Is this the libertarian "taxes are theft" meme? I've never known progressives to be unwilling to acknowledge the fact that public services and infrastructure are funded by taxes. Even the ones libertarians like, like the military, police, and judicial system require funding, and taxes are the best way to do that.

I've never seen someone on the left put this forward as any sort of policy proposal, so I'm not going to talk about it further.

All societies place limits on people's freedom for the sake of public safety; it's the old "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" thing. In a democracy, there are bound to be discussions on where exactly the balance between safety and freedom lies, and the contention from progressives is that the harm of hate speech outweighs the value of allowing it. Nowhere on Earth is freedom fully prioritized over safety; even in the US, it's illegal to post an open bounty on someone's life, for example.

And not to devolve into whatboutism, but with Trump recently trying to criminalize flag burning, it's not like Republicans are better than Democrats on this issue.

It seems like Rasmussen Reports is not particularly credible so I'm not going to go into this too deeply, but your link mostly talks about Biden supporters. If your claim is that Joe Biden is far left, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of progressive politics.

Isn't this exactly the reason why the far left are objecting to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza? Isn't this exactly why the far left are so vocal in their support for trans rights? Isn't this why the far left believes health care should be universal? Isn't this why the far left wants to use social workers instead of police for things like wellness checks?

Obviously, I can't speak for everyone who considers themselves on the left, and every group has its share of vocal idiots, but it seems to me that most policies that the left advocates for are motivated by wanting to treat all humans equally and fairly and well.

What free speech? Americans don't have that anymore.

I see a few of the usual conservative posters have left comments on this story saying how happy they are that a large company has self-censored in an effort to avoid offending people. This seems somewhat different from what I've been hearing from conservatives over the last decade. I wonder what's different about this situation?

Yeah, but no one really does have control over the patterns they are trained on. All the publicly available models are trained by scraping vast swathes of the public internet. There's no practical way for AI companies to vet the data and avoid this kind of poisoning, which means they are selling a product that they can't control, and which can't be relied on to deliver what they promise.

It's not a close comparison. The American fascist state + corporations are much more dangerous to Americans than China is.

I suspect that an even bigger issue will be the US's alienation of all its historical allies.

He said to ask him anything, but he never said he'd answer.

American democracy is in the process of being killed. Not in a "You have to act now to save it!" kind of way, but more in a "The lethal injection has been administered, and now we wait." way. The next two decades will not be fun, but maybe something good can be built in the aftermath.

You think the US is going to keep doing elections?

The US's pedophile president is committing war crimes in international waters, and deploying the military against his own country, and congress is holding hearings about UFOs? Didn't it just come out that Trump took military action against North Korea in his first term, and hid it from congress? What the fuck are they doing? I know under normal circumstances, a government can do multiple things at once, but it really feels like there are too many major issues to be doing shit like this right now.

It's almost like they're trying to make themselves look useless to justify their eventual dissolution.

Does it, though? Can you actually articulate some concrete flaws about Kamala? There's plenty we can say about Trump: con-man, pathological narcissist, morally bankrupt, serial cheater, insurrectionist, rapist, pedophile, fascist, etc.. Republican apologists keep saying "Kamala was so bad, she lost to all that", but what, exactly, were the flaws that made Kamala less appealing than that?

If AI has replaced all labour, why should we do anything "for a living"?

This is the kind of content that should actually be in most phishing trainings.

Who's going to stop him? The supreme court that said nothing he does is illegal? Congress, who took an early vacation to shield him from an Epstein investigation?