I actually had my fingers crossed, AAAANNNDDDDD You didn't say no backsies and whoops, no money! Sorry, we broke- Fighting not-wars and funding federal jump-out squads is not cheap!
Tough luck.
Does anybody actually think this administration even has the money to pay back? This is going to be the biggest shitshow in American history. We're going to be talking about "the tariff refund scandal" for decades.
to keep independents out of mind and off the ballot when possible
Independents by their nature are not part of the party so why should we care? The Democrats are a big tent party, there's space for your Jon Testers and Joe Manchins to Zohrans and Bernie Sanders. You want to have a say in the party you need to be part of the party not sneering at it from the outside.
Count the millionaires in congress
Now count how many billionaires were in Biden's cabinet versus Trump's cabinet. Also most members of Congress are going to get a net worth of $1m plus, lot's of them are old, that isn't uncommon so be more specific, this is otherwise just more empty slopulism.
The "lesser evil" shtick is a financial success but a moral failure.
Easy to say as privileged white men. "Lesser evil" means quite a bit to a person who is going to effected by these policies.
You can, however, "reform" the DNC, and the GOP, by working the primaries and knocking the corrupt incumbents off the ballot.
Motherfucker that's my point you don't just get to go 60IQ conspiracy theory and then pretend you believe in the process now. Fuck that.
They shouldn't be allowed to play gods, but right now they're not only allowed, they're being encouraged. They've sold themselves to the government movers and shakers as indispensable, and in some cases as the most important, most vital parts of all of society. And this particular manifesto seems to be yet another summation of how technologists must be allowed full reign over every aspect of society, or the society is ultimately a failure. Or at least it appears to be advertising itself as just that, and being that it is a product of Palantir's, I wouldn't doubt that this may actually be truth in advertising, something I didn't know marketing was capable of anymore. Small miracles wrapped in evil dressing I suppose.
Are those summaries or criticisms? If the post this article is about was the author's own summary, I don't see any connection to what you're saying. Did you read the twenty points listed, or just what the reporter claimed they said? In reading both, I have no idea what the hell the reporter is talking about. What he says and what the post says are almost completely unrelated.
I've read through several summaries elsewhere. It's really difficult to see reviews as anything but criticism because every glowing review gives off the ew vibes. Poke around online a bit. As a tech-company product, it seems to be pretty transparent at the roadmap it's attempting to lay out.
From the summaries I've read, it comes across like the billionaire class attempting to justify all atrocities so long as they benefit the billionaire class. There's also some truly classy quotes from it about how any country that's not supplying the billionaire class with additional profit potential is a lost cause and should be annihilated in favor of countries that do provide them with additional profit potential, or at least assimilated.
People spout of about techno-feudalism. This book, at least from the way it's being advertised, seems to be the techno-feudalist manifesto. I feel it may be worth reading from the perspective of understanding the enemy, but man the excerpts make it sound like pure, distilled evil with a touch of window dressing.
"People on [the internet] will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart."
If we want to talk about how fucked our media environment is I am right there with you and that to me is a much more fruitful area to focus on than the boring old "voting doesn't matter, uniparty" bullshit.
The parties couldn't be more different right now. Does that make Democrats perfect or even good? Not really but they are in fact quite different than Republicans and stand for quite different things.
Yes, it matter quite a lot.
Hold on a second, if it was fixed from the start then why was there months of consternation and intrique when Bernie was running around winning early states and grabbing momentum? All part of the show? Every person is in on it?
I remember in 2020 when Biden was considered a longshot still until the SC primary. All part of the show?
This is why conspiracy theorists simply cannot be taken seriously, it's "all roads lead to Rome" all the time. It requires a level of shutting of your brain to any common sense that you might be unable to care for yourself.
Agree, quite a feat. The article I read also says,
"Experts said the skills on display during the half-marathon, while entertaining, do not translate to the widespread commercialization of humanoid robots in industrial settings, where manual dexterity, real-world perception and capabilities beyond small-scale, repetitive tasks are crucial." which I think is crucial.
Still a ways from Millie from the Jetsons handling household chores from cooking to washing dishes/clothes to vacuuming.
For me, in 2026, anybody who talks in such cynical, doomer language need to answer one question before we even think about taing them seriously: who have you been voting for?
The past decade of learning about the structure and function of the US government has made me far less cynical about the actual government and far more cynical about the voters who decide who should run it.
Now robots can exercise for us! FINALLY! Something I'm willing to gladly hand over to our robot overlords!
The people that might actually deploy them.
You mean the guys currently hell-bent on suiciding the entire human race to bring about their beloved Rapture? Those guys?
Kind of a waste of an AI ghost. If you're going to authorize Val Kilmer for something, make it be the Heat sequel.
Save it for when DC goes full clusterfuck like Marvel has and have his ghost play one of the fifty or so Batmans (Batmen?) that show up.
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