Oh, some of us know. And some of us are sick of the edging.

We’re going there, inexorably. They’re trying to pretend that’s not what’s happening, and loads of people are happy to go along with it out of… denial? Blissful ignorance?

But some of us just wish they’d drop the fragments of their mask, already, so we can stop debating where we are in the 14 steps and just fucking deal with the problem.

It’s fine, we’re good. Sorry for coming out with the claws, I thought you were a MAGA troll. I also shouldn’t post drunk.

AI is good at some things, but terrible at creative tasks. It can make images and videos if you give it very specific prompts, but it’s awful at creative writing, for instance. It’s like a teenager who just discovered a thesaurus. Its characters are shallow caricatures, its plotting and pacing are weak, and it’s addicted to adjectives and adverbs.

It’s basically useless for anything more than emails and summaries.

It will probably get better, but right now, its writing and editing skills are abysmal. It has no soul, and it shows. And I mean the pro models. The free ones are even worse. And also, it can’t knit.

Fucking do it, pussy. Let’s see the backlash.

Trump humiliates everyone behind closed doors. Most of all, himself. And also with open doors. And stairs, and windows, and on the roof.

Trump is humiliation personified.

Where was my assumption, friend?

Was it not a right wing org, or did they not defraud people? Because both were made pretty clear in the article.

Point to where my comment touched you.

Okay. Sure, my entire life on this planet and all of my lived experience is ‘culture wars’.

Believe what you like, I’ll not stop you.

This isn’t ‘culture wars’ – whatever that even means here. It’s me talking to you. Being reductionist only makes you seem pithy, which is actually rather sad.

We’re probably done here, if you can’t even have a conversation without resorting to catch phrases.

No one gives a fuck that youre a woman.

Bullshit.

You don’t, but you’re not everyone.

A massive part of understanding the world is understanding that you’re not everyone. My entire career has been to understand other people, and step 1 is to realise that you are not everyone. It’s very counterintuitive for most of us, but also very necessary if you hope to understand things.

I am not everyone, and I am not speaking for myself here. If the world were me, I’d 100% say AOC could win. I’d fucking love that.

But I am not the world.

It’s the human way of things.

DNC or not, even if they were as perfect as you’d like them to be, trying to unite people on the left is like herding cats.

Have you tried having discussions with multiple people on the left? I’ll bet you have, and I’ll bet you’ve been frustrated.

The problem with any of left of centre is that we believe in things and aren’t a flock of sheep. That’s good, but also politically very bad for us.

They have their genitals deep in Israel.

I’m not joking, and thanks.

Yeah, in the same way a cut allows you to get a staph infection.

But a hangnail or certain kinds of sex at a bad time can do that, too.

Trump is just the method of delivery. Staph was always there, waiting for an opportunity.

I legitimately do.

Lol no. I’m old enough to not care about Harris’s minuscule blip on the political landscape, and to understand far larger social trends than that.

The fact you think this is about Harris of all the decades of social trends makes it clear you have no idea what I mean, and maybe you should take a moment to learn some things before writing such a diatribe.

In fact, I’m pretty sure you’re precisely the type who, when trump dies, will think everything has gone back to normal. I hope I’m wrong about that, because this whole thing is far larger and plays out over a far longer time scale than you think. Please prove me wrong.

You’re right, but more to the point: they’ve largely solidified changes to the system via Project 2025 that will take decades to reverse, if they can be reversed at all.

I’m not talking about philosophical or ideological changes, but real, tangible changes to laws that are impervious to differences in who’s president or what the political landscape is.

The damage is largely done now. Even if by some miracle of the electorate going against everything that’s ever happened in the history of the nation and defying people’s nature and misogyny and whatever, AOC was somehow elected, it will take decades to begin to fix this.

The fact that people don’t understand this only solidifies my assessment that there’s no chance she could be elected. People simply do not understand the current political climate.

I wish this pipe dream could be true, because that would be a much better world than the one in which we live.

and before people say Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028… I wouldn’t be so sure about that lol.

I think a large part of the problem is that he likely won’t be. He’s not in charge now, and once he dies in office, people will think the danger has passed.

The issue is people think trump is the cause rather than a symptom.

In 2028, especially if he’s dead and his grave is the county’s biggest toilet, many people will breathe a sigh and think everything has gone back to normal, ignoring that the real fascists are still in control. That will be when it becomes truly dangerous.

Trump is not in charge, and things will not change when he’s gone, but most people will think everything is fine then, and will go back to ‘politics as normal’.

I get it. The truth hurts, especially right now when what we desperately need is hope.

Hey man, I’m with you. This sucks a lot.

This situation is fucking terrible. Personally, I’d prefer Bernie would run himself, but he clearly doesn’t want to (and given his age, I can’t blame him).

To be completely honest, though, he’s got sort of a bad track record of backing other candidates, so if he’s endorsing AOC, that’s even more evidence she won’t win.

I agree with him on most things, and I’d absolutely back him as a candidate like 10 years ago, but he’s not a kingmaker. I wish we lived in a better world, but we don’t. Our world is fucking awful, politically speaking.

All of American Politics for $500, Alex.

I really hate to say this, but there’s no way a woman will win in 2028 (if an election even happens).

The vast centrist vote will go towards stability and a return to the ‘values’ they think have been lost.

It sucks a lot, but the only viable choice will be a white man. I hate this, but it’s true.

Walz is probably the most politically viable choice. Does that suck? Yeah. But pragmatically, it’s just true.