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Politics What is happening????

Discussion in 'Tilted Philosophy, Politics, and Economics' started by pan6467, Apr 23, 2012.

  1. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Yeah. It started off looking like DeSantis was cleverly offering the kool-aid. Now he's drinking it.

    That ad sucks. To make it worse it looks like he used a photo of himself from at least ten years ago.
     
  2. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
    Politics that pander to the fears of the lizard brain sector is so fucked. So backwards so intellectually lazy.

    The add dosn't even mention why he's shown shooting Mexicans....I spose for a fistful of dollars from the NRA ? And all his lizard brained voters. Sergio Leone needs to sue him.

    But how do you not see the similarities between this murder fantasy and actually live streaming actual mass shooting ?

    How is all this deranged soldier cosplay not the murder version of "Drag" and the pushing of weaponry as solutions to problems and representation of masculinity as "grooming" of a truly evil way of thinking ?

    Why is a guy named Mauricio Garcia all about the white supremacy ? He's not even white !

    How is it that Fox points fingers saying mainstream news when they ARE broadcasting the top ten or so rated news shows on the air and clearly lying non stop through their teeth ???

    How is it that so much of the US buys into all this clearly illogical snake oil garbage ?

    Rupert Murdoch is turning the US into his own personal Jonestown.
    If there is a god, please bring hell to the Murdoch clan in the Smartmatic trials.
     
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  3. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    ^^^
    The news reports I've seen don't mention the
    Very Clear Fact
    Tate Reeves is shooting "Mexicans."
     
  4. boink

    boink Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Seattle
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  5. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    Calling ChatGPT on its 'bulls***'
    Watch the short interview clip...she's very upfront and real.
    It's just a more robust autocorrect.

    This is what I worry about AI
    Not that it will take over jobs, but it will increase the chaos.

    There's already more than enough, starting to make people snap and unstable.
    But to have auto-generated, we won't know what's real even more.
    Which way is up???

    There should be a law saying a watermark or such be applied to anything created by AI, to indicate what's real or not.
    Many people are going to be misled and overwhelmed. Lies on top of the lies we already have.
    But companies are releasing this just because it's "cool" not considering how it will be misused.

    The embedded ChatGPT already is blanking out the starting quote I have above, each time I pasted it into Bing search. (google works, btw)
    What does that say???
    paranoia...coincidence...or something more...

    Just strange and concerning. :confused:

    Biden, Harris meet with CEOs about AI risks
     
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  6. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    The various stories I've read, heard, & watched make AI sound like it's going to be devastating weapon.
     
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  7. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    A very long read, that isn't easy to follow at times, but it does give you very good idea of just how often our Texas politicians go against public opinion.

    Yet they get reelected easily.

    Texas mass shooting timeline: 14 years of violence in Texas

    Deep in the heart of Texas!

    Something a bit odd?
    Texans vote, statewide,
    overwhelmingly Republican.
    Austin is our state Capitol.
    Austin is generally blue.
     
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  8. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
  9. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North
    The Republicans are trying to move the voting age back to 21 because they are freaking out at how the Gen Z and Alpha kids are so LGBTQ+ and socialism friendly.
    I wonder if a bunch of trans/queer youth militias were started if they would suddenly work to get the age up to 21 again.
     
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  10. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I certainly would like to
    see some left-wing militias.
     
  11. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
  12. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North

    The use of 'informants' who were trying to get illegal activity to happen was a large part of the problem.
    This is a good interview with the folks who exposed the Denver FBI's operation.

     
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  13. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Today is the one year anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

    With the exception of very few No Surprises firings, "resignations," & reassignments, almost nothing has been done about the widespread gross failures by law enforcement officers on the scene.

    Investigations are taking forever.
    Top LE officials have flip-flopped and gone silent.
    Politicians have talked while doing nothing.

    A divided Uvalde hasn’t had time to heal, speakers say

    https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177...school-shooting-questions-still-go-unanswered

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/uvalde-shooting-anniversary-families-guns.html


    The question I haven't heard anyone actually ask:
    What would've happened if
    this shooting had happened
    at an elementary school in a
    wealthy mostly white neighborhood,
    and those children were white?
     
  14. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    FINALLY!!!

    Texas House committee issues 20 articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton


    Simmering tensions erupt between top Texas state Republicans | CNN Politics


    Ken Paxton has been living on borrowed time (maybe, maybe not) for way too long. I'm not even the slightest bit cautiously optimistic that he will face any kind of punishment.

    Texas is basically a red Let Business Take Care Of Business state, and Paxton has done exactly that. If he has done anything to protect the citizens of Texas from illegal business practices I haven't heard about it. Any actions Paxton might have taken would have been at the behest of the industry in the best position to support him.


    Oh, he is known for suing other states in which Biden won by a narrow margin in the 2020 presidential election. Let's not forget he's also supporting/not challenging Gov. Greg Abbott's busing of illegal immigrants to other states (which I'm thinking must be a misuse of state funds).

    U.S. Supreme Court throws out Texas lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states
     
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  15. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
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  16. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
  17. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North
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  18. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    With our current SC that's a scary thought.
     
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  19. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North

    Indeed.
     
  20. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
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