Doc_Crankenstein

Republicans blinking out of existence doesn't solve the fundamental issues of capitalism that inevitably lead people to those ideologies.

Those systemic forces still exist, a new version of them would simply take their place when people tie their personal interests to the interests of capital.

No hope for the current system doesn't mean no hope at all.

It means we need to change the system.

Truth mate. This country and the entirety of its government is structurally designed to consolidate wealth into the hands of the owning class. It has been such for so long it is baked into our very culture of American society.

We need revolt and a new system of not only economics but of government that horizontally distributes authority throughout the community instead of concentrating it into a hierarchical structure that can be turned against us if the wrong person lands a seat of power.

No, we really weren't. America has always been a pretty shit country to anyone who wasn't owning class. Any good that came about during the course of this country's existence was in spite of it not because of it.

It pains me that my fellow Americans cannot see this.

That's a problem with general culture of an area though, not public transit.

It's dangerous for people of those demographics to be alone practically anywhere in public — not just on public transit. It entirely will depend on the local climate, though, with areas that lean more red having a more oppressive culture than elsewhere.

Framing it as "them being afraid of taking transit" paints it as being the problem itself instead of as a consequence of a much larger issue.

Every. Single. Time.

Every one of their excuses to justify their mentality is just regurgitated propaganda that is intentionally pushed to demonize the poor.

True of all forms of power — authority is only as legitimate as its ability to enforce itself.

Unfortunately, nature doesn't.

They have no ability to reproduce anymore. Not the kind we regularly eat anyway. We bred them to have non-viable seeds, thus no offspring, thus no ability to evolve or adapt to changing environments or stressors.

Every banana tree is a clone of the original batch.

This just means that with climate change, it will become impossible to grow those trees, and that variety will go extinct.

Honestly, we should let it. The agriculture practices required to keep them are just plain unsustainable, both ecologically and economically.

This isn't even going into the controversy around the political side of the industry as well with subpar worker conditions and abuse of rights.

So the alternative argument of "I'll be mildly inconvenienced from not having near constant access to bananas" kinda loses its legitimacy in comparison.

Xkcd really do have a panel for everything.