If it were a normal opposition candidate I'd agree, I'm completely fed up with Dem leadership and think they should all be removed. I'll gladly vote for third party and am planning to vote for Working Families candidates wherever possible going forward. But this was the one time it really mattered more to just have anybody but the opposition in office. This wasn't some theoretical would be dictator, he'd already showed his true colors on Jan 6th. The time to fight Dem leadership isn't at such a high stakes election.
fishy
joined 5 months ago
How incredibly short sighted. Parroting the dumb shit the algorithms plastered everywhere. Don't misunderstand, it was a choice between eating a turd sandwich and accepting fascism but you decided you're too noble to eat shit so now we'll all live in it.
That's why I generally introduce myself as a Californian to foreigners, slightly less to be ashamed of.
This is probably the biggest factor for me, outside of my subs all the content it recommends is low effort AI content. "Oh cool a video about this historical thing I'm interested in." Cuts to AI slideshow with bad grammar, pacing and no inflection, click don't suggest videos from this creator. YouTube suggests similar slop from other "creators."
The depressing thing is how often it works
I can just imagine this as a scene in a fallout game. Lonely old rich fuck hidden away for years. You ring the intercom and he's so excited to hear another voice that he invites you in. Starts spewing shit opinions. You eventually realize he could've helped stop the apocalypse but built the bunker and profited instead. Look at all the loot. Inform him he can either become a smear on the wall or caretaker of your new place.
I had an acquaintance ask me about my opinion on crypto a few years ago and I explained it only has the perceived value and is highly volatile as a result, and that all but a few coins were basically rug pulls waiting to happen. He was satisfied with that and moved on. About a year later crypto had roughly doubled in value and he gave me shit about bad advice (it was an opinion not investment advice) and proceeded to move $10k into some coin I'd never heard of. About a month later a mutual friend said the other guy had lost like $8k of his $10k investment. Next time I saw the acquaintance there was no mention of crypto.
"he's playing 5d chess" "That's no rook, that's a cat's turd."
Don't worry about it. Just move on. Some people just have fucked up taste buds. It's some error of evolution that just hasn't been bred out.
As a millennial I get your anger, but the guy you're responding to is right. An average working boomer had no more say in the policies enacted than you or I and the majority will be flat broke by the time they die, outlook isn't much better for Gen X either. The establishment has done a wonderful job running us around and keeping us focused on the wrong fights. They've done it so well that even saying it sounds like a conspiracy theory to me when I know it to be true.
The tax rates for the ultra wealthy need to be increased to post WW2 levels, we need to get corporate money out of politics and the news. The people in power hold nearly all the cards and have convinced everyone the cards we hold are useless or immoral. The truth is we need better ways to organize and connect with local like-minded people to pool resources, hinder competition and bring the oligarchs down.
I too am from a place bidets are rare, literally don't know anybody else who has one. But after that first wash I was changed, made a true believer; anybody who talks bad about bidets is shit talking something I love. Try one, join us on the smug and clean side of butthole's.
The guy selling the car doesn't tell you it runs like a horse, the guy selling you AI is telling you it has reasoning skills. AI absolutely has utility, the guys making it are saying it's utility is nearly limitless because Tesla has demonstrated there's no actual penalty for lying to investors.