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This is exactly what has happened historically. Every single left of center Democrat that gets elected either capitulates or gets iced out to the point that they're completely useless and/or lose an election/primary. Bernie, AOC, Mike Gravel, Kucinich, Barbara Lee (only vote against AUMF after 9/11), etc, etc
I'm sure Zohran is trying to use the party to do something good, and he probably will to some degree (if he can win). But the truth is that even Zohran being successful will hurt the left in the long-term. He will simply be a sheepdog herding baby leftists into the Democratic party. Some will still radicalize, but they'll waste months/years hoping the Dems will change first. Others will remain complacent, but many will move to the right and conform to the status quo.
There is no path forward with the Democrats. Any local success will be shut down or at least slowed down by the party. Reforming the party is impossible without gaining control from the top down and even then it would be difficult to get past the bureaucracy. The whole system is built to do exactly what it's doing and has been doing for decades.
If he wins, it would be awesome for him to join PSL (or any existing revolutionary org) and take people with him. Then run for reelection under the new party. He won't do this, but it's probably the best possible outcome if we want socialism.
I think it's mostly people with existing symptoms that get exacerbated by an affirming chat bot that they believe is real AI. So when it says "yeah, there are people behind the curtains watching you" or whatnot they believe it even harder. I imagine it's very easy to slip into psychosis if you're prone to it and have supernatural beliefs in general, but LLMs would absolutely reinforce all kinds of ideas.
I'm not so sure it's nasty so much as a natural consequence of the way LLMs are tuned to be agreeable and the same people who believe q anon think it's the real deal AI so of course they just run with it when it agrees a lot.
I guess it could be nefarious still, but idk it just seems like people are feeding the LLM nonsense and getting it back?
What you don't want a multiparty totilitarian dictatorship??
The country has a mixed far-right and far-left government, taking inspiration from multiple idealogies including National Bolshevism, Strasserism, and Fascism. It is a multiple-party totilitarian dictatorship, with 10 state-approved parties running elections the year the previous leader dies.
I'm reminded how people don't actually watch a video before commenting when I see one complaining wHAt AboUt tHe VETeraNs and I'm not even kidding, at about 2 minutes in they play the automated menu and the first option is for veterans. This exact number is what they provide on the VA website (I just looked it up).
I wish I had the power to just invent reality and then also the audacity to act like everyone else is delusional. Life would be so fucking easy. Ugh