Is the reason billionaires like AI because they want it to take power away from those pesky liberals who threaten the irrational force of their power with their critical reasoning and ability to coalesce against them. Better the liberals are poor than uppity?

Trump's only desire is to be the dictator of dictators. In that worldview any violence that advances that agenda is justified. He is terrified of resistance by his own people, as all dictators are. Hence any resistance must be quashed no matter its source or moral force.

If only billionaires support a definition of free speech, its not about freedom. It's about compliance.

Far right governments see no problem with a collapsing economy and the loss of jobs. They see the economy as hedonistic, and privileging the wrong type of person. They desire an economy where winners and losers are determined not by merit, not by policy, or by competition between capitalist firms. Instead they wish to turn the state apparatus towards their ideal communities of privilege - wealth, religious groups or nationalist communities.

One of the little pleasures of the recent collapse in civilization is watching the clueless, hapless Farage cast about for relevance as his once precious relationship with Trump has disintegrated. The empty hearted pub landlord schtick is as hollow as his "principled" stand against Europe. Good riddance Nige.