Yeah, well what I'm saying is we'd do that to ourselves too; we're not to be trusted with our own biology. Not yet, at least.

Yeah, and I'm still not sure how that happened or if democracy is here to stay, honestly.

I can't really see things going back there economically, though - modern technology is just too good, and illiterate peasants can't make it.

Edit: Unless we really fuck up and cause nuclear winter or something. I suppose if we're starting from scratch being agrarian again is on the table.

For a while, and then it failed. Meanwhile, the Western world got more and more free market.

Correct. In the long run every sector is going to end up like agriculture in the Midwest - all the land is in use, it's just a matter of planting and harvesting the same way each year.

It's pretty unclear how much of the breeding 30000BC-1500AD was deliberate, and how much was just a kind of selection as people decided to eat their naughtiest dog when famine came. I'm talking about the highly-targeted breeding that brought us the pug unable to breath and German shepherds with back legs that stick out wrong because it looks cool.

Also, wolves are pretty good at what they do, I'm not sure it's fair to say they're worse than dogs somehow.

I just like, don't believe it. Capitalism is hundreds of years old, and it's only gotten stronger.

Spontaneous revolution/organisation for revolution has been promised for a long time, and is no closer to happening.

Uhh, just in the sense of being a weak democracy that backslid? Lots. The OG fascists in Italy come to mind. In the really long run they tend to own themselves. If they survive, it's by turning into the tried-and-true aristocratic autocracy.

Spain made the transition back to democracy peacefully, because Franco set it up to go that way once he died, and there was a lot of outside cultural influence to support it. That being said, I don't know all the details there, and it's a pretty unusual case. Italy got owned in war. Lots get owned by a series of coups, like Yakubu Gowon's Nigeria, for one example.

The US is a new thing, though, in that usually the new dictator isn't a crayon-eating moron, and never before has it happened somewhere with no living memory of authoritarian politics (which seems to make a huge difference). It's not going to be exactly like anything else. I answered how I did because Orbon was elected but doesn't really have a clear ideological agenda beyond power, while Hitler used his executive power non-subtly to shut everyone else down, which seem like the inevitable near-future features of new America.

In the US? Probably Hungary, with a bit of Germany or Chile mixed in because Trump is too dumb to be Orban successfully.

The exact breakdown between the two is hard to say in advance.

Sus.

Okay, have you considered old-fashioned "photoshopping" (preferably with GIMP)?

You first!

I'm guessing the Trump insanity will put a damper on Poilievre's campaigning a bit, seeing as they're easy to tie together, but Trudeau is such a dead weight it might not matter.