knightly the Sneptaur

Generative “AI” is not “AI”, it’s a overlarge statistical model of written language. It cannot make NPC dialogue more lively because it has no concept of “liveliness” or “boredom”. A 10-minute conversation is impossible, anything more than a few words and the models very rapidly lose consistency. You can see this for yourself by playing one of the many “AI Dungeon” attempts at using large language models to run a text adventure.

Generative AI is a statistical model, not something that can understand what makes a good plot…

Do it.

The issue is much, much larger than what Israel is doing to Gaza.

Agreed.

If you fail to vote for Harris, you allow Trump to win.

Since my vote is now the deciding factor, I have some demands that the Democrats will finally have to listen to if they don’t want Trump to win.

1. Stop financing genocide.

Did I say “some demands”? I meant “just do the bare minimum”, Jesus…

To be clear here, if Harris does not win, Trump will. Those are your two choices. You can choose to vote for Harris or you court disaster. There is no viable 3rd choice.

Precisely. Democrats know they’re the only game in town so they have no incentive to offer better policy. All demands for them to show some basic humanity can be deflected with cries of “But Trump!!1!”.

“We’ve gotta vote blue to save Democracy! No dissent will be tolerated!”

You’re unbelievable.

I’m autistic.

Do whatever stupid political moves you think work, just do it silently so you don’t drag others down with you.

The liberal mask slips, revealing the fascism that was there all along.

I’m not wasting any more time with your callousness.

Says the person who literally just told me to sit down and shut up.

Anyone reading, ignore this armchair anarchist. This election is important, both sides are not the same. Use your vote, use your voice, ignore the shills.

“Just politics”?

This is a matter of life and death, and you’re on the side that’s teaming up with Republicans to make sure the bombs keep flowing:

This isn’t just Internet arguments. Innocent people are dying. Stop this.

That’s what I keep begging for, but instead I keep getting shouted at by Democrat sycophants who want me to vote now and fix the party never.

Of poll respondents. There’s a large overlap between people who don’t care, and people who don’t answer polls.

“Of voters. There’s a large overlap between people who don’t care and people who don’t vote.”

If you’re going to argue that polling isn’t an effective means of determining public sentiment then you probably shouldn’t pretend to care about voting.

And oh yeah, Harris has been calling for a ceasefire

Wake me up when there’s some action behind those words.

And disregarding AIPAC is stupid. Picking up the single issue voters by overtly pissing off AIPAC during the election will unleash a multimillion dollar ad campaign. Look at what happened to the squad

Indeed, look at what this foreign influence campaign did to our precious American democracy. But hey, we’re not ready to talk about it because the parties want to have their cake and eat it too.

There’s no good reason to do that now. A smart candidate would stay relatively quiet until the election, and then go full bore on the offensive.

You said “smart” but you appear to have meant “complicit”.

Especially since, y’know, the vice president doesn’t even have authority here so it’s stupid to blame it on her.

Since when did they abolish the bully pulpit? A lack of authority only means she couldn’t change national policy unilaterally, it doesn’t mean she can’t actively work against arms deals and for an embargo.

Especially when the other candidate is actively sabotaging ceasefire negotiations.

Thus, the obvious move is to make the ceasefire negotiations a fait accompli by refusing to reload the aggressor’s weapons. Even Trump can’t sabotage a ceasefire if there’s no fire left to be ceased.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the majority. I think the majority either support Israel without really thinking about it, or don’t care.

Unfortunately, I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Polls show an overwhelming majority of Democrats disapprove of Israel’s military adventurism in Gaza:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx

It’s not just the Gallup polling about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also surveys that ask about what’s going on in Gaza today showing this sea change. In a May Data for Progress survey, 83 percent of Democrats supported a “permanent cease-fire and de-escalation of violence” in Gaza. A March Gallup poll found that a clear majority of all respondents, as well as 75 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents, now oppose Israeli military action in Gaza, although those numbers were a little bit lower in the most recent survey. Gallup polling also found that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s net favorability among all respondents in July was down 10 points, with just 12 percent of Democrats saying they support him. And in a March Pew study, 44 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents opposed U.S. military aid for Israel, with just 25 percent in favor.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/kamala-harris-dnc-israel-palestine-polls-voters-ceasefire-arms.html

Since you are all knowing, explain to me exactly how deep earth mining is less costly and better for the environment than deep earth drilling.

Easy, just compare the amount of pollution required to make a battery and a solar panel with the amount of pollution required to extract and burn fossil fuels for the equivalent power output over the duration of the renewable’s working lifetime.

Oh, and don’t forget. Fossil fuels are useless without an engine to burn them, so you need to account for those infrastructure costs as well.

Genocide isn’t in my best interests.

If there is no option on the ballot to stop sponsoring genocide then I’m not getting what I want regardless of how I vote.

If the Democrats feel that Trump is a threatening-enough stick that they don’t need to offer a carrot, then that’s their problem.

A party with a comfortable margin can embrace less centrist policies when their voters ask for them (write to your representatives everyone). A party with an uncertain margin has to calculate their platform to target the largest demographics.

They must have a very comfortable margin if they can ignore the majority of Americans and instead embrace less centrist policies like helping Israel bomb schools and hospitals.

Using your vote + using your voice = representation.

You should be happy, you can safely ignore my vote and my voice because the Democrats will be winning this election regardless.

How, precisely, does a promise that you won’t vote for them unless they alienate a larger demographic entice them into anything?

The segment of Americans that oppose genocide are the majority, the smaller group that the Democrats are trying not to alienate is AIPAC. The only things that could entice them to change are an even larger quantity of campaign financing, or electoral consequences.

All the more reason to entice them further left now so that the future landscape, in the good timeline, rests further left. I’m all for that future, and want it to start off as far left as possible.

And how, precisely, is a promise that they don’t have to move further left to earn your vote supposed to entice them into anything?

do you think that if enough people don’t vote that the government will say “Shucks, guess we have to redo the election with better candidates”?

I wish. A sane electoral system would declare a redo if the abstains win. No, I simply don’t consider how other people will be voting to be a factor. I’ll base my decision not on the promises they make, but the ones they have already fulfilled.

You gain absolutely nothing by not voting, all you’re doing is shifting power to those who disagree with you the most.

What I gain from not-voting is a clear conscience.

And if I’m the deciding vote in my solid-blue state then power has already shifted so far that my one vote won’t hold it back for long.

This is just plain idiotic.

The only idiotic part is how much time you’re wasting trying to convince a disillusioned old anarchist to pick between the negative peace that is a false promise of a “reasonable” politician and an increasingly demented madman who stands out as the greatest living example for why the management of our lives can’t be trusted to a political party.

They need enough votes. If they think pandering to your demographic will cost them other demographics, they will not pander to you.

Then they should stop pretending that they’re on my side. They aren’t “the left”, they’re liberals who can abide by genocide so long as it’s happening somewhere else. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Despite your claims, America is a democratic republic, granted with it’s own peculiarities in determining electoral votes. The candidate who wins the most votes wins the state. You will be left in the dust as irrelevant noise in the flood of people who know how to use their vote, and you will get zero representation. Congratulations.

Make up your mind, is it “democratic” or does everyone’s vote not count?

Abstinence has no effect, and in fact will probably push the party farther right to scoop moderates because they actually vote. Congratulations.

Of course, they were going to do that anyway, especially if we live in the good timeline where the Republican party collapses under the weight of its impending electoral failure. Democrats will keep triangulating towards the right to pick up the mythical “moderate” and become the new right-wing party while some new group starts to pick up the pieces on the Left. Probably the greens.

It’s not about who represents you most, they aren’t on the ballot.

I already know America is not a democracy, that’s why I don’t feel the need to vote in support of a corrupt system.

What incentive does the party have to sabotage their races (AIPAC influence is real) to court an uninformed bloc that’s unlikely to vote in the first place?

Depends, do they need our votes to win the election or not?

If they need our votes, they should start acting like they’re trying to earn them.

If they don’t think they need our votes, then they don’t have to represent us. And since they don’t represent us, we shouldn’t vote for them.

Totally irrational. Your abstinence is not incentive, no logic whatsoever.

It’s perfectly logical, you just don’t like the conclusion that the logic points towards, because it betrays the party leadership as being self-interested, cynical, and willing to aid and abet genocide to preserve their bloody campaign funding.

Sorry I don’t feel represented by a political party that aids and abets genocide. Democrats have a chance to earn my vote and continue to squander it.

The logic is that if the party doesn’t have an incentive to change then it won’t.

Do you want the math or would you prefer less reading and more pictures?

The community has four years to put pressure on Harris right from day one.

You can’t try and pressure the Democrats after the election, don’t you know that defeating the Republicans in 2028 is more important? /s

Long term, the best strategy is voting Dem and applying pressure immediately after the election, when they can safely take action.

Actually, the best strategy is to tell people you won’t vote for genocide before the election. Whether you do end up voting or not is immaterial to the pressure that can be applied when the party is at its most influencable, but telling people to wait until after the election to try and move the party is telling them to wait until their influence is at its minimum.