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  • Five Takeaways From Francesca Hong’s Near-Win in Wisconsin

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  • Democrats have an incredibly easy opportunity right now, just like in 2020 and 2024. They could simply point to all the bad stuff the Republicans have done and promise to do better things. The Dems should be winning by outstanding margins by promising very simple things, like not shooting immigrants or making groceries cheaper. Instead, the Dems promise nothing and as a result, what should be really easy races become down to the wire nail biters.

    The Democrat party simply needs to follow the playbook of the most successful Democrat in history, FDR. Promise progressive policies and then actively work towards those policies and you get elected so often they gotta change the rules to stop you from getting re-elected. We can see this with the most popular modern Dem president Obama. He did half the equation, promise progressive change, and even though he didn't follow through, dude got elected twice and is still a household name in the Dem party. Clinton, Biden, and Kamala weren't even willing to lie about enacting positive changes and Biden only won because Trump's COVID policies killed over a million people. Even then, Biden won by a tiny margin when, again, he should have won by an incredible margin.

  • Ocasio-Cortez says a 'generational tidal wave' of millennial voters is reshaping the electorate

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  • Can't be a candidate until you are at least 35, pretty much. Millennials are just now getting to the right amount of experience in politics and age group to run for political positions.

  • Hegseth was the only cabinet member with Trump while Rubio, Bessent were on decoy plane

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  • Maybe someone else wouldn't bomb elementary schools. Sure it's a maybe, but maybe that's a worthy dice roll.

  • In Wisconsin, David Crowley defeats Francesca Hong in Democratic primary for governor

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  • This is such nonsensical bullshit. A tweet Hong made about Thanksgiving 6 years ago is not indicative of her actual policies today. She was never going to use the power of Governor to cancel Thanksgiving or whatever.

    David Crowley's policies are far more likely to cancel Thanksgiving, what with him being friendly and open to opening data centers in the state. Data centers are highly unpopular in Wisconsin and Hong was the only Dem candidate willing to promise a moratorium on them like the people want. People making a big stink about "electability" or "Woke 1.0" are shifting attention away from important current day politics to nonsensical culture war distractions.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • AI isn't real, but it's gonna ruin society anyway. There is absolutely zero possibility for genAI to develop intelligence because it's just a probablistic chatbot. It doesn't know anything; it's just rolling dice to guess what word to spit out each time. A high school student who copies his friend's calculus homework will eventually learn a little calculus. A chatbot will never learn any calculus. Claiming these genAI models will develop intelligence with better compute technology is like claiming a puppet will develop intelligence with better string technology.

  • Ford CEO tells employees Chinese automakers could enter U.S. market in next decade

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  • In some areas, like being able to afford a car, people in China are probably better off than people in the US.

  • Ford CEO tells employees Chinese automakers could enter U.S. market in next decade

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  • The businessmen in China know they will be shot by the government if they are too exploitative.

  • CONFIRMED: Elon Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms

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  • It will only work if the Democrats put up a bad candidate. A good candidate with good policies can defeat billionaire money, like in NY or WI, but a bad candidate with bad policies, like Kamala Harris, can easily waste a billion dollars.

  • The offer to pay more for the same finally pushed me to cancel Apple Music. What is a good alternative that's not loaded with ads?

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  • I had the same problem. I had to manually give permission to Rufin to access my music folder. I used the 84 point answer here to help figure it out.

    Incidentally, after some messing around, I think I'll stick with Strawberry cuz I'm a weirdo who likes rating my music out of 5 stars.

  • Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’

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  • The kind of public speaking Thiel does is not aimed towards regular people. For example, the event highlighted in the article, The Aspen Ideas Festival, costs $3,000 a person for 6 days. He's speaking to the rich and wealthy who take his absurd ideas seriously because their wealth makes them out of touch with the rest of society. These events carry big price tags to exclude people like you and me from knowing what they are talking about, what kind of agendas the Epstein Class is trying to advance. Ignoring him and his ilk does not lessen his power because the source of his power are the rich and wealthy. Theil does not derive his power from people, but from wealth.

    This means that the method of removing his power requires actively casting him down from his tower. Regular people need to pool their power together and remove his influence through collective action, like using government to jail him. This is only possible through actively acknowledging the threat people like Thiel present. We cannot safely ignore people like Thiel anymore you could ignore your neighbor building a rocket launcher pointed at your bedroom.

    I realize that the idea of using government to punish evil rich people seems unrealistic, what with the myriad examples of Epstein's friends avoiding punishment. But just because it seems impossible right now doesn't actually make it impossible. It will require a lot of people coming together to make decisions about a better future, which first requires people becoming more politically active. Part of that requires education, explaining why people should become more politically active, and I think and important part of that is highlighting how certain people in positions of power need to be actively fought against. You and I do not need further evidence that Peter Thiel is a bad person, but there are people out there who don't know what Thiel is doing in the background so stuff like having multiple news outlets report on his evil and absurdity can help raise awareness. Though I will grant that perhaps it's less useful on a platform like Lemmy in which a majority of the userbase is already more politically aware than the average person.

    Also, I don't think that you and I are fighting each other or that we are in hostile opposition in this discussion. We both have the same goal of removing power from people like Thiel, we just disagree about how to enact that goal. I think this kind of discussion is useful amongst allies and doesn't necessarily need to result in a political schism or anything.

  • Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’

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  • I think an article titled, "Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’" is pretty absurd and not supportive or amplifying. Theil is not a social media influencer who gains power from spreading his ideas amongst regular people. He gains power by speaking to rich fail sons and people already in positions of power. The less he is perceived by regular working class people, the better he can spread his message amongst the Epstein Class.

    The strategy of deplatforming works on people trying to spread their message to a wide crowd, like Nick Fuentes or Alex Tate. Theil is not someone who wants his message spread widely. He is targeting the already rich and powerful.

  • Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’

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  • Give him a stage? Peter Theil already has a stage. He has the ear of the president. He already has power and influence. Ignoring him lets him continue to grow that power and influence unopposed. He does not get power and influence from people knowing who he is; he gets it from being able to work behind the scenes in the darkness.

  • Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’

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  • Unlike your ceazy neighbor, Peter Theil can influence the direction of the US government. He's the reason why Vance is VP. Ignoring him just lets him continue advancing his agenda unchecked. Mentioning stuff like this helps explain why people like Theil should be cast down from their positions of power. That's also important because not many people know why Theil is a bad person.

  • Democrat James Talarico seeks to unite party, says Texas is 'no place for guys like Ken Paxton'

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  • Mamdani ran on rent, buses, and childcare. These seem like policies that would appeal to people in Texas.

  • OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it

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  • The better part of a decade, all the resources in the world, and you expect me to be impressed with something that can't perfectly do an entry level programming project? With that kind of resource usage, I expect a moon landing at the very least.

  • OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it

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  • There is no use case for chat boxes. Uber was losing money, but it was driving people to places. Amazon was losing money, but it was delivering books to people. Chat boxes don't do shit.

    Uber would have failed if their cars just drove in circles. Amazon would have failed if they didn't deliver anything. There is no real use case for this tech, just like with scam coins or monkey pictures, this is tech searching for a problem to solve.

    The most foundational aspect of business is that you gotta do something to get money. What exactly have these chat boxes produced? Shitty porn and incorrect advice. If that's the best they've got after consuming the entirety of human knowledge and guzzling an ocean of freshwater, this shit ain't going nowhere.

  • AOC trolls Trump, accuses him of falling asleep at Knicks game

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  • The president ruined a basketball game with his presence and took a nap during it while there's a goddamn war going on that he is directly involved with. People are right to care that the president is wasting time like this instead of doing his job. This was an attempt to siphon the glory of a major cultural event, so it's important to fight back against that and ensure it fails. If it won't pressure him to do his job, it will at least depress his approval ratings.

  • Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count

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  • Sorry, in case it wasn't clear, I do agree with you. I just didn't want to write all that out and instead reverted to the very easy statement previously mentioned.

  • Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count

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  • Betting markets bad!