Chainleft

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Vote blue no matt... whoa a muslim!

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My sympathies 🫂 Pretty sure Trump's advisors are closely following what Orban has done and is doing.

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eventually I went with excel because it was miserable in formatting everything else. color coded it myself tho 🤷‍♂️

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After some back & forth, o3 and I analyzed USA's fall into authoritarianism and identified the patterns with closest matches in recent history. 4 countries came at the top. 1) Hungary & Orban was the closest match. 2-3) Russia & Putin + Turkey & Erdogan 4) Brazil & Bolsonaro (he failed) It's a pretty cool doc IMHO, it even takes "it can't happen in the US" assumption into account.

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What a miracle! Glad y'all are ok

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Ahah that's true lol

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Not that Obama deserved it either

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It's like this - there are 98495875827164782667273746727273849e999 unfair things to flag before defending Thiel's hesitation to answer a question that's only asked because he is known to have a pretty dark philosophy.

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Still true. Even though he's right about the big scam bill (his reasons are only partially right)

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I'm from the middle east too and you're either bullshitting or you're from some specific part of it.

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so you don't understand socialism AND muslims AND middle east. nice one.

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Yep. Gotta love him

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Riding on the "nerd" wave, it was a way for people to feel smart without actually learning about anything. The level of sexism in that show is nuts. Also they employed Mayim Bialik who's hardcore zi*nist. Fun fact that I might be wrong about: I think that's the last actually popular sitcom with a laugh track.

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Yeah :) Every slander just boosts his approval rating lmao

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I just don't think they're fairy tales and also think that what you call fairy tales are how you build movements and eventually power. I think "realistic attempts" from the left delivered just as miserable results, with the addition of not growing a movement either.

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Ok so this is about idealism vs realism. I disagree again. Politician's job is just as much to lead as it is to set policies. I want my politicians to talk about north stars even if they're hard to implement... ... on which I disagree again - political power is narrative. Narrative can be backed by money, but it can also be backed by an angry mob - see Trump, he won with far less campaign donations than Harris.

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Ehh I disagree with a lot of the things in that thread. First of all, there is no real wealth behind a lot of the wealth we talk about. E.g. Elon can't sell his Tesla stocks at current market price. Second - the reality is, housing benefits, employment, budget are all intrinsically related to both tax policies and employment policies. If the financial infra of a country wouldn't be based solely on speculation & worker abuse, if the tax policy was fair (i.e. things that create billionaires), you also wouldn't have housing problems, budget deficit, triple-job-hustle-life and high unemployment. In other words, OP is right. We don't need to have billionaires.

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Mamdani wins no matter what. He'll double or triple what he got in primaries.

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