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The culture war is going to be over soon, the left has basically given up. When we have trillionaires at the same time as social security and medicare going ti
by CuriouslyC 2y ago
The culture war is going to be over soon, the left has basically given up. When we have trillionaires at the same time as social security and medicare going tits up, Luigi-type figures are going to come out of the woodwork. The ultra rich won't be able to hire help because they'll be too scared. At that point the government is done unless it turns hard left.
- verdverm 2y agoI don't think the culture war is over, the left seems to be reflecting, and it has certainly taken a motivation hit, but giving up has not happened. The left is lacking a leading voice to rally behind Keep in mind, Donold only won by ~100k voters across 3 states. There was not a landslide nor is there a mandate
- steveBK123 2y agoHe shifted voters incrementally more red than previous elections across almost every zip code, and demographic. It was very much a wipeout in that sense. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/presidential-election-2024-red-shift.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/p...
- verdverm 2y agoAn election where if 100k voters in 3 states had checked a different box, does not make a wipeout. A small movement across some of the demographics, while also others going the other way, does not make a wipeout This is what wipeouts look like: https://www.history.com/news/landslide-presidential-elections https://www.history.com/news/landslide-presidential-election...
- bdangubic 2y agowipeout is what grandpa biden did to him in 2020, 2024 was thin margin victory - nowhere near any sane definition of a “wipeout”
- exe34 2y agoI imagine robot soldiers that answer to them aren't far off.
- CuriouslyC 2y agoThe real life way that we'll have Terminator is when the oligarchs make AI to defend themselves, and the AI keeps fighting after all oligarchs have been killed by revolutionaries.
- exe34 2y agoI suspect automated manufacturing and automated maintenance of the manufacturing could lead to a world where the rich can afford to kill off the poor, and then over generations devolve into a society that has no knowledge of how the machine that is providing them with food and supplies works- without any ASI takeoff.