Because of course you would
All this “yeah who cares if someone’s literally dying, the ambulance can wait until after I’m done speaking” is a sign of how truly unhinged a lot of the people who have made their way into the higher echelons of our society are
A good example would be Ellsberg’s writings on “the stalemate machine” in Vietnam - that should be, in my opinion, required reading for anyone who’s involved on any level in our Ukraine policy. I feel like, observing the result, it probably is not.
I mean you’re not wrong. As I said I am sure I would fuck up horribly in these roles, as applied to either Israel or Ukraine. It’s at least 10 times easier to lob criticism and identify problems than it is to actually execute, and solve the problems. But if you’re suggesting that just because someone’s at a high level, they’re obviously wise to the real situation and making good comprehensive decisions, that suggests strongly to me that you probably haven’t worked either in a big company or on military / foreign policy things.
Yeah. I’m giving it a hefty scoop of benefit of the doubt, and dealing with it at face value in terms of “how do we get better behavior from the Democrats as pertains to issues like Gaza,” because there is a valid complaint about how shit the Democrats can be in congress and as a general rule. But I also won’t disagree with you on the bigger picture here.
If you’re an activist trying to get better results out of the American political system, that sounds like a fuckin fantastic idea. Trying to get there by denying credit to the Democrat’s tiny progressive wing whenever they do something in the right direction doesn’t sound like a real good element of that strategy.
I am sure, also, that I will also be able to find some inaccurate criticism here of the Democrats for something they actually didn’t do, but I stopped reading and started skimming long before reaching that point.
“Thou shalt not allow Democrats to win elections”
It has not yet become an overriding principle, but with every passing year, there are more who honor it. For them to make the attempt was worth a try. Sooner or later they may be able to sneak this shit past.
You have it one too low - he reached CSM but retired as an SGM because of coursework.
There is actually one rank higher, E-9, which is the singular final boss of all the NCOs, which I guess is a significant asterisk I should put to that “highest rank.” He reached the highest rank there is more than one of allowed to exist at a time.
Walz, on the other hand, served for 24 years and reached the highest possible rank of NCO, which is basically the most badass thing you can be in the regular sectors of the military (and in the aggregate the most critical for its good operation.)
What the fuck
Why is this SO long and consists only of "fuck the Democrats / the Democrats betrayed us / be disheartened / fuck the Democrats / the Democrats betrayed us / be disheartened"
Like I try to imagine Martin Luther King or Eugene Debs giving this as a speech, and I can't imagine it. "There's no winning. Let's all remember the bad times and cling to them like they are our only harbor in the storm. Let me catalogue the times people failed us, volume 1" (although with more heat applied to it than specific examples).
If you want a more coherent and productive version of this, that talks about how to actually push the Democrats to the left instead of just instigating a personal depression-crisis about the state of American politics (which although sorta understandable is not a productive way to get better outcomes), this interview with Ralph Nader might be a good place to start.
I just tried Claude after having some issues with using GPT on Firefox that OpenAI’s support was unable to resolve other than some “it’s all your fault, clear your cookies” bullet points.
I only tried Claude a little bit so far, but it seems way better.
TikTok is an absolutely dogshit way of becoming informed about politics. Any accidental overlap between the simplicity and video-bite-amenability of the Gaza issue, and TikTok’s ability to communicate issues that are dirt simple and can be illustrated by short videos, is purely accidental. The main issue is that it is explicit Chinese spyware of a type that is even more explicitly malicious than the usual standard for social media apps, which is already pretty malicious.
Also the fact that it took external-to-the-Democrats opposition and huge investment of outside money to get rid of a vocally anti-Israel Democratic member of congress, instead of anything the Democrats did against her, is notable. I think you should add the phrase “Israeli MAGA” to your lexicon; it’s still not accurate but it is much closer than the propaganda terminology you are currently using.
Yeah.
Usually I can be pretty aloof talking politics on Lemmy with the bad faith people, but having had some distant second hand contact with the reality and I think some concept of what it might become, under Trump 2, means that the people who say they don’t want to vote Democratic because they care about immigration can sometimes make me feel genuine rage.
You can check, do you have a driver’s license, what state is it from, what’s your SSN, and start poking around in the databases and see if there start to be lies or missing entries where there should be some, or is the person clearly evasive or terrified, and then you can go from there. In practice I feel like it’s often possible to tell if the person you’re talking to is legal or not pretty easily. And yes of course what color is your skin is a significant factor in all of that.
And yes it’s fucked up. He is doing fine now and still in the US; Obama’s immigration reforms happened in time that he could delay the case and do appeals until he wound up getting married to an American girl and that solved the problem.
OpenAI at least is now attempting to bolt on a “memory” by having the LLM spit out short snippets of what it might need to know later, which it then has access to when completing later prompts. Like everything else post-GPT-4, it seems fine but doesn’t work really all that well at what it is intended to do.