wfdltd
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@TheStalwart Yes, AI was supposed to change the nature of war. It hasn't.
To pick a simpler example, lots of companies are saying they are using AI to lay off employees, the premise being they are more efficient. Are any of them lowering prices because they are now more efficient?
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This is the schism of the left right here. By having staked the claim early on, that LLMs are a gimmick or a "stochastic parrot" that can't actually know anything, it's unacceptable, from the perspective of many, to actually take seriously the capabilities of the models.
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those of us who recognize Siena College
philip lewis@Phil_Lewis_
I love March Madness because I always learn about a new school. Never heard of Siena University in my life
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@Shadowcoder203 @tobinjstone Nobody said he’s a juggernaut savant lmao they’re just saying that these party conventions aren’t predictive because the people who attend them aren’t representative of the primary electorate, just like what happened in 2020
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@wfdltd @tobinjstone He only received 58% of the primary vote as the sitting governor. He’s performing even worse in the caucuses now than he did in 2020. He will probably still win but let’s not pretend he’s some juggernaut savant
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Hickenlooper lost the convention in 2020 and still easily won his primary against Romanoff. Caucus/Convention attract out of touch activists who don’t even represent primary voters.
Sorry to the DSA activists, but Hick and DeGette will easily cruise to victory in June 🤷♂️
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What’s happening among Colorado Dems w/ @daveweigel: Sen. John Hickenlooper and Rep. Diana DeGette, will face primary challengers who got more support from delegates at local party conventions last week. semafor.com/newsletter/03/…
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@Eyoyism @pasta_nachos the guy who was the mayor of the largest city that's entirely within the district? wow what a good question
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when we say she was carpetbagging, we mean she 1) didn't live in the district, 2) she had just moved to the city, 3) didn't reach out to any local orgs/leftist activists, 4) didn't build community ties, 5) didn't get more than 1 local endorsement
herman milly rock@Eyoyism
the kat abughazaleh carpetbagger people make me feel crazy because she lives in the city, i would feel much more represented by someone who actually lives in chicago vs someone from out in the suburbs even if they’re technically in my district
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@Shadowcoder203 @tobinjstone he won the 2020 senate primary easily without even running any serious campaign lmao I think they like him just fine
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@tobinjstone @DrewSav Maybe Hickenlooper could actually try appealing to democratic primary voters?
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@KHivehater @lizatliz markey is old as fuck, it's so hilarious to see the people who pretend to hate mills for being old think that a bernie endorsement erases the fact that markey is even older than she is
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Y’all can’t even primary 80 year old Markey who is running RIGHT NOW 😂
Jordan Domingue@DomingueJordan
@umichvoter Primary Warren time
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@KennethBaer @jsfreed How do you get to bully the world, kill all of the kids, and still cry victim? Im impressed.
GIF
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"There’s no excuse for putting political tribalism before Jewish safety. Or for overlooking hatred to generate likes online. Or for failing to act against the surge of antisemitism, spread by the Hasan Pikers of the world and normalized by too many on the Dem side." wsj.com/opinion/free-e…
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@Elma_andhinhi @MattZeitlin Their bills would literally raise taxes on the rich, Jesus you people are fucking brained
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@MattZeitlin The “no taxes up to X” slopulism pushed by Katie Porter and Cory Booker is a direct result of corporate Dems failing to even try to actually tax the rich
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Feels like these democratic “no taxes up to X” plans are the chickens coming home to roost for lots of sloppy discourse on taxes paid by billionaires/the 1%/“the rich” etc
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@__quack @shannonrwatts This fucking loser thought he could sneak in being a weird gross islamophobe if he buried it under even worse anti-semitism and it looks like he was mostly right. What an embarrassment.
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See how quickly Zionist has become a racial slur on the left?
Eric Hovagim@EricHovagim
@somenicegu40831 I’m critical of kat Abu ghraib but she was better than the ziodonkey who won
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@EricHovagim @somenicegu40831 “Kat abu ghraib” christ i can not think of a more embarrassing thing to post, you are a fucking child
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@somenicegu40831 I’m critical of kat Abu ghraib but she was better than the ziodonkey who won
Eric Hovagim@EricHovagim
the illinois IL09 race has left the political careers of both kat and bushra dead in the water. bushra should've dropped out and kat should've looked at her own policies page. deeply embarrassing all around
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You also tweeted this 6 days before Zohran beat Andrew Cuomo by 130,000 votes
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17
Color me shocked that the Very Online Candidate with no experience and no real campaign strategy beyond "get likes on the internet" ended up losing a Democratic primary to the incumbent mayor of Evanston, Illinois.
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@Lovenature0922 @ImNotOwned it's less about misogyny and more about the fact that the people dunking on her fucking hate Extremely Online Leftists
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@ImNotOwned It's definitely a little misogyny because she performed pretty well
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Yep. I think dunking on her is very hammer nail punditry
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I kind of think Abughazaleh did very *well* when you consider her very weak actual ties to the district; she really did conjure a viable candidacy out of basically nothing.
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@sunrisemvmt "that is within the margin of error" what the fuck? this person has no clue what she's talking about
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@nancyspecialist @lilyycohenn @ThirdWayTweet is there anything more pathetic than crying about “left punching” when somebody does anything but unconditionally praise you
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@lilyycohenn @ThirdWayTweet Fascinating to press data-driven left-punching when just last week you were throwing statistics to the wind but suggesting that a “big tent” should include supporters of the war with Iran. Make up your mind!
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The avg Dem primary voter is a white, Christian woman age 55+ without a college degree who calls herself "liberal" or "moderate". We overestimate the leftiness of the base at our own peril.
More of @ThirdWayTweet's research in Bloomberg today:
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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@briantashman Warren is a capitalist, Jayapal is inept, CPC and PCCC are both frauds. Casar... must have been high or something, he's usually smarter than this.
They might not be a Cuomo coalition but they're still pretty bad.
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Daniel Biss was endorsed by Elizabeth Warren, Greg Casar, Pramila Jayapal, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, among others
Not exactly the Cuomo coalition!
Josh Kraushaar@JoshKraushaar
Abughazaleh is getting crushed in the Cook and Lake County suburbs. Evidence that Mamdani style leftism only has purchase in deep-blue cities and college towns.
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@Danielsrotaryo1 @NickyFrank30 It’s a loss because he’s Jewish and that makes certain people think he’s a nazi
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Honestly, if they were so fucking obsessed with Gaza, progressives would’ve just gotten behind Biss and and he would have blown everyone else away and they would be sitting on a big win, but instead they had to clown themselves here.
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Let me just say this… If you want real progressives in any seat, pick the progressive with actual receipts of making progress happen. Also make sure that person has some relevance within the community, they’re trying to represent. Not some implant who’s barely been there.
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@lxeagle17 Oh we're going mask off, eh?
You see how far left Kat pushed this race?
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Color me shocked that the Very Online Candidate with no experience and no real campaign strategy beyond "get likes on the internet" ended up losing a Democratic primary to the incumbent mayor of Evanston, Illinois.
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@ClueCultComm @JoshKraushaar All the more reason to elect a real Democrat like Abughazaleh, not another mushy centrist do-nothing.
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Abughazaleh is getting crushed in the Cook and Lake County suburbs.
Evidence that Mamdani style leftism only has purchase in deep-blue cities and college towns.
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@RogerWallaceTX @JoshKraushaar no it actually has more to do with her being a young woman from texas instead of a young woman from chicago
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@JoshKraushaar I'm sure her being a young Palestinian-American woman had nothing to do with her losing the white conservative suburbs.
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@EcuaComrade @maiamindel The Scots-Irish have been in the US since the 1700s, it’s not xenophobia at all
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@wfdltd @maiamindel So it’s xenophobic, not racist? Still a shit argument lol
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the book blames *genetics* for appalachian problems. it says irish people are just too lazy to get off the potato liquor and get a job
Appodlachia@appodlachia
Beshear is correct, and very few people still talk about how much of an utter piece of garbage Hillbilly Elegy is
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