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Goodguy  3d ago (text post)   Edited 2d ago   9604 thread views

Midterms Megathread

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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These midterms scare me.

  1. The Country feels ungovernable to me now. I don’t think there is a true majority to rule in any direction. We have a right, a left, and some entirely confused middle. In theory you should run like Mitt Romney or some boring dude and crush it but I don’t think voter distributions are linear like that. The country just from Trump being able to win the popular vote to Sayed’s winning elections easily.

  2. I’m honestly scared with Texas going blue. Demographically it seemed like that was a risks in decades. It’s been very important in terms of deregulation and keeping America moving forward in the physical world. Texas can’t be a California version of Texas. Florida I don’t believe can be Texas in US politics. Florida might be the home of the red tribe now but geographically I just don’t think it can be a manufacturing, agricultural, and scientific hub that is Texas. Before recent history Florida sold sunshine and Texas sold Oil.

  3. Palestine has a realistic path of defeating Israel now. Israel has zero friends now. Sayed’s are the new breed US politicians.

  4. There is little chance at stopping third world US. A better Brazil has to be the copium now. Somehow you need to keep out the wrong parts of the Middle East and India from America and close the border to Africa. If America starts getting lower caste Indians instead of Brahmins then it’s over.

  5. I’m somewhat becoming a socialists with AI. It somewhat already feels like only 10% of Americans are productive + a huge medical industrial complex + it feels like a huge amount of America is already on UBI. Maybe AI is just going to turn all of commerce into what happened in agriculture (from 90% of population to 2%)

  6. The only Democratically viable election strategy seems to be to lean into Hispanic voters. You can probably partner with them to keep Somalians out of the country. There vote appears to be what shifted Texas blue.

  7. You might also need to figure out how to play Indian caste politics to get current Indians to agree with limiting unlimited Indian immigrants.

It’s already over. Next Democratic administration equipped with a majority will naturalize millions and open the doors to millions of ‘climate refugees’ from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Refugee numbers are set by the President, he can literally make them five million in a year, ten million even. There is no mandatory cap.

I agree that Brazil is now the best case scenario.

True. Felt like there was actually hope there for a minute.

What's the long term strategy for an individual here? Don't be poor and insulate yourself as best you can from the chaos? Retreat into walled gardens and focus on your own family and friends?

The idea that you can hide in a red state just got shattered to little pieces.

Strategy for what exactly? Surviving a Democratic legislature we had that four years ago too what did you do then? The Republican's are going to win again so you could volunteer.

Strategy would probably be to abandon the cities and decamp to the small towns. Work in trades or work remotely. Prioritize effort on local elections over state and national ones. Start grilling.

Don't be poor and insulate yourself as best you can from the chaos? Retreat into walled gardens and focus on your own family and friends?

You could retreat to the white people reservation of ID/MT/WY, but you're about 15 years late to the rush.

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