Yes you are. Instead of engaging with the content of my argument, you’re attempting to discredit it by implying I’m parroting a biased media outlet - suggesting my view is invalid not because of its reasoning, but because of its supposed origin or alignment. It’s a bad faith logical fallacy meant to undermine credibility without addressing the substance.

Classic ad hominem. Easier to mock the messenger than deal with the message, I guess.

Just because it’s a red state doesn’t mean everyone there supports Trump. AOC and Bernie definitely have passionate followings, and they can fill venues - but that kind of enthusiasm doesn’t always translate into broad, general-election support. If you polled random voters - especially outside of activist circles - both are often seen as being on the political fringe. I actually think Bernie might have had a real shot if he wasn’t 300 years old and the democrats didn’t conspire against him, but with AOC, I think her public image is already too polarizing to win over the kinds of voters Democrats would need to flip. If anything, I’d imagine the MAGA crowd would love for her to be the nominee because they know how easy it would be to rally their base against her.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe in the recent espionage case, the person didn’t originally take the position with the intent to spy. Rather, they were contacted by the CCP after they were already in that role and were blackmailed into spying - using their family in China as leverage.

I’d be willing to bet anything that if she’s the nominee, we’re getting President Vance - or a third Trump term. It would be the political equivalent of not even wanting to win. To win elections, you need a nominee who can appeal to at least some of the people who voted for Trump. AOC is the exact opposite of that. This wouldn’t be shooting oneself in the foot - but to head.

I’m still waiting for the day my “buffer account” is large enough that I don’t need to stress about finances. Now, it would last me about 2.5 years and that’s apparently still not enough.

Money sitting in accounts making interest does not contribute to GDP.

What I have sitting in my bank account that I’m getting interest payments for is not money but stocks. I’ve spent that money to buy those stocks. That money has been back in the circulation this whole time.

This does not even begin to answer my question.

What does “abolish landlords” look like in practise? What is that slogan suggesting exactly?

The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.

Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.

I find it much easier to imagine an AI VC than an AI plumber.

AI and LLM are not synonymous terms.

I find a pickup to be quite practical in my line of work. Mine is regularly packed to the brim and I’m from Europe as well.

Every smart feature a vehicle *doesn’t *have is a selling point for me. I want my car to be dumb as a boot.

America used to have the things as well but then there was a civil war and it got banned.

Shame them all you want - it’s not going to change how they vote. If anything, it just reinforces their choice. People might not even fully agree with the party they end up supporting, but when they feel dismissed, mocked, or ignored - especially over things like cultural values or identity - they vote out of spite. It’s not rational, but it’s real.

That’s part of what got Trump elected as well. When political and cultural movements go so far in trying to please a niche minority that they alienate the broader majority, eventually that majority pushes back.

I literally don’t even understand what you’re trying to accuse me of.

The term is no longer used as such. Antisemite means a person who hates Jews, and many of the “pro-Palestine” people are such - including a huge number of Palestinians and Muslims in general. It’s not a propaganda narrative - it’s a fact. The destruction of Israel and Jews is Hamas’s stated goal.

The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them, until the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say: O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him—except the gharqad tree, for it is one of the trees of the Jews.

Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Hadith 6985

by falsely claiming they are antisemitic.

A significant number of them are true antisemites. Not all ofcourse, probably not even the majority but there’s plenty of them.

Given the current level of “intelligence” in AI models, I’m pretty tempted to say that if a job can be done by AI without any significant drop in quality, then it probably wasn’t a great job to begin with - and having a machine do it is likely the better path in the long run.