Red states outnumber blue states close to 2 to 1 though. Even if blue gains more proportionally they might still lose more overall.

If we can’t take the money away from them then we need to take them away from the money. And no, I don’t mean prison.

If you mean Elizabeth Warren then he better watch out or she’ll join the race and stay in just long enough for the centrists to consolidate support and then drop out without endorsing him. That’s exactly what she did to Bernie.

You really think that violence against one person is worse than attempting to violently overthrow a nation of 330 million people?

What then is your intent when insisting on making the distinction between a majority of voters and a plurality of voters? It appears to me to be an attempt at making this seem like less of a problem than it is, especially when the plurality is as close to the same number as a majority is in this case.

That distinction is irrelevant in just about every conceivable way. No one rational should be comforted by the clarification that only 77 million of their neighbors are fascists.

Yep, those are some of the things we need to figure out before we hand our collective fate to the people in charge. I think we should start by figuring out how to keep shitty people from getting or staying in charge.

Even if you accept that LLMs are a necessary, but ultimately disappointing, step on the way to a much more useful technology like AGI there’s still a very good argument to be made that we should stop investing in it now.

I’m not talking about the “AI is going to enslave humanity” theories either. We already have human overlords who have no issues doing exactly that and giving them the technology to make most of us redundant, at the precise moment when human populations are higher than they’ve ever been, is a recipe for disaster that could make what’s happening in Gaza seem like a relaxing vacation. They will have absolutely no problem condemning billions to untold suffering and death if it means they can make a few more dollars.

We need to figure our shit out as a species before we birth that kind of technology or else we’re all going to suffer immensely.

That was an actual AI though. That movie explored some really interesting themes about sentience and love. This is just sad.

Every time this topic comes up one of you guys shows up to make minor statistical and grammatical corrections about the voting population like it makes any damned bit of difference to our lived experience. America elected this piece of shit twice and that is the only important part of the discussion. The rest is just you hoping to convince yourself that things aren’t as bad as they seem. Well, they are that bad so please focus on something more useful than using statistically precise language to describe how many tens of millions of our neighbors support this child raping charlatan.

you don’t get to sell your soul then try to get into heaven.

That’s pretty much exclusively what American Christianity is today.

I don’t know, “uncontrollable, stream of consciousness tantrums” is almost word for word how I’ve described his speech patterns since 2016. I’m not saying he doesn’t have dementia, it’s just hard to agree that he seems worse when I can’t point to a time that he seemed better.

That’s what she said

You might think so but that reasoning is based on logic and critical evaluation of people, which is obviously something MAGA doesn’t do or else they never would have ended up supporting a man like Trump in the first place. Vance isn’t any less charismatic than Trump’s “grab em by the pussy” self was in 2016. Which is to say that neither one has any charisma to speak of.

I’m guessing they just found a map from the time period and added the electricity bit as the meme. Very little effort involved.

Set a reminder for 9 months from now then look and see which state actually follows through on that.

Not really. Everything he’s doing is window dressing that he waited 8 months to start working on. He’s doing better than a lot of Dems but that says way more about how shitty they are than it does how good he is.

Wherever you live almost certainly does

I’ll only skim a little off the top, promise

Perfect