Canadian PM Mark Carney’s Shift From Climate-Change Warrior to Fossil-Fuel Cheerleader
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The Shutdown Isn’t a Stalemate — It’s a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.
The Shutdown Isn’t a Stalemate — It’s a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.
While the media fixate on partisan blame, Russ Vought and a hard-right GOP faction are quietly using the shutdown to sidestep Congress and reshape government.Colby Hall (Mediaite)
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Have you considered emigrating from the US? If so, where to?
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Mysterious "rogue planet" spotted gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second
Mysterious "rogue planet" spotted gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second
ESO's Very Large Telescope has observed a rogue planet and revealed that it is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of 6 billion tons a second.CBS News
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Votação de vínculo entre motoristas e apps será em 30 dias, diz Fachin
Votação de vínculo entre motoristas e apps será em 30 dias, diz Fachin
Supremo Tribunal Federal julga recursos protocolados pelas plataformas Rappi e Uber, que contestam decisões da Justiça do Trabalho que reconhecem o vínculo empregatício.Agência Brasil
Russia does not wage anti-dollar campaign — Putin
Russia does not wage anti-dollar campaign — Putin
Members of BRICS do not build up such policy against anyone, Putin stressedTASS
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Family says Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara will be deported tomorrow
EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers
ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.The New Republic
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Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out. | An analysis of historical crises over the past 2,000 years offers lessons for avoiding the end times.
the principles behind a successful exit from crisis remain relevant. While the specific policies will differ across societies, the overarching goal remains the same: to rebalance the distribution of wealth and power in a way that promotes long-term stability, not short-term elite enrichment.
Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.
No, we aren’t in “unprecedented times.” An analysis of 100 historical crises over two millennia has lessons for how society can avoid the end times.Peter Turchin (Vox)
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The Price of Unpredictability
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Ruining American Credibility
Keren Yarhi-Milo
October 2, 2025
For decades, U.S. foreign policy has depended on credibility: the belief that Washington would honor its commitments and that its past behavior signaled its future conduct. The United States, for instance, was able to develop a large network of allies because its partners trusted that, if attacked, Washington would defend them. It could strike free-trade deals with countries around the world and negotiate peace agreements because, generally speaking, it was seen as an honest broker. That is not to say the United States has never surprised, or that it never reneged on a promise. But for most of its modern history, it has been a trustworthy actor.But unlike any U.S. president before him, Donald Trump has abandoned all efforts to make Washington reliable or consistent. His predecessors had also, at times, made decisions that undermined American credibility. But Trump’s lack of consistency is of an entirely different magnitude—and appears to be part of a deliberate strategy. He proposes deals before backing down. He promises to end wars before expanding them. He berates U.S. allies and embraces adversaries. With Trump, the only pattern is the lack of one.
The Price of Unpredictability: How Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Ruining American Credibility
Trump’s foreign policy is ruining American credibility.Keren Yarhi-Milo (Foreign Affairs Magazine)
caffettistica truffa delle macchine universitarie (la macchinetta del caffè rotta mi ha rovinato la giornata)
Oggi, la giornata pareva aver incalzato un piede giusto (si può dire? boh!) — o, quantomeno, non marcio — sembrava che per una buona volta io potessi non soffrire — almeno, tolto il fattore meteo, che dalla sera alla sera stessa (letteralmente!) si è riconfigurato coi pinguini, e se adesso sono a casa senza un […]
Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me.Corbin Davenport (Spacebar)
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Just because it doesn't offer features a database has doesn't mean people aren't trying to use it as one
I support your argument, but unfortunately there are some real monstrosities out there that have carried small businesses since decades
Costly and Deadly Wildfires Really Are on the Rise, New Research Finds | The past decade in particular has seen an uptick in devastating blazes linked to climate change, according to the study.
The paper is here
The chart in Vox is particularly revealing, though I haven't found a gift link to it yet.
The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart
A new study reveals that increasing global temperatures are fueling the rising financial toll of wildfires, with costs surging dramatically over the past decade.Umair Irfan (Vox)
Amid special election to replace Rep. Mark Green in Tenn., one county explains purge of 80k voters from rolls
Amid special election to replace Rep. Mark Green in Tenn., one county explains purge of 80k voters from rolls
Early voting in the special election to replace Rep. Mark Green is underway as Davidson County election official explains purge of 80,000 voters from rolls.Ben Hall (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))
Ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.Kozlov, Max
Lemmy doesn't federate across either NOSTR bridge
As you may know NOSTR (Notes and Other STuff via Relays) is another protocol for the fediverse like ActivityPub. In order to allow AP folks to communicate with NOSTR folks there are [at least] two "bridges" (mostr.pub & momostr.pink) created to allow certain level of server, client interaction between the two.
For some reason no lemmy communities nor users are ever found by either. It works just fine for mbin magazines and users. Do any of you have an idea why?
Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse
Automation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a way to lazily cut corners or undermine labor. There’s also a weird innovation cult that has arisen around managers and LLM use, resulting in the mandatory use of tools that may not be helping anybody — just because.
The result is often a hot mess, as we’ve seen in journalism. The AI hype simply doesn’t match the reality, and a lot of the underlying financial numbers being tossed around aren’t based in reality; something that’s very likely going to result in a massive bubble deflation as the reality and the hype cycles collide (Gartner calls this the “trough of disillusionment,” and expects it to arrive next year).
One recent study out of MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in AI (yet). One of many reasons for this, as noted in a different recent Stanford survey (hat tip: 404 Media), is because the mass influx of AI “workslop” requires colleagues to spend additional time trying to decipher genuine meaning and intent buried in a sharp spike in lazy, automated garbage.
The survey defines workslop as “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” Somewhat reflective of America’s obsession with artifice. And it found that as use of ChatGPT and other tools have risen in the workplace, it’s created a lot of garbage that requires time to decipher:
“When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues.”
Confusing or inaccurate emails that require time to decipher. Lazy or incorrect research that requires endless additional meetings to correct. Writing full of errors that requires supervisors to edit or correct themselves:
“A director in retail said: “I had to waste more time following up on the information and checking it with my own research. I then had to waste even more time setting up meetings with other supervisors to address the issue. Then I continued to waste my own time having to redo the work myself.”
In this way, a technology deemed a massive time saver winds up creating all manner of additional downstream productivity costs. This is made worse by the fact that a lot of these technologies are being rushed into mass adoption in business and academia before they’re fully cooked. And by the fact the real-world capabilities of the products are being wildly overstated by both companies and a lazy media.
This isn’t inherently the fault of the AI, it’s the fault of the reckless, greedy, and often incompetent people high in the extraction class dictating the technology’s implementation. And the people so desperate to be innovation-smacked, they’re simply not thinking things through. “AI” will get better; though any claim of HAL-9000 type sentience will remain mythology for the foreseeable future.
Obviously measuring the impact of this workplace workslop is an imprecise science, but the researchers at the Stanford Social Media Lab try:
“Each incidence of workslop carries real costs for companies. Employees reported spending an average of one hour and 56 minutes dealing with each instance of workslop. Based on participants’ estimates of time spent, as well as on their self-reported salary, we find that these workslop incidents carry an invisible tax of $186 per month. For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.”
The workplace isn’t the only place the rushed application of a broadly misrepresented and painfully under-cooked technology is making unproductive waves. When media outlets rushed to adopt AI for journalism and headlines (like at CNET), they, too, found that the human editorial costs to correct and fix all the problems, plagiarism, false claims, and errors really didn’t make the value equation worth their time. Apple found that LLMs couldn’t even do basic headlines with any accuracy.
Elsewhere in media you have folks building giant (badly) automated aggregation and bullshit machines, devoid of any ethical guardrails, in a bid to hoover up ad engagement. That’s not only repurposing the work of real journalists, it’s redirecting an already dwindling pool of ad revenue away from their work. And it’s undermining any sort of ethical quest for real, informed consensus in the authoritarian age.
This is all before you even get to the environmental and energy costs of AI slop.
Some of this are the ordinary growing pains of new technology. But a ton of it is the direct result of poor management, bad institutional leadership, irresponsible tech journalism, and intentional product misrepresentation. And next year is going to likely be a major reckoning and inflection point as markets (and people in the real world) finally begin to separate fact from fiction.
CNET had to correct most of its AI-written articles
CNET has issued corrections for over half of the AI-written articles the outlet recently attributed to its CNET Money team.Igor Bonifacic (Engadget)
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”The Harvard Business Review study came out the day after a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meeting transcripts filed by S&P 500 companies that found huge firms are having trouble articulating the specific benefits of widespread AI adoption but have had no trouble explaining the risks and downsides the technology has posed to their businesses: “The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better,” the Financial Times found. “Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorize than the risks.”
Other recent surveys and studies also paint a grim picture of AI in the workplace. The main story seems to be that there is widespread adoption of AI, but that it’s not proving to be that useful, has not resulted in widespread productivity gains, and often ends up creating messes that human beings have to clean up. Human workers see their colleagues who use AI as less competent, according to another study published in Harvard Business Review last month. A July MIT report found that “Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return … Despite high-profile investment, industry-level transformation remains limited.” A June Gallup poll found that AI use among workers doubled over the last two years, and that 40 percent of those polled have used AI at work in some capacity. But the poll found that “many employees are using AI at work without guardrails or guidance,” and that “The benefits of using AI in the workplace are not always obvious. According to employees, the most common AI adoption challenge is ‘unclear use case or value proposition.’”
These studies, anecdotes we have heard from workers, and the rise of industries like “vibe coding cleanup specialists” all suggest that workers are using AI, but that they may not be leading to actual productivity gains for companies. The Harvard Business Review study proposes a possible reason for this phenomenon: Workslop.
The authors of that study, who come from Stanford University and the workplace productivity consulting firm BetterUp, suggest that a growing number of workers are using AI tools to make presentations, reports, write emails, and do other work tasks that they then file to their colleagues or bosses; this work often appears useful but is not: “Workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being. When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues,” they write.
The researchers say that surveyed workers told them that they are now spending their time trying to figure out if any specific piece of work was created using AI tools, to identify possible hallucinations in the work, and then to manage the employee who turned in workslop. Surveyed workers reported spending time actually fixing the work, but the researchers found that “the most alarming cost may have been interpersonal.”
“Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work,” they wrote. “Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, and 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent.”
No single study on AI in the workplace is going to be definitive, but evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people’s work in the same way it’s affecting everything else: It is making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through. Meanwhile, Microsoft researchers who spoke to nurses, financial advisers, and teachers who use AI found that the technology makes people “atrophied and unprepared” cognitively.
Each study I referenced above has several anecdotes about individual workers who have found specific uses of AI that improve their own productivity and several companies have found uses of AI that have helped automate specific tasks, but most of the studies find that the industry- and economy-wide productivity gains that have been promised by AI companies are not happening. The MIT report calls this the “GenAI Divide,” where many companies are pushing expensive AI tools on their workers (and even more workers are using AI without explicit permission), but that few are seeing any actual return from it.
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Help a Family Trapped in Northern Gaza – Your Support Can Save Our Lives
We are a family still trapped under ongoing bombardment in Northern Gaza.
We desperately need your help to evacuate to the south. Transportation costs have soared to over $2,000 — an amount we simply cannot afford.
Please, we are pleading for your support. Any contribution could help save our lives.
You are our lifeline. Please don’t leave us alone in this moment of despair
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We desperately need your help to evacuate to the south. Transportation costs have soared to over $2,000 — an amount we simply cannot afford.
Please, we are pleading for your support. Any contribution could help save our lives.
You are our lifeline. Please don’t leave us alone in this moment of despair
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Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free
Shockingly, Perplexity says ‘the internet is better on Comet.’
Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free
Perplexity said its AI-powered web browser Comet and news service Comet Plus will be free to use globally.Robert Hart (The Verge)
DNC backs drive for Missouri gerrymandering referendum - Salon.com
DNC backs drive for Missouri gerrymandering referendum
The Democratic National Committee said it's supporting an effort to put the Missouri GOP's new map up for a voteRussell Payne (Salon.com)
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Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats
US users stuck with AI ad targeting as EU users win more control over their feeds.
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How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?
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Sooner.
None of these AI applications are making money and unlike earlier IT companies (Amazon, Google search, social media site, etc ), the marginal cost of each additional user isn't near zero.
They are having to invest hundreds of billions to cope with demand for applications which lose money on each use.
It's a $50 billion dollar industry priced as a trillion dollar industry.
And there‘s still no compelling use-case for the average consumer. Coders and scientists? Can be. But most people don‘t really have a use for it in most situations, even in business contexts. It‘s mostly a solution in search of a problem, and even then it‘s so unreliable that even things trying to sell you it as a solution have to add the disclaimer that you shouldn‘t use it for anything that‘s remotely important.
So even if the costs were markedly less than they are, there‘s still no real path to profitability because there‘s no real call for it.
The only use I‘ve found as a consumer is using something like Perplexity as a search engine. And that‘s not a testament to how good Perplexity is, but instead a testament to how bad other search engines have become. Perplexity just avoids things like SEO and is mostly quite good at finding sources which aren‘t themselves AI-generated.
And…I really see a near future in which AI-SEO becomes a thing and Perplexity et. al. become just as useless as google.
Nvidia's 16-pin time bomb could be defused by this $95 gadget — Ampinel offers load balancing that Nvidia forgot to include
Ampinel could be the salvation for 16-pin power connectors.
UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times
UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home
: One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 timesBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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Meta's Threads inches closer to X with new Communities feature
Meta's text-based platform Threads has taken another page from X's book and launched the Communities feature.
https://www.neowin.net/news/metas-threads-inches-closer-to-x-with-new-communities-feature/
Steam Hardware & Software Survey (Linux, September 2025)
All fields expanded, very long screenshot: imgur.com/a/steam-hardware-sof…Note, the source will change every month. That's why I made a screenshot, so the discussion in this thread makes sense in the future. Source: store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit got +3.34% from previously 0%, while Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit lost -2.71%. So the rest of the 0.65% are either new users or upgraders from even older Linux Mint versions. Whatever the reason is, these two entries should have been a single one as Linux Mint 22 with 8.84%.
Also what is the category "Other"? It's almost 20% big, so this is not something to wave over. Bazzite got a good start, hopefully it will grow further. I'm surprised that CachyOS is this popular, much more than Ubuntu and Bazzite.
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'Particularly Heinous': UN Chief Condemns Manchester Yom Kippur Synagogue Attack
The head of Amnesty International UK implored public figures to "not stoke hatred and division but focus on the solidarity and humanity that connects us all."
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Putin hails bravery of US national who died fighting for Russia
Putin hails bravery of US national who died fighting for Russia
Michael Gloss, the son of the CIA deputy director, had secretly enlisted in the Russian military and was killed in Donbass last yearRT
Their country bans abortion, but the term authoritarian is meant for countries outside the Western Imperial order.
Their police murders a black man by kneeling on his neck, but is it not authoritarian?
Their secret police is rounding up undesirables and displacing humans they term as aliens.
Lies, Injustice and the neolib way!
I recently got to know of the info from reddit that Black people did not have proper voting rights in USAmerica till the 1960's:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Ri…
So, technically my country, India, is an older advanced democracy than USAmerica. That's nice.
NATO is the Trap — Not Moscow
NATO is the Trap — Not Moscow
Western media calls Vladimir Putin’s peace talks a “trap,” but a look at the record reveals a consistent pattern—it was Moscow, not NATO, that repeatedlyФил Батлер (New Eastern Outlook)
Damn it must be so easy to be a lib. No critical analysis, no uncomfortable questions, we're the good guys and anything that challenges that notion is Fake News. Just support the troops, vote for Palestinian genocide and cry out slava ukrani like you're in the Forest Brothers
I now understand the social dynamics that got Bruno burned at the stake
“Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid Russian shill.”
- IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
- Matt Taibbi: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
- Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
- Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.
US shutdown: White House says layoffs to begin 'imminently'
US shutdown: White House says layoffs to begin 'imminently'
As a bitter stand-off between Republicans and Democrats plays out, there is little sign either side is willing to budge.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
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I don’t see what the Democrats’ failures have to do with Trump laying off tens of thousands of workers unnecessarily (i.e., far more, and more permanently, than the shutdown necessitates). That is 100% his decision. You can’t possibly think, or claim, that that is somehow on the Democrats.
Just like his sudden move to rescind previously awarded funds for energy projects in blue states. That is not something that’s required, not something that’s necessary, not something that’s even good for the country; and it probably isn’t even legal. No Democrat decided to take back already allocated funds from blue states.
So I’m not sure what your point is exactly, and I AM sure you don’t know either.
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Ah yes, the classic “anyone who disagrees with me must be too dumb to grasp my galaxy brain take” defense; always a hit at middle school debate club.
If you’re done congratulating yourself for noticing Trump didn’t materialize from a wormhole, maybe try engaging with what I actually said; about his actions, not your pet theory of historical inevitability.
Democratic failures didn’t force Trump to lay off tens of thousands of workers unnecessarily. They didn’t require him to rescind already allocated clean energy funds from blue states. These were deliberate; vindictive; and completely discretionary choices; 100% his.
Blaming Democrats for the fact that someone like Trump got elected is one thing; blaming them for everything he personally chooses to do is just transparent deflection.
So maybe ask yourself why a “grown ass adult” like you is parroting influencer-grade nonsense instead of addressing a single point directly
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My favourite trope has to be people saying dumb things and then acting offended when called out on it. Now, if you're done with your straw man, perhaps you can engage with what was said to you. Nowhere did I suggest that democrats made Trump do anything, or say anything about any historical inevitability. What I said is that their policies that dems pursued midwifed the political environment where people like Trump thrive.
The only people parroting influencer-grade nonsense here are the ones who are talking about dems making Trump do things while ignoring the actual role dems play in US politics. Grow up.
Ah, I see we’re doing the thing where you build your entire argument around a metaphor, then deny what the metaphor obviously implies, then call it a straw man when someone responds to exactly what you said.
Let’s walk through this carefully.
- You said:
“Democrat failures created the political climate ripe for opportunists like Trump to be elected.”
“Their policies midwifed the political environment where people like Trump thrive.”
That’s not subtle. That is a clear causal argument. You’re saying Democrats created conditions that enabled Trump’s rise and behavior.
- Then you said:
“Nowhere did I suggest that Democrats made Trump do anything, or say anything about any historical inevitability.”
Except, yes you did. You just used metaphorical phrasing to do it. “Midwifed the political environment” is not a value-neutral description; it’s a poetic way of saying they gave birth to the conditions that allowed Trump to act. You don’t get to hide behind language and then deny your own implication when it’s called out.
That’s not a straw man; that’s you trying to walk back your own framing.
And just so we’re clear, since you keep throwing around the term “straw man” like it means “someone disagreed with me”; a straw man is when someone misrepresents an argument to make it easier to attack. That didn’t happen here. I responded directly to the implications of your own words; I didn’t distort them. You just don’t like where your own logic leads.
- You also said:
“The only people parroting influencer-grade nonsense are the ones talking about dems making Trump do things…”
Except no one said Democrats literally made Trump do anything. What I did was point out how your metaphor implies it, and how you are leaning on that implication to redirect the conversation away from Trump’s actual behavior.
- Meanwhile; you never addressed any of this:
- Trump laid off tens of thousands of workers—entirely by choice
- Trump rescinded already-allocated clean energy funds from blue states—completely discretionary
- Trump is taking vindictive; policy-hostile actions that serve no purpose but political punishment
These are the specific; traceable; personal decisions I brought up. You didn’t engage with a single one. Instead; you pivoted back to broad complaints about Democratic policies—as if that somehow answers for layoffs; sabotage; or retribution budgets.
That’s not engagement; that’s deflection.
So let’s be crystal clear:
You did imply Democrats helped cause Trump
You didn’t respond to Trump’s actions I actually mentioned (which is what the original article is actually about)
And you **did*i try to deny your own implication once it was held up to the light
My man. I’m not the one who needs to grow up here.
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I'm not building any metaphor. I explained to you in very simple terms that the policies democrats actively chose to pursue resulted in Trump being elected. Evidently you're still struggling with understanding this. Let me know what part you need explained in more detail. I didn't imply anything. I was very clear in what I said.
The only one doing deflection here is you by bringing up what Trump is doing now. We all know what he's doing, the question burgerlanders need to be asking themselves is how their country evolved to the stage where people like Trump are in power.
Maybe lay off chatgpt there and actually try actually reading what is being said to you.
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