I mean he’s not wrong about the first part. But as for the second part, the Nazi stuff and lack of anything positive is more cause than effect. Third part depends on the eye of the beholder.

Ranked choice voting already exists in several local and state races, most recently DC. It’s mostly blue states, because Democrats tend to allow it. Several Republican states have legislation banning it statewide, but such laws are entirely absent in blue states.

“Liberals will win majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, CNN projects”

The one on the right should be “Edgelord leftists posting on Lemmy”

I mean I’m not gonna deny that some like Schumer have been totally useless. But over the last few months “liberals doing nothing” has included halving Tesla’s stock price and winning the Supreme Court in a state that went Trump. In prediction markets future races are looking bad for Republicans. Don’t like what democrats are doing? Great, go run or support a candidate you do like. Or better yet, run as a Republican and do a hostile takeover of that party so you can challenge democrats from the left in the general too. There’s enough anger at Republicans now that it could actually work, especially in safe blue districts.

Horses, the original automatic braking

He’s been missing for two weeks but someone created a github for an academic homepage for him a few days ago and updated a branch on it 20 hours ago?’

Unless there’s something I’m missing and multiple XiaoFeng Wangs work for the Luddy School at IU?

I suppose it could also just be a fake account, the whole thing is just weird.

Now I’m wondering why we don’t attach giant balloons to ships to reduce water resistance by cutting down how much of the ship needs to be underwater. Perhaps it’s because you would need more size for the balloon, and maybe the air resistance and water resistance needs to even out due to physical laws that I’m too lazy to think about?

He went to a HS in Georgetown - it’s a public school but it’s a super rich area so he probably grew up with mostly upper middle class white kids. I mean it’s called “Duke Ellington School of the Arts” so you’d think it’s in a black neighborhood but its actually deep in Georgetown where you don’t see any (other) black people at all.

It’s not all him, several other people invested in both. According to some article Elon owns 79% of X, and only 54% of xAI (barely enough to control it). Since the valuation of X in the deal is about $20 billion more what others have estimated ($12.3 billion), it definitely seems like it’s a corrupt bailout 46% funded with other xAI investors’ money, basically netting Elon $8 billion overnight.

That being said, the other investors in xAI are easy marks like Marc Andressen (famous for funding Adam Neumann’s project that came after WeWork) and various Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.

Libertarianism is just a way to soft-sell Totalitarian Plutocracy.

Well my guess is he has narcissism but they told him it’s autism because it’s often a bad idea to tell a narcissist they have narcissism.

I feel like someone told Elon that he’s autistic and lacks empathy, and his reaction was to get all defensive about it and start claiming people who lack empathy are actually superior.

Some guy improving Teslas with cool free penis art

Don’t destroy Tesla cars, destroy the brand. Destroying Teslas means there’s fewer Teslas and that makes them more valuable/reduces the flooding of the market caused by people selling their cars. The goal is to annihilate Elon’s purchasing power to stop him from using it to implementing fascist governments around the world.

At least PR doesn’t get its budget and local laws overturned. DC is like below colony status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

The holocaust, like all slave labor, inevitably was exploited by capitalism.

You can’t just blame a group of people for anything though, it’s not like geographic boundaries determine morality.

Instead you gotta look at what happened this last election. Yeah there was inflation, and the polls point to that as a thing that swayed a lot of people. But the bigger factor was media capture by far-right oligarchs. The top cable news station, the top podcast, and the top social media network for news were all turned into maga propaganda this election. In that environment, the only question is why was it so close?

And unfortunately, until that changes the next elections are going to be the same. Trump’s approval is down, but it’s still higher than it was at this point his last term.

Did rioting work for George Floyd? Every single police reform bill was killed when Fox News exploited the riots to portray the whole police reform movement as crazy.

Rioting just injures a couple of working class cops, gets yourself arrested, and plays into their hands. If you want the ruling oligarchs to fear you, don’t riot. Harm the economy. Boycott. General strike. Make the line go down.

Elon’s blaming DDOS. You know I heard that the people who bulit Twitter did a great job figuring out how to handle those. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened them?

It’s very hard to avoid buying stuff on Amazon even if we hate them. This provides a bit of extra motivation.

This must be real because Republicans and Fox News are acting like this is exactly what zelensky did.