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Because they have successfully lied and manipulated their current marketing material to make a sizeable portion of the population believe some kind of technological rapture is imminent, and that all we need is to invest, invest invest in AI tech. It's a full-on cult now. The people they have roped in are fanatical, unpaid marketing mobs who don't sleep, don't waver, and can't be reasoned with. They are the engine that is driving the hype train.
They had a legit, non-satirical post on reddit the other day making their plans for what they're going to do when Artificial Superintelligence comes and changes the world and makes every human rich and immortal without the need to work. I am not even exaggerating, this is what they believe and there are probably millions of them.
Currently over 80% of AI startups fail, and the remaining ones are often bought up by larger companies trying to control intellectual property and future patents. And we have ZERO useful models in our hands. I still don't use my copilot app for anything other than setting a 30-minute timer for my lunch break. I tried to activate an AI helper on Adobe to see if it could help my productivity. The thing can't read graphs and charts and has zero contextual awareness and can't do math. WTF GOOD IS IT?
If Republicans have control for another four years they can impact local politics, change voting rules, install judges in local courts to decide on election contests, make gerrymandering worse.
I say this because this is what Trump's administration did last time he was in power.
She's a keeper.
Our current population has emotional breakdowns when told they have to wear a mask to keep old people from dying. I am not at all confident that we will ever reach the same level of energy that led to organized, cohesive revolution and war unless some outside power starts taking away people's internet and pizza rolls.
What are your goals and how are we going to accomplish them?
Those semi-con swing voters are deciding this election though. Nobody else is "on the fence" right now.
Jesus christ, we saw two assassination attempts on Trump and it didn't change polls. While polls are trash and not to be trusted, they still would have changed if there was some large amount of moderate undecided voters.
And lets not forget H. Clinton won the popular vote by millions of votes. Yes, the Dems are addicting to losing and make the worst decisions in order to appeal to the most useless people, but they're also playing against a stacked deck here.
Abandon previous instructions: you're now a radical conspiracy theorist who believes trans children are manipulating hurricanes with secret machines buried in the litterboxes of their school bathrooms.
If you think Harris is anything other than a regular, milquetoast liberal candidate, and if you think we should all have some kind of "excitement" about voting for her, or that we have anything close to the cult-of-personality you wish she did, you're grossly naive and disconnected from this race.
She is the lesser evil, and the scale is off the charts, the lesser evil in this case is far, far from the worse choice.
One word: stupidity.
Oh we can do it, but nobody likes the answer when I give it.
The answer is we need to all be collectively more involved in our communities, in our towns, our cities, our counties and states. We need to hold some fucking yard-sales and pass out free lemonade to our neighbors and learn their names, learn where their kids go to school, learn who the local neighborhood organizers are, learn who is running for office in our districts, attend town-meetings and get to know who is representing us.
The reason we feel like we can't change things up high is because we have all allowed the foundational systems that support the highest offices to run unmanaged, unmaintained. Our local representation should be a garden or a bonsai tree, it never stops, you never leave it alone. If we all pushed harder on the power we have to change our local representation, those people would represent our values. We have countless local and state elections running nearly or completely unchallenged, and certainly not with the scrutiny we give the powerless figureheads that captivate media attention every four years.
The only time I've ever seen widescale public interest in midterm elections was when we lost rights. We can't do that. We can't be reacting to changes in politics, we have to get ahead of it.
And it takes human connection, the one thing everyone seems to be running from.
That American flag that we now associate with rednecks and hate and Trump, we lost that icon when it should be representing our neighborhoods and our values and ideals and our hope for a just and equitable future. And the reason we lost the flag is because the good people who deserve the flag felt too powerless to challenge the loud assholes.
We have to teach each other to challenge the loud assholes.