Sure there is, many countries have successfully thrown off personalist authoritarian regimes and transitioned to being inclusive democracies with a strong rule of law. The problem is that Americans are very far from realizing that they have a problem, the magnitude of their problem, and the time and effort it'll take to fix this problem. It's a generational project that starts with throwing most of the current cabinet in jail, however this view is very far from the mainstream and things will keep getting worse before more people come to the same conclusion.
For real? You still have feudal titles and a monarch. In your land some humans are literally created as more human than others. Your government literally asks the monarch for permission to do democracy. But you'll lecture Americans on throwing off the strong man.
Totes for reals, yes, because I understand the difference between de jure and de facto.
The failure mode you're observing in the US is that one partisan hack can write a memo in the correct linguistic style, submit it to a council with a majority of other partisan hacks, and like magic anything can become legal or illegal, because everything was done in the correct linguistic style. Actual practice does not matter. There are lots of examples of this over the last two years, perhaps the case against the 14th amendment is a good starting point to see how this works.
> There are lots of examples of this over the last two years
And an equal number in your country. Do not lecture Americans on freedom and virtue. Your country has its share of shortcomings, your economy structured to a higher degree to benefit a class of oligarchs. Your politicians are liars and thieves like any other. Wait your turn.
If liberals were not hell bent about letting trannies in thongs read stories to children and letting men play in women's sports, we might have a sensible administration. I hope the woke 2.0 they now keep talking about will pull back some of the people that we have pushed to the right in the last decade.
No, and “all of this” is essentially the entire history of the United States. We’ve built a society on genocide, land theft, slavery and imperialist slaughter across the globe. What we are seeing now is the reflection of our true selves.
I think the answer starts with the US breaking apart into many smaller countries and the natural decolonization happening via demographic trends.
Umm, firstly, it's embarrassing that this is the top-rated comment on Hacker News. Secondly, I'm pretty certain Republicans have way higher marriage rates and higher rates of having children.
There does seem to be an abnormal amount of child predators in the GOP. Could be their overlap with Christian institutions which are also historically known to protect child predators.
My most cynical take: keeping the feel-good image of Anthropic is a temporary ploy to keep fickle SV tech workers building the technology.
When OpenAI started to move obviously towards commercial and governmental ties, a lot of people left. Those people were necessary to build the tech. Many landed at Anthropic, a company that still attracts the most ideologically strict and capable ML researchers.
But at some point of their choosing, the powers that be will just take it.
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[ 0.51 ms ] story [ 29.7 ms ] threadthen he takes all those billions and further funds the alt-right
democracy is pretty much done even if Dems get the Senate
actually he may stomp on the accelerator pedal if the Senate does shift
btw it's not "many" only a very few countries have done that
we're literally one Supreme Court justice away from the country becoming the christian taliban
capitalism doesn't need democracy, MANY countries prove that, they even prefer knowing who to bribe to get exactly what they want
The failure mode you're observing in the US is that one partisan hack can write a memo in the correct linguistic style, submit it to a council with a majority of other partisan hacks, and like magic anything can become legal or illegal, because everything was done in the correct linguistic style. Actual practice does not matter. There are lots of examples of this over the last two years, perhaps the case against the 14th amendment is a good starting point to see how this works.
And an equal number in your country. Do not lecture Americans on freedom and virtue. Your country has its share of shortcomings, your economy structured to a higher degree to benefit a class of oligarchs. Your politicians are liars and thieves like any other. Wait your turn.
> The problem is that Americans are very far from realizing that they have a problem
So I understand and I certainly agree that you're with the majority of Americans thinking everything's basically fine.
There's more...
I think the answer starts with the US breaking apart into many smaller countries and the natural decolonization happening via demographic trends.
What’s up with Republicans attracting all the people who can’t talk to chicks?
There has not been said it attracts only incels so no contradiction. Both claims could hold.
https://goppredator.com/
By that token, don’t ask what party attracts the most convicted criminals…
Studies I found say team blue. But also suggest they are flawed, not national, and racist. Thoughts?
Edit to add: looking at convictions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_polit... a quick grep seems to indicate 56 Democrats, 80 Republicans.
The American dream is alive and kicking.
When OpenAI started to move obviously towards commercial and governmental ties, a lot of people left. Those people were necessary to build the tech. Many landed at Anthropic, a company that still attracts the most ideologically strict and capable ML researchers.
But at some point of their choosing, the powers that be will just take it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/explainer-p...