Then I'd say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government or cede electoral power to others. Third parties are irrelevant on the national scale, and only slightly less so on the state scale.
Agitate for RCV or other election reforms that make third parties more relevant, but until that's the case I'll stand by my earlier assertions.
If you want democrats to be a certain way, vote for those democrats in primaries and local elections. You have to fix it from the bottom up and from within.
You will, however, be politically impotent in that case. Checking out of democracy because one option is only incrementally better than the other isn't really helping anyone.
Very well said. I mean I think the internet is kinda garbage to begin with due to all the advertising and SEO junk that makes everything unreliable in the first place. We wouldn't need AI in the first place if we could just find the information we need.
Also there's a fair bit of effort going in to making local LLMs. I haven't seen that they are as good, but they might be good enough. But at any rate, there isn't any incentive to put knowledge on the internet any more because there's no fame and glory or money in being part of a massive data set.
The main benefit of AI search is to strip away all the bullshit advertising and SEO spam page garbage that makes regular Google such an unreliable mess. Step two of AI search is to find a way to get AI to spit out advertising making it just as unreliable and spammy as regular Google.
Just take your fucking billions of dollars and stop trying to make everything shittier, Google.
When Putin is finally defenestrated once and for all, I'm curious to see how greatly that will affect geopolitics. Like, is Putin some kind of genius here, or will his apparatus be easily inherited by a successor?
I feel like this would be slander, wouldn't it? Not that I feel like Biden would file suit because he'd feel it's beneath him, but maybe he ought to try just once. No one should let Trump get away with a single lie he can be held accountable for.
Even if he lost, it would be worth it to hear a judge say no reasonable person would believe a fucking thing that comes out of Trump's mouth.
Well, maybe it would force him to explain that. Just make them say the weirdest policy shit imaginable. Maybe we could make it all weird enough to drive away the non-maga crowd.
Someone remind them of all the welfare moms who would just vote themselves a big chunk of your tax dollars in between squeezing out brats.
Obviously, that whole thing was a total distortion in the 80's and I do not endorse that point of view, but I'll bet if right wing boomers were reminded by someone on their team they'd be scared shitless.
I don't care other than economy is a powerful predictor of election outcome. I think we are due for a market contraction, and I've been out of work for 4 months, but I'm hoping it can hold on for another quarter.
I don't know that you're wrong, but I'd point out he had Omarosa clinging to him at the beginning of his first term. He doesn't seem above using women or minorities when convenient to make himself look good. He seems to really want the Kanye and rap crowd to love him, as another example.
Exodus is probably overstating it unless they are worried Trump might not last the term. Maga is nothing if not willing to compromise any value to win.
Then I'd say your options are relocate to somewhere with a more appealing government or cede electoral power to others. Third parties are irrelevant on the national scale, and only slightly less so on the state scale.
Agitate for RCV or other election reforms that make third parties more relevant, but until that's the case I'll stand by my earlier assertions.