Quibble: There were attacks on police, just this weekend, at the far-right rally in the UK, which this guest should be well aware of.
This is going to be a little bit of a stretch and I know when you bring up the timeframe of the Austrian Corporal with a weird mustache that you are participating in Godwin's law, but....here I go anyway.
History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. The US and Europe didn't suffer an economic catastrophe coming out of a world war but we are in an economic downturn coming out of a global pandemic (or at least what was thought to be one). So we are having economic struggles, we have third world populaces on the move whose arrival is (rightly in my opinion) causing consternation with the native populaces. Like Weimar Germany, we had some out of the norm stuff happening on the sexual side of things that got afoul of the traditional and conservative side of the populace. We don't have Bolsheviks and National Socialists crawling on the streets yet (for the most part) but there is a growing radicalism that has been ratcheting up on both sides. There are racist elements on the right who are gaining traction because of racist arguments and policies that have been pushed by the political left for awhile. It is the fringe but sometimes the fringe ends up being the wave that carries us all.
If our political elites won't figure it out, the fringes will.
I bet they are pro-Palestinian too, unironically.
We are a depression/economic tumult away from potentially very bad stuff. AI disrupting the economy in the coming years might be the tipping point.This is going to be a little bit of a stretch and I know when you bring up the timeframe of the Austrian Corporal with a weird mustache that you are participating in Godwin's law, but....here I go anyway.
History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. The US and Europe didn't suffer an economic catastrophe coming out of a world war but we are in an economic downturn coming out of a global pandemic (or at least what was thought to be one). So we are having economic struggles, we have third world populaces on the move whose arrival is (rightly in my opinion) causing consternation with the native populaces. Like Weimar Germany, we had some out of the norm stuff happening on the sexual side of things that got afoul of the traditional and conservative side of the populace. We don't have Bolsheviks and National Socialists crawling on the streets yet (for the most part) but there is a growing radicalism that has been ratcheting up on both sides. There are racist elements on the right who are gaining traction because of racist arguments and policies that have been pushed by the political left for awhile. It is the fringe but sometimes the fringe ends up being the wave that carries us all.
If our political elites won't figure it out, the fringes will.
We are a depression/economic tumult away from potentially very bad stuff. AI disrupting the economy in the coming years might be the tipping point.This is going to be a little bit of a stretch and I know when you bring up the timeframe of the Austrian Corporal with a weird mustache that you are participating in Godwin's law, but....here I go anyway.
History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. The US and Europe didn't suffer an economic catastrophe coming out of a world war but we are in an economic downturn coming out of a global pandemic (or at least what was thought to be one). So we are having economic struggles, we have third world populaces on the move whose arrival is (rightly in my opinion) causing consternation with the native populaces. Like Weimar Germany, we had some out of the norm stuff happening on the sexual side of things that got afoul of the traditional and conservative side of the populace. We don't have Bolsheviks and National Socialists crawling on the streets yet (for the most part) but there is a growing radicalism that has been ratcheting up on both sides. There are racist elements on the right who are gaining traction because of racist arguments and policies that have been pushed by the political left for awhile. It is the fringe but sometimes the fringe ends up being the wave that carries us all.
If our political elites won't figure it out, the fringes will.
If white collar jobs for college educated people dry up, then you have the stage for revolution.
@bradstevens how does AI disrupt society and simultaneously tip us into a depression? If AI disrupts society, it means goods and services will be getting cheaper and people will need to work less to afford them.
@snarlcakes owners will. execs will. but presumably there will be far less need for workers. so there will have to be something basic income