will no doubt fuel worries among the roughly 275,000 Chinese students in the United States, as well as professors and university administrators who depend on their research skills and financial support.
American universities and research laboratories have benefited over many decades by drawing some of the most talented students from China and other countries, and many universities rely on international students paying full tuition for a substantial part of their annual revenue.
Last year 20% of student visas were granted to Chinese people, and I have to agree with both of the last two paragraphs. Some of the most talented STEM people in America (in my experience) came from China, and those who stay vastly enrich scientific culture. This is just more Trumpian retribution against China, and retribution that works to the detriment of America. But will the person in the street care about this? I doubt it; they worry more about the price of groceries. But those will rise, too, helping Democrats. I worry a lot about the next Presidential election, but the 2026 midterms will give us a clue about national sentiment. (It won’t give us a Democratic government, though, and remember that Trump has veto power until his term is up.
*Newsweek reports a new policy of massive grade inflation in San Francisco, and you know why (h/t Williams Garcia): all must have prizes!
San Francisco’s public high schools will implement a sweeping change to their grading system this fall, replacing traditional methods with a policy that allows students to pass with scores as low as 41 percent.
The initiative, part of a broader “Grading for Equity” push, is stirring concern among educators, students and parents over academic standards and college readiness.
The context [JAC: I’ve put the gist of the new plan in bold]
Similar policies across other Bay Area districts—such as Dublin, Oakland and Pleasanton—have seen mixed results and strong community reactions. Dublin Unified attempted a pilot of equity grading in 2023, which included removing zeros for missed assignments and awarding a minimum of 50 percent for any “reasonably attempted” work.
That pilot, however, was met with outrage and resistance. Parents created petitions, formed WhatsApp groups and filled school board meetings to protest what they saw as a lowering of standards for their children. The Dublin school board eventually suspended the initiative, though individual teachers were still allowed to use the methods at their discretion.
The experiment in San Francisco comes amid — or despite — a broader rethinking of DEI initiatives after the election of Donald Trump, who ran on a platform of excising what he and many others said were “unfair” equity practices in the government and private sectors.
. . . . The new policy, set to affect more than 10,000 students across 14 high schools, significantly changes how academic performance is measured.
Homework and classroom participation will no longer influence a student’s final grade. Students will be assessed primarily on a final exam, which they can retake multiple times. Attendance and punctuality will not affect academic standing.
The plan was first revealed in the fine print of a 25-page agenda and reported by The Voice of San Francisco, a local nonprofit. The outlet reported that the district is hiring Joe Feldman, an educational consultant known for his book Grading for Equity, to train teachers this summer.
“If our grading practices don’t change, the achievement and opportunity gaps will remain for our most vulnerable students. If we are truly dedicated to equity, we have to stop avoiding the sensitive issue of grading and embrace it,” Feldman said in a 2019 blog post for the School Superintendents Association (AASA).
Feldman’s book outlines how traditional grading can reinforce socioeconomic disparities and proposes alternative strategies for more equitable assessment. According to The Voice of San Francisco, the new system will be modeled in part on the San Leandro Unified School District, where students can earn an A with a score as low as 80 percent and pass with a D at just 21 percent. Under the forthcoming San Francisco policy, a score of 41 percent will qualify as a C.
. . . . Supporters of the policy say it better reflects real student learning by de-emphasizing behavior-based penalties like late work or missed assignments. However, critics warn the policy could harm students who are already on track for college placement.
“Nowhere in college do you get 50 percent for doing nothing,” said Laurie Sargent, an eighth-grade English teacher in the Dublin Unified School District, in a 2024 Mercury News report. “Nowhere in the working world do you get 50 percent for doing nothing. If I don’t show up to work, they don’t pay me 50 percent of my salary—even if I made a reasonable attempt to get there.”
Put me on the side of Laurie Sargent. There is only one real motivation for this heinous laxness and grade inflation: to make the poorer students, often members of minority groups, look better. But in the end, I think it will actually hurt those students, for it weakens the meritocracy, hiding those minority students who are standouts, and takes away the incentive from every student to work (how many students will come to class if they don’t have to, and will take exams over and over again until they get a decent score.
*I signed up for emails from Colossal Biosciences, and got one yesterday with good news and bad news. The good news is that the endangered red wolf, reduced to only 14 individuals in captivity, which reduces genetic variation, is part of a Colossal plan to boost the genetic variation. Here’s what they propose. First, Colossal cloned a “ghost wolf” (a coyote/red wolf hybrid from the wild) that had a lot of natural red wolf genome; the cloning was done using a domestic dog surrogate mother. Later, the firm plans to insert some genuine red wolf genome (based on DNA taken from captive wolves) into the genome of ghost wolves (see the video here and discussion on the Colossal website here), making Colossal “one step closer to restoring the species”. While this may up the genetic variation in captive red wolves, it’s not clear how much red wolf genome will be boosted in the “restored species”, and I don’t know how serious a problem the lack of genetic variation poses anyway (habitat loss and hunting may be far more serious problems). So we may get more red-wolfish individuals (where will they be released?), but as far as I can see, they won’t be genetically pure red wolves. We’ll have to wait and see. The project has its good aspects, but, as usual, I think there’s some hype here.
The bad news is that Colossal is STILL referring to the dire wolf as a “de-extincted” ancient animal, despite having admitted previously that they did not bring back dire wolves and in fact produced only grey wolves with 15 DNA edits derived from the dire wolf genome out of 20 total edits. So Colossal has backtracked bit time.
Here’s a screenshot from the email, followed by a breathless video praising the bogus “de-extinction”.
Here’s a rah-rah video, heavy on the PR and devoid of any caveats.
Clearly, Colossal has decided to dig in its heels and argue that, yes, they have “de-extincted” the dire wolf. They most certainly have not. But the mainstream media has let the public down by buying into Colossal’s hype.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Andrzej gets a rebuke from Hili:
Hili: You made a very bad decision with this gravel.Andrzej: Why?Hili: You forgot that cats walk without shoes.
Hili: Z tymi kamykami to bardzo źle wymyśliłeś.Ja: Dlaczego?Hili: Zapomniałeś, że koty nie chodzą w butach.
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From Meow:
From Jesus of the Day:
From Strange, Stupid, or Silly Signs:
From Masih: Iran’s built its own version of Hell to scare the bejeezus out of its citizens:
The Islamic Republic just built its own version of Hell in Iran to terrify people into obeying Islamic laws.
Fake flames. Cheap props. Government-paid demons in Halloween costumes all designed by the IRGC and meant to scare people into obeying Sharia law.
Show your hair? Burn… pic.twitter.com/MTGQDvDvX3
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) May 29, 2025
From Luana: Brown has just adopted institutional neutrality, as laid out in Chicago’s Kalven Report. It’s only the 32nd university or college to make this sensible move:
BREAKING: Brown University has adopted institutional neutrality: pic.twitter.com/3cd0Aa6IiL
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 28, 2025
From Malcolm; Person adopts wolf pup (not knowing what it was), person bonds with wolf pup, person releases grown wolf to its pack, but wolf sometimes visits. . .
I accidentally raised a wolf… pic.twitter.com/io9Hn3WUOI
— We don’t deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) May 16, 2025
Two from my feed. Propaganda at Harvard graduation. Sure, it’s free speech, but it’s misleading and inappropriate free speech.
Please watch these 7 minutes of my graduation ceremony at Harvard.
People need to understand the shocking levels at which Harvard students are indoctrinated.
There are *77 million* stateless Tamils.
There are *68 million* stateless Cantonese.
There are *30 million* stateless… pic.twitter.com/47POt52ByZ
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) May 28, 2025
Should I try this for my insomnia?
In the city of Shenyang, China, a very unusual method is being used to treat insomnia: people are hanging from their necks with a belt and gently swinging for a few minutes.
Those who try it claim their sleep problems have significantly improved. pic.twitter.com/SgQaHfjcTJ
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) May 28, 2025
One I reposted from the Auschwitz Memorial:
An eight-year old Jewish girl was gassed to death upon arriving at Auschwitz. She was seven.
— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T09:33:45.065Z
Two posts from Dr. Cobb. He finds this first one lovely:
Something a bit different for today's #foxoftheday . Watch some newts , accompanied by a drinking fox's tongue , shared by @urbanponds101 ! Top work !
— Chris Packham (@chrisgpackham.bsky.social) 2025-05-28T07:02:58.870Z
Matthew posted this Existential Comics strip, calling it “metaphysics in the morning.” He says that Spinoza comes closest, which is true, but Spinoza, as a pantheist, thought not that God was part of the physical world, but was one with the physical world:
From the incomparable @existentialcomics.com. Spinoza comes closest, obvs. static.existentialcomics.com/comics/Early…
— Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T07:08:29.352Z
“It’s May 30, 2025, and June begins tomorrow.”
But I’d really like one more day of May. Can’t we have a May 31, just this once?
Genie: Your wish is granted.
Thank you for intervening on behalf of all of us who needed an extra day to get all our May tasks done!
Yes, the years go by fast enough without wishing them to go faster!
My mistake: I thought it was June!
What a surprise to see my birthday erased!
I plan to celebrate regardless, starting later today on our family holiday, Suemas Eve. I attribute the lapse to our host’s insomnia.
Regarding the new grading policy in SF, it looks like the teaching profession has essentially given up on a population of their students. This population is overwhelmingly black and Latino, and mostly boys. For them, even the most basic standards have been deemed too difficult, and they will now be receiving state-supported daycare instead of an education.
This is what the far left considers “progress”.
“Attendance and punctuality will not affect academic standing.”
I’m reminded of certain fine young gentlemen running the halls between classes. As time was about to run out before the bell rang, they placed themselves right at the threshold of the classroom door, stepping across as the bell rang. (Then the interrupting began.) I don’t think the standards were hard for them; they simply couldn’t be bothered to meet them. Certainly a carrot to attract one to teaching. As I have seen happen in not a few classrooms, perhaps I should have offered a piece of candy as a reward for doing what they ought to have done as a matter of course in the first place.
I was substitute teaching in a class. The students were doing group work on some project, sitting on the floor. One student asked for another pencil. I pointed at the pencil box six feet away from me, eight or nine feet away from her. It soon enough became clear that she expected me to hand-deliver a pencil to her. I declined. She apparently did some sort of cost-benefit analysis and decided she didn’t need another pencil after all.
I call it the soft racism of low expectations in K-12. It is racist at its core. This behavior runs rampant among some do-gooder white progressives.
If only it were confined to the K-12 system.
Sigh. Maybe there is some educational value in the fact that although they won’t actually read Lord of the Flies, they will experience it.
Edit:
%”If we are truly dedicated to equity, we have to stop … grading….”%
The price of groceries HAS risen; my staples, chocolate, wine, coffee, have gone up since the beginning of the year. And let me add two recent headlines from the business pages of my local paper: “R&D funding cuts create job drought for scientists” and “US existing-home sales decline, worst April since 2009”. Now why do we think that is? I do not understand how my Trumpian friends cannot connect the dots.
NYT :
“… did not define “critical fields” of study, but the phrase most likely refers to research in the physical sciences.”
Everyone knows what “critical” refers to – the sociological academic work of “theorists” e.g. gender and beyond – as a means to claim political power. The NYT knows this.
NYT : “Similarly, it is unclear how U.S. officials will determine which students have ties to the Communist Party. ”
Look for dialectical alchemy in thought. Read Marxist literature like Marcuse, but first a prelude:
“I understand, I sense that you’re tired. But you have not yet really suffered the terrible trials of the 20th century which have rained down on the old continent… You’re tired, but the Communists who want to destroy your system are not; they’re not tired at all.”
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Warning to the West, p. 82
1975, 1976
Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux
……
Marcuse (bold added):
“However, the solution of this conflict will never be the result of the internal development of science: the new scientific revolution will be part of the social revolution.
To extend the base of the student movement, Rudi Dutschke has proposed the strategy of the long march through the institutions: working against the established institutions while working in them, but not simply by “boring from within,” rather by “doing the job,” learning (how to program and read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, [..] et cetera), and at the same time preserving one’s own consciousness in working with the others.
The long march includes the concerted effort to build up counterinstitutions.
[..]
I have stressed the key role which the universities play in the present period: they can still function as institutions for the training of counter-cadres. The “restructuring” necessary for the attainment of this goal means more than decisive student participation and nonauthoritarian learning. Making the university “relevant” for today and tomorrow means, instead, presenting the facts and forces that made civilization what it is today and what it could be tomorrow—and that is political education. For history indeed repeats itself; it is this repetition of domination and submission that must be halted, and halting it presupposes knowledge of its genesis and of the ways in which it is reproduced: critical thinking.”
-Herbert Marcuse
Counterrevolution and Revolt
1972
Did you see it NYT? At the bottom? “critical thinking” as written by Marcuse does NOT mean what scientists usually mean, a skepticism – it here means MARXIST CRITICAL THEORY. Look at all of what Marcuse wrote above. That is subversion by polysemy – Marxism is paralogy and its word games are dialectical “alchemy of the word” (Marcuse, op. cit.).
Communism is a theosophic cult religion of transcendence and return. Socialism is the polite cover for Communism but it is the same holy book.
Good pickup on “critical fields”, Bryan. Bears some thinking.
The Times also says there is no evidence that U.S.-trained scientists are (back in China) working “for China” in large numbers. Well, no, I’m sure there isn’t a website where this is helpfully collated and published for our edification. But they’re in China, a totalitarian state. Whom the hell else are they going to be working for? Taiwan? Israel?
Appreciated – it could mean that too – as in, science that is critically needed for the CCP.
But Marxist critical theory is just as relevant here – subversion and transformation of the United States.
Note also how Marcuse was aware of great things in store for science – gotta get on that ship, right? But he called for infiltrators to work along side “the others” nicely as they advance their preserved consciousness over the entrenched false consciousness – not to advance science itself.
F’ing sociopathic!
Almost as fast as a court blocked the tariffs, an appeals court unblocked them.
The appellate court entered an administrative which has the purpose of holding things in place while the parties brief the merits. Not unusual and not an indication of the leanings of the appellate court.
For your insomnia, have you tried marijuana? Many indica strains are very sleep-inducing, and they won’t cause you to wake up in the middle of the night like alcohol does.
Or as it is affectionately know, “In Da Couch”, which is where you will find yourself if you use too much.
MJ is a great servant, not so good a master. As an occasional user I find a gummy (just one – they’re STRONG!) before bed can adjust one’s schedule in a pretty nice, gentle way. Once a week but no more. Just a sleep schedule reset.
This is assuming – and I don’t know about PCC(E)’s case – the paranoia, itchiness etc. bad effects don’t happen to him as they do to a small percentage of users.
So…. caution. But it is a decent tool, better than benzos or any nonsense “natural” fixes. Avoid things like Valarium, like St. John’s Wort, these naturalist fallacy ideas are garbage and often harmful. Like “indigenous science” bs.
D.A.
NYC
Wine never fails for me.
One bright spot is that over in Wall Street and now elsewhere is the acronym TACO, for Trump Always Chickens Out. Referring to his on and off again relationship with tariffs. It pisses him off, and I like it.
A three judge panel overturns Trump’s tariffs on Constitutional grounds. And just now an activist right wing judge undoes that injunction. Dueling judges. As usual. Under Trump in his first administration, a number of federal judges were appointed that the American Bar Association pronounced unqualified. Meanwhile Pam Bondi has just announced that the American Bar Association will henceforth be ignored by the DOJ. Judicial kakitocracy.
From Wikipedia:
According to the Red Wolf Recovery Program there are currently 270 in captivity as of February 2025 and 17-19 estimated in the wild.
Egads, that neck hanging/swinging thing is crazy dangerous. There really are some stupid people out there.
Reminds me of dangerous chiropractic nonsense.
Reminds me of dangerous sexual practices…
I have no stats but strongly suspect there are many more serious victims of chiropractic spinal injury (permanent paralysis, lifetime pain, etc.) than of autoerotic strangulation (death, hypoxia, etc.). Needless to say, both are ill-advised.
Do not see any comment today yet on Harvard: the video appears to be a Divinity School graduation activity, not the big, main Harvard College/university ceremony. It IS despicable, but it also validates the title of our host’s most recent book, “Faith vs Fact”. I thought it good that Harvard gave no institutional sponsorship to affinity group graduation ceremonies this year. I have not watched the tape of the full graduation, but have heard reports that pali political disruptions were not welcome this year…some enforcement of time, place, and manner. The video title says “2024”. I wonder if it is last year or this year, 2025.
Couldn’t resist:
FROM
Open Source Intel @Osint613
France’s Macron: “Right now, Europe is giving Israel a free hand. We must work towards recognizing a Palestinian state. If we abandon Gaza and allow Israel a free hand, we will kill our own credibility.”
—–Easy to see why Macron’s teacher/wife/elder clipped him upside the head on the plane. 🙂 We should get our Jewish Space Lasers to slap him twice!
Zut Alors!
D.A.
NYC
“If our grading practices don’t change, the achievement and opportunity gaps will remain for our most vulnerable students.”
Utter crap. The achievement and opportunity gaps will still remain, but the ability to recognize and correct them will not.
As I’ve noted before, Lionel Shriver’s acerbic novel “Mania” takes the viewpoint of education-equity to its logical conclusion. It is brilliant satire for about 2/3, then gets tangled up in its plot.
Yes Joe. I’m a Lionel superfan and “Mania” was no exception to her many achievements.
We’re headed for the world she writes of, surely. In SFO and CA particularly. In NYC with our strong Chinese community similar measures got properly whacked.
Mania is an excellent read also.
best as always Joe,
D.A
NYC
While the wolf video was darling and even moving, the comments to the video on X almost all say it’s a fake, a pastiche of different pups and such. Just FYI.
“Well, all I can say is “good riddance,” but it’ll take years until America heals from the slash-and-burn cost-cutting strategies of Musk in collaboration with Trump.” – Jerry.
Slash and burn cost cutting? Really? Right now, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion than its taken in, seven months into the fiscal year. Soon, U.S debt will surpass $37 trillion. If you’re worried about taking years to heal…look at the bond market.
Follow the math Jerry.
I was referring in particular to the damage to science.
Thanks for the snarky last sentence.
The San Francisco school district has abandoned its “grading for equity” grading plan following significant backlash: https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-public-schools-reverse-grading-equity-plan-after-backlash-2078586
Well thank goodness for small miracles. It was so astonishingly wrong-headed that I was waiting for it to be revealed as a prank. What a dipshit Maria Su is.
Hadn’t seen the word “dipshit” in many years, Debi. But you have used it perfectly here! I don’t think it can be criticized as opprobrium if it is true.
“[I]t is unclear how U.S. officials will determine which students have ties to the Communist Party.”
First, if they’re here at all, they have at least been vetted by the Communist Party and found to be ideologically acceptable. Second, as I understand it, all Chinese citizens are obligated to serve the Party, including as spies.
It’s just as stupid as if Chinese officials had said they would vet US transfer students for ties to the US government.
Just as stupid? How so? The Chinese citizen (and ethnic Han Chinese born in other countries who are not citizens of China) is deemed to have fealty obligations to the Chinese Communist Party that are totally different from the relationship American citizens have with the American state. The CCP sets up listening posts in Canada to keep tabs on Canadian citizens of Chinese origin.
I don’t think any police state can be dismissed as stupid. Don’t underestimate them.
What’s particularly stupid is that damn near everyone in both the US and China has many ties to their respective governments, so as a vetting policy this is useless. It’s only value would be to promote additional unchecked power, favouritism, and corruption. I personally would prefer not to live in such a state, wherever it is.