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A DNC congressional majority passed every shitty thing he did except the Iran Contra stuff. There's a great classic SNL from the late 80's where Al Franken talks on Weekend Update about how it used to be someone who got old and rich like him would have to become a republican, but thanks to the DNC becoming a neoliberal anti-tax party, he doesn't need to swap parties.

I assume this is referring to China. Ask anyone in China about their generous social benefits, which are even more paltry than in the US, and you'll see how "left" the Chinese "Communist" Party really is

We're on the brink of another Trump term --Justice Judy may well happen in the next year or two...

At least it was underground, limiting how many people were in the line of fire, every few years they open fire at someone on a major avenue in Manhattan in a crowd. Good times. I'm so glad the democratic party destroyed Scott Stringer by bribing his ex-gf to falsely accuse him of being a sex pest to ensure the DNC's man, Eric Adams, the biggest shithead to ever come out of the NYPD, could become mayor-king of NYC, guaranteeing Guiliani-level daily police misconduct with impunity.

A number of VPNs have anti-tracking/adblocking features, but idk how well they work -- I refuse to use an OS with OS level ads, so I never see non-browser ads

I would argue all of these things were possible sans "AI" (although it would have been sold as AI in the 90's) via existing heuristics adequately developed if people knew that was the desired application

I think at this point it's clear that when the CIA doesn't do it, ala JFK, you get Hinckley or worse losers, as demonstrated by all post-Lincoln attempts on republicans

If ONE emo kid had befriended him in high school and showed him how he could talk to girls about Death Cab, all of this would be fine... There's a mirror earth where Rivers Cuomo is this in the W era...

The backlash to this is going to be fun. Having lived through the .com boom/bust, which wasn't a scam, the web was actually the future and was undersold if anything, no one with the stink of computer on them outside of a tiny elite could get decent fulltime work for like 5 years. AI is a scam, full stop. It has virtually no non-fraud real world applications that don't reflect the underlying uselessness of the activity it can do. People are going to go full Butlerian Jihad from Dune when this blows up the economy, and it's going to suck so much more for everyone in tech, scammer or no...

But the hundreds of constituents who called him to report their dog being eaten by Haitians but not the cops are real, right?

Imagine maintaining your integrity for the ENTIRE pre-2020 decades of abject neoliberal domination of not just the entire political system, but the very intellectual framing of everything from the economy to morality, and then you give it all up for Joe fucking Biden...