I kind of do and kind of don’t… Trump is a useful idiot to putin, and maybe a few other groups pulling the actual strings. IMO vance is probably scarier in likelyness to be effective.

Unfortunately so far only republicans have the violent tendencies and willingness to die to make the attempts… and also they just aren’t competent enough.

actually waiting for that shoe to drop… Oz was announced way early on, but to my knowledge hasn’t started the confirmation hearings right?

You know who also has that warning… trump.

He’s already been publicly laughing with the el salvadore psycho saying “home growns are next”.

I mean that’s kind of the significant problem… before it was basically stretched to the max, running in a way where an eventual problem was inevitable. Attempting to fix something that was unsustainably hanging by a thread by… thinning the thread created the insane powderkeg we have now though.

Disqualifying no… though I would say it’s a disadvantage, just as being a woman is. IMO it’s a bigger disadvantage than being a woman, in the fact that more religious groups are outright opposed to gay people being allowed to be out.

So in short, it could win the democratic primary in theory. It would take an especially weaker than normal republican candidate.

Yeah, I get the arguement for cutting backing on schumer. or the worse arms of the democratic party. Currently sanders is in easily the top 5% of congress on most issues

well yeah… backing should be merit based not seniority based. You’ve been there 30 years, and no one knows what the hell you are doing, you’ve not fought for anything we want. Get lost… if you’re still backing good policies, standing up for what’s right and making people happy, stick around as long as you want.

A bit of why I fear the general concept of term limits. Bernie sanders is still far and away one of the best in congress. He’s old as fuck, been there forever… but easilly in the top 5 most active senators…

Yeah I would second the view, if it weren’t for decades of the opposite of the DNC bending over backwards for it’s incumbants. If they had a history of staying neutral and not regularly backing the incumbents. But as they do… then the opposite needs to happen.

He needs to step away from everything until people forget about him. Him being involved in any company will not help that company.

My thoughts exactly… Tesla isn’t falling appart because Musk has been too busy to help it. It’s because Musk is associated with tesla and he’s basically pissing off anyone that might buy an electric car.

There honestly isn’t a solution for the company going under beyond…

1. Sell Tesla to someone with a good reputation.

2. Give up any means of trying to be a free market system, and pivot tesla entirely to being government funded.

I don’t think they are the “new” anything… LGBT will be the new jews… I’m pretty sure autistic people will have their same place in the new reich that they did in the old one.

Next will be ADHD people… and I’m sure they all will be sent with a camp, that will help them focus… a concentration camp if you will.

You’d think there’s not much reason for that… I mean, the god they believe in famously selected a lot of unqualified crazy people. Noah an alchoholic, David couldn’t keep it in his pants, and had to arrange the death of one of his best soldiers to deal with it.

“Why should I trust a bunch of randos with it? Why should I give them my password? […]”

lol that right there you should respond no one should have your PASSWORD (singular) to begin with. Companies large and small have data breaches all the time. If the same password is on more than 5-10 sites, you should assume it’s been compromised by now, and explain that they need a password manager.

Far as it goes with professional companies, we are talking public posting social media, the differences between them are all public, the biggest thing is what they chose to censor. Twitters cool with letting nazi’s speak, but censoring the left. Most lemmy instances are the opposite, but there even are lemmy instances that are backwards with that… which is the point. We all have differing oppinions on where the line should be drawn on acceptable speech, Being able to custom pick one of 50 groups is more likely to find one that works for you, than picking one of 3 social media giants that will have their own rules.

Have to say the same… kind of better to go to many sources…

Now if we are talking people like Kyle etc… IMO he does fairly well, but yeah as with all news sources, get a wide variety of sources, because all sources have something that make them worse.

I don’t exactly see how “talk to your representative” is really useful advice. I mean write, call and do whatever you can to try and influence them… but it’s worth noting depending on where you live, whether your representative is going to be honest with you, or give a shit what you have to say, are absolutely variables.

The problem with carville and these “left” people… is that the party HAS BEEN distancing themselves. They have been avoiding talking about the topics unless specifically asked. The problem is the right makes it their pillar, so the media specifically asks them. Leaving candidates with the choice of “express support in peoples rights to be themselves” or “oppose their rights to be themselves”.

The right won’t leave the option to “distance”, because they will make sure it’s brought up every debate every situation.

Which… would on further notice say… we only know about failures… so yeah any agents in appropriate locations or VPNs using correct credentials would be effectively undetectable.

I disagree, I think there’s plenty of court orders trump could do to test the waters without… well the undeniable fascism that is putting an innocent legal immigrant in a prison forever.

To me there’s only 2 reasons not to bring him back… either it’s actually impossible (IE he’s dead), or he’s seen and lived through some conditions that are drastically worse than we know, and they don’t want him to talk.

Honestly, my money says probably not. It’s quite frankly the best explanation for the solid stubornness of the trump admin. They’ve basically admitted he shouldn’t be there. He’s ignoring court orders, and now supreme court orders. The only 2 explanations I can come up with for why they don’t want him back is.

1. The conditions of the prison are significantly worse than our imaginations have allowed us to think they are, and they don’t want him to confirm that.

2. Same as 1, but his corpse rather than his words would be the testament to how bad they are.

Any other scenerio to me seems like the political views here would be so overwhelmingly bad that leaving the confirmed innocent man in prison and defying court orders overwhelms any possible reason not to bring him back.

Yeah was going to say, there’s certainly aversion to tech that can be paralleled assuming AI has a positive future state. But yeah, WIFI, Cellphones, television, radio waves, all things people feared without propor understanding, that are now standard parts of reality.

If hypothetically AI etc… gets close to actual sentience, artificial life may begin the culture war of attempting for personhood, fight for rights etc… in which case there will be a discussion, and assuming like all past personhood battles in the end AI is decided to have reached actual status of living… then yes those who are late to the bandwaggon and continuing to fight will be viewed just like our racists homophobes etc… But there is very little evidence that any current day AI has anything resembling feelings, wants desires etc… and just because this may be the predicessor to an AI that will. doesn’t make hating chatgpt any worse than hating a doorbell.

Hell if somehow we were to discover say chatgpt actually has sentience right now in it’s current used form… no one could be favorable in the current view, as even the staunchest supporters of AI, are only looking at it as slave work etc… There’s not even room or a case for letting AI’s be free for life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness (which, is because with our understandings none of those are applicable to it).