The big problem with more harm is that people will go looking for a solution. The solutions they’ll find are either socialism or fascism. The Republican party is all in on fascism, while the Democratic party is doing their best to suppress socialism. Fascism is the increasingly likely future at the moment, so accelerating towards that decision point is not currently a good idea.

Progressives are currently fighting the establishment Democrats to make socialism an option, and it is unfortunately going to take time to beat out the Democratic dinosaurs. It would be a very dangerous gamble at the moment to ask people to choose what kind of future we should pursue without having the better option lined up.

I do think progress is being made though, even in these difficult times. New York City recently elected a Socialist for mayor, and across the country, Progressives are coming into positions of power. The establishment Dems are fighting the change tooth and nail and the Republicans are trying to enact fascism, but I don’t think the battle for a better future is so lost to the point where blowing everything up is preferable.

Mahan is being supported by Silicon Valley tech billionaires. That should disqualify him immediately. He’s a big supporter of AI and wants to put AI into healthcare and education. He talks a lot about building housing, but it’s all public-private partnerships that have historically been free money for developers instead of solving the problem. He talks about addressing homelessness, but he’s moved money away from the solution, which is government affordable housing, and into temporary interim housing, which is a short term bandaid.

Yes, a pencil can do a whole bunch of different. things. GenAI cannot do things. It has no purpose. Pencils were made to write stuff. GenAI was made to ???. It is a technology in search of a problem to address. A niche to fill. It has no purpose as it stands, yet it is supposedly the most important thing ever to the point where the rich and wealthy are losing their minds investing into it on the vague hopes that it’ll do something. They’ve even got our government in on it; the US economy is being dangerously propped up by this industry that doesn’t solve any problems or fulfill any purpose. All the things it does are novelties and even then, it does those things poorly and unreliably.

Tools at home improvement stores were made to fulfill a specific purpose. GenAI still does not have a purpose it fulfills despite having hundreds of billions of dollars invested, not to mention all the other resources it’s sucking up.

An intern probably would not go on a mass deletion spree. Also, an intern doesn’t eat a billion gpus.

I hope you are not seriously advocating using the lying machine for therapy. You would get more value talking to a finger puppet.

You aren’t wrong that putting money into the economy raises inflation. However, the inflation from SNAP disbursements is inconsequential compared to stuff like putting tariffs on everything or allowing corpos to raise prices out of pure greed. There’s really no point in examining SNAP’s effect on inflation when there are much more consequential concerns to focus on.

Everytime it’s brought up, Republicans shoot it down. The GOP made this bed, so now they gotta lie in it.

Team Airbud is just mad the opposing team got their own dog now. Dems tried to get dogs banned from playing, but when all the legal channels to instill fairness have been blocked, you gotta train up your own dunking dogs.

Kamala Harris did not lose because of those qualities. She lost because she ran as a diet Republican, going for a marginal victory.

Doing an interview with an LLM trained on a real person feels like libel.

I too wish that laws still mattered. Thankfully, they still matter a little bit, so there’s still a chance for us to turn things around.

You can’t post about what doesn’t exist. For positive posts about the Democrats to exist, the Democrats first need to do something positive.

Lmao. Iran has been very clear that if you are homies with the US, you are not friends with Iran. “Third party” is crazy. Again, none of this would have happened if the US didn’t force Iran’s hand.

Iran didn’t start the war. Any benefits Iran is currently getting are a result of US initiative.

In the prequel, the songwriter was told, “Imagine it’s been 10,000 years. What does French sound like?” And then she was asked to do that for multiple other languages and it’s awesome.

The way I read jimothy’s comment is that Republican politicians are using trans people as a distraction from issues they don’t want to address. Conservatives are making problems by claiming trans people are bad in order to deflect attention away from problems their constiuents actually care about.

Conservative voters, if presented with the choice of healthcare or trans athletes, would absolutely prefer their politicians to focus on healthcare. A farmer in Iowa does not actually give a fuck what bathroom a trans person uses, their attention has just been redirected in that direction by grifters.

You complained that regular people aren’t doing enough. I explained that regular people are doing stuff and now you are complaining about the way they are doing stuff. It sounds like you are the one ineffectually complaining.

Do you think the Democratic Party decided to block DHS funding yesterday because they suddenly awoke to justice? The Democratic Party only felt comfortable doing this because they have seen there is widespread disapproval for the actions of ICE. I don’t think it’s a stretch to claim these protests have resulted in political action by elected representatives.

Iran does not need to test California’s air defenses. An easier way to hurt the USA would be to bomb US assets in the middle east or closing the Strait of Hormuz. Those are much easier to do for much bigger, immediate benefit.

The cost benefit analysis of striking California doesn’t make sense. The War on Terror showed how the USA would respond to a strike on US soil. The last thing Iran wants is for the citizens of the USA to be galvanized to increase military action in the middle east. Iran would have to be as stupid as the USA to overextend like that and they have not shown any signs of being that foolish.

And yes, beyond all of this, I still think it is not possible for Iran to drone strike California anytime soon. The idea of secret Iranian sleeper cells in the US is absurd, on the level of secret Japanese sleeper cells during WW2.