They convince the rubes that you can vote in a different, more “traditional” culture than the one you currently disagree with despite not doing anything to move back to the economic conditions that made the “previous” culture possible in the first place.

It works to pull culturally regressive, economically movable morons into the coalition. But since voting out a culture is basically not possible because culture isn’t created by government in the first place, they’ll quickly learn that the PC lingo, “cancel culture”, #metooism, and “wokeness” still remain. Or they would learn that if they weren’t completely braindead and incapable of analyzing how their actions do or do not affect things.

every new tech has curves for their maturity, cultural & societal fit.

I’d believe this “nothing to see here” narrative if recent “advances” such as social media didn’t have measurable negative impacts. Things can get worse, and technology can assist that.

The voices coming out as skeptical of things, and the watchdogs telling you early on that these newly introduced things may present a problem are ultimately part of the apparatus that gets you “cultural and societal fit”. That doesn’t happen automatically and it’s called “the bleeding edge” for a reason.

Ultimately, I’m also not so sure about AI being a fad at this point. It sure looks like enough capital is invested in this stuff to make it be a thing even if nobody wants it.

It’s almost like they suck at making games now.

They need to address what people actually care for. Everyday costs.

Costs versus wages is a better metric to target. Costs always go up unless there’s deflation. Wages should go up to match.

Computers

We look forward to the job and economic opportunities that the asteroid will provide.

Don’t concentrate on the tanks rolling through your living room, concentrate on peace.

If history is any guide they’ll moan and complain, 2% of them will not buy the subscription, and then the other 98% will bend over and take it up the ass.

Every dumb hack comedian has mixed themselves up with Lenny Bruce.

Good for you!!! 👍🥳🎉🎈🍾🥂🎯

“absolutely mute” 😆

Nope.

He loves the poorly educated.

You ever wondered why it is that public education is pretty poor in California? Because one of the top reasons has to be lack of funding. How could California have shitty school funding and pricey real estate at the same time? (You’d ask if you were better educated and more curious.) Well it turns out that California has proposition 13 in place which makes it so that taxes on real estate are capped and move up very little.

This state of affairs is so unsustainable that in new suburban developments they have had to instate local property taxes (aka Mello-Roos) in order to make up the gap in funding. In areas where the properties are older (much of the cities and state) and don’t fall under those new tax zones, you have multimillionaire landlords that bought property in 1980 paying hundreds of dollars in taxes per year…which is not exactly enough to fund flourishing schools.

Yeah that’s how the job works…

Nah they won’t

Could’ve would’ve should’ve is all I hear, meanwhile half the nation cowers in fear.

I’d like to start a new response of “I don’t care if you’re joking, you’re still an asshole”.

In no way does that link prove that the state has a monopoly on violence. Are we just pasting random Wikipedia articles and pretending that’s an argument now?

Ever heard of the castle doctrine?

That’s just one example. Maybe next time you attend libertarian idiot 101 you should do it with a bit of skepticism instead of immediately accepting everything they say without evidence.