Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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We should probably replace the "national emergency" part of the War Powers Act with a new modernized set of rules, which I propose we name the "Everybody Has Fucking Cell Phones Now Act". Might the dastardly Elbonians hit us with a sneak attack? Sure! Does that mean we had best be prepared to let a President launch acts of war, for months on end, before getting Congressional approval like those dumbass Founding Fathers thought was necessary? No!
Perhaps we were all spooked during that brief window of history in which ICBMs were fast but communications were slow, but at this point incoming ICBMs are just about the only thing that we might want to make an exception for. For anything less, the Commander-in-Chief can spare 10 minutes to mass-message Congress and tally a vote before starting a war, because, as my proposed Act expressly notes: everybody has fucking cell phones now.
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