He’s already said he won’t run again. He probably physically can’t.

It’s not a political problem though, he’s all but god to so many people. Honestly I don’t know what’s gonna happen to a void he leaves behind when he passes away.

Oh, I forgot about that.

Why should he care? As long as he pushes Trump over the edge, he’s set for life. He’ll probably run for President.

I can’t imagine (as a unmarried guy) living in a marriage where my wife would be afraid to tell me who she voted for. Even if she votes Trump, she’s my spouse, and that comes way before that. She should chew me out if I make her feel afraid.

…It makes me feel shame for the culture some men are raised in.

Oliver said voting for Harris would mean the world could laugh at this past week’s photo of an orange, gaping-mouthed Trump in a fluorescent vest and allow Americans to carry on with life without worrying about what he might do next.

This sounds like my dad. He’s kinda a Republican, but doesn’t like Trump, and asserted that Trump would just go away after the last election.

Trump and Trumpism are not going away. If Harris wins, even by a lot, it’s only going to validate his follower’s fears, if it doesn’t start an all-out conflict.

I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.

Easy, local AI.

Keep generative AI locally runnable instead of corporate hosted. Make it free, open and accessible. This gives the little guys the cost advantage, and takes away the scaling advantages of mega publishers. Lemmy users should be familiar with this concept.

Whenever I hear people rail against AI, I tell them they are handing the world to Sam Altman and his dystopia, who do not care about stealing content, equality, or them. I get a lot of hate for it. But they need to be fighting the corporate vs open AI battle instead.

Oh, every day is going to be like this if Trump wins.

Most of it probably won’t be followed through on, but it’s going to be some outrageous plan or statement like this every single day.

Like, what other administation could make a scandal out of a NOAA weather prediction? It ultimately meant nothing, but still…

Though as an addendum, my mom grew up Republican, but doesn’t know how to use Facebook or anything, and she hates Donald Trump with a burning passion. Its kind of hilarious. She would literally, actually vote for Hitler over him, as his personality is so fundamentally incompatible with her, lol.

I mention that, as it feels like a test case for someone that hasn’t been conditioned to view him as a superhero or whatever.

Yep.

I feel like information hygiene should be a mandatory part of school curriculum now. Like not just a small part, but hammered in.

It’s too late for our parents I guess, unless either party feels like regulating big tech…

This is a general intelligence test for America … and so far they are failing.

It’s not.

Most voters aren’t “stupid,” they just live in completely different information universes.

This has always been the case in America, but I feel like it’s never been so severe, with people basically having their minds sucked into phones by design.

Engagement optimized social media.

Trump thanks you for your vote.

It’s easy to forget how bad it can get.

One day I wandered into /r/kotakuinaction over some linked comment on the Tomb Raider animation, and the Fallout TV series, and… yeah. I remembered.

And that’s a pretty mild example.

Sounds like it’d be nice if you had real control over the car’s software, and you could roll it back.

This… also makes me a little more weary driving around Teslas in traffic.

Why does Trump always get a pass?

It’s like everyone against him has to be an utter saint, and one wrong move? Welp, voting for Trump, I guess.

And yes, strategically… this makes no sense for anyone who cares about what’s happening in Israel.

He is really betting the farm on Trump getting elected.

Like, he is set if he is, and screwed if he isn’t.

He’s just waiting for Trump to win, so he’ll be pardoned, I guess.

“In terms of what Trump will do for Ukraine, it’s kind of up in the air, I don’t believe he will necessarily provide weapons and help so to speak, but what he will do is pressure (Russian President Vladimir Putin),” Lashchyk told the Kyiv Independent.

“I believe that Trump will negotiate some kind of end to the war, do I believe Ukraine will have to cede some of our ground in order for the killing to stop, probably, I’m totally not okay with that but I have no choice.”

I think this is the root problem with… well, everything Trump, supporters idolize him and see him as some kind of super hero, like he’s really that different (in this case) than the entire US government that’s already been “pressuring Putin.”

And the problem with lots of American culture in general. Idolization is not good. Seeing people as heroes is not good. No one on Lemmy wants to hear this, but it happens in the Democrats too.

I saw someone outside the US comment on this, and I don’t think people outside the US (and apparently many US voters) are aware just how anti Ukraine Trump will be.

Common sense would say “he’s gonna be hawkish, right?” They don’t know about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Ukraine_scandal

The double standard is eye watering.

Trump painted ALL Democrats as literal demons for years. Not figuratively, like literally, you could fill encyclopedias with his rhetoric. And it barely moves the needle.

But one gaff from Biden is damaging?

Ugh. You are probably not wrong, unfortunately.