We're just totally desensitized by now, but, it's still worth thinking about how if the roles were reversed this would be considered a conspiracy against the republic and portrayed as such in the political media.
Me: "X is true" Disingenuous Person: "Oh, interesting, so you believe in Y, despite that contradicting your belief in Z, how very naughty of you." Me: "Go fuck yourself"
The unstoppable force of Trump's obvious and continuing decline verses the press's immovable object of wanting him to win.
What in the world are you talking about? That's like speculating on the frontrunner of Russia's opposition or who'll run against Maduro.
Do not underestimate the most mediocre of mediocre white men politicians who's currently on track to reach terminal velocity failing upwards.
Lex Luthor and Doctor Doom are comforting because them being evil and competent feels like a satisfactory explanation to shit being fucked up when the truth is the much scarier thing that we're at the behest of a bunch of monkeys with sledgehammers.
"Serious Conservatism" was dealt a fatal blow in 2006~08. That's why the base has increasingly rallied to fascism since 2010 and the idiots who got us Iraq, Katrina, and Bush's Crashed Economy have been flailing ever since.
Every time a usecase for generative AI is highlighted it turns out to be dystopian bullshit. Kinda makes you think.