I want this to succeed wildly.

I love them having to pick between techbro douchey edgelord and failed game show host douchey edgelord.

Let’s split that vote. Let them battle it out to get the deplorable vote and let normal Americans run this place again, FFS.

It seems he’ll never get over that failed venture.

Cool. Let the douches be split between who is more “maga” (baby talk) than the other and split all the worst people into an ineffective nothingburger when it comes to the ballot box.

I’m so tired of the various factions of the left pitting themselves against each other (and letting elitists/Russian and Chinese troll farms do this to them, too).

About time to have some extreme division on the wingnuts.

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This is the party that is rubbing one out over denying women the right to vote.

If you are a USian overseas, don’t they still demand taxes from you?

But, I think he’s at his best when he’s in a show where there’s a script and an editor. On social media and on free-form podcasts, he comes off as a know-it-all ass.

^ This. I still am miffed at his attitude in regards to considering the issues of AI on I forget which talk show, but he took the attitude of “we’d just pull the plug”.

Maybe when in a scripted format or in writing, he might be able to extrapolate a bit, but he just sounded like a layperson when it comes to the topic, and I honestly have no idea if he’s read or considered the kinds of things that, say, Nick Bostrom has put out there. It just sounded like some hot take man-on-the-street kind of response, talking about the problem as if we are talking about someone’s server running somewhere. It was just…facepalm.

and abortion was legal for 30 years

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Well, you are obviously a fucking idiot.

I thought they planned on funding ICE to a ridiculous degree, given that immigration is really that much of a problem…

And I wonder how many were going to focus on threat number one anyway, which is right wing domestic terrorism.

I saw Tyson take such a dismissive attitude toward the threats of something like AI, specifically, AGI/ASI with the flippant “but we’d just shut it off!” kind of thing, it really grinded my gears.

However, I guess I’m falling into the same trap that so many do - expecting this guy to be all things to every aspect of anything that smacks of “science” and that’s just not a realistic expectation. I’ll stick with him on things like the re-make/update of Cosmos and ignore his random hot takes on virtually everything else. Probably also when he’s putting pen to paper vs. the hot take kind of thing on a talk show. He seems to be a frequent guest on talk shows and I remember a few being quite cringe at times.

I seem to remember a certain kind of person (usually your local WELLAXKTUALLY guy) getting butthurt about the way Sagan was being held up (in their view) as the arbiter of science or something, repeating “he’s not a real scientist he’s just a generalist” as a constant refrain.

Fuck it, who cares. If guys like this are good at getting whole generations of people interested in science, more power to them…science could use all the PR it can get in the age of Idiocracy.

Hm, never heard of Paris Syndrome; guess you learn something every day, thanks.

Yeah, I hate gerrymandering but the notion that the Democrats should unilaterally disarm is very stupid.

(or at least folks cosplaying as minorities)

I would not be surprised if some number of online “leftists” are just cosplaying their entire persona, and some of them are paid actors.

I mean, if you go into some corners like BoingBoing’s BBS before it was shut down, you might get the impression that the only leftists worthy of being platformed and heard from were ticking multiple Oppression Olympics checkboxes. Anyone that differed with this set on even minor points were to be silenced, possibly banned, and then ridiculed. You know, for things like not “checking their privilege”.

People used to joke about things like Communist “struggle sessions” and how absurdist they sounded. These struggle sessions are only online right now, and I think a lot of it is artifice of trolls/bots/paid actors and/or people blowing themselves up into something more important than they really are - the power of moderation really went to their heads, probably. But if a casual Democratic voter runs across that? Or the normies/low-info? They are going to think that all the crazy stuff Rush and Faux and Bullshit Mountain has been saying about the left is right…

Has anyone in the media ever established if Taco has learned that asylum seeker doesn’t mean that someone came from an insane asylum?

Because things he burbled out in the past indicated he had deep confusion about that…

What a stupid world we live in where things have to align with this failed game show host’s “priorities”.

…which Cletus won’t read either.