Basically that you could infer this from logic and some base assumptions.

Breaking: we confirmed something you can reason out from first principles.

It’s in the compiler ಠ_ಠ

As someone with a little programming knowledge there’s something that’s bothered me for a long time:
Why is nothing ever done? How is there still something to add to a C compiler in 2026?

Oh I see where he’s going with this.

“There’s no buttons, there’s no [programming logic], … it’s just producing UI with nothing behind it…”

I did not see where he was going with this.

The “trick” has been known from the start: Remove the seeds and fertile ground fascism grows in, i.e. capitalism.

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that this is human nature, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

The reason for fascism’s existence in every sense of the word is to keep capitalism going with a fool’s revolution when people are desperate enough for an actual one to happen.

Here’s the old guard fantasising about fascism in their DMs while Hitler was a teenager:

In 1905 Milner, one of the more far-seeing leaders of the older British imperialism, described in a private letter the only hope that he could see for the salvation of bourgeois rule:

“Perhaps a great Charlatan-political scallywag, buffoon, liar, stump orator, and in other respects popular favourite-may some day arise who is nevertheless a statesman-the combination is not impossible- and who, having attained power by popular acts may use it for national ends. It is an off-chance, but I do not see any other.” (Milner, letter to Lady Edward Cecil, The Milner Papers, Vol. II, 1899-1905.)

Here we see the bourgeoisie consciously groping for the forms of Fascism long before Fascism existed. The fact that so lifelike a description of Hitler or Mussolini could have been penned a decade before these began to play their role is a striking confirmation of how little it is personality that creates history, and how much rather history calls forth the personality that it requires at a given stage.

People who are climate change denialists in 2026 are way too far gone.

If anyone needs convincing at this point I’d say it’s those who think they know of / believe in climate change but vastly underestimate the severity of the problem. Like they’ve never heard of feedback loops or peeped the sea surface temperature anomaly graph.

The truth is closer to the Newsroom clip than “it’s going to be hotter and there will be more extreme weather events, but humanity will definitely carry on because I find that thought more comfortable than the alternative”.

If we haven’t reached the point of no return, political inertia will carry us there as things stand.

Good idea! It’s much easier to cool things in space!

Why are you looking at me like that?

Just ^{NSFW obviously} normal conservative straight things.

I went straight to finding other sources and snopes because surely this is just too funny.

Our favourite president, Degrowth Don.

Not really, not even for long enough to enjoy the joke. The push to mow down the US national parks is still easy to recall.

No. This isn’t an oopsie.
Not this time nor the last 7500.

Even in death he still serves.

Spare me the hypocritical posturing, and if you want to convince someone try offering solid points rather than making up unflattering stories about what or why they believe.

If you only follow what you supposedly already understand about capitalism to its logical conclusions, whatever pseudo-solution you’re alluding to evaporates.

Without revolution there’s a guarantee of societal collapse and possibly extinction.
Exponential growth is not negotiable under capitalism, despite the literal mathematical certainty of where it leads.

It’s not just a poor choice of a contemporary ruling class with an abundance of hubris eschewing long term planning, it’s baked into the foundational mechanics. Capitalism can’t function without it.

I’ve been watching for over a decade. I’ve fallen for the same trap, which I could have avoided if only I had read more about what came before. You on the other hand need only not forget recent years.

I’ve watched the US left “resist” all the way into ever deepening fascism. Watched fascists cheerfully kill for their beliefs while the resistance meekly dies for theirs.
Watched the squad get absorbed by the establishment. Watched the idea of not actively supporting a genocide be dismissed as radical. Watched bipartisan support for banning the platform people were using to learn about the atrocities. Watched the DNC fall over itself looking for excuses as to why they lost to the worst candidate in history.

And I’ve watched the zeitgeist lag unfathomably far behind what anyone with a heart, brain, and eyes should already understand even if, like me, they lived most of their lives in political ignorance.

That’s the exact same play the US left has fallen for over and over again.

The fundamental difference is that the tea party takeover was billionaire approved and astroturfed.
Entryism to the Democratic party on the other hand is a no go from the party’s sponsors.

There are squabbling factions within the ruling class, but they are united against us. The overton window they define will always be far to the right of what the masses find acceptable (insofar as they are not stupefied by fascistic dreck and capitalist realism).

As for bloodshed, it’s happening all the time at a scale that makes knowledge of it a moral hazard.
You’re just insulated from it; much of it is omitted from news cycles or hidden behind layers of obfuscation.

Let’s take some “uncontroversial” examples: Tens of thousands of people die in the US each year from denied health care claims. Mass shootings are now so common they almost never make the news. Three quarters of a million people in the US are homeless. Many die of exposure (often after police clear out their camps right before a cold snap). Just because they weren’t stabbed or shot doesn’t mean they aren’t victims of violence.

The Socdems in Germany wanted to avoid bloodshed, too.

[The reformist] admits that the path of “bloody revolution” now becomes inevitable-after fifteen years of suffering, after the maximum strengthening of the class enemy, and therefore now involving far heavier sacrifice and bloodshed, that the so-called “peaceful” path is thus proved to involve in the end, not the avoidance of bloodshed, but the maximum of bloodshed.

The “trying something new” isn’t to keep falling for the same Democratic party snare over and over again.
The party exists to prevent you from “trying something new”.

You only hear “give up” because your imagination has been constrained to action within bounds that are acceptable to the ruling class. When people tell you “this isn’t going far enough” you somehow hear “do nothing”.

Your mind is shackled by crimestop.

Building power outside of the Democratic party is one of the barest prerequisites to getting things moving in the right direction.

But hey, even if we’re condemned to roll the same boulder up the same hill over and over again,

We’re not. The planet is running out of time.
Since you’re unwilling to learn from those who have made the same mistakes before you, please just pay attention to what happens next.

See-through solar cells harvest some wavelengths of light to make electricity, while passing through the red and blue wavelengths that plants need.

Elegant. Very elegant.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting bourgeois politicians to represent you.

That said please forge ahead with all your might and make the newest object lesson all the clearer.