If the broader population is so retarded that their vote can be controlled by clankers on reddit to this extent, then democracy is a fundamentally flawed system.
Well would you look at that...
Submitted 19 hours ago by TrackShovel@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Any system ruled by humans is a flawed system. Which is why democracy must be ruled bottom-up and not top-down. And have more than one representative.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I called this years ago (ruled by humans being flawed, not bottom-up democracy which IMO is a half-measure). AI is the only solution that can be better long-term than democracy. I do not, however, mean we should let Claude run society. We’d need actual AGI that doesn’t just get trained, but learns properly on its own without cheap tricks like writing memory files. It also shouldn’t be influenced by any individuals or organizations.
It’s really a pipe dream at this stage.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Democracy is a bad system. However it is the best we have right now.
1984@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Well the big plan is to replace it with Ai and world government later, so… It will get worse. :)
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Retarded education system = retarded people = failing democracy
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Slurs fucking auuuck!
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Honestly the older I get the more cynical I get.
Jiral@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It is, but the other systems are at least as flawed and much worse when things go really bad.
tunetardis@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
When I despair about how Ukraine can ever rebuild after this war, my mind keeps circling back to their expertise at blowing up data centres. This could prove a highly marketable skill!
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
A bit sad that the most profitable expertise we’ve gained is blowing shit up and making things that blow shit up. But if it keeps us alive, I’ll take that.
Amarlune@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Brings me great not seeing Ukainians on the threadiverse despite the uh, heavy opposition presence here
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Some of us allive, anyway.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
my mind keeps circling back to their expertise at blowing up data centres
You’d be better off consulting the Houthis. They don’t need tens of billions in foreign aid to pull it off
gnutrino@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Except for all the weapons and funding Iran has given them over the years…
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
Hey, how about you go fuck yourself.
robear@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
We need a per fighter number comparing international aid to Ukraine against Iranian aid to the Houthis. I’d actually be surprised if the numbers were far off based on the size of the AFU and the difficulty the Houthis must have in getting arms after Russia turned off the tap to the black market.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I love all Lemmy-goers, but I’m amused by how .ml users don’t seem to get the joke…
abc@suppo.fi 6 hours ago
They’re all feeling a bit disconnected.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 minutes ago
They probably had mor important things to do like catching the bus…
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
.ml is an echo chamber cultivated by handful of mods who control all the popupar subs. Its just like reddit
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Same for .world tbh, though not as bad.
My other account that I created when Sopuli was down and that has stayed logged in on another device I use, was banned from pretty much all .world communities for criticizing zionists and pretty much all .ml communities for criticizing the CCP lol
TransNeko@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
Remember, every religion has a zionist faction. they fight each other but when threatened by outsiders they all work together. The Zionist Jews in WW2 actively aided the Nazis in order to push the surviving Jews to their side, while the Nazis agreed because it made it easier to remove Jews from their vile Aryan empire.
In ancient history, the Crusades were just Zionist Christians (with Zionist Jews as allies) against Zionist Muslims. Which was stupid because they were all of the same faith… just different factions. Christians are just Jews that accept “Jesus” as a prophet and divine entity (aka a second god while gaslighting the world and themselves into saying they only worship one god). Jews stick to worshipping one god. Muslims are basically just Christians that accept 2 prophets (Jesus and Mohammed) while saying that neither are divine. which pisses off Christians who worship their not-god-god Jesus while also pissing off the Jews who refuse to recognize either of the prophets.
In Modern days: Christianity has a bunch of Zionist factions. – They fund MAGA and rose to power twice in the last 100 years. Once in Nazi Germany through Hitler (despite him being of Jewish descent) and the other in the USA during Trump’s presidency with his avid support.
Muslims have their well known terrorist groups. – which were all funded by or founded by the CIA to fight Russia. that really bit USA in the ass when the Muslim groups realized that the CIA (and the USA) were never going to honor their promises. que 9/11.
Jews have the Israeli Genocide Force. which they claim defends them from Palestine. Before and during WW2 the Palestinians welcomed the Jews (who were fleeing persecution) with open arms. then were rewarded with Jews being given Palestinian land and an 80 year long genocide by the very people they helped protect from Nazi enforced genocide. talk about the “scorpion stinging the frog” story in real life. Jews of Israel being the Scorpion in the story and Palestinians being the Frog in the Story.
Buddhists and Hindus have their own conflicts but they tend to just fight each other away from the western world with only a few stories making their way onto USA news. and most of those are when they get into conflicts with Muslim Zionists.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I saw some huffing some serious copium saying “those DCs didn’t have any bots! They were just indexers for a search engine!”… right, like you knew and trusted what was running on every single server in those DCs.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Eh. I actually think there didn’t seem to be many bots at those locations. But they have bots somewhere, and the joke is funny anyway.
Avicenna@programming.dev 4 hours ago
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Fucking lol
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 10 hours ago
I can’t see them because My instance blocked them
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
You don’t see them because your instance blocked them. I don’t see them because I blocked that instance. We are not the same. <adjusts tie>
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Homie, it was about the economy. I wish USAmericans would give a fuck about anything else, but it was the gas prices.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Gas prices, grocery prices, ICE raids, school closures, job losses…
It was a lot of things
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Yeah, I meant gas prices as shorthand for the economy in general but you’re right. I’m not so sure about the ICE raids. If the economy was doing well, I don’t think they would have moved the needle, sadly.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I’m pretty sure 2024 was about the racism. The price of eggs was an excuse so they didn’t have to admit it was the racism.
We’re still guessing, but there were a lot of factors at play. Yes, runaway inflation, the affordability crisis and the global energy crisis felt at home were all large factors.
Curiously – and this brings me hope – open corruption and self-dealing by the Trump family and Republican pay-to-play politics was also a large factor. People are really vocal about it.
Weaponization of government departments, like the DoJ going after political enemies or state election boards, was a factor.
ICE and the concentration camps are a factor, though not as much as it really should be. This motivated the Latin flip.
After the gutting of the VRA and the southern-state gerrymanders, the US Black vote responded Oh, HELL NO!
The broken MAGA promises, the still-elusive Epstein files, the war in Iran after a promise of no more forever wars, pushed some MAGA true believers to the fringes of their movement. They just failed to show.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
I don’t think so. Yes, the US is very racist in a lot of ways, but the reason Harris lost was because the Biden admin failed to do anything to substantially improve anyone’s life, and she didn’t appear credibly different. Biden was elected purely over dissatisfaction with Trump, but that wasn’t enough for a second win. We are in the same place right now. Dems won on dissatisfaction, but they’ll need to deliver results to win again in 2028.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The implication was that it was about social media propaganda too…
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
I know. I’m saying it wasn’t.
Kenny4tunes@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Any other reason, then they’re policies sucking
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
BTW your gas prices are high partly because whole US infrasttucture is built around exporting locally produced oil. Not turning into products. This is a structural defect noone ever bothered to fix
phar@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That guy looks like Vigo the Carpathian
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s Doctor Who.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
No matter what role he plays, it just looks like a badly pasted 11th Doctor’s face on top of the character.
snoons@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
he’s just trying to save the world
deacon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The Australian that lives in a porta potty?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
liquidambar@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
vhy am I drippings wiss goo…?
rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Did they even say thank you?
shalafi@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s funny and all, but no credible source reported lowered Russian bot activity after those bombings. It’s one of those things that makes sense, but didn’t happen.
python@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It was visible in my spam folder. Usually I get 1-2 russian spam emails a day, but from Oct 12th to October 17th they just stopped (the bombing was on the 11th)
ImageHubi@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Funny that it’s not just me, my oldest e-mail Account also gets 3-4 identical spam mails a day and they also completely stopped for a while after the 11th. My mails are in German though.
Magnum@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
The data center hit only had crawlers. There is no noticeable lowering of Russian bot activity.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
And Trumps cabinet just met with Russian Envoy today in the whitehouse.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
hah, funny political meme. Lemmy just pop on into the comments real quick.
Yep. About what i expected.beejboytyson@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
“… ahhh I’m sure those things are unrelated…”
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Oh so liberals are doing they stole the election!! shit now, i see, voter fraud, good, very good
lobut@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Just goes to show you that when an administration screws up this big that the other side can win at like 53 to like 44 in certain places.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 minutes ago
Funny how a “defensive” war becomes an offensive imperial attack…