And didn’t even fucking read the article they are attempting to use as ammunition, to boot, the article specifically denies the point they’re trying to make

You’re giving them money and engagement with which to continue. Having your eyes on that content and then returning the next day to see more is explicit approval of that content. And having those ads served to you makes Elon money which he then uses to serve more ads to everyone.

Essentially, visiting X is paying Elon real dollars directly and telling him thank you for the propaganda, may I please have another

Well you’re going to end up with one of the two so you can either pick the shinier of the two turds or you can vote to kill yourself. Or you can abstain and by doing so also vote to kill yourself.

If we had a better option we’d be on it. We don’t. This isn’t a complex issue. Trump will destroy America, destroy America’s economy and future, and destroy Palestine completely. Harris will give us more of the status quo. This isn’t even a decision. We can worry about the next steps after we’ve defused the bomb ticking away in front of us. There is no other argument that can be made.

He hates the concept of me.

Why would Putin benefit from having a Russian plant as the presidential candidate of the Green Party? Does he mistakenly think the Green Party has some influence in American politics?

They aren’t intended to win, they’re intended to do exactly what they’re doing - selecting particular wedge issues to split the Democrat vote and give them a lower total percentage vs Republicans, the other main player. In this case the Green Party was originally set up to champion environmental issues, hence their name, but have also been a convenient shunt for the Israel/Palestine situation and Harris’ percieved refusal to budge on such.

Everyone involved knows that a third party has no realistic chance of victory in the US, so setting up a third-party honeypot to gather passionate far-left voters away from the Democrat vote is a potent power move for the Republican party. Every percent point lost by the Democrats is one gained for the Republicans, even if the point doesn’t go to them. With margins as thin as they usually are, this is significant. Putin in particular cares about this because Trump is vocally friendly towards him and Democrats and their voters are not.

And how could he known his plant would be selected by the party as their presidential candidate? Is he psychic? Is the entire Green Party comprised of Russian plants?

I can’t find proof of this with a cursory web search, but it’s suspected that the entire Green Party is primarily funded via Russian interests. If nothing else it is known factually that Jill Stein has attended at least one private dinner with Russian heads of state and has appeared on Russian state media propaganda quite a lot. I doubt the entire party is a Russian op but significant portions of its leadership including candidate Stein are pretty clearly compromised.

If his goal was for the Greens to be a spoiler for the Dems, surely they’d be just as much of a spoiler no matter who their candidate was. In fact, without Stein, they could probably find a better candidate and be more of a spoiler.

Personally I feel that Stein may just be more who they got rather than who they wanted, and this may be where the plan is starting to fall apart. A truly passionate, honest far-left firecracker candidate probably would be an excellent spoiler, and pull many honest far-left votes, but they also wouldn’t be susceptible to foreign influence. They’re choosing to take the bird in the hand, rather than two in the bush, and Stein is who they’ve got that they can control.

At the end of the day Putin has a very clear motive to help Trump win his election at all costs and the leadership of the Green Party has been shown to have been in close contact with Moscow. It may not matter materially whether or not she is a Russian plant at this time. But it does matter because it is yet another avenue for hostile foreign interference with our election.

This is news to me, thank you

Autocorrect says it like that, and it’s an easy one to miss if you aren’t paying close attention.

How about the monetary value of a social media influencer with half a million followers

It holds a little more weight when you’ve been photographed at a formal dinner alongside every single Russian head of state.

Genuinely curious how long you could continue getting people to sink advertising dollars into the bot playground. If he played it smart I bet he could get a solid decade or so of people paying to show ads to AIs without telling them all the people are gone. Maybe longer, if he’s really smart and actually tells them for real that there’s no people in there but that their marketing materials will be incorporated into the AI in/output.

Well if they don’t cancel my flight with no warning then they won’t have to deal with that.

Damn I gotta get my numbers up. I don’t really post a lot of content but I’m pretty prolific in the comments. Gotta spice up my memes to get some kind of respect around here.

Profit is their God. So long as profit is made nothing else matters.

If only the people pushing the new software had complete control over their old software, the new software, and the new hardware. Oh well. Clearly there’s no way to preserve backwards compatibility here, it’s not like Google controls every detail of their manufacturing lineup.

They want to make contraception and abortions both illegal.

Dont fuck Republicans, it’ll have a very long tail if you do.

Ah, excellent, we’ve fallen all the way to ad hominem now. I already knew that you didn’t know what you were talking about but it’s always fun when you continue speaking long enough to remove all doubt.

This conversation is over, and I wish you a long happy life seeing all the ways you are wrong. We will not speak again. History will speak for me.

You’re correct, actually.

If protecting the innocent from evil that will exploit them for its own gain makes me a bad person, then I just guess I’ll see you in hell, motherfucker.

Whether or not you’re an idiot has little bearing on whether or not you’re able to treat other human beings like human beings. The golden rule is taught to preschoolers and they pick it up just fine. If someone’s argument regarding being a bigoted liar is “I’m actually too stupid to understand what tolerance means”, I have zero sympathy for them. “Keep out of my business and I’ll keep out of yours” is a concept so simple that animals understand it. You’re god damn right I’m going to wield the paradox of tolerance against idiots, because regardless of whether or not you’re doing it out of spite or doing it out of stupidity, you’re breaking the social contract and you will reap the consequences of such. If you’re so abjectly stupid that you don’t know what human rights are or how to respect them, then you have a duty both as a citizen and as a human being to educate yourself, and failure to do so excuses nothing.