Maybe, just maybe, the west’s political classes will realize–before its too late–that neoliberalism and funnelling the wealth of the many up to the few wasn’t such a great idea?

Ah, whom I kidding, if its a choice between democracy and less money, or fascism and more money, neoliberalism will send democracy packing.

Because reducing the amount you buy is not an option, per capitalism.

An example from the debate around climate change: Plan cities that don’t require driving? Bad. Replace cars we already own with EVs? Good.

Well, you have to be a really good hockey team to win one…

So, they feel that Israel needs “living room?”

I note the absence of Voyager and Discovery with interest and satisfaction.

Israel and America are trying to wrestle for that one, too

Bet you and the Democratic Party are wishing you’d codified this in law back when you had the chance, rather than just fundraising off the fear of Roe vs Wade falling, huh?

Also, I bet you wish you’d campaigned harder in swing states and not taken Trump’s populist appeal for granted, huh?

This gets into a tricky area of “what is consciousness, anyway?”. Our own consciousness is really just a gestalt rationalization engine that runs on a squishy neural net, which could be argued to be “faking it” so well that we think we’re conscious.

How about we go back to the one where we applied a marginal tax rate of 90% to the rich?

Forget the watch, is that a Model F keyboard?