And at that time, TikTok was still mostly free and open, and general public sentiment was firmly with the workers. Even with the traditional media not really giving a clear picture of the events, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and Millennials were all firmly with the workers. Biden had a softball, but he chose the rich.
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I dont know why you got down voted. You’re right.
The establishment democrats tried to rig the election. It wasn’t sloppy voter fraud. They tried to pick their candidate with Harris (after already forcing us to vote for Biden the first time). It was clear in 2020 that the most popular candidate was Bernie. They just made sure to have 20 other primary candidates with different enough edge issues that it kept the vote split.
As soon as I heard Biden’s name back then I knew we were fucked. I remember outload saying “please no” on the bus. It’s a core memory for me. Biden was going to ride Obama’s coat tails into office over the socialist that we needed.
That’s when I knew the democrats were just good cop. Biden proved it when he sided with the railroad companies during the workers strike.
And he proved it again when he dropped out after the 2024 primaries and endorsed Kamila.
It was bullshit then and its still bullshit now and we all remember it.
and if you don’t have ranked choice voting figure out how to GET ranked choice voting because as soon as they get you into a binary loop you’re fucked
I grew up watching. Before flooding the zone, before Trump. Every week it was some bullshit attached to Mitch McConnell. I see his shit eating grin in my sleep. A frozen moment from one of his rallies. Not the only place he flashed it but it was the moment I knew I hated him.
I hope RGB gets a day-pass to hell so she can help torture this shit bag.
Never. This is one of like three people that I’d defile their corpse if I could.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Trust me, I’ve never gotten what I voted for once. The majority of Americans havent gotten what they voted for. Of those that voted 60% didnt vote for this. And the majority of the population continued the trend of not voting.
I dont know how to fix it. You would think in a country built on the idea of keeping your guns so you can fight the government, that we would see more physical pushback.
I just dont want to live on this planet anymore.
What a disappointment the human race turned out to be.
That and they tend to take our words and innoculate their base against them. I cant even count the times I’ve started speaking to someone I disagree with on some level but as soon as I use the proper language to explain it they shut down or get pissy.
Its like they’re sleeper agents.
I have to speak to them like a child just to get to the point of “hey, I’m not your enemy because we disagree. The media is made to make us fight.”
Right wing media doesn’t just tell them what to be upset about, it tells them exactly what you would say when you try to tell them the truth.
Im not being hyperbolic. I have ONLY heard it from the Right wing media machine. But I’m sure you’re right about its origin.
It functionally doesn’t matter anymore.
I made my early career in the union. We were always told vote with our wallet. I would get so pissed when some dude from the right-to-work state would come to our local job market to make $30 an hour and then bitch about the dems.
Like dude, I get it, but at least they’re pretending to care. Your red state fucked your career so bad that you had to drive here to make a living wage.
I cant even imagine how fucked the trades are now. Republicans did a good job at taking the builders of this country and turning them into simps and boot lickers.
Ah yes. Because I made my 10 year old discord account when I was 5. You got me guys.
I’m torn. Because people that use the word tend to be assholes. I dont think I’ve ever heard anyone use it but right-wing types. Usually talking heads, influencers and by extention their extremely committed audience.
So I tend to get immediately defensive when I hear it.
But also, if we dont talk to each other and find common ground we will never be able to work towards our common goals.
Class solidarity is more important to get our common wants met.
But the types that say ‘woke’ are definitely in the cult to some degree.
I can’t think of a single word on the left that has the same weight. Not because there aren’t extremes but because usually the extremes are more varried and divided.
Good thing that last text is there.
That could have gone poorly.
It was good when it was new and growing and adding to innovation. Once the bean counters figured out the grey beards’ magic it got corrupted.
I grew up with stories of kids my age literally changing the world with new technologies and standards for the tech world. All the way into college, those people were innovating and developing things and having ethical back bones.
We were a generation of Nikola Teslas, but we didnt see the Edisons that were hiding in the wings.
You’d think they would have learned this lesson with clippy. Instead they made Clippy 2
Its one if the greatest failings of modern scifi. It uses cgi and effects as a crutch for story telling. We have some exceptions to the rules of course, but in general they move fast and skip story beats or discussion.
No wonder the older shows in general seem to tell a better story. They were telling MORE story
One need not exclude the other, and the thinking is not based just on tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories.
Has anyone said this type of thing? Mostly no, but we do know that places like China and Russia have already implemented similar systems.
We also see trends toward software as a service, cloud-based computing, digital ID laws, and a slew of ongoing anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices over the last two years.
Again, no one has said that this is a plan, but if you told me that half a dozen billionaires were pushing it, I wouldn’t be surprised. Any one of those things would be frustrating, but all of them at once? For most of these people, the goal is likely just “make line go up,” but when that line inevitably goes down, what you have is a collection of infrastructure that is almost perfect for digital surveillance and control, not just software, but the internet at large.
I agree that most of this is just late-stage capitalism at work, but most of us here are pretty savvy. We’re mostly in the tech, engineering, or finance sectors. We all have 20+ years of chronic online time, we self-educate, and we’ve watched the world change in fine detail over the last 20 years. It doesn’t matter what the powers that be are saying. It matters what they’ll have the capability to do when the AI bubble bursts, and what modern history, especially Russia, has taught us about market and state collapse.
Personally, I do think that some big players are doing this intentionally. The AI bubble is hurting the personal computing and hobby PC-building industries, and if any of these data centers actually get built, they can easily be bought out or taken over by something like Microsoft.
Market volatility doesn’t just mean some people’s pensions get wiped out. It means market change, asset transfers, and consolidation. Even without a data center being built, if the hardware has been built and it falls into Google, Amazon, or Microsoft’s lap after a bubble bursts, then that’s vertical integration and market capture.
There may not be money in AI, but everyone caught up in the frenzy is helping to push us toward a surveillance state, even if no one has said as much.
And it’s not cool to ignore which way the water is flowing because people are panicking as we approach that waterfall in the distance.
Granted, we’re talking about factors that I can’t fully predict, but we do seem to be seeing heavy short- and mid-term investment in a restructuring of computing, and no one is talking about it because it is all being done in the shadow of AI and whatever political distraction is happening that day.
I know this is meandering, but my point is that we are moving in a very specific technological direction, even if not everyone with a hand on the wheel is driving toward the same goal. They’re all pushing in the same direction (minus a few zigzags, obviously).
It’s not a conspiracy to sound a major alarm about these things when we know for sure that the next hundred years are going to be devastating from a climate perspective. There is going to be some dark shit that happens, and I don’t really know what that will be, but I guarantee that if I can see it, and all of the experts can see it, then someone with a security clearance and a budget has seen it too.