A lot of what happens as part of U.S. policy is a form of kabuki theater or pantomime as opposed to an attempt to solve problems.

Take ICE as an example. If you really wanted to stop illegal immigration, just fine employers $1M per offense when they hire undocumented folks. It would stop overnight.

ICE raids exist to satisfy the cruelty of the GOP base not as an attempt to curb illegal immigration. Trump doesn’t even deport as many as Biden or Obama, he just creates spectacles of cruelty.

@Simplicator @nonehitwonder

no!

the dems represent the interests of whoever shows the fuck up

who shows the fuck up?

spineless centrists

so that's who they represent

who doesn't show up?

the left

so left interests aren't represented

*this is just as much the cause of our problems as MAGA*

you have cause and effect backwards

we need to vote, to show the fuck up in #Primaries2026, or we need to shut up as we drift even further right. because it's our fault for not voting!

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.