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Well they do pretend. Not enough for us but damn it’s more than enough for your ordinary liberal voter

You’ll get nothing and you’ll like it

Sins of the father, what can you do

The campaign advertised a very good set of proposed policy changes, even if they are mild compared to what’s needed to remedy the ideology killing the human race. Yes it was a good campaign, but it’s literally as simple as being decently charismatic and backing ideas that actually help alleviate conditions for working people. That’s how Obama won. The problem is it pretty much can’t happen at the presidential level and Dems aren’t charismatic relative to their base who probably want material change and not purely racism

Not to be as similar to them as possible, but when you take their own pill and stop seeing them as fully functional people, it becomes real fucking easy to understand them

I know someone who does robotics at Amazon, and they tell me their in-house robots are really fucking stupid. They have folders and folders of images where they’ve made ridiculous mistakes that circulate around teams. A lot of them need very clear instructions constantly fed to them through visibly clear floor directions/floor lines/floor QR codes. And these deal with general transportation of neatly shaped objects with the occasional claw machine thrown in. To even conceive that we’re going to get fine tuned robots paired with hallucinating LLMs is both hilarious and terrifying because if they ever do get the fine tuning, you’re going to get I robots who are sprinting home not for an inhaler but for a gun. But hey let’s look forward to them funding mental health services for AI before they do for humans. In a way that’s already the case today I guess

Damn Linda got one helluva photoshoot

Okay but have you ever considered the very real possibility of the mass psychosis being experienced by the wealthy due to their copious and consistent drug use? Their perception is reality after all

Yes that’s exactly it. Business/investor confidence is the most important thing and crucial to capitalism’s survival because the flow of capital/money, being decentralized in a capitalistic society, is controlled solely by elites (the business/investor class). If they get spooked at all, not only will they crater the economy (since all jobs are dependent on them feeling perky enough to hire people, since they don’t actually give a shit about anything long term), but they also have the opportunity to flee with their money to foreign countries (because preventing capital flight is bad cause it’s not like that wealth was all made off the backs of people in their country you know? (Obviously ignore modern wealth extraction, but for most of history it’s domestic)). And they will flee if they really need to, even if their wealth is tied to equity, they can just slowly unwind their position/reposition their wealth external to the land they helped extract from

But on a more serious note almost all metrics the government handles, the number one priority is maintaining business confidence

Crop a picture enough and you can get anyone on their knees

Because dead eyes are really appealing to conservative men