• @sndmn@lemmy.ca
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    7120 days ago

    The guy is bankrupt in every way possible. Financially, intellectually, morally, ethically - and much more.

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    6620 days ago

    Christ, if we even have elections after this, we will desperately need a FDR 2.0 and a Congress that backs him and they will need a Progressive Project 2029.

    • dohpaz42
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      5020 days ago

      Her. And her name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

      • I think she’d be a great choice but we need a white guy to run. I hate to say it, but we need every advantage possible, and being a white man is an advantage. Maybe an AOC VP makes sense, but I’m very worried that the there’s at least enough truth to the racism/sexism claims about last year and I am sick of gambling peoples futures on candidates we know are going to struggle.

        • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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          1120 days ago

          I was thinking the same thing. I also hate it. There are a lot of people that might sign on for the progressive policies of AOC, but see a woman and see someone that is a POC and assume radicalism as some kind of default just by the mere act of being a woman and POC, and get skittish.

          If you put the same words and policies in the mouth of a Walz, it’d make the much-needed medicine go down nice and easy. If there was some way we could get a nice folksy white guy and let them be a literal puppet for an AOC (or Bernie), I’d be all for it.

        • Liz
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          019 days ago

          We need to run an exciting candidate. Their race doesn’t matter. Elections these days are about getting your base excited and making the opponent’s apathetic. AOC is exciting. While her being a minority woman will piss off far right voters, it won’t be like it was with Hilary, who had decades of media attacks conditioning the right to absolutely despise her.

          • Really wish/hope that’s the case, but if there was an equivalent white guy, I don’t think I’d chance it. It might be that AOC is such an exciting candidate it overshadows any race/gender issues, and I’d love that, but I think a primary will help answer that. Maybe not even the winner, since who knows what the party will do to put their finger on the scale, but a primary will definitely show who’s energized the voters. Fingers crossed we get elections next go around.

          • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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            -119 days ago

            We need to run an exciting candidate

            I’m tired of this comment.

            If we look for entertainers to become leaders, we get a trump. If we look for legislators, they’re not sexy.

            If the populace needs a clown to vote for, then let’s stop messing about and secede already.

    • @Jhex@lemmy.world
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      1820 days ago

      If you are waiting for that, you are already defeated

      You need to take to the street NOW and enact a national strike

    • @jason@discuss.online
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      1220 days ago

      And anyone mentioning reaching across the aisle is automatically out. And the filibuster… gone. Without question.

  • HubertManne
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    2620 days ago

    "While Dudek did not elaborate on what outsourcing “nonessential functions” will look like, according to The Bulwark, Martin O’Malley, who led the agency under former President Joe Biden, warned that it could involve automation and the use of artificial intelligence to replace call centers staffed by people trained to help seniors and other beneficiaries sort out complex problems. "

  • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    2320 days ago

    While Dudek did not elaborate on what outsourcing “nonessential functions” will look like, according to The Bulwark, Martin O’Malley, who led the agency under former President Joe Biden, warned that it could involve automation and the use of artificial intelligence to replace call centers staffed by people trained to help seniors and other beneficiaries sort out complex problems.

    Oh my god

    • @NimdaQA@lemmy.world
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      While I would not mind increased automation and use of AI in workplaces, using them in call centers for social security is beyond stupid.

      Edit: unpopular opinion I guess, fair enough.

      • Glifted
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        619 days ago

        Definitely unpopular opinion. I don’t know how everyone isn’t sick of shit-for-brains AI interactions

        • @MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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          219 days ago

          I like AI for a couple things here and there when I elect to use it. When I am forced to use it and I did not elect it, I fucking hate it.