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Oh no! I better stop saying how I see things, if you’re being driven away from Harris. My sincerest apologies.

I watched one of his speeches. Is there one that’s more impactful that I should be watching instead of the one I picked, to get a little of the flavor of what he stands for?

All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine
Smolensk and Viasma soon fell
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel

Closer and closer to Moscow they come
Riding the wind like a bell

-Al Stewart, “Roads to Moscow”

Yeah. I wouldn’t invest yourself too much in it. But yes, depending on things it might be worthwhile to just offer to let him put his money where his mouth is, if he’s super sure about things.

FBI: Ssssh dude don’t blow it for the rest of us

Offer to bet him money about the outcome of some real world event that is contingent on the way he is claiming that things are

IDK how you can apply that to AI; that’s not the best one. But you can bet that there are no workers dying of heatstroke in Amazon-supplier warehouses. You can bet him that Trump has agreed to honor the results of the election. Etc etc.

It’s very easy to just make statements at each other. If you offer to back up your statements, then he can either refuse (in which case it’ll be harder for him to say he’s definitely right and you’re definitely wrong), or agree and then one or the other of you will learn something.

It’s up to you. You can also just let it go. But if you want to prove him wrong it is easier to do with questions and real-world actions than it is by coming up with the perfect statements. As you’ve discovered, he’s not obligated to react to statements any way other than how he’s decided to react to them.

Also, export your DBs first, and snapshot the export instead of the raw DB files

You're not missing much

If his message was "we desperately need a voting system that enables third parties to be viable, also we desperately need more humanity in our treatment of Palestinians right now because they are dying in large numbers, let's work towards both of those interrelated things" then it'd be gold. He is silent on the first one, though, and actively trying to undermine the second through his actions.

The fact that he's performatively trying to advertise how nice the second one would be won't help the Palestinians if Trump comes to power and doubles the weapons shipments and joins with Netanyahu in his attempts to undermine any humanitarian aid and any peace process. Lobbying the Democrats, threatening the Democrats, demanding concessions from the Democrats, all of those things are likely to help Palestinians to some degree. Voting for Cornel West in the 2024 election is a vote for turning Gaza into a massive graveyard.

I’m sure they do

“Hey Cornel West what should happen to the people of Ukraine and Taiwan?”

“Irrelevant”

“Hey Cornel West what do you think will be the outcome for the Palestinians of people refusing to vote for Harris in this election?”

“Did I stutter? Besides if any are still alive in 2036 when we’ve built enough momentum to be competitive (*) and we win, then I’m sure they’ll be super grateful about how much better my policies are at that point”

(*) not really

We can always change the traditions

Reagan sabotaged the Iran hostages deal

So it is rumored

And those are only the ones we know of; dealing in death is pretty standard fare for people high up in Washington

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