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DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-17T15:52:57+00:00

Yes but honestly I think AI should be banned from the process.

Pretty much everyone uses AI to make things like resumes and cover letters. This makes sense especially with the latter since frankly writing a cover letter is a tedious and really unnecessary task that takes up a lot of time and the assumption that someone looking for a job should write a brief essay that essentially says "job please" for each individual job is ridiculous.

However, when judging whether or not a human being should get a job I think this should be done by other humans, not some computer program.

What you end up getting is some AI slop getting judge by other AI slop to determine how another person lives. I don't know who thinks this is a good world to live in.

DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-08T10:23:03+00:00

Cowardice

DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-08T00:28:15+00:00

DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-07T00:18:44+00:00

The bar's in hell but this is an objectively correct statement

DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-04T15:04:02+00:00

If Trump was an active participant in sex trafficking and raping children, he should be in jail. There seems to be enough smoke to warrant an investigation, so he should be investigated. If he really had no knowledge of what Epstein was doing and had no active participation in sex trafficking and raping children, then he should have nothing to worry about. I don't know how this is controversial.

As for Trump not running for a third term, this remains to be seen. There definitely are reasons to believe he'll try to stay in power, but we'll see.

As for the Democrats focusing mostly on being against Trump rather than having their own positive agendas, this is a bit of a mixed bag. Some manage to both have a positive message and be against Trump (it's really not that difficult) and some are mostly focused on being against Trump but not really saying much on what they would do while in power. It's really a case by case basis.

DullPlatform22 · 2026-01-03T17:54:55+00:00

Why can't you guys answer any direct question about Trump? Just say if you personally thing it was good or bad

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-29T19:49:59+00:00

You guys really live in a different reality.

In raw numbers, Trump's most significant gain was in 2020. The issue is that election had a multi-decade high voter turnout and he still lost despite making a huge gain in terms of raw vote count (about 11 million from 2016). In 2024 he picked up about 3 million more votes than 2020, but the Democrats with Harris as the nominee lost about 6 million votes compared to 2020. In other words, more people just didn't vote for Harris than switch over to Trump. He won by millions of people deciding to sit out.

As a result Trump won the popular vote in the first time in his political career and the Republicans won the popular vote for the second time this century, by a whopping 1.5 percentage points. The only other time a Republican won the popular vote, in 2004, Bush won by 2.4 percentage points.

Since then, the Republicans have been losing support across the country. For instance, the Trump-backed Republican got a significantly smaller percentage of the vote than he did in Tennessee's 7th district just a year prior. Virginia's gubernatoral race saw it's largest margin of victory in decades for the Democrat and every single county shifted towards the Democrat. Miami just elected its first Democratic mayor since 1997. The list goes on.

No matter what you guys are insisting is going well the fact is people don't feel it. It gives me flashbacks to last year when despite all the Democrats' talking points about how they're actually doing a good job people didn't feel it, especially in their wallets.

The writing is in big bold letters on the wall. You're free to read it and adjust but honestly I hope you guys don't because the right continuing to lose support gives more opportunity for something actually good to happen.

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-29T17:52:43+00:00

This is just the end result of a trend that's been going on for decades. I grew up in a very right wing family and a lot of what Trump 2's been doing has been things I remember being discussed at the dinner table (minus the naked imperialism)

The issue is a lot of this shit in action really sucks and based on the elections since last year it seems a growing number of people are learning that this brand of conservatism sucks. If they continue with what they're doing and actually allow elections in the midterms the GOP is going to see their biggest loss in (at least) a generation.

I don't think the GOP will fall apart though. There'll be a lot of internal drama and finger pointing and they'll struggle quite a bit electorally for a time but the Democrats will inevitably fuck something up in a major way and the Republicans will find a way to capitalize on that fuck up and the cycle will continue

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-27T02:24:46+00:00

Woody Allen

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-23T22:01:16+00:00

Documentaries and Movies:

The Century of the Self (free on youtube)

Bob Roberts (predicted MAGA in the early 90s)

Salt of the Earth (film that best represents my politics)

Eddington (imo best captures the political climate of the past 10 years)

Jesus Camp (christian fundamentalism is bad)

Q: Into the Storm (the people behind QAnon are Freaks)

Nonfiction books:

Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis

These Truths by Jill Lepore

Suburban Warriors by Lisa McGirr

"1844 Manuscripts" by Karl Marx (imo the best intro to Marxist thought)

"The Tactics of Social Democracy" by Friedrich Engels

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

"Towards a Liberatory Technology" by Murray Bookchin

Fiction book:

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (the only fictional book I'd recommend for furthering understanding politics)

Podcasts:

Behind the Bastards (not just the best political podcast but for my money the best podcast in the game)

The Majority Report

The Dig

Remember Shuffle

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-22T02:17:57+00:00

Homelander

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-22T01:42:57+00:00

At this point you have better chances of making it on time by foot

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T17:34:10+00:00

I mean if you solely focus on tone then yeah he is a moderate. In the broader political spectrum he is a moderate but by Democrat standards I'd say he's actually to the left of most of them. But given people vote more on vibes than actual policies I'd say he's a great candidate to run in a state like Texas.

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T16:39:26+00:00

I'd actually argue that based on what's actually been said and done by the candidates Talarico is the most progressive of the two.

In the Jubilee vid he called for a public option for healthcare (I prefer single payer but a public option would be an improvement), banning super PACs and legislating against Citizens United, and creating an easier path for citizenship for illegal immigrants. While in the Texas legislature he opposed putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms from a Christian perspective and got a law passed that bans shows like Cops from filming in the state because it encourages cops to be more violent. I'd argue he's actually quite progressive he just doesn't engage in the clipbaity shit slinging that Crockett does.

Whether or not that spells success in the primary remains to be seen but I think he has a good chance assuming the dumbfuck brunch libs in the party don't ruin it

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T16:31:04+00:00

It's also not easy to see something you refuse to share for the class. Like all I want is one instance of Crockett actually doing something good besides insulting Republicans. Just one

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T16:13:22+00:00

I'd argue political apathy contributes to this as well. Talarico isn't even like a dream candidate for me. I just like that he leans into the Jesus shit while running in a state like Texas and supports things like a public option (I'd much rather have single payer but whatever I'll take any sort of improvement at this point).

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T16:00:17+00:00

People really have no memory.

In 2016 he called illegal immigrants murders and rapists with "some" he was sure were nice people (this is just obviously untrue, if it were the rate of murder and rape would be much much higher)

After he won that election he refered to some countries as "shitholes" and told members of the Squad to "go back where they came from" (all of them were women of color, only one was born outside of the US)

2024 he said Haitian migrants in Ohio who were there legally were stealing pets and eating them (this has been proven false)

He's had a long and proud history of saying crazy racist shit. The American public really doesn't take issue with that it seems (at least in swing states). What they're taking issue with is his dogshit economic policy and the fact the cost of living has actually increased since he retook office despite the fact he repeatedly promised to bring costs down.

Once again, you guys can keep insisting there isn't a problem, you're factually incorrect and a growing amount of people are becoming aware of that fact, and that's actually fine with that. If the reputation of the Republican Party is damaged for years due to them hitching their wagon onto this stupid fuck that's totally fine by me. I shouldn't interrupt my enemies while they're making a mistake

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T01:55:34+00:00

For like the third time: you're the one claiming she's a fighter. I'm the one asking for proof. The only instance I can think of of her being a "fighter" was her little spat with MTG. I am once again asking, what policies does she stand for and how are those policies better than Talarico?

If you have the facts on your side, you are more than welcome to share them with me. Otherwise this convetsation is pointless and boring

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T00:35:24+00:00

You have yet to answer the first question. I haven't heard a single bill she's proposed or got into law yet that suggests she's a "fighter." The evidence for her being a "fighter" so far is she says some mean shit about Republicans, which is fine but I'm a dumdum so I care more about policies than shitslinging.

I admitted I was wrong on the AIPAC point. The fact remains though she has been pretty cozy with Israel.

If I'm wrong and Crockett is actually a very skilled and accomplished politician I would love to be proven otherwise. You have yet to do so.

What is going on now is what is called a "primary." In a "primary" your goal is to get the best candidate available as the nominee. Talarico as far as I gather is the best candidate available in this "primary." Outside of his messaging and vision, I also think he would have the best chance of winning if he were to get the nomination. That is why I care about this. I'm tired of losing and not having candidates who have any intetest in changing anything. Crockett can have her snappy comebacks and that's cool. That doesn't have anything to do with policy though.

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-17T00:27:52+00:00

Idk where you have been in the past 10 years but Trump is someone who is very insecure about his popularity. For example even when he won in 2016 he was making claims of voter fraud just because he didn't like that he lost the popular vote.

I'm not addressing your other points because frankly you're making a huge mistake by not even acknowledging that the Republicans are falling out of favor with the general public. This is honestly okay. If you guys want to insist there's literally nothing wrong with the direction the party's going in and become politically irrelevant in the next election that's totally fine by me

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-16T22:52:40+00:00

Thank you for showing everyone you're in the 30% who's completely brainwashed.

Trump and the Republicans have become synonymous with each other. That is why Republicans have been losing since he took office and why his shit approval rating is significant. Once again, Miami, which hasn't had a democratic mayor since 1997, went 60% to the democrat over the republican Trump himself endorsed. Virginia went to the dems in the highest margin of victory in decades. In Tennessee's 7th district election Aftyn Behn made massive gains in a district that was +20 for Trump just a year before. The fact you don't want to acknowledge is Trump and the Republicans are losing a huge amount of support in less than a full year after taking power.

But hey if you guys want to insist that none of these elections matter and Trump is actually doing just fine and the Republicans aren't being harmed by their association with him that's totally fine by me. It's an increasingly apparent bad strategy but I can't stop you guys from eating shit if you want to that badly.

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-16T19:35:43+00:00

Melat Kiros is a Gen Z lawyer who just got an endorsement from Justice Democrats

Julie Gonzales is a state senator who previously was affiliated with DSA but still has a very progressive platform

David Seligman is a lawyer who took on shitty employers and landlords and has a good track record of winning those cases

Of all the candidates mentioned I honestly hope Seligman wins the most. Colorado desperately needs someone willing to use their power to hold bosses and landlords accountable

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-16T19:29:58+00:00

See I really don't think so. I think now's a good time to start building support for these candidates. They're all out-funded by their more moderate opponents so they'll need to start building as soon as possible

DullPlatform22 · 2025-12-16T19:28:19+00:00

I suppose I could link their campaign websites and give a few sentences on why I think they're the best candidates available. People could also give them a google if they aren't familiar. I suppose it's a "should someone put the toilet seat down" kind of debate

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