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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
You assume too much. Some may have dabbled in the bleach during the pandemic. -
In six months he will be complaining that he was blackballed from Hollywood by the liberal elite.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah, "trade imbalance." In other words, our country can afford to pay your people to work for us more than your country can afford to pay our people to work for you. The obvious solution is that we become poorer. Which, looking at the movement in currency over the last seven months, we are doing. -
If the "average guy" in a purple state was the same as the "average guy" in a solidly red state, those purple states would be solidly red. Do you not understand how this works? But your clarification makes it easier to understand what you are going for. But I think you are using it to back into a position you have already have. There are dozens of different issues that affect 10s of thousands of swing and cross-over voters (and non-voters) in different swing states.
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Why would anyone give a shit about Steve in Nebraska, unless he is in District 2. There are plenty of Steves in LD2 who give a shit about Israel/Gaza. (I was Tuco Nebraska CD2 until four years ago. There are plenty of people who care about Gaza.) Let's talk some more about the reasoning and mechanics here and you can present a solution. A few things I understand about "LatinX" 1. It's not a Latino/Latina/Hispanic/Chicano movement. It's a feminist movement, or a byproduct of the feminist movement. Feminists are pushing for more gender neutral language. There are feminists who are in the "Latino" community who don't want to be defined by a masculine adjective. And there are feminists outside of the Latino community who will support them. 2. Anytime you push for cultural changes, you will inevitably get pushback. When we started using "work-hours" instead of "manhours" in proposals, there were some people who scoffed at it. But, at work, you get paid. So, yeah, it will offend some Latinos. That's not a shock to anyone. 3. I'm willing to bet the "Texas Young Democrats Latinx Caucus" was started by people at the local level who are invested in both Latino and feminist causes. This was not something handed down from the national party or lobbyists in Washington. So, what do you do if you are Party leadership? Do you tell feminists to store their shit, that their cause needs to be backburnered for the next twenty years or that you simply don't believe in their cause? Do you tell that people who are actually showing the fuck up, volunteering their time, and working to get voter registered that they are in the wrong Party? My recommendation: A. Show the fuck up. Go to your local Party meetings and work to both understand the different factions and influence the overall group direction with your more centrist views (and votes). Nobody is going to change the dynamics at the local level by complaining about Schumer or whoever you consider the "leadership" of the Democratic Party is. B. Work to convince voters that they should vote for their interests rather than against their annoyances. There is no reason to believe the Latino community will be particularly feminist. We need to get them to vote for the Latino interests. There is no reason to believe the black community will be particularly pro-gay. We need to get them to vote for Black interests. There is no reason to believe gay people will be pro-progressive tax policies. We need to get them to vote for gay interests. Unfortunately I think that has become more challenging in the outrage-culture of social media. There is always something to be pissed about, and that is were Republican messaging it targeting. I also think it more difficult to explain the reasoning behind different issues, which might be annoying people, when you have to do it a one second scroll-by ad. I
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We didn't take that fight abroad prior to losing to the fascists. It is entirely possible that is part of the reason why we lost. I'm not just talking about Michigan Muslims, but the number of people who don't see differences between the Rs and Ds, and will cite the Biden/Harris support of Israel as part of their reasoning. Your approach seems to be that we can win them back, not with empty promises, but by completely avoiding the subject. Maybe you're right. But I know I am going to have a hard time pulling a lever for anyone who actively supports or purposely ignores a genocide partially funded with my tax dollars. I did in 2024, but things have gotten worse. Hopefully growing antiwar sentiment in Israel will resolve the issue before 2026. But that wasn't my point. My point was citing the arsonist was irrelevant to that discussion. The dude was losing his house, was up on domestic abuse charges, had previously had been charged with fraud, and his Facebook history included unhinged rants against Biden. In 2022, he posted a picture of himself holding a molotov cocktail, with the line "Be the light you want to see in the World." His mom tried to have him committed 3 days prior to the attack. He referenced Gaza after the attack, but he wasn't part of a ProPalestinian movement; he was a nutcase doing nutcase shit.
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It's bullshit to conflate with the nutcase arsonist with pro-Palestinian groups withholding their votes for Harris. There is a very real issue in Gaza that needs to be addressed. Balmer obviously has some major health issues and he may focused on the debate around Gaza for whatever reason. That doesn't change the necessity to discuss Gaza.
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I do think they have a greater sense of martyrdom, being so outvoted by such an alien force. So that makes them more radical, in a way, than your typical midwestern.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
There’s a good chance that first woman President won’t be elected, at least initially. If Biden had been able to stave off the senior moments for a couple of years, we might have been on track for it. Or, if he had a major health event during his term. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Maybe the "men should lead" mindset gives them cover for their own life decisions and situations. I'd be curious as to what the link is between women who don't work outside the home (when their kids are over the age of 14) and women who don't believe women can lead. -
I went the other way. Last year, around this time, when it was obvious that Trump was going to beat Biden, I got YouTubeTV to follow college football. I absolutely needed the distraction. Yeah, I still follow the news and this board, but that is not (or shouldn't be) 8 hours a day. I need something to change the brain chemistry for few hours. But to each their own. And I recognize our situations are different. McCarthyism. WW2. For a good part of our history, we would staff chain gangs breaking rocks with people picked up for loitering. I thought we were past this shit, but we aren't. The biggest difference is more people are objecting now. We know better, but still retracing those same stupid, evil steps.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I wouldn't, because that would get them moving in the "right" directly ASAP. I might pretend to not understand English. -
I think there are two, maybe three different related markets here: AI companies, data center companies, and power companies. (I am splitting AI markets and data center markets, even though they are frequently within the same company.) The way I see this playing out is that AI will not be adopted as broadly or as quickly as needed to justify the current investments. I think it is inevitable that AI will be very valuable. For the AI companies (software), I could see large layoffs. But, not to be insensitive, I think that is almost built in to software development market. It's a game of musical chairs with 10 established companies and 500 start-ups chasing 8 chairs. It's great for the people who get the seats, but everyone else needs to make new plans. And I think those employees will have skill sets will get plugged into non-AI ventures who are looking to incorporate some AI, if that makes sense. So, short term pain, overcapacity is worked through quickly, but not devastating. I think programmers face more challenges from AI being successful than they do from it crashing in the short term. I think the biggest bubble is in the data center market. That's where we are talking about physical assets that have sunk costs and need to be maintained to keep their value. All the bigs are investing like crazy in the dc capacity to support the perceived AI wave of demand. But there are a few factors that concern me there: 1) all the big techs have oversized egos and worship the God of First2Market. Taking risks is a huge part of their culture. Anyone who would pump the breaks on something like this wouldn't earn a position to do something about it. They are Enron on steroids. 2) the big techs are valued (stock price) on their growth potential. For several of them, there is little growth in their traditional markets. Look at Microsoft. They are never going to sell more desktop computers than they do today. They are not going to sell more software for those desktops. They are not going to sell that many more X-boxes. The data center market has been their growth vehicle for several years running. Selling the growth potential of AI is a big chunk of their stock price, which means it's a big part of many workers' take-home pay. That cliff will need to be really fucking close before anyone pumps the breaks. So, I think this market will build overcapacity, crash hard, and it will take years before that extra capacity is needed. That could be a company killer. We just don't know which company(s). The data center market also has the risk of AI being more efficient than anticipated. DeepSeek should scare the shit of them. If you build a $5B machine and someone comes out with a $1B machine that could do the same thing, you're kinda fucked. That's not a perfect analogy, since your hardware could run someone else's software, but it does speak to the overall capacity. The other big mover in the data center market is crypto. That is also ripe for collapse. As far as the power market goes, we are seeing a new wave of builds being driven partially by AI. But I feel better about this market because it is also coinciding with electrification (electric car, electric stoves, heat pumps, etc.). So, if you build the infrastructure, I think the users will fill that gap pretty quickly.
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Undoubtedly there are investors who are using AI to suggest who they should invest in. As a pattern-filler, AI would likely suggest AI, because that is what so much of the market is doing. Once again, if you believe AI is some superior logic, that makes sense. If you see it as recognizing patterns and repackaging advice already out there, it is almost certainly a bad idea. Following patterns is what drives bubbles.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Tuco replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I wonder how many big spenders from Asia and Europe have decided to visit friendlier countries. -
I don't think this is right. I think a lot of people are squeezing their perception of AI into preconceived concepts from SciFi, which depict cold, brutal logic. That's not what the current batch of AI does. It's not logical. It follows patterns from the data it is fed. If it is trained on data where the resource planning included mass killings (like the script of Avengers End Game), it might include that solution. If it trained on UN and think tank reports, it would probably produce something that looks like those. Maybe you go real deep and it trains on real world data, but generally in the real world, when there are massive population declines, it is associated with other negative metrics, like disease, crime, economic upheaval. But the big thing here is that there is no real logic here, just interpolation. As of a couple of years ago, AI models wouldn't even process large number addition consistently. That's probably been fixed, but it demonstrates the disconnect between real logic and pattern re-creation.
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Shit, they have Pritzker behind them. Pritzker, who'd loved to make inroads into Texas politics before a Presidential run. (I assume Texas has a shit ton of delegates and generous donors.) Nobody is sleeping on a couch.
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Sorry if this has been posted already, but I like this. I like this for how the Texas Democrats approach the nonsense.
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They believe in John 3:16. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you say the magic words, you get into heaven. The rest of the Bible is irrelevant, except for when they want to judge someone else. I'm guessing Trump believes in heaven. To believe otherwise would be to accept his mortality.
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Ok, Bill Clinton vs. idiot Republican Congressmen should a pay-per-view event. The dude is old, and a scumbag, but is still much smarter than any of them.
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The two-party system is inevitable, given our political structure. Environment drives evolution. Our political environment is mostly driven by the structure of our government - namely the direct-ish election of the President and the power that position holds. I don't believe a third party has survived (been relevant) for more than two cycles because it just doesn't work for our structure. You see across world parliamentary systems where multiple parties survive and influence policy. That ain't us, not because the Democrats or Republicans, or the Electoral College, or gerrymandering. It's the environment we built and are very unlikely to unbuild without some major, painful event. Too many stakeholders with too much power for it to change. And given the current political environment, the idea of major constitutional changes scares the shit out of me. Absolutely. But the pushback would be for part of the reason I like it: it would dilute the small-state advantage for the electoral college. The other reason for the pushback is most Reps prefer being one of 435 to being one of 2000. A lot more power in the former. You'd need to get people to vote themselves out of their current job into one with less power and prestige. But I do love the idea that more, smaller elections would increase the relative power of boots on the ground, meeting the people directly, rather than large marketing campaigns. And, of course, neutering gerrymandering.
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If she had a dick, she might be in the White House.
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I think what you do and who you target still matter even if a lack of a standing army affects how you do it. For example, I can see certainly see an argument for flying a commercial jet into the Pentagon. We would bomb enemy military headquarters and accept significant civilian casualties to do it. The difference is more about the "how you do it" vs "who you target", and we have more options that Al Qaeda. The Twin Towers is harder to rationalize, but I get that Al Qaeda sees Corporate America as part of the war. I'm not saying 9/11 is justified, but I don't think that argument comes down to how it was carried out. But targeting kids, no. Rape, no. Hamas doesn't get a pass for that. And Israel doesn't get a pass for targeting civilians just because Hamas targeted civilians. But, more to my point of the Algerian reference, I think ultimately it will cost they much more than it helps them. Bibi is making October 7th effective in its goal. I should give that a go. Thanks.
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Maybe avoiding state charges should fed charges evaporate.
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