Put the AI critique aside for a moment. Many people on lemmy dont like algorithms managing their feed. There’s probably a big overlap between people who are pervasively sensitive to dark algorithms and people who perceive AI as a dark algorithm parlor trick .

Affordable cost of living is a communist plot to destroy America

The bigots are going to vote for the biggest bigot regardless.

It’s wild how we cater to the feelings of such voters while telling leftists they need to vote blue no matter who to save democracy. Where is that messaging for the xenophobes?

Without securing a popular mandate through an election? People are tired of elites rewriting the rules, how exactly is a vanguard going to be viewed as legitimate?

We wouldn’t even call it AI anything then. The whole framing as it is now is to undermine creative work. It’s hard to imagine how it would even remotely resemble what it is now, a cold reading con.

The best money can buy, for some categories

At least Hitler killed Hitler

Democrats are allergic to populis movements. So if they did do a counter rally, it would largely remind people why they are not that popular. Instead they opt to give the Republicans rope to hang themselves, only problem is we have given so much rope it is touching the ground.

Wait, you mean the guy who didn’t peacefully leave office the last time and said he was going to be a dictator on day 1? Nah, I’m sure history won’t repeat itself

Isn’t that what the billionaires are starting to say?

ThEy NeEd BeTtEr TrAiNiNg

It’s when big money funds a “grass roots” campaign. In the case of the tea party the Koch brothers bankrolled that project.

I think for many Accelerationism is speaking towards the capital transformations of society,
not the decline of empire. Even so, Trump is the accelerationist choice

Emotions aside, is their assessment of events incorrect? Harris is a more sane war hawk, recognizing that doesn’t make you an accelerationist.

The tea party was an astroturfing campaign…

I call it the house cleaning fallacy. “Cleaning the house doesn’t solve the problem of things getting dirty”

It’s socialism or barbarism but they got you thinking they are the same things

Even if you are a hardcore leftist who doesn’t believe in the sanctity of our democracy then at least understand Platner represents a better boss battle then the other two options presented. (Though there were better options in the primary, but i digress)

Have you met an Average American? Many don’t even know the history of the confederate flag and you expect them to know a nazi symbol not shown in popular media?