That’s exactly right, the New Deal was the concession to organized and militant labor movement that saved capitalism. No such movement exists today, and therefore there is no organized threat for the current ruling class to worry about. I think it’s also worth noting that the rich absolutely know they’re fighting a class war here. The plutonomy memo from citi group basically lays it all out. It’s kind of ironic that these people have far better understanding of Marxism than most of the western left.

what comes next is fascism

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing actually. I’d love to just have a single device I carry around that I could dock to add more juice and use like a desktop at home.

Incidentally, this would eliminate the need for most cloud hosting services too. If you don’t need to constantly sync data, then you don’t need online services for any of your media. You just need sync when you collaborate with other people. This would afford way more privacy.

That’s basically what Sanders was trying to do with the Green New Deal. And apparently, even these minimal and necessary reforms needed to save the system were deemed to be too much by the oligarchs.

Not gonna happen under the dictatorship of capital.

Also kind of true, most people use phones or tablets nowadays. You only really need a laptop if you are creating content. If you’re simply consuming it, then you just need a screen.

I bet that overall percentage of people who actually connect this with AI or even really care is tiny. Aside from gamers, majority of people don’t really build their own rigs, or upgrade computers constantly.

literally this

the west doesn’t like to cover peasant uprisings, don’t want to give domestic peasants any ideas

China is not a net fuel producer, they import a large portion of their energy themselves. They have been donating solar panels however, and hopefully they ramp that up. However, Russia being one of the biggest fuel exporters is stepping up.

It’s all a matter of jurisdiction. Open source platforms like Stoat can be run outside the reach of western regimes.

not much, just slightly different UX

I’ve seen a few similar projects before, but can’t recall what they were off top of my head.

The simple answer is it’s because western liberal regimes are not democracies. A system where you have one set of laws for regular people, and another for the affluent is a plutocracy.

same

Again, the files literally show that Epstein worked with Israel to try and overthrow Putin and the government in Russia. They even had a guy picked out who fled to Ukraine now. If this group of yours had any influence at all, it would’ve been disbanded a long time ago. Especially after the war in Ukraine started. Also, I hope you realize that your article is from over a decade ago, and a lot of things have changed geopolitically since then. You seem to really want this conspiracy theory of yours to be true, but all the actual evidence points against it. Try actually thinking critically here and looking at the evidence instead of coming up with a conclusion first and then trying to justify it.

… Because Israel literally imposed a ban on their weapons being sent to Ukraine at the start of the war?

Ok and? As I’ve already explained, the reality is that Israel realizes Russia can retaliate by sending weapons to Yemen or Iran, or to make their life difficult in Syria. So, they don’t really have much appetite openly antagonizing Russia.

Israel seeks regime change everywhere because the leader doesn’t lick the heels of Israel hard enough. Unlike the USA, which gives Israel everything for free, Putin makes deals with Israel. A meeting with an exiled Russian billionaire sounds more like an opportunity to extract cash than anything else.

They’re literally discussing how to replace Putin, and this guy is now fled to Ukraine. Claiming there’s collusion between Russia and Israel while Israel is literally trying to change the government in Russia is frankly beyond absurd.

Also there’s a lot of Epstein files out there to still be calling them it a “conspiracy”.

I’m pointing out that Epstein files contradict the conspiracy about Russia colluding with Israel here. Nowhere am I calling Epstein files a conspiracy. The files show that Israel was actively trying to regime change Russia and that it wanted to provoke a war in Ukraine.

you’re welcome to your opinion

I’d expect they will be Linux friendly just because there’s a big push towards using Linux in China now since they want to decouple from western proprietary tech. I guess we’ll have to wait to see once they become generally available though.