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1. ilaksh · 1790229226 · focus · HN ↗

   I am very pro-AI (although I do think we need to have a culture of caution) but this is another red-alert for democracy. People should be terrified if the president is able to make you into a state enemy just because you said you are against some technology.

   1. trhway · 1790233372 · focus · HN ↗

      The president calling you a foreign agent has just had his son's wedding paid for by a Russian criminal boss with close ties to Putin. A classic "the thief shouts "Catch the thief!" louder than everyone else"

      >the president is able to make you into a state enemy just because you said you are against some technology.

      not only technology. Any opposition to the Great Leader on any issue.

      1. someonebaggy · 1790234094 · focus · HN ↗

         "every accusation is a confession" is the quote that applies to this government

         1. 21asdffdsa12 · 1790237554 · focus · HN ↗

            Just imagine how lousy the opposition has to be to loose to this guy, twice.

            1. tavavex · 1790252195 · focus · HN ↗

               Just imagine how lousy the average American mind has to have been to evaluate this to be preferable to just about any other alternative they could get in their political system. Twice. And they'll happily go for a third time, tens of millions of people are still loving it.

               1. 21asdffdsa12 · 1790254731 · focus · HN ↗

                  Sure, they are just stupid, deluded, idiots, not starved out of all alternatives, by 40 years of wage scissoring, de-industrialization, by a reality decoupled elite that finally got a terror-clown for all its fringe centric, reality decoupled politics. Imagine a country that divorces the empire and the ruling elite, which does not need the country, still not getting the message, after 8 years of this and 4 of right on, right on.

                  1. someonebaggy · 1790257715 · focus · HN ↗

                     the only philosophy where this leads to this government is either stupidity or accelerationism. And 49% of voters aren't accelerationists.

                     1. braj0 · 1790341955 · focus · HN ↗

                        What is the difference between a vote based on stupidity and a vote based on accelerationism if they are for the same candidate? How would you draw the distinction?
               2. tim333 · 1790261619 · focus · HN ↗

                  The quality of the candidates seem to have gone down since Obama, Bill Clinton and the like though.

                  1. someonebaggy · 1790265238 · focus · HN ↗

                     Voters keep showing they prefer the more senile candidate, I suppose.

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