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Comment Re:Also the right wing manipulates elections (Score 1) 82

What a load of bullshit.

Republicans want bad Democratic turnout, and Democrats want bad Republican turnout.
In 2024, there was horrifically bad Democratic turnout. This isn't a hell of a surprise, and the polls indicated that might be the case well before hand.

This has really made some assholes on Team Blue bleed something fierce, and they have now adopted the coping mechanism of their opponent- denying that they lost the fucking election.
Find me words to tell me you're unfit to fucking govern.

Comment Re:Also the right wing manipulates elections (Score 1) 82

Soft voter suppression occurs. There's no question about it.
I'm calling them slime for implying that it would have altered the election.
This is bullshit.

The claim that 17 million Democratic votes were suppressed is a fiction. It's election denial, pure and simple.
If you think that's the way to win again, you're wrong. That's how you lose the last of the middle- people like me.

Comment Re:How does this compare to door to door canvassin (Score 1) 82

Unfortunately, I can't agree with you on the right to put polish on the turd. Everyone has the right to polish a turd.

I do see Trump is a sign that we have an existential fucking educational problem, that's for sure.
But I simply cannot agree that we can limit speech just because someone is rich.

People have a right to advertise (see: advocate) for a candidate they like.
And frankly, dollars spent hasn't correlated with President elected, so I feel like attacking the shitpost ads is just frustrated stabbing in the dark. It's not how we win again.

Comment Re:It's the people! (Score 1) 82

"Chatbots" is a spectrum.

There's a near certainty you have already interacted with many without knowing it.
You imagine chatbots having a certain non-real feeling style. That's simply ones that have been trained to have that style.

Other chat bots pass the turing test better than a damn human impersonator

Comment Re: It's a good thing they aren't all owned (Score 1) 82

I don't think anyone shits on plumbers (no pun intended).

But you don't go to school for 4 years to be a plumber.
It's skilled labor, it doesn't take a professional degree. There is a difference.

And frankly, they're not even all that knowledgeable about the physics of the pipes. They know what they need to know to get the job done.
They might, for example, think it's ok to use a copper pipe for the condensation drain of your high-efficiency gas-fired tankless water heater, dumping pretty blue water all over the concrete below which is slowly being etched away by the nitric acid you're dumping on it. Ask me how I know ;)

Not a dig on plumbers. But they are vocationally educated. They're not physicists, chemists, or even hydrodynamics experts.

Comment Re:Also the right wing manipulates elections (Score 1) 82

I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 17 million Democrats from voting.

You election deniers are a fucking cancer that will kill this fucking Republic.

There is no intellectually honest way to reach 17 million without including policies that prevented people from voting in Blue states for Blue politicians as well.
You are then awarding 100% of those potential votes covered by those policies to Blue politicians.

You are slime.

Comment Re:No Such Thing (Score 1) 91

China seizes control of enterprise at a phenomenally higher rate than any Western power. There is no equivalence.

Of course there is an equivalence. It's literally there in your sentence- "at a phenomenally higher rate than any Western power."
The second you emitted those words, you were wrong.

As I said, it's a spectrum- and there's no question that China is near the top. In terms of Great Powers, there's really on them and Russia.

Your YouTube video is as stupid as your posts.
The CCP having a super-member on the board of a corporation is just their way of exercising control.
It is not sufficiently different in effect than the Western system of courts and regulatory agencies.
It is not "Seizing Control".

Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 109

Your assertion is that they *could* say no, despite evidence, provided by me, that they have been in this precise situation and not said no.
Your assertion is based on a vague claim that "they're not American", having no idea that the concent of fiduciary duty is not an American concept, even being enshrined directly in Taiwanese law.
You use an example of a risky business deal that they said no to as evidence that you're right, demonstrating that you do not understand fiduciary responsibility.

So yes, it does, and you're a dumbfuck.

Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 109

You have literally no idea what you're talking about.
Taiwanese corporations have an explicit fiduciary duty since 2001, and a non-explicit one before that.
I would not invest in them if they did not.

The OpenAI/TSMC discussions were about a business deal with risk involved.
We're discussing supply and demand for high-margin and low-margin markets.

And the fact is- if the TSMC shareholders had felt that the deal should have been taken, under Taiwanese law, they absolutely could have sued.

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