How do the Marxist opponents of AI deal with the fact that history has never been kind to those who stand against the development of the productive forces? That’s a genuine, obvious question. I’ve just not seen particularly good answers. Suggestions?

Have you ever watched an old episode of The Simpsons from the 90s and thought to yourself, "This was a caricature of normal American life and a normal American family 30 years ago, and it now looks nothing like this today"? Three kids, a wife you married when you were 24, a three-bedroom, three-bathroom house that you bought with a $15,000 down payment when you were 29, living in a mid-sized town that's ~93% homogeneous (based on who appears on screen in the first four seasons) where almost everyone dresses up in their Sunday best to go to church. It's like a different universe from the one we're living in today.

Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close. Rest in peace.

It is awful news that Rod Liddle, a towering intellect and a friend, has died - my thoughts are with his loved ones.

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Great atmosphere in Brighton today. Thousands turned out to block a far-right march. The fash were unable to get further than about 20 metres from the train station.

Very common. I’ve seen whole carriages where every single window is smashed. British transport police basically don’t exist anymore. If you want more people to use trains this stuff should anger you.

If the ‘record temperature’ is the same temperature it was 82 years ago, doesn’t this disprove everything we’ve been told about global warming?

It's not racist to understand the basic rules of supply and demand. If there are too many people coming into the country, as there were from Eastern Europe in the 2000s, and they are willing to work for less than the indigenous people, wage levels will fall in those sectors.

Group singing of the Internationale is great except for the fact that the English translation is unsingable, awkward, and archaic. The best English language communist song is the Red Flag and it’s particularly good because of how hard it goes—“come dungeons dark or gallows grim”

So if they finish up their day's work at 6pm and go to a networking event until 7, then a dinner with a panel, and then get called by the whips and told to get to the chamber for a division?

On April 25, 1974, the Portuguese military overthrew the Estado Novo: the regime Salazar built Salazar had been an economics professor He balanced Portugal's budget in two years He kept the country out of World War II He ran it for 36 years on the principle that order precedes prosperity The soldiers who ended his legacy put carnations in their rifle barrels Portugal has run a deficit in almost every year since

If you think sex work is work you’re not a Socialist.