That’s why Chinas manufacturing is being targeted too. Otherwise they will inevitably develop the process for bleeding edge in house chip fabrication. Technology is only a matter of time. The US is trying to stall any way they can.

Yeah the “told you so” stuff falls on deaf ears. Trump is an internet troll. His supporters have come to embody that. They are content rolling in their own shit. Anyone is welcome to join.

There’s no reasoning or out trolling trolls. No going low or going high. You’re supposed to ignore trolls. Ultimately they are the lone fool rolling in their own shit. The time to do this was in the 2016 campaign. Should have ignored him and elected an establishment Republican. Donald would be shilling steaks or whatever right now.

People aren’t as principled as they like to think they are.

You okay?

And here I thought lemmy would be better than reddit.

Meh… Less than 3 million vote swing and everyone is clamoring to explain how this is the most successful precise strategic political victory in history for Democrats. Instead everyone has their own opinion about why it’s the greatest meandering boondoggle ever.

I think the gist of the article is correct. And it could be written a lot shorter. Basically Democrats have ignored men. It’s been about 10 years and they still don’t get it. Men are people too. We vote.

Yeah we suck. We’re shitlord ra[p|c]ists. So forget about men, right? We’re persona non grata. Pretty much the Democrat strategy of this generation. Both parties have siloed into their own base. Unfortunately for Democrats they don’t have the disaffected male vote which is costing them greatly.

This wasn’t so much a political loss for the Democrats. It was a cultural one. Politically the people want liberal policy. As evidenced by the fact that without the lens of partisanship, people tend to prefer what liberals offer. e.g. Obamacare without the stink of “Obamacare” is just healthcare that even republicans support and rely on.

Republicans are winning the culture war which is translating to sweeping political victories. As much as the claim to be taking devastating hits in the face of some made up Democrat goliath of oppression. Reality has proven to be the opposite. Democrats are not in tune with the people. Having entertainment and the music industry has only gotten them 1 for 3 in as many elections.

The article is wrong about Democrats having mainstream media on their side. MSM supports Trump. It was clear in 2016 for those of us keeping score. Trump was the medias favorite to win back then too. They loved the ratings. Now? I think some of them have simply gone mask off. “Sanewashing” as people are calling it. The media won’t cover things as they are. They stretch the overton window to normalize the far right while the left gets no such reciprocation.

The article is also wrong about gamers being historically progressive. This is a fictional archetype of innocent nice-guy nerds. This is basically an entirely made up Hollywood movie trope. Gamers have always been reactionary. The difference is that gamers we’re not political.

And I think “gamer” should be expanded to internet culture. The historically predominantly male online nerd cultures but we’ll keep calling them “gamers” here.

Republicans identified this back in 2016. Democrats are still clueless about it in 2025. Just a bunch of edgelord gamer kids who don’t vote anyways. Those kids are now adults. In fact many of those gamers were adults back then too. Yeah they’re pathetic old man-children playing video games all day but they vote none the less. At least they can be persuaded to which is what Republicans have been doing. So by now Democrats have lost generations of voting age men. They will continue to fight this ever steeper uphill battle.

Nobody on the left has an answer for how to actually reach these voters. It’s made even more difficult when people won’t even acknowledge the fact that these men we’re not ever progressive to begin with. Gamers have always been racist and sexist. The difference that people can’t attune to is that they were not political so they assume these nerds must be progressive by default. Because shouting n-bombs is fine when you follow up with “it’s just a joke bro”. To be frank people seem to have fallen for one of the oldest tricks when someone says “I’m no racist but … It’s just the facts bro. You can’t argue with facts.” That’s a classic gamer-isms / internet-isms.

Gamers did not pivot into reactionary. They were activated politically. It’s an old meme that you would not be anyone’s “personal army”. In other words you’d remain apolitical. Not to be mistaken for not having political opinions but that you wouldn’t be actively engaged in politics. Republicans blew up floodgates holding that back. Another meme was to “hide your power level”. In other words don’t reveal you’re far right opinions. Another thing that was done away with. But really it was a symbolic gesture since nobody really hid their bigotry online. Especially not gamers.

Democrats should have prioritized trying strategize this problem. They’ve had 10 years of ignoring it. They’ve dug their own grave at this point. If they still don’t know these basic things about internet culture then they’re doomed to keep losing in the foreseeable future.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sopfeu-plane-grounded-1.7427777

Opsec is more important than ever. Gangs-talking is real.

Videos anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes at an anxiety inducing attention disorder riddled pace. Yet all the information can usually be boiled down to a 5 to 10 minute read. It makes no sense. But actually it does because these “infuencers” are modern day infomercial salesmen. The point is to keep you watching so eventually you’ll be persuaded to purchase product. Unfortunately I think probably anyone under maybe 25-30 has no clue wtf an infomercial is so the analogy is lost on those who could use it the most.

There’s a whole thing in sports psychology about what happens when you give kids millions of dollars. Not only that but they are the top in the world at what they do. They were raised to believe they are a special breed of human. It’s not just the top pros who get multi-million dollar contracts. It can happen to the kids who don’t even make it pro too. It mindfucks a person.

I’ve been saying for a long time this kind of thing happens in tech too. I grew up with a lot of guys who’ve made various levels of success in tech from average guy to multi-millionaires. It happens. They really do live in another reality. I don’t think it’s much different between the pro-sports bubble and the tech bubble. They live and breath tech. It’s their whole life. Replace tech with sport. Not much different.

One notable difference is that sports actually recognizes this phenomenon. It’s a known studied field of psychology. They make an effort to engage athletes in the community and stuff. Things that keep individuals grounded in reality.

I don’t think such things exists for tech. If anything they believe whatever latest antics they’re up to is what helps the community and helps themselves keep in touch with reality. Because what the world needs is one more world changing app, another bright idea for a startup that is totally making the world a better place and absolutely not strip mining human sanity for profit.

This happened in the earlier years of Android. Developers were FOSS until people helped them get the app to a polished state. Then close it and charge money. Make a big push to promote the paid app.

Is there any politician that actually stands up to tech? It’s like a cheat code that not even Trump is immune to. Nobody wants to be politician who says no to those nerds who use “innovation” as a weapon. Except most of the tech industry is rather useless but everyone is too afraid to be accused of being tech illiterate. We’re not losing anything by saying no to the 10000th buzzword salad tech company making yet another useless widget.

It’s culture war to distract us from the class war.

I’m pretty sure it’s mutual. Republicans are happy they finally entered the 21st century. They don’t have to know anything. Now the magical modern machines are working for them.

I’m 99% certain Musk told Trump that he will use twitter algos to nudge targeted segments of the population to find those “11000 votes” he needs. Probably Zuck and Thiel did the same with Meta platforms and reddit respectively. Hence the final weeks of the campaign the republicans seems to stop caring at all. Just blow job a microphone it doesn’t matter. The tech bros had fixed the election already.

Just like 3D film and television. The VR stuff surfaces periodically with another iteration of the tech.

It’s ultimately about ad money. They haven’t cared it’s humans or bots either. They keep paying out either way. This predates long before the LLM era. It’s bizarre.

It’s pretty much a case of the POSIWID. The system is meant to be genuine human engagement. What the system does is artificial at every step. Turns out its purpose is to fabricate things for bots to engage with. And this is all propped up by people who for some reason pay to keep the system running.