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There are people on this site who will still turn out to vote for this administration and their allies in Congress. It's wild.
The number of tech or tech-adjacent people that have completely torched their reputation in the last few weeks is staggering. I hope they get publicly shamed.
Unfortunately ... it's all of them.
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There are people on this site who will still turn out to vote for this administration and their allies in Congress. It's wild.
I don't even know what a realistic plan to fix this looks like. How do you cult de-program 40% of the population of the most powerful country on the planet? Nuremberg-style trials for every single person working under this administration is obviously the base minimum to start to get a handle on this. Anyone who is not pushing for that is not being serious about tackling America's problems. Then what? Extreme anti-tru…
If that doesn't happen, odds are that even if a democrat president gets elected, they won't be much better. This is still the fallout of the GFC, of the decision to bail out the banks back then.
I know that sounds incredible, and I would have bitten off the head of anyone claiming this when I was 20 ... but it's how the world works.
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Their vulgarity goes beyond tech and are unapologetic about it. They get to do it because mass media fails to call the lies. Over and over.
> mass media fails to call the lies That can't be all it is: this and other recent, uncontroversially atrocious (when taken out of political context) actions taken by the Trump administration were very widely reported as lies/unconscionable by the vast majority of media outlets large and small. Hell, we're even only having this discussion because Ars Technica, a publication with ten million readers, did journalism ab…
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Glad you love fascism and don't think its use of Gen AI is worth discussing
Apologies. I forget the /s is mandatory in 2026, since the world is so weird that it's really not obvious any more.
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Why? There’s plenty of people disavowing their actions and plenty supporting them. There will be plenty of blue checkmarks with full face shown selfdoxxing while they gleefully call for more to be killed.
There is lots of propaganda being pushed online with fake accounts. Checkmarks and pictures of a face do not make a real account.
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Their vulgarity goes beyond tech and are unapologetic about it. They get to do it because mass media fails to call the lies. Over and over.
> mass media fails to call the lies That can't be all it is: this and other recent, uncontroversially atrocious (when taken out of political context) actions taken by the Trump administration were very widely reported as lies/unconscionable by the vast majority of media outlets large and small. Hell, we're even only having this discussion because Ars Technica, a publication with ten million readers, did journalism ab…
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There is lots of propaganda being pushed online with fake accounts. Checkmarks and pictures of a face do not make a real account.
That could be true. But the damage is real still. Posts by bots influence real people. If Twitter / X has lots of fake accounts, we need to figure out how to force them to do something about it. I’m sure they can do more about bots if the replies on most big accounts are mostly bots. If they aren’t mostly bots, then that’s a problem of a different kind. But mass spam by bots can still corrupt our political process.
Sure, but only because people think that that's what the public really thinks.