

Why would they take a loss, when they can just make their customers pay for it instead?
Why would they take a loss, when they can just make their customers pay for it instead?
Because the point isn’t to actually “fix” anything.
“He likes to schmooze and bounce things off of whoever is around,” the aide said.
Even the top secret classified stuff, apparently. And then they threaten to prosecute anyone who leaks what they hear, to the media.
No. Unfortunately, they don’t. But, they SHOULD!
That catch-22 works both ways. Once there are more progressives in power, the effect will begin to reverse. I’m old enough to see it already happening. It’s just a slow shift.
It’s a representative democracy…which means you need to flip seats in Congress in order to take over a party. That’s all. It’s a gradual process, but one that is entirely possible within the current system. We the people, have the power to do this, just by voting.
The biggest problem is, that progressives are fighting against the money. Tea Party Republicans didn’t have that problem, since most of their socio-political ideology aligns with Libertarian policies. No taxes, no regulations, no corporate accountability. That draws a lot of support from the kinds of people who were already dissatisfied with the compromise Democrats and Republicans had struck between the elites making more money, and the consumers they use to make it.
The Tea Party and later MAGA are all in on fucking us all over to benefit the ruling class. Most of their voters are just too gullible to realize that. They think they’re somehow “sticking it to the elites”, by giving them everything they could have ever hoped for.
In many ways, it was never a real grassroots movement. It was always just an astroturfed effort. But it demonstrates how you can fundamentally change the entire direction of a party in US politics. One seat at a time…until the new majority votes the way you want them to.
They didn’t have a single populist in the beginning. They just had “Tea Party Republicans”. Unfortunately, this new “flavor” of conservative was even more racist and unintelligent than the original recipe.
Their voters immediately gravitated towards them, because they were seen as relatable outsiders, whose biggest policy position was to do whatever it took to hurt “the left”, and/or anyone who even suggested the idea of “working together” with them. (ie. RINOs)
Trump just eventually took advantage of this movement and declared himself its leader. But when it first started, he still considered himself a Democrat.
Of course you can. Just look at how the MAGA movement has taken over the Republican party. It started during Obama’s term, with the Tea Party movement. One-by-one, they primaried the old-school moderate Republicans, and eventually held majority control over their party’s policy decisions. Once they had that, the remaining moderates either chose to fall in line, or were forced to retire.
That’s how democracy works. Revolution is just an excuse to kill people for their political beliefs, when you’re too lazy to convince them to change their minds.
Then their losses are on them…not the voters.
It’s not the voters fault. If you split the Democratic vote, you will only get a permanent Republican government. And that doesn’t help anyone.
Politicians like Mamdani are the only way forward. We need more people like him to run for local government like this, and move their way up from there…making way for more like them to take their places, as they go. You can’t change things at the top, without laying the foundation for that change, first.
If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not?
Unfortunately, that isn’t what’s happening. AI isn’t “producing” anything that people need to survive. It’s just replacing people. We aren’t seeing any net gains to society that would be able to support so many people no longer being needed in the workforce.
If they were training AI to produce food, build housing or anything that people actually need more of right now, I would say you are absolutely correct to assume that people would be just fine with this transition. But that’s not what they’re using AI for.
Optimistically, AI could and definitely should be used for those things…and the logical conclusion would be to implement a form of UBI so that we can all benefit from this. But do you honestly see that happening?
I don’t. And I think that’s what OP is also seeing. We aren’t ready, as a species, to make that transition yet. There isn’t even the slightest intention on behalf of our current leadership, of providing for an entire population of jobless people. They will ultimately be left to fend for themselves. And as it stands right now, society isn’t equipped to function with that kind of excess population.
It’s not necessary about their “value” to society. People need to eat in order to survive. That means having a way of supporting themselves. Having no way of supporting themselves means a lot of people are going to die.
I’d say that’s a net negative to society.
And the problem runs deeper than “retraining” or “upskilling”. With the emergence of technologies that replace human workers…there will simply be a massive excess of unemployed workers hitting the market. Period. Skills or not. Where are they going to work, when there are now ten people applying for every available job?
Lol! What the actual fuck? No.
How do gorillas, chimpanzees and humans all exist at the same time?
This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.
So, MAGA is now full-on the war-hawk train, and picking up speed? So much for their “America First” bullshit.
But I thought they just made it illegal to regulate AI? Oh, wait…that was just for the states. Fuck those guys.
Depends on how much bribery and extortion Trump is willing to use, in order to change their minds. One way or the other though, the US is on its way towards losing all positive influence in these countries.
Why would losing money, “consolidate power for the GOP”? The only people that matter to the GOP are the ones that stand to lose money. Their interests come first. The peasants will do as they’re told, regardless.