Not a car

The entire Fuxing Hao network has been built in the last like 15 years. We could do that too if we cared to.

I said good, nothing good is on that cursed island

Wrong, good intercity high speed trains are so much faster that they beat cars even accounting for last mile trips by other methods

Most of what’s happening in politics is bad

Trains can go a lot faster than electric cars what are you talking about

Shitty

Yes, that turned out really well for everyone I’m loving the end of history

It even gets historicized according to that old trick. Luddite is now used to mean reactionary against new technology, but the original Luddites were just against how the bosses were using new machines to disenfranchise and impoverish them.

created then lost to

No, it’s not a battle between workers and technology. It is, as ever, a battle between workers and bosses. The technology is only a problem because the bosses own it.

The devil doesn’t need more volunteer advocates, he’s got plenty of paid ones.

The American pro-Israel lobby has a lot more to do with evangelical Christians looking forward to their apocalypse than it does with Jewish people.

“Tankies” is used to mean several different things, from the horrible pro-Putin stuff over on lemmygrad to anything left of liberal. I’m reminded of how the right wing of the UK labour party called their sabotage of Corbyn “Trot hunting”

Who’s ready for the Azov Taliban in 20 years?

Lots of uses of “AI” are so people can deny responsibility. They feed in their history of discrimination, tell the machine to replicate it, then go, “it can’t be discriminatory, it’s an AI”

Watch Jessie Gender instead

It might confusingly offer a choice other than neoliberal or fascist

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds