Fascism is inevitable if the wider people feel poorer and less secure than they want to be. People like that seek to blame others, and that leads to fascism.

To defeat fascism, you tax the rich and spend it on the poor. You eliminate billionaires.

That's the only mechanism that will reliably work over periods of time.

EU; change tactics. Stop walking the USA/UK path. Raise taxes on the rich, spend on your public services. Watch the fascists power vanish.

@sarajw Everyone is - but the EU is still the "last best hope". But it has to stop walking the same path the US and UK have. It has to choose differently.

The EU ~has~ to avoid internalised fascism, and I honestly think the only way to do it is to "keep the people happy enough to not need to blame others", and the only way to do that is to tax the rich and spend it on the people.

Fascism is inevitable if the wider people feel poorer and less secure than they want to be.

EU. Please. You have to tax the rich and spend it on everyone else. That is the ~only~ winning strategy to secure yourselves against internal fascism.

Show us how it's done.

You're essentially the only thing left standing that's got potential to weather the effects of a wave of fascist super-powers (USA, Russia, China) IF you act now.

I feel like we've been in a cold war for decades, and - frankly - we in the UK and US lost. Putin and co played our systems well, barely firing shots, and won.

"Oh, but that's not practical because of the amount of power and cooling needed!"

That's a you problem, AI company. And entirely the point. Fix it.

Ok, new law.

"Companies may operate and use Datacentres and AI services - provided 100% of the energy and water they consume are 100% renewable and produced on-site."

Do it.

If the tables were turned, and designers were writing code who's styles just injected hundreds of otherwise identical columns in your MySQL database in order to achieve a design "simply", you'd have a fit. You'd say it was wrong. Inefficient. Bloated. Unreadable later.

And if the style people said "eh, it's an abstraction, who cares? My design tool just compiles that away and actually it's more optimal" you'd feel gaslit.

Guess what?

Guess. What.

The only reason I use any utility classes is because CSS still doesn't support Mixins.

Utility classes are bad code smell. They mean someone at either a semantic or content level is trying to invoke styling at an atomic level instead of a context level.

No-one entering content into a web system or who's job is wrangling semantics should be doing any atomic styling.

We have classes so people can go "this content should be presented as bannerStyle1".

Not: "use this red on this span".