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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Trump has always been a good candidate, but sucked at being the president. Trump I was Trump being restrained by the GOP and pissing the electorate off in four years. Trump II managed to convince everyone the restraints were the problem and speedran the process in two years.
Inb4 people explain to me the attack on Iran was instigated by the neocons, not the magahats. Yes, and Trump still fucked it up worse than Dubya ever could.
The highest value lesson the Republicans need to learn from this election is one of the oldest ones in the book, and one that we thought they had learned after GW Bush.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
No worries there. It’s not like we’re not just as bad at diplomacy. Americans negotiate to ‘dictate’ their own views to the other side. We don’t negotiate to understand one another or to exchange ideas. When it comes to Iran, we get most of our knowledge from a handful of dissidents from the country who become paid operatives of the American political class, which fully explains why we’re so ignorant of what goes on over there and why we can’t understand how our military escapades aren’t generating the payoff we keep expecting it to.
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