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I did come here to make friends. No nazis, no kings, no doomers.
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Stop saying this shit. You’re already on the right side; these are stupid, evil people doing stupid, evil things and we have to stop them. Posting about killing kids does not help this cause. It’s good that we have the obvious moral high ground; saying you’re sometimes pro child murder erodes it
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To win, we need a vision of how we can use technology to promote human flourishing, not just “haha machine dumb”. Being anti technological progress is always a losing movement and leaves imagining (and defining) the future open to worse people who’ll use the tech for grubby and cynical ends.
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I see a lot of reflexive hostility to it on here because it is (1) labor-replacing and (2) aggressively boosted by some of the dumbest, scammiest people alive. Not unreasonable to be suspicious, but it’s a mistake to be reflexively anti-AI. It is too powerful a tool to cede to your enemy!
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A coup illegally removing and locking out career civil servants and anyone else who might oppose them is not “cost-cutting”, and you would only describe it that way if you supported the coup.
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I believe it vests over time and most has not vested yet, so he would actually just be foregoing the money if he disavowed it now. OTOH, good reasons not to have FBI head be gradually paid $5M by China over the next 9 months
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Beautiful.
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If you wake up and find that you aren’t proud of what you do anymore, you can do something else.
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When you were a child, did you dream of getting into journalism so you could make the arrival of an aspiring dictator sound like a disagreement at a dinner party? Who do you think it helps, the public or the aspiring dictator, to describe it the way you have here?
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There are a lot of ways to make republicans own or vote for what is happening today that don’t make someone who just sees the headline think “oh, I guess it’s not actually illegal”
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No one will remember or care, while TODAY it muddies the very clear issue that this is already illegal. The Senate is voting to approve embarrassing goons with their brains running out of their ears; no one will lose a seat because two years ago they voted against a redundant bill no one will read.
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If if it can be “reasonably” interpreted to reach opposite conclusions on every fundamental issue, then either our definition of “reasonable” is far too broad, or the Constitution is just whatever the person in power wants it to be.
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If the norms of legal interpretation are so broad and flexible that a “reasonable” lawyer can find that the Constitution both does and does not require birthright citizenship, then what is the Constitution actually doing to define or restrain the government?