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Centrism is mostly pointing at the left and shouting "UNELECTABLE!" and looking to the right longingly while saying "I can work with them." Like, make the substantive case, man. Similarly, we often have referenda on our ballot, and the NO argument is always from anti-tax wackos. So it's useless.

And Yggy has always been like this. Even back in the OG lefty blog days, he was playing these contrarian bullshit games, and pretending it was brave heterodoxy. Frankly contemptible.

It's SO FREEING. Don't like that music? Don't like that hairstyle? Kids these days dressing weird? Someone write in academic jargon you don't understand? Hey, it's not for you, no biggie! You just open up all of this space in your brain for things you DO like!

Even "acknowledge how frightened and angry your constituents are instead of talking about the price of eggs in consultant-approved robotic tones like you're in a ransom video after having been taken hostage by James Carville."

Man, I really hated those the one time I was prescribed them. Made me buzzy and anxious. Hope your experience is better.

You would think so, but Word is garbage, so it doesn't always delete them. My hard drive is full of invisible Word lock files. They're only 162 bytes each, so I kill them when I happen to see them, but don't otherwise bother.

Fair enough. I work in a LLM-adjacent space, and I see this conflation constantly among non-technologists. My apologies if I was making an unwarranted assumption.

Machine learning algorithms are quite different from LLMs; people have been using them 40+ years, just to do data analytics. They have no sycophancy setting because they aren't natural language chatbots The conflation of machine learning generally with LLMs specifically is a PR strategy.

The Killbot Caucus Dems think that there is no alternative to them. But there is. It's working for someone else, or using your time and money to serve your community directly, or just protecting yourself by reducing your effort, or honestly, just exhaustion and apathy.

The corporate structure that Musk and Zuck use (those are the ones I happen to know about) means that neither the common shareholders nor the board have any say in the company. IIRC in both cases, the boards are handpicked by great leader.

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That would be the point, I think. There WAS no second term for Joe Biden.

Yes, and those of us on the leftier side of American politics just watched most of our institutions, and the powerful people who claim their prestige by association with those institutions, fold completely in the face of fascism. This, while ordinary people risk their lives and freedom.

Katie Phang is the only person doing anything directly, near as I can tell.

The national media (I won't dignify them by calling them the press) are merely courtiers to Republican power. Or more rudely, courtesans.

What happens if you have 10 people dining together at a table, a Nazi sits down to eat with them, and nobody leaves? You have 11 Nazis at the table.

It's a plan, it's a plan, it's a plan. Bury the country in debt service, thrash the creditworthiness of the USG, try to rig the fed so they'll push up interest rates during the next Dem administration, leave only enough money for killing and jailing.

Exactly. That's just a user fee, or maybe a tax. Cost of doing business, anyway.

My most lawnorder policy take is that broken windows policing should apply only to white collar crime, because it's ALWAYS calculated on a risk-reward basis. It's actually deterrable without authoritarian police state levels of violence.

I wonder if the people running the NYT get sexual gratification from their humiliation, or if they're just in it for the laughs they get watching people murdered in the street.