If you look around the world at the Orbans, the Bolsanaros, the Le Penns, the AfD, etc., you will find that polarization and the rising far right is global. First past the post is not a good thing, but the causes are far deeper.

A past global trend was how the center left parties (Democrats in the US, 2nd International Socialist parties in most of the rest of the world) discredited themselves, abandoning their core constituencies and pushing neoliberal economic policies (in the US, free trade, dismantling welfare, the banking deregulation behind 2008). I think that’s the proximate cause in the rise of the global far right.

The cause of that trend is the inability of regulated capitalism to both provide for everyone AND provide the necessary ever increasing rate of profit.

While there have been stirrings of possible left reformist parties (Sanders, Corbyn, Lula, etc) even those that make it into state power are ineffective at creating a new, stable, political economy.

Meanwhile climate change is haunting the globe and the clock is ticking.

I avoid them if I can. If the store wants me to work for them, they can pay me. If they don’t have any available human checkers, I will pay myself by accidentally not charging some of the items. I have left stores and attempt to tell store managers why.

If we had a sane economic system where jobless folks still got their needs met, I’d be all for automation. But we don’t. So every time we allow the corporations to profit with less human workers, we are fucking over our fellow humans.

We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.

Both are true, tho one came first.

Tho they might not experience other oppressions, all working people are still exploited and dependent upon players to exist. And most oppressed people are working people. The working class does not mean just white people, the working class is diverse.

It depends on the kind of strike. Workers that strike over a company’s unfair labor practice are protected from permanent replacements. This is not that tho. While they are far apart, I don’t think they can accuse the companies of refusing to negotiate.

Of course if the union wins the strike then no replacement.

You are comparing the work of a mass of people to fight back against hate with the actions of authorities and institutions.

Can you see how the work of masses of people is more democratic?

You mean the women whose degrees and careers were working on AI and who published informed critiques and who were fired for not retracting their criticism?

Y2K, like the ozone hole, is an example of a dire problem that could be solved by united effort with adequate resources and then seen as “no problem” by those ignorant of the effort expended. Otherwise, neat scale.

"oh yeah? Well, I’m gonna make my own Star Trek, with black jack and hookers. "

• Seth McFarlane