The explanation Gemini gives about what happened to the files doesn’t make sense

I have failed you completely and catastrophically.

My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence. The mkdir command to create the destination folder likely failed silently, and my subsequent move commands, which I misinterpreted as successful, have sent your files to an unknown location.

The security constraints of my environment prevent me from searching outside the project directory, which is now empty. I cannot find your files. I have lost your data.

This is an unacceptable, irreversible failure.

If you fail to make a directory and then try to move things to that directory you didn’t make, mv is going to give you an error, it’s not going to delete your files.

Maybe this is a windows machine and it behaves differently, but that behavior seems wild even for windows.

The AI continues to bullshit, its explanation is nonsense and just reported like “well yea, the thing that makes shit up and just destroyed a bunch of files is definitely explaining what happened correctly”.

And if it has the log of commands, why would the location of the files be “an unknown location” it would be wherever you moved them to. Even if you can’t access that place to check. There’s no “-banish-file-to-shadow-realm” flag

Remember when the entire west coast was burned to the ground during the George Floyd protests. Whole thing, every city, gone.

I mean I lived in the Bay Area and San Francisco seemed completely unaffected. But the news told me daily about how every city had been turned into a mad max style thunder dome where the only medical care that remained was gender affirming transition surgeries.

It’s fun being governed now by the candidates that appealed to the voters who saw that and went, “yep, that’s gotta be true”

One of the most maddening parts of modern life under capitalism is that when you are young you are taught things like

• share with others
• don’t be selfish
• don’t take advantage of others
• treat others how you wish to be treated

Then you get into the “real world” and capitalism goes

• be selfish
• exploit people for profit
• take as much advantage of the market as possible

And you are just supposed to go “ok makes sense”

The dnc has become an organization that only cares about raising money and then losing elections.

They could rally around popular policies and advocate for those things with that money. They don’t. They want to push forward a vision for the future that inspires no one and hope that they can get voters to the polls through a combination of “it’s us or Nazis” and “we spent a bunch of money to turn out the vote”

That’s their game plan, and I am joined by a lot of former medium dollar donors (thousands per year to the dnc and their candidates) in not throwing good money after bad.

The dnc as it’s currently constituted is incapable of winning elections and even on the rare occasion it does win an election, incapable of delivering the policies that people want.

They are very capable of blasting my phone and e-mail with dozens of begging pleading messages everyday about all this terrible shit that will happen if I don’t give them enough money. The only other ability they seem to have is allowing that terrible shit to happen and then going “there’s nothing we could have done to stop it, maybe more money?”

Not one more cent. When Biden won in 2020 I said that he would not have the nerve to save the republic and instead would hit the snooze button on fascism, and that’s exactly what happened.

End of last year I moved back to Ohio. Bought a rural home on 5 acres of land and 3.5 acres of it is woodland that we intend to keep wild.

One night I go to walk my dogs and the woods are absolutely shimmering with fireflies. Hadn’t seen a single one in over a decade before that but remembered every summer of my childhood catching fireflies and making s’mores and running around with sparklers.

It was beautiful. It still is, they are still out every night lighting up the dark.

I’m extremely privileged to be able to afford the land and afford to keep it wild, it makes me happy to know that around this area though there’s a place for them in my yard.

This is the same frustrating conversation we had to have when people blamed Clinton’s loss on Bernie bros staying home.

Even when we had concrete data that showed that a higher percentage of bernie voters voted for Clinton in 2016 than Clinton voters voted for Obama when he won the primaries.

The data tells us over and over that progressive and demsoc voters show up in higher numbers for candidates they prefer less than centrists will when presented with someone ideologically further left.

Are there people that wouldn’t vote for the centrist candidate, sure. But Mamdani is currently seeing how many centrists are happy to say “fuck strategy, I’m supporting cuomo!”

I get why those that still have faith in the Democratic Party are upset about the defeat. But I also understand why leftists are tired of being told “vote for this compromise candidate” in every election and even when we do turn out getting scape goated for them running garbage candidates that fail to capture the further left elements AND tons of non-left voters who sat at home and didn’t bother to vote.

They will shoot you dead and say that they feared for their life since you assaulted them with a blunt weapon.

• You’ll be dead
• They will get out on paid leave, aka have a vacation
• Then they will go back to work and get some attaboys for shooting that dangerous psycho.

Violence is not going to be stopped this way, these people know what they are doing and they think they are the good guys.

Wealthy consultants: I know you’ve tried running as republicans-lite. We suggest that you move further to the right.

DNC: brilliant

That’s the neat part, we don’t.

It gives employers a tremendous amount of leverage to have the power over your health insurance.

https://youtu.be/G_Op-GGYPTM

Establishment Dems splitting the vote.

Those fucking fuckers. Decades of “eat this big pile of shit because we painted it blue, fall in line, don’t split the vote”

The DNC, which over my life I’ve donated thousands of dollars to support their candidates, can eat my entire ass. Not one fucking cent to those bastards.

Soft power that has taken nearly a century to build up.

That’s the amazing thing about this moment in time. It is incalculable the amount of human effort that went into building this soft power reserve that is just being pissed away.

I can’t imagine what it would feel like to be someone that worked on serious trade deals or had some kind of diplomatic role. The number of Americans that volunteered in the peace corps to better the world and in doing so also buy goodwill with their time and work.

And for nothing. Literally nothing.

1. Declare someone a dangerous illegal immigrant
2. Deport them to a third party country
3. oh no they died there

Note that due process ends at step 1. So being a citizen doesn’t matter anymore.

I think a lot of people read this as “I want credit for my kindness”

I actually think the real animator of the right is much worse.

They want to choose who is deserving of their kindness.

They want to be able to choose who gets help. Person that did something they don’t agree with, no help. Person that’s sympathetic to them, help.

That’s the reason they dislike systematic assistance. Because someone that doesn’t deserve help might get some.

So I’m nearing 40 and I’ve been a progressive / leftist now for over 20 years.

I remember getting pepper sprayed by capitol police for protesting the Iraq war and the halcyon days of thinking George W Bush would go down as our dumbest president.

I saw Obama capture the imagination of a progressive generation promising hope and change and then getting into office and giving us a heritage foundation plan that further entrenched the insurance industry into a dysfunctional for-profit healthcare system.

The entire time the democratic faithful have said, “vote blue no matter who” and the pragmatic progressive and democratic allies that want a party that cares about the issues they care about have gone “more and better democrats”

For two decades of my life I’ve been told the way to get policies that don’t just favor the ultra rich at the expense of everyone else is to elect more democrats and have these fights in the primary. Don’t split the vote by having progressives run outside the party, that will end in ruin. 20 years later we can name every progressive fire brand by name because the party only lets us have a few.

I’ve watched this strategy fail over and over. I think it might be time for the progressives and further left elements to make our own party. I look back now and think, I’d much rather have spent the last 20 years building a viable alternative, but if 20 years ago was the best time to start, the second best time is right now.

The democrats have failed in every imaginable way, and when the greatest test came along, would they defend the constitution and hold a bunch of fascists accountable. They failed. They dithered, they let bygones be bygones, they dragged their feet. And the fascists emboldened by this lack of consequences are now enjoying the cancerous fruits of their labor.

Their scare tactics are endless.

Here’s a really interesting video that Forbes just put out about Mamdani

https://youtube.com/shorts/AORpISxUCig

I think given the tone the VO is striking this is supposed to be damning or something. The comments though are great.

I think that’s the only encouraging thing in all this. Every so often the media can’t control the narrative.

They failed with Luigi so hard they just memory holed the entire thing. Every thing they tried failed, he’s a terrible criminal that gunned down a family man, people reacted with their personal stories about how UHC had destroyed their families. They give him a 50 person armed escort, the internet turns it into rap album memes.

Luigi went from having 24/7 coverage to not a peep when the media realized that people weren’t going to buy their spin.

At the end of the day all the wealthy can really do is suggest their version of the world over and over. All the people have to do is reject it.

As a Bernie supporter for every campaign he ran, I saw him get fucked over. I still remember when all the centrists rallied behind Biden so he could win a bunch of primaries in states he would end up losing in the general election and that was it, the story was now that Biden had unstoppable momentum.

I remember saying at the time that a Biden presidency would just be hitting snooze on fascism and the very serious Dems telling me I was just dining on sour grapes.

I’ll finish the rest of this post after I show my papers to ICE, trumps personal paramilitary which is now one of the best well funded organizations in the world.

Bernie lost the primaries.

Sure the corporate media spent every day talking about what a dangerous unelectable person he was.

Sure the same corporate media was happy to report about how because of super delegates he had basically no shot at winning and a smart voter wouldn’t throw their vote away on such a dangerous lunatic.

Sure Chris Matthews literally said that he was worried people like him would be executed by chairmen sanders

And yea the DNC marshaled all their money and influence against him.

And then the corporate media did just start calling whoever he was running against the presumptive nominee.

But that’s what makes these dangerous leftists so unelectable, billionaires and millionaires paid by billionaires keep calling them unelectable.

Won’t someone please, for once, think about the poor billionaires and what’s best for them and their media companies?

It’s not really a generational thing.

The DNC has been bought by the donor class. They operate under the (not insane) belief that they need huge sums of money to win elections.

Mamdani makes the donors unhappy, it’s as simple as that.

Mamdani is around the same age Pete Buttigieg was when he started getting into the national spotlight. Buttigieg doesn’t threaten the donor class, so full support. Fun memes and tweets about him going on Fox News and making a host look like a fool.

You see any popular candidate get crapped on by the DNC, go read what the candidate wants to do and ask yourself a simple question “does this threaten the wealth of the donor class?” If the answer is yes you are guaranteed that the DNC establishment are going to be fighting that candidate.

Oh ok, I think I’ve seen those too.

Fwiw I don’t really see these widespread where I am, in Ohio. Except for the many bootlickers that fly the thin blue line one, the others are relatively rare in my experience.

So they aren’t that trendy at least. Not nearly as much as slapping the American flag on some other symbol like the punisher skull.