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How The Orville Could Have Had Peace with the Kaylon

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owever, there is something that is lacking in The Orville and it stands out: Seth MacFarlane’s politics are too far right for him to fully grasp the setting he has created, based off of Star Trek. If you were to ask FOX News, you would likely hear how Seth MacFarlane is a communist – and there is a Quora thread asking whether he is a socialist or a communist. However, if he were, then this issue would not appear in The Orville.

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If You Want to Understand Democratic Socialism, Look to Orwell, Not Sanders

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There is a movement behind Senator Bernie Sanders – a powerful and devoted corps of activists who are clamoring in the streets and across social media for “Democratic socialism.”  This term they tie to the Nordic model – a system built upon the vast majority of production being in private hands – profit and control – but where a robust

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Automation Doesn’t Have to Be a Problem: But It Requires Societal Change

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An anxiety has been festering amongst the working class since at least the 1980s: robots are going to take our jobs.  Automation has posed competition, especially for blue collar workers, for decades as their jobs could potentially be replaced by automatons whose name: robots, literally comes from the Slavanic word for slave.  If their employers replaced them with robots, they

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