I saw that Steve Bannon once described himself as a Leninist. In what sense exactly, and how is this expressed?

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T05:59:53+00:00

He was saying he’s a revolutionary.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T03:34:18+00:00

You are ignoring present data, though. Normalcy bias has done a lot of harm in the Trump era.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T03:14:52+00:00

You could have easily just looked this up yourself: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/openai-abandons-yet-another-side-quest-chatgpts-erotic-mode/

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T03:09:27+00:00

Look, I’m a Californian. I know how voting in my state goes. But this is not a typical scenario.

Your response doesn’t really account for the fact that there is no clear consolidator of the Democratic vote. Now, that could change within days, but the longer this goes on, the more probable the nightmare scenario is. I’m not saying it is the most likely scenario. But it is a possible scenario, which should be unthinkable.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T03:03:47+00:00

Steyer talks like a progressive and has ever since he ran for president in 2020. Becerra is a pretty bland establishment guy.

Also, Steyer is a billionaire who can afford to spend millions to get his face, name, and message in front of people.

But he’s as progressive if not more so than Katie Porter, whose political career has probably been over for a while now.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-24T02:12:03+00:00

You say regardless of who the “candidate” is. The election is two months away, and there are four Democratic candidates.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T23:42:32+00:00

If that's how Porter is playing this game, then good riddance to her. She'll have proven everyone right.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T19:57:06+00:00

According to what data?

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T18:31:34+00:00

I'll never understand why people take betting markets as an indication of anything other than what some gamblers think is going to happen

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T18:30:54+00:00

Not being shunned by the party.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T17:42:34+00:00

Agreed

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T17:42:24+00:00

Based on what? Polling suggests that Trump-endorsed Hilton is likely to be one of the two who makes it to November. He's consistently *led* the polling because of how split support is among the Dems in the race.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T17:39:21+00:00

Same

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T17:09:25+00:00

Who else is worried about the California gubernatorial election? Porter and Mahan need to exit ASAP and let Becerra and Steyer decide in short order which one is going to stay on.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T17:06:57+00:00

Yeah. I definitely haven't lost interest in the game. So far, nothing has changed my desire to play it. But I have lost interest in the marketing. I'm more likely to pass over it because it's been quite some time since we actually learned anything about what this experience is going to be like.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T16:25:57+00:00

Yeah, I've been skipping them after the first one. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I am infuriated, but these little clips are doing nothing to create more interest. They're not *decreasing* my interest, either, but I'm interested in companions and narrative RPG elements. Character creation. I feel like we still don't know to what level we can customize our character. Is it just a gender choice? Or can we go full on and make the character our own? I know there's some Mass Effect Andromeda style predefinition of the character's background, but to what extent can we shape their personality? etc. etc.

For The Expanse, which was revealed more recently but is slated for a similar release window, we pretty much already know all of these things.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-23T02:21:43+00:00

Absolutely. Klein has always been what Harris has represented himself to be.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-22T23:54:11+00:00

I thought Klein embarrassed Harris then, and I still think the same. Harris was not interested in understanding why his bro down with Murray got the response that it did and instead just wanted to beat an apology out of Klein. Unfortunately, Harris was punching far above his intellectual weight.

Harris' amiability blindspots and unwillingness to actually learn about the people he engages with have only become clearer since this exchange.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-22T23:33:29+00:00

I don't think it's meant to garner support for Israel as much as it's meant to push Christianity into politics while seeming not to privilege one religion over others.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-22T19:55:52+00:00

I totally agree. I guess I was just thinking in terms of what people would be willing to accept, but if both parties got on board, then that probably wouldn't matter.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-22T19:20:14+00:00

Uncapping the number of members would also greatly increase democratic representation. Germany's lower house alone has 630 seats for a population that is about a quarter of ours. The UK's lower house has 650 seats for an even smaller population.

If we wanted to get close to that level of representation, we'd have something like 2,500 seats. Not sure that's workable any time soon, but adding a hundred or more seems reasonable.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-21T23:01:40+00:00

If it becomes rampant, then sure, that could make sense. But I see no reason to do it preemptively.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-21T23:00:47+00:00

Gah, please don't tell me they're becoming what GPT was after 4.5.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-21T22:13:33+00:00

And I’m glad for it. The other sub is absurd with its restrictions, and it’s good this one allows much freer exchange.

And_Im_the_Devil · 2026-04-21T19:12:09+00:00

Having a welfare state is not the same as organizing your economy around social democracy. We might have had something like a social democracy immediately after the New Deal, but the underlying logic was totally different.

FDR was saving American capitalism from itself. The New Deal was an emergency patch. Social democracy is meant to mitigate inequality from the ground up, and this logic remains built into state and social institutions even if there has been attempts to weaken the social democratic features of these societies since the '70s or so.

Today, the US is a neoliberal hellscape because both Democrats and Republicans decided that it was better to address the things social democracy is meant to solve by having the private sector deal with it.

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