He’s already said he won’t run again. He probably physically can’t.

It’s not a political problem though, he’s all but god to so many people. Honestly I don’t know what’s gonna happen to a void he leaves behind when he passes away.

Oh, I forgot about that.

Why should he care? As long as he pushes Trump over the edge, he’s set for life. He’ll probably run for President.

I can’t imagine (as a unmarried guy) living in a marriage where my wife would be afraid to tell me who she voted for. Even if she votes Trump, she’s my spouse, and that comes way before that. She should chew me out if I make her feel afraid.

…It makes me feel shame for the culture some men are raised in.

That is not what I saw on Reddit and some other spaces, lol.

Maybe I just looked at it wrong? Or not long enough?

Oliver said voting for Harris would mean the world could laugh at this past week’s photo of an orange, gaping-mouthed Trump in a fluorescent vest and allow Americans to carry on with life without worrying about what he might do next.

This sounds like my dad. He’s kinda a Republican, but doesn’t like Trump, and asserted that Trump would just go away after the last election.

Trump and Trumpism are not going away. If Harris wins, even by a lot, it’s only going to validate his follower’s fears, if it doesn’t start an all-out conflict.

I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.

Easy, local AI.

Keep generative AI locally runnable instead of corporate hosted. Make it free, open and accessible. This gives the little guys the cost advantage, and takes away the scaling advantages of mega publishers. Lemmy users should be familiar with this concept.

Whenever I hear people rail against AI, I tell them they are handing the world to Sam Altman and his dystopia, who do not care about stealing content, equality, or them. I get a lot of hate for it. But they need to be fighting the corporate vs open AI battle instead.

I’m leaning towards the cult leaders here.

Tech companies literally pour billions into optimizing thier products for engagement, aka making them addictive. Its historically unprecedented.

Sure, people are individually responsible, but as a whole, how is the population supposed to fight that?

Oh, every day is going to be like this if Trump wins.

Most of it probably won’t be followed through on, but it’s going to be some outrageous plan or statement like this every single day.

Like, what other administation could make a scandal out of a NOAA weather prediction? It ultimately meant nothing, but still…

Not a mega Star Wars fan, but Andor blew me away. It has everything! It feels like Star Wars.

So I poked my head into the fandom. Surely they love it…

Though as an addendum, my mom grew up Republican, but doesn’t know how to use Facebook or anything, and she hates Donald Trump with a burning passion. Its kind of hilarious. She would literally, actually vote for Hitler over him, as his personality is so fundamentally incompatible with her, lol.

I mention that, as it feels like a test case for someone that hasn’t been conditioned to view him as a superhero or whatever.

Yep.

I feel like information hygiene should be a mandatory part of school curriculum now. Like not just a small part, but hammered in.

It’s too late for our parents I guess, unless either party feels like regulating big tech…

This is a general intelligence test for America … and so far they are failing.

It’s not.

Most voters aren’t “stupid,” they just live in completely different information universes.

This has always been the case in America, but I feel like it’s never been so severe, with people basically having their minds sucked into phones by design.

Engagement optimized social media.

That’s it.

Peek into certain discords, subreddits, and so on. Or you’re uncle’s facebook feed. People live in different words, where these institutions really are already ‘gone.’

IMO engagement optimizing social media is the root cause of all this, and I’m not sure I can ever forgive the major profiters for that.

Is there any precedent for this? Of so much of a president’s cabinet speaking out against them?

Just imagine if the UN had teeth for enforcement, at least for overwhelming votes like this. I feel like its one of the biggest oversights of the post WWII order they tried to make.

Big countries, of course, would never allow that, but still.

She’s a keeper.

Especially if she says this kinda unprompted.

Trump thanks you for your vote.

It’s easy to forget how bad it can get.

One day I wandered into /r/kotakuinaction over some linked comment on the Tomb Raider animation, and the Fallout TV series, and… yeah. I remembered.

And that’s a pretty mild example.