The Donald vs Big Tech

[Mooncat]

So is Harris the candidate now or does anyone have to vote for it or anything like that? What a week, Trump gets his ear pierced and Biden is out on his ear. Tis like an Eastenders christmas special

The democrats have to pick. Biden's endorsement and her being VP means she's likely to get it, but they have to weigh it all up first given that there are a lot of issues with her too. There are a few alternatives though that will also be going for it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

There's been a massive wave of popular and DNC support behind her, more than I would have expected so quickly (https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-presidential-candidate-election-withdraw-9fbd153493cb3f088994854fe61a73e9). So right now I'd be surprised if she ends up getting replaced. One poll has already put her at 44% and Trump at 42, which doesn't have any concrete value in itself but there are also rumours that Trump's camp may be regretting their VP choice, Vance, some starting to think he was an over-confident choice, someone who sings only to Trump's choir, intended for a face-off with Biden/Harris. Given that, if Harris is now twinned with a strongly complementing profile (i.e. a white male), which looks likely given those under consideration, then a complete reversal of projections might not be far off. I wouldn't predict things being pretty if Trump has to switch from failed assassination attempt hero to being on the back foot.

Pretty funny though, bit of a "Careful what you wish for" moral tale, with the "Biden isn't capable of being president!" being answered with "You're right, we're going to replace him" and the Republicans seemingly only then realizing they should have instead been doing everything they could to make sure Biden stayed in the race I do wonder how much of the "resistance" to stepping down was theatre. If it was, they played their card well, especially if the post-Trump VP announcement timing was part of it.

[The Butcher]

Based on past elections VP picks haven't really played any sort of major factor in the voting decision, you could say it does moreso now with Trump at the age he's at but same could have put to Biden if he continued and in his 2020 bid. I think the VP picks will give either a slight boost or dip around the week it's announced and then they just need to not f**k up big time at a debate and play safe.

Is that poll a national one? It's the swing state polls that will dictate things and probably too early to call but Americans love to talk about momentum in elections but the debate with Trump/Harris will be interesting to see how both will decide to take it.

[jobrok1]

That bodycam footage of Sonya Massey being shot dead by a cop in her own kitchen after calling 911 herself is fucking grim. What a literally retarded nation it is.

That's pretty fucked up, for sure.
That nation is surely going to implode some day.

[mickO)))]

I would imagine the only thing that worried the Republicans was someone competent replacing Biden looks like Harris is the pick so they must all be relieved. Biden would even stand a better chance than Harris she is terrible in every aspect of the job and even more unpopular in the US than Biden is.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've been saying all the same for the last couple of months. Up until the last couple of days. We'll see.

[astfgyl]

I read Harris had 81 million dollars transferred into her campaign fund, so it looks as if the weight will be thrown behind her.

Here's a funny one: I searched Bing for "Kamala Harris Political Achievements" and usually there's a little side window on the page trying to get me to use the AI Co-pilot search with little snazzy breakdowns of whatever I searched for. This time, it says "Looks like I can't respond to this topic", which I haven't seen before.

Big Tech Vs The Donald once more? Here's the receipt:  

[Mooncat]

I read Harris had 81 million dollars transferred into her campaign fund, so it looks as if the weight will be thrown behind her.

Here's a funny one: I searched Bing for "Kamala Harris Political Achievements" and usually there's a little side window on the page trying to get me to use the AI Co-pilot search with little snazzy breakdowns of whatever I searched for. This time, it says "Looks like I can't respond to this topic", which I haven't seen before.

Big Tech Vs The Donald once more? Here's the receipt:  

Does it do the same for Trump (don't have Bing)?

Funnily enough in recent polls it looks like Harris is slightly more popular than Biden...

[astfgyl]

It lists out a few things for Trump. Not all positive either but it doesn't refuse to answer

[astfgyl]

Ahh that gave me a good laugh but I'm actually supporting Harris now because she is Irish

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-is-a-descendant-of-an-irish-slave-owner-in-jamaica/

[Ollkiller]

Ahh that gave me a good laugh but I'm actually supporting Harris now because she is Irish

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-is-a-descendant-of-an-irish-slave-owner-in-jamaica/

Blindboy has an interesting reply to that on his twitter.

Link https://twitter.com/bbboatclub/status/1815697432010748042

[astfgyl]

So I clicked that link and     

 

Having never followed or interacted with him, I'm surprised he's heard of me      Edit: What's even funnier is that my posts are protected and only people who follow me can see them so I don't even reply to threads because there's no point

Had to edit that there, nearly gave myself away

lol I did anyway lol fuck sake I think it's fixed now I'm some stook lol

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Something a mate shared this morning, brief analysis looking at the number of people displaced by all of the U.S. post-9/11 wars as of 2021:

The U.S. post-9/11 wars have forcibly displaced at least 38 million people in and from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria. This exceeds those displaced by every war since 1900, except World War II.

38 million is a very conservative estimate. The total displaced by the U.S. post-9/11 wars could be closer to 49–60 million, which would rival World War II displacement.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Costs%20of%20War_Vine%20et%20al_Displacement%20Update%20August%202021.pdf

The US receives a lot of ultimately abstract blame and finger-wagging for the number of civilians its wars have killed, but rarely seems to enter most Europeans' thoughts around the causes of mass migration, despite the US being to migration pretty much what Coca Cola are to plastics pollution. Hmm, would that make Russia Pepsi...?

[astfgyl]

I think 38 million is nowhere near the amount of people the imperialist shites have displaced or otherwise ruined. What they did in Iraq alone should have had the Bush administration tried as war criminals along with Tony Blair and pals

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

an fyi that Musk subscribed all Twitter users by default to have their data used as training material for Grok. if you want to opt out:
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