I wouldn’t say core problem but it’s definitely a critical component missing from any ernest attempt at actual democracy.

Big if do.

I can’t wait for all this to be long forgotten when we’re being loudly told all over again how important voting (and nothing else) is.

After the ‘4’ incident my calibration for guessing if something like this is a joke is completely broken.

Start? We’ve been embracing the Great Filter like a long lost friend.

Give it a generation or three, but yes.

Companies that “haven’t gone evil” yet are like dynasties that aren’t ruled by a mad king, yet.

To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.

pre colour film announcer voice

The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week

Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.

People die if they are killed.

It’s not naive, it’s their excuse to switch their brains off.

If uncomfortable thoughts only come from faraway malicious others trying to undermine your “democracy”, you can dismiss them guilt-free.

Now you can simply drop a piece of paper in a box and call it good. Nothing scary needs to be done or considered to arrest the decade long freefall into overt fascism that you wait no stop you’re thinking again.

and that finally – and this goes for the capitalists too –

an inhuman power rules over everything.

The comment was on the fecklessness of the ‘resistance’, not downplaying the brutality of the established order.

Americans have been taught “the right way” to resist by their class enemies. At this rate they’ll frog-costume-dance all the way into the camps holding hands and chanting “this is the way”.

Every company feels like they need to get faster.

Well yeah, they’re capitalist institutions. If they’re not growing exponentially, they’re failing.

That’s not a snarky mockery of the attitude of leadership, that’s the logic of capital.

If I’d only put off de-googling a bit longer before I saw the news I could have skipped this hop. Oh well…

I’m eyeballing Tuta. Anyone have other recommendations?

Give it a few generations for the selection pressure of the market / the temptations of new leadership to take over.

Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

I saw a thread about it where someone asked “Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don’t do anything with it”.

The answer given? Vote.

… That was all. …

All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?

Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won’t get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.

Democracy under capitalism isn’t difficult, it’s impossible.

“I can fix them.”

Them: the graveyard of social movements.

What would Machiavelli do? is a fine continuation of that energy.