"Dems also didn't run on a campaign that Epstein was blackmailing people and a promise to expose it via release of the files,"

Maybe this is your blind spot--you can't comprehend that your politicians fighting for the right thing if it isn't something they can conveniently weld into their re-election campaigns. You don't have a very high bar, but that's no surprise given who you are defending.

"Also it says right there "This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN". "

Are you daft? This footage was literally on c-span, hence it being clipped on their site. Not only that, the entire swearing-in photo op ceremony was Biden placing his hands on legislators' wives and kids. Not everyone will allows the evidence of their eyes to betray them as you do.

You're in here defending the integrity of a man for whom the democrats killed off the MeToo movement by slandering Tara Reade, not to mention the fraudulent Time's Up org that betrayed her. her.

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  All this for a man that resembled a republican more than nearly anyone he primaried against, who stood for NOTHING that the democrats have traditionally stood for. He was against abortion, for cutting social security and medicare, and who never found a war he couldn't support.. a man who would browbeat black people about how if they don't vote for him, they're not black. His surviving children are drug addicts and sex addicts.

I'm sure somebody is very glad that you're willing to fight for the lost cause of his reputation.

Dems had the house, senate and presidency from 2020-2022. There is no reason this investigation had to be limited to Ghislaine Maxwell's court case when numerous johns (all rich and powerful people) had publicly flaunted their relationship with Epstein. Jamie Dimon's emails about "snow white" are especially troubling. The FBI took all kinds of things from JE's place after it was gone, so why was there no effort to inquire with them?

Your "man of principles" Joe Biden spent his swearing-in ceremony in 2015 grabbing legislators' wives and children. In one case he grabbed at a girl's chest and she winced. You can easily find the video on cspan.org by googling "Joe Biden's Assault on Rep. Steve Daine's Niece", but you also would be better off taking my word for it.

The fact is that Biden could have had the house and senate aligned with him for a full four years, and somehow the whole weight of the system would still contort itself to protect the rich and powerful from any charges for what we all know they've been into. The epstein scandal was no party's hobby horse despite being a major cause of concern for the public, because it bumps into the actual structures of power in this country, structures not confined to the Harlem Globetrotters vs. Washington Generals sham of party politics.

Yes, the clintons are guilty too, but "That's why they didn't want to release it." Sure, that's why the Biden administration slept on this, not enough evidence! Also I have a bridge to sell you. Watching people play this game of democrat pedo bad, republican pedo good (or vice versa) is beyond tiresome

Does an inescapable paucity of options excuse the behavior?

Are you really here telling other people that the windows upgrade treadmill is imaginary, in 2026?

"We need a leader that will do FOSS like a BUSINESS!"

I definitely don't believe them that AI was the main motivator or that it has successfully filled the gaps, but the intended results are clear even if the motivation was questionable.

Are you a time-traveller from before every major tech company used AI as a justification for their layoffs?

Did you know that deliberately conflating criticism of a country with religious bigotry lends you no credibility? But you're posting as AC so maybe you're aware of that. After all, only a couple decades ago, Israel was posturing as a land of three religions, and the equation of it with Judaism alone was considered anti-semitic.

First off, the Trump administration was not the primary mover for the Tiktok ban, the democrats were. The bill was dead in the water until after Oct. 7th, when they breathed new life into it, gift-wrapping it in anti-china scaremongering and talk of national defense. But blaming it on the Trump and Sinclair media doesn't do much for you when they are Israel sycophants too.

Second, the ADL's Jonathon Greenblatt said it himself: "We have a tiktok problem". So you are halfway there, the problem.isn't too many local influencers, it's that they and their audiences of young peoplebturned against the settler colony

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The fact that the ban was on behalf of Israel's lobby is underscored by its new owners, such as mega zionist goblin Larry Ellison, who is open about his priorities with it.

The reality faced by Israel's lobby is that all video and photo evidence of the Gaza genocide--much of it compiled on social media by the IDF's own soldiers so that they could gleefully show their war crimes to their friends amd family--does not conform to your all's insistence that said genocide is just a media work, "Pallywood".

What place do you have to wax about civilization when you yourself don't believe Palestinians should be allowed to have schools or hospitals?

But Karp's an advocate for Israel, just like you. All the people he wants to surveil the most are people you also don't like. Doesn't it sound great?

Digging people out of debt: none of his business!
Fifty year mortgages: art of the deal!

Okay, you're right that the word skilled did not need to be there. I am a fan of Wesley Willis too

Art involves manipulation on the part of a skilled musician or artist who is actively and intentionally moving you through a change of consciousness with their work. That is art. The manipulation of the perceiver performed by AI "art", however, is is not that. That is a different kind of manipulation--it is fundamentally insincere, and has no more feeling than an LLM does when it throws emojis at you.

The creator has no insight on how to move you, their only input is approving and modifying the final result. As such, to that end the creator doesn't need to know what they are doing-- they are merely working with an amalgamation of other finished prodcts that they don't understand beyond perhaps "this sounds happy" or "this sounds sad". There is no craft, only a finished product.

The transformative aspect of art and creating art is nowhere present in this picture. The whole of art and music is not a bunch of pretty colors or some nice sounds. Near-perfection delivered by a human is impressive, but delivered by a machine based on a generalization of other humans' work, it is gauche and devoid of meaning, as part of art is imperfection, both by way of natural human variation and also by artists knowing when and where there is greater significance in breaking the rules.

I don't begrudge say visual designers who need an audio component to presenting their work, but let's not pretend this is art, because art has context and intention, even if it was something gleaned from the natural world through the lens of a human. The AI could never know what is artful in music, because it is not even imitating the perspective of humans or their creative process, but rather the end result of their work.

Congratulations, you've been manipulated into emotional response by an imitation machine