Nothing like arguing socialism and imperialism with people who don’t know what either of those words mean.
AI is built on the unprecedented theft and exploitation of the intellectual labor of the creative working class by greedy capitalists.
First smart thing she ever did.
Looks like this guy hasn’t got the memo that, in a matter of a few short weeks, the shoe is going to be on the other foot.
I don’t doubt that this is the best and nicest thing that has ever happened to him.
If it’s truly a new political era, like the pundits have all claimed, then it stands to reason that we should embrace new leadership. I have very little faith in Schumer and Jefferies.
I suppose we don’t know, but either way it’s fucked and says nothing good and the world we live in
Man there is nothing we love more than counting our chickens before they hatch, huh?
That very well may be so, but even still I would argue that the primaries are really the time to hash out policy and candidate positions.
I’m not from Iowa, luckily, but Turek beat his main primary opponent by more than 25%, which suggests he is more tapped into Iowa political leanings than the average online commentator. I’m from Oregon, so I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that whoever Iowa elects is going to be much more “moderate” than the people who represent me and my state.
Regardless, the choice right now (and it very much is a binary one) is whether Iowa wants to send a Democrat, Turek, or a Republican, Hinton, to the Senate. Come January, it’ll either be Turek or Hinton–a de facto binary outcome. And that singular choice may mean the difference between a slim Democratic majority or a slim Republican one.
What will a Democratic Senate mean for the next two years? It’s hard to be sure, since Trump can be more than a little bit unpredictable. But at the very least it means Democratic control of Senate committees, which will go a long way towards holding the Trump admin at least a little bit accountable for their words and actions. Speaking personally, I would always rather have the Democrats in power than the Republicans, easily.
So again, people should vote with their hearts, without a doubt, but they should also understand the strategies at play and vote with their brains, too.
To be honest, whether it’s FPTP elections or the power dynamics in Washington DC, it is a little bit exhausting to have to explain this stuff every 2 years… But people should be informed about how the system works and vote accordingly.
No election is a binary choice
This is, as a matter of political science, incorrect.
Currently, almost every election in the United States ultimately boils down to a binary choice, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger’s_law
You can certainly disagree with the candidates, the platforms and the messaging all you want, but the truth is that (in almost every first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all election in the United States) one of two people (usually a Democrat or a Republican) will ultimately win–and to the winner go all of the spoils. That’s the system we currently have, and as someone who agrees that it sucks, I highly recommend advocating for state and local reforms to make elections laws more democratic.
What does candidate A represent? How does it compare to candidate B? Fundamentally, the question absolutely boils down to “which one of these two people do I want to win, and which one of the two do I want to lose?” And that is the basic question by which the informed and politically-aware voter ultimately ought to make a strategic decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_voting
Vote with your heart AND with your brain.
The good thing about midterm is that a new Congress is coming whether team pedo likes it or not. I just hope it’s a new Congress that isn’t controlled by Republicans.
Please vote everyone. We simply have to put some checks on Trump’s power.
Oh I hope you’re right, but what I was saying is that the IPO itself is a “bailout” of sorts, by shifting the ownership of this vastly unsustainable business onto regular investors and retirement accounts.
One way to get a bailout is simply to ask the working public to kindly hold the bag for you. I fear that many people will continue to fall for it.
He still has the support of roughly 1/3 of America, and then you have another 1/3 of the country who are too lazy/apathetic to vote at all. So, nothing good.
Can we please, as a society, stop pretending this guy is not dumb as a sack of pig shit?
The future isn’t set in stone. The ideas of the past will only get us to far.
Rather, the times that we live in call for a new philosophy that puts an revitalized emphases on humanity, culture, creativity and comradery between real people.
One would think that it would be pretty easy to turn a business model based on theft and exploitation into something profitable, but the AI industry proves that you can rip people off and go bankrupt at the same time.
I guess they forgot the part where they go public and hand gullible retail investors the bag.
There is genuine demand for Nvidia’d hardware, and probably always will be as parallel processesing and matrix math are fundamentally useful.
At the same time, the rate and level of growth that Nvidia has seen during the AI bubble is certainly not sustainable. If and when the AI companies fail, Nvidia is going to take a big hit too.
Amazing what a trillion dollars of investment will do.
That is logical equivalent to saying that because property is a capitalist concept theft is a form of socialism.
So the robber barons are actually socialists too, and wage theft isn’t theft because money shouldn’t exist, and if you can steal candy from a baby that’s ok because ownership doesn’t exist and only the strong survive. Delusional people can justify anything.
It’s pretty twisted, especially when you consider the players involved, as well as who is being exploited, and who is benefitting from AI the most.
Even the top brass within Microsoft are quoted as having said that what they’re doing is the “largest theft of labor in history”, and I tend to agree.
After all, the richest men on Earth are getting richer at the expense of the artist, the thinker, the writer and all forms of intellectual and physical labor. Profit may be theft, but theft is also still theft.