zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

You wouldn't know it looking at his approval rating...

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

If Hillary and Cheney has anything to teach us, they roll out the disgraced politicians every 4 years to demoralize the base.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Bo Burnham explains why with a song: https://youtu.be/oDQXFNWuZj8

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We can keep telling ourselves Mark Cuban's "opportunity economy" was good enough but objectively it was a flop with working class voters. Either it was a messaging failure or it wasn't populist enough, Bernie is saying it is the latter. If it was a messaging failure, then we're likely to conclude it is because our media landscape is toxic. Bernie would agree and say that is why we need a populist message to cut through.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts come to mind.

In regards to Bernie, his premise is that wealth inequality is the core problem, which means tax the rich until they can't have an outsized influence on our politics.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, I think the people getting rid of Lisa Kahn have other ideas about competition.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy that ends with the least resourced groups dead. Good thing the capitalists are famously the least-strapped chuds around.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The call is coming from inside. Google CEO claims it will be like alien intelligence so we should just trust it to make political decisions for us bro: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2024/ai/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-urges-ai-acceleration-dismisses-climate

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know many things but the voters are obviously to blame. We drew 100 different trolley problems and told them democracy and women's rights were on the line. We even had Bill Clinton logically explain that Palestinians were human shields. We even had better policy even though most voters didn't know it. I can only conclude voters are selfish and that's why they vote against their own interests.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

History starts when I say it does

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When they say it's about race, it's about class. When they say it is about class, it's about gender. And when they say it's out gender, it's about race.

Or at least that's how it feels sometimes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago

I am completely wrong and yet completely vindicated by your response.

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