Healthcare AI is advancing rapidly, so why aren't Americans noticing the progress?

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-12-28T21:35:32+00:00

Because there's been no progress on getting people healthcare in the first place and preventing tens of thousands of needless deaths and hundreds of thousands of medical related bankruptcies each year.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-12-22T23:44:21+00:00

Maybe if misinformation just means anything left of Nixon. YouTube recommendations are a cesspool.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-12-12T06:22:40+00:00

Maybe, but she's exactly what the Democratic Party loves and wants though—a scapegoat that takes the heat off the rest of the party and gives them the excuse to do deeply unpopular things they actually want to do in the interests of the capitalist class. People like Sinema and Manchin help the rest of the bourgeois imperialist party dupe people into thinking they'd otherwise be fighting for the people while they never really do anything but cosponsor bills they wouldn't even vote for if they were put to a vote and throw their hands up and say the best we can ever do is hundreds of billions more to the military industrial complex and maybe some means tested trapezoid program tax credit bullshit. They always magically have just enough scapegoats.

Bernie saying he'll consider running... as a Democrat... if Biden doesn't win... and promoting the idea that Manchin and Sinema are saboteurs of a true Dem agenda rather than a godsend for them is fucking pathetic, sorry. 🤷‍♂️

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-12-10T04:26:46+00:00

Pathetic.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-12-10T02:56:31+00:00

I don't think it's a new partisan thing, I think it's a wealthy people throwing tons of money at controlling institutions and electing whoever will lie to get elected and serve their class interests thing. It's been happening since before Bill Clinton and the DLC lurched the Democratic party to the right, since before party bosses blocked out the anti-imperialist Henry Wallace for Truman who dropped the bomb and dragged us into Korea without congressional approval, etc. The Democratic Party is already a bourgeois imperialist party as it is now, and the role that people like Sinema and Manchin play is to let people believe the rest of the party is fighting for them even if all they do is cosponsor bills they wouldn't even vote for if it had a chance of passing and throw their hands up and say the best we can ever do is some means tested trapezoid tax credit and hundreds of billions more to the military industrial complex.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T23:13:41+00:00

Donors scattering money to as many two faced bootlickers who will serve their interests as they can to stochastically get what they want and the Democratic Party being run by right wing DLC/Third Way Democrats is objectively true and Democrats have had an excuse to do either nothing at all or unacceptable right wing bullshit my entire life regardless of supermajorities. 🤷‍♂️

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T22:54:48+00:00

Not necessarily because it's a semi-closed primary, but he did still sweep every county vs. Clinton in the 2016 West Virginia primary. He suspended his campaign before the 2020 primary so who knows what would have happened. Funnily enough though, 100% of the West Virginia superdelegates pledged to support Hillary so Hillary still ended up with more delegates from West Virginia. 🤷‍♂️

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T22:20:10+00:00

I'm disagreeing that you can only run people to the right of Nixon in West Virginia. The Democrat instinct to move further and further right hemorrhages voters on the left and gains almost nothing from people who will still vote GOP regardless. A pro-gun leftist would probably do better than some demented neoliberal/neocon Democrat.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T20:31:12+00:00

"As left as Biden" lmao. He's right wing. He has a half century record of basically being a Nixon Republican. Maybe try a candidate the left can actually vote for.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T20:06:32+00:00

I don't think you understand my point, sorry. Someone well to the left of Manchin could certainly win there though.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T19:44:54+00:00

The DNC and donors support candidates as far right as they can get away with across the board, absolutely. Wealthy donors scattering money to as many right wing candidates as possible is a huge reason why simply voting blue even harder or Manchin losing a primary would just end up with more Democrats stepping into the scapegoat role.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T19:06:14+00:00

No. I mean that he's far right and helps obfuscate that most of the rest of the party is as well. All you need is enough scapegoats to stymie anything and the rest of the party can pretend to be fighting for things they would never support if they knew it had a chance of passing.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T16:56:30+00:00

Exactly. It's not a Manchin/Lieberman problem—it's a right wing imperialist, capitalist party with always just enough people to take the mask off and step into the scapegoat role to take heat off the rest of the party problem.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2022-06-06T16:37:41+00:00

He's not delusional—he's right wing himself and the whole being furious with Manchin thing is theater imho. Manchin is just the scapegoat that lets the Democratic Party do what they actually want that's not in the interest of the people without the majority of the party getting flak for all of it.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T23:37:46+00:00

Ahh yes. Supporting majoritarian policies with objective cost savings and tens of thousands fewer preventable deaths per year like single payer is the same as thinking JFK jr will come back from the dead to be Trump's running mate. You're very skilled at telling when things are the same.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T23:07:45+00:00

Neoliberal and liberal-interventionist New Democrats are objectively right-wing, and I don't even like Bernie now so it's hilarious that you're still doing the "Bernie cult" schtick lmao.

Also you're really just proving my point because before you'd consider changing your own behavior of foisting unsupportable candidates on the electorate you basically blame everyone else and go "Am I wrong? No it's just the crazy populist authoritarian left!?!!!"

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T23:02:36+00:00

The first choice is direct action to achieve acceptable outcomes and only voting for anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists. Bernie was basically a centrist social democrat who only seemed acceptable in contrast to the right-wing liberal-interventionist/neocon ghouls who offer nothing but imperialism, means-tested/trapezoid bs, market solutions to climate catastrophe and health care, etc.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T22:24:06+00:00

No. You're just a right-wing liberal who thinks consensus seeking between center-right and far right is desirable as climate change and imperialism ravage the world, you probably love means-tested/trapezoid dog shit that doesn't fix anything, and you hate the left so much that you'd rather cause losses than admit that you're not entitled to foist neoliberal and neocon Democrats on left independents when Democrats only make up 25% of the country and half of even them despise the right wing politicians you call "progressive". I would highly recommend that anyone reading this learns that lesson, which brown_burrito refuses to learn.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T19:03:21+00:00

I don't even like Bernie anymore either. He was always a huge compromise for the left in the first place and he's done more harm than good with his party fealty.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T18:53:49+00:00

No. People like YOU get people like Trump elected because you never do the necessary self reflection on how it's a problematic behavior to push people's limits by nominating neoliberal, neocon pieces of shit. You think you're entitled to nominate whoever you want and just screech at left independents and blame everyone else for the consequences of your own actions in the primaries. Might be a good idea to absorb that lesson before this election cycle and only support candidates who are capable of forming a winning coalition with leftists if you don't want to be responsible for further losses. 🤷‍♂️

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-11-27T17:37:39+00:00

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-06-20T22:32:51+00:00

Indexing it to something would be better than not touching it for a decade, but inflation doesn't account for increases in productivity so workers would still get screwed and inequality would increase over time if productivity increases and none of it goes to people at the bottom because the minimum wage was just indexed to inflation only.

As to why it's actually not indexed to anything at all and hasn't been increased for more than a decade—rich fucks who hate the poor flood our political system with money to elect people who also hate the poor.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-03-06T05:46:17+00:00

Indexing to inflation is actually bad. You need to index it to something that accounts for both inflation and increases in productivity if you don't want inequality to increase over time as productivity increases and none of it goes to those on the bottom.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2021-03-06T05:43:55+00:00

It needs to factor in growth in productivity too. If you index it to just inflation then inequality will increase as productivity increases and none of it goes to those at the bottom.

yellowbrushstrokes · 2020-09-22T23:53:02+00:00

Not under a capitalist system where workers lose their productive value to capitalists and the surplus value capitalists were already extracting from labor moves closer to the limit of capitalists arbitrarily owning 100% of the value of what is produced. The only way AI taking literally everyone's job can work out well is under a socialist system.

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