zbyte64

joined 7 months ago
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts come to mind.

In regards to Bernie, his premise is that wealth inequality is the core problem, which means tax the rich until they can't have an outsized influence on our politics.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago

Oh, I think the people getting rid of Lisa Kahn have other ideas about competition.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think they mean voting isn't enough and we all need to shit post harder

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy that ends with the least resourced groups dead. Good thing the capitalists are famously the least-strapped chuds around.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The call is coming from inside. Google CEO claims it will be like alien intelligence so we should just trust it to make political decisions for us bro: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2024/ai/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-urges-ai-acceleration-dismisses-climate

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know many things but the voters are obviously to blame. We drew 100 different trolley problems and told them democracy and women's rights were on the line. We even had Bill Clinton logically explain that Palestinians were human shields. We even had better policy even though most voters didn't know it. I can only conclude voters are selfish and that's why they vote against their own interests.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When they say it's about race, it's about class. When they say it is about class, it's about gender. And when they say it's out gender, it's about race.

Or at least that's how it feels sometimes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 18 points 3 days ago

I am completely wrong and yet completely vindicated by your response.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago

People didn't care enough to show up to stop forced births, you think they care about puberty blockers? Doubt.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's like splitting hairs over whether a abortion is banned in Texas, cuz technically it is allowed under very narrow circumstances that no hospital is willing to try.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

I got the same vibe but it seems the ambiguity was a large enough liability.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I get the feeling we need to be doing the work the Democrats refused to do: creating a political mandate. Protesting is part of creating that mandate, but one thing I would like to see is the inverse of the "ground game" l; where instead of going door to door to convince people of a solution, you get them involved in the decision process.

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