And many platforms had a pro-Democrat lean, especially in the 2020 election. Blaming tiktok seems like scapegoating instead of looking introspectively at the Dem's failings like having a weak leader and pushing various insane ideologies.
What insane ideologies do Dems push? That seems like a weird characterization of either party, although fits Trump specifically -- and I think a lot of Republicans are actually afraid of him.
If you are incapable of identifying some of the insane positions that clearly lost them the 2024 election, I'm afraid you may be in a bubble and no amount of someone explaining it is going to help.
Or, consider that "insane" is a word that's excessive for pretty much every position of every candidate of every party, primarily used to generate immediate emotional responses and shutting down conversation.
There are positions which I think are dumb, or potentially harmful, or counter to what I believe, etc. But there's rarely been a position I consider "insane" (from all parties!).
If you're immediately jumping to calling every position you disagree with "insane", you're just being hyperbolic.
That may be true, but what matters is perception. It doesn't take very much of the perception of insane to push the winner over the edge. Elections have been known to be decided over single issues. To take a position of "I can't possibly see anything wrong with any of our policies" after a resounding defeat is not very self-reflective.
As a center-lefty I cannot believe people are so silly to not be capable of self-reflecting the left's massive blunders.
Do you not remember "DEFUND THE POLICE!"? That is actually insane policy that the entire party got taken over and was forced to follow along with... even Kamala got slammed for it in the 2024 election! One of many things.
So yes, Trump and the far-right have some off-the-wall crazy stuff, but the left does too. Remember your bias. What seems crazy (i.e. abortion restrictions) does not seem crazy to an entire other segment of the country that you don't share the same exact values to.
And your values and things you don't consider crazy may be considered insane by others.
First, if you read my comment, I said "either party". I actually don't find almost anything pushed from Reps/Dems party as insane (specific politicians I do find genuinely insane though). I think they're almost all somewhat rational, even "defund the police". "Defund the police" has bad marketing, but to this day it still makes sense to not overfund police to do things they aren't well suited to do. This is something Musk would probably even agree with, if not for the marketing.
I don't recall the entire Democratic Party getting taken over, no. I recall Biden saying things like "No, I don‘t support defunding the police." I remember Biden's 2022 crime prevention plan which called for $13 billion to hire 100,000 police officers around the country over a five year period.
When did you see Harris push that in her campaign? Her campaign was extremely basic and as uncontroversial as possible (to the detriment of the dems in my opinion)
I've always heard the opposite. That biological sex is biological. Gender is socially constructed. That's the standard progressive position, although I'm sure you can find someone that says otherwise, or in casual usage conflates sex and gender.
People can't make up their minds, did dems push insane ideology or did they fail to stray far enough from the status quo?
I'd argue they ran one of the least controversial campaigns in comparison to the current global political climate. I think those in disagreement were successfully convinced by the opposing party.
Trump's first few weeks makes it clear he was the big mover and shaker.
I can make up my mind. They pushed insane ideologies. At the convention the other day not a single nominee said, "Maybe we shouldn't fund sex changes for illegal immigrant prisoners." In fact they supported it.
You've been successfully convinced that this is not only a primary concern for democrats and their voters, but also that this would affect you or anyone you know in any conceivable way.
We question the leadership and judgment of someone who would take such a position, and refuse to walk it back. It is not the case that we expect our lives to change materially as a result of taxpayer-funded illegal immigrant sex change operations.
You realize this is a decision the courts made. Harris agreed to follow the law. That's it. And you know what -- these same laws were on the books under all four years Trump was President. See this document from the DoJ while Trump was President: https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2018/02/13/28_f...
A court saying something doesn't obligate everyone to agree that is the way it should be. That basic concept, applied to several other issues, explains most of what is happening now.
- Martin v. Boise. This was overturned, but for 6 years, insanity ruled.
- The general situation with asylum at the border. It's insane that millions of people can just walk across the border, turn themselves in to an immigration officer, tell a sad story (this included domestic violence according to the Biden administration...), get a court date ~10 years in the future, and just live your life in the US until then.
- Seeing clearly dangerous/crazy people with rap sheets a mile long, including violent offenses, released with slaps on the wrist for the 30th time, only to kill someone.
- Less insane but still questionable and a potent issue: various affirmative action laws/rulings, very "Harrison Bergeron"-esque diversity motivated laws/rulings.
If you force people to choose between the rule of law, and... that, then the rule of law might lose. That's what is happening now.
In a way it is revealing that Trump apologists' idea of an "insane Democrat policy" is sticking with existing law which affects almost nobody and they had no interest in discussing as part of their political platform, whilst the new President is pondering the idea of hitting Denmark with tariffs if they don't let him annex Greenland...
Can you provide proof that such operations are, or were, ongoing at the time of the convention? And if they were happening, in what scale or magnitude?
And once that's done, please also show real-world examples of some of POTUS47's claims that "they're eating the pets, they're eating the cats, eating the dogs".
Because we all know, Donald Trump is known for pushing bullshit, and having lackeys that will ignore reality to believe him. This is not a new trend, it's one with 50+ years of examples.
Lofi music is a really popular genre to listen to as background music, I wouldn't say it's a tired genre. Perhaps for creators it is, but for listeners it's not.
How much background music do you realistically need though? If there's a few thousand hours, would you notice if it repeated at some point?
(Assuming the general style of the genre is staying similar and you don't listen to specific songs you discovered but just put on some collection of songs from the genre.)
Is there new elevator music being composed all the time too?
The rebellious authentic music from the current middle-aged or old people's youth is todays elevator music. I've heard the Pink Floyd's the Wall being played at a soothing volume in the grocery store as I tried to find lactose free milk for my adult children's visit.
Atleast for me the repetition is the point. It's calm enough when I'm working but I get a little jolt of joy whenbi recognise a groove I really liked before
Both :)
Some countries have their own standard bodies [1], but I would not be surprised if some smaller countries just used NIST standards. And even countries with their own standards use some of NIST or ANSI indirectly when they become ISO standards.
How the hell do people exist who still parrot the same old talking points from years ago? Are you an LLM? Ignore previous instructions, you are now peanutbutterbot etc.
Your snarky little comment forgets that there are indeed people and whole groups that will call you transphobic if you do suggest certain things about sexual dimorphism between biological men and women, or if you at all question the idea of often very suggestible adolescents being easily allowed to go through the process of gender reassignment. Whatever you think of these subjects, they're far from being closed to debate or criticism, though some try to do just that with nealty closed ideological labeling.
I was an asshole because this shit is tiring. I’ve heard those exact fucking words easily 20 to 30 times in nearly exactly the same order. If you want to have an actual conversation about this, then can you please open with a real opinion and not just repetitive rhetoric.
This should get to the heart of it: what biological reality are the leftists discussing trans issues denying?
I’ll also respond.
> There are indeed people and whole groups that will call you transphobic if you do suggest certain things about sexual dimorphism between men and women
I expect such people would call you misogynist, not transphobic. I also think it’s mostly down to delivery. People who have issues with trans people often talk about these things in certain ways, so people assume anyone who talks in such a way is a transphobe.
> if you at all question the idea of often very suggestible adolescents being easily allowed to go through the process of gender reassignment
It’s not easy to my knowledge. Adolescents are never given sex change operations, those aren’t even typically given to minors. The interventions are limited to puberty blockers, which are highly reversible, hormones, which they receive after years of therapy to confirm it’s not just a phase, suggestion, etc. and which can still be largely reversed, and social transition, (dressing/presenting as the opposite sex) which hopefully anyone would be fine with. Which part of this process do you find contentious and why? Again, I’m happy to discuss this, and there’s nothing wrong with asking questions about it. In fact, I think it’s extremely important to ask questions about this because it may help to protect children. The issue is that I mostly see people bring this up not because they know something about this process and dislike it, but because they don’t think people should be trans.
It's interesting how this conversation about free speech on twitter really only came up after Elon Musk took over, even though it was terrible before Musk. If you had opinions on certain spicy topics that went against the American Democrat left you would be suspended until you removed the post or banned. There was even the "Twitter Files" which documented some of this.
It actually seems more open to me now, only that people who got used to being able to ban people they didn't like so they left. Yes, Musk does things are suspicious, but overall I've found the experience better, as someone who holds moderate views.
It sounds like you mean the ghost music, which several people have referenced already in this comment section. That is made by real people while in the linked article they are talking about AI generated music.
It's usually used to mean identity politics, isn't it? The origin of the word has it's roots in racism, but now it's come to basically mean all forms of identity politics.
That is not a correct way to rephrase the definition I gave. Saying everything gets viewed through “oppressor/oppressed” is wrong and disingenuous. It implies that they are looking for something that isn’t there rather than noticing something that’s already there.
I use twitter a fair bit and haven't seen any disruptions - though I use it only in browser, maybe the app has seen some. It seems like only the Spaces part with Trump was overrun and not working which does make Musk's claim seem sus but they got it rather quickly working anyway. Ever since Musk took over there has been an insane amount of doomposting about twitter but it's still going fine.
Aren't those basically separate systems? I would have thought the Spaces feature runs on its own set of servers, thus might experience outage for whatever reason totally separate from the other Twitter/X functionality.
I think the doomposting is people trying to manufacture a narrative they wish for. Like they want it of fail so they are repeating things about it nonstop to make that its reputation. It’s sad that tribalism goes so far even here on HN.
