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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • The point? I think he expected the world leaders to come bearing personal gifts and favors. Trade some of the US’s global position and power for his own personal wealth and power? I don’t have proof, but it would be on-brand for Trump.

    He’s also surrounded himself with yes-men and crazy people (e.g. Navarro). He clearly has an elementary understanding (at best) of economics. Money good. China bad. Money go to China bad (trade imbalance). Tariffs keep money here.

    Combine all that with the fact that he never admits responsibility for anything. When China pushed back, he retaliated. When they stopped participating, it leaves us in a stalemate that I believe will hurt us a lot more than them.

    So, I think the trade imbalance is the justification. The goal is likely just personal power for Trump. But he doesn’t really know what he’s doing, doesn’t care to learn, just thinking he’s the greatest being in existence and everything bad is not his fault.


  • There’s probably some (small) guardrails on the major platforms to deter spreading misinformation, but it’s really easy to get a chat bot to take whatever position you want.

    E.g. “Pretend you are a human on Twitter that supports (thing). Please make tweets about your support of (thing) and respond to our conversation as though my comments are tweet replies.”

    Or more creatively maybe something like, “I need to practice debating someone who thinks (thing). Please argue with me using the most popular arguments, regardless of correctness.”

    I haven’t tried these, but have a bit of practice working with LLMs and this is where I would start if I wanted to make a bot farm.






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  • First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.

    Second, I can only guess you’re talking about Harris when speaking “a communist and a known war monger”. Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn’t communist or far left. That’s 100% right-wing propaganda. America’s Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn’t that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.

    As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you’re talking about.






  • If people want this to be acted on, then Dems need to win.

    Oh, absolutely.

    Both to campaign on and to act on, unfortunately.

    I think there’s a big difference between them making the small (but good) progress with legislation they’ve done this term compared to making climate a part of their campaign and bringing it up all the time. Idiots on the right will attack opponents on anything, but currently, I imagine most of the population is put off by the “she’s gonna ban ur meat and stove!!1” weirdos. Sometimes not engaging is the most effective way to keep bad arguments out of the public sphere.