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by clipsy 1y ago
Has anyone else noticed this and "Gen Z Stare" getting aggressively pushed by numerous media outlets in the past week or two? I can't tell if it's just bad journalists copying other bad journalists or a coordinated effor
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> We're unfortunately waiting for one of those ICE agents, on camera, to pull the trigger and kill or brutally maim someone doing nothing other than filming, or worse an innocent bystander. It doesn't seem like our political sy
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> the people who have designed our entire society to benefit themselves You're describing billionaires.
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Why are you speaking for him? Surely he's capable of denouncing the BBB himself if he chooses to.
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So in other words, you want to codify the definition of truth as "whatever people with money to spare agree on"?
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I’m sure all the people who were concerned about “death panels” will be outraged. Any moment now.
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...dary!
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Real people -- especially real people with enormous amounts of money and influence -- do not simply go away because you stop paying attention.
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How long before Elon announces that it was yet another employee making unauthorized late night changes?
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Congress.
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> Linking it to one side of the political debate is an unhelpful straw man. Would you care to elaborate? To me, it looks an awful lot like one of the single most partisan issues of present times.
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I don't have an X account, so all I can see is the tweet asking if those are the policy positions. Is there more context I'm missing?
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If people think "scientists can never be wrong," we have fundamentally and deeply failed to explain how science actually works. And sadly, that does seem to be the case.
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Notably absent: any detail of what the party's platform is other than "we're not the other guys."
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I can't agree that holding tech companies to reasonable account is the same thing as abandoning tech optimism, especially given (eg) Biden's push to try to build fabs in the US, but I can certainly see how the fairly minor slight
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This could've been moderately interesting if he'd bothered to elucidate exactly how the Democratic party has moved away from him, because as far as I can tell their policy platforms have not changed dramatically except on some soc
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Still no actual policies.
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I personally agree, but you’re just describing moderate Democrats, and they aren’t exactly doing gangbusters lately.
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I can't help but notice a distinct lack of actual policy coming from the people who advocate for a "center" party.
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> policies that are favorable towards members of the working class Such as? What positions will this party take on other (eg "culture war") issues?
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> Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle? Where "the 80% in the middle" are assumed to agree with whatever Musk's political opinions happen to be today.
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> in the country everyone hates right now You’re going to have to narrow this down quite a bit.
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It'd be like trying to squeeze blood from every single entity using the offending code, actually.
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The submitter editorialized the title to add scare quotes; the actual title is "Andrew Cuomo says Zohran Mamdani won NYC Democratic primary for mayor – live updates" Also, it's a live updates page, not the greatest link.
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> It's funny to me that America gets flak from all over the world for having no social safety net; if this was actually true, you'd expect to see people put aside a bit of their income, however meager it may be, out of an expec
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I agree, we should require Israel to surrender its nuclear weapons or subject them to the same consequences.
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How is Iran supposed to "guarantee its existence" without nukes? Or any other country?
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> The classic example is systemd, which fills a desperately needed hole in the Linux ecosystem If the hole is desperately needed, why would you want to fill it?
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Fingers crossed!
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> That's a pretty good explainer for psychology. We have a Coke addled Freud who is the father of it all and another drug abuser shepherding the USA. Now do tech CEOs

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