I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna say this was a good call.
Ditching Biden is the only way to unite two important groups of Democrats: those with some grasp of reality, who recognize that Biden is far too old to run again, and those who still have their head in the sand about the issue, but will rally around anyone who isn't Trump.
If we stick with Biden the election is lost. This will not be the last time Biden has a poor showing in public, revealing just how hard it is for him to speak and think at his advanced age. Every time it happens, more voters pay attention, and his poll numbers will sink more.
I voted uncommitted for a lot of reasons, and this is one of them. Getting Biden out and having a brokered convention certainly expresses my democratic will.
Absolutely nothing about this case is a mere reiteration of anything before it.
All Biden has to do is claim that it's an official act, because Trump is a terrorist, a threat to the Constitution, or some other questionable legal pretext. The problem is that there's no remedy against such a claim. It could be litigated and go to SCOTUS again, who would have to decide whether it's an official act or not. But this ruling gives no definite rule on what does or does not count as an official act.
The only remedy the current court's ruling really allows is impeachment. It essentially means that (absent a later ruling specifying exactly what counts as a President's "official acts,") the President can do literally anything he wants and never suffer any consequences. Don't agree that what he was doing was an official act? Impeach him or stfu. He's not going to jail for breaking any law, ever.
Drop. The. Fuck. Out. You are going to fucking lose you geriatric fuck and SCOTUS just ensured that Trump will use his power to be a dictator when he's elected.
What the vice president's duty is is not subjective. It's prescribed in the constitution and clear as day. Donald Trump's specious interpretation of his role is irrelevant.
In ordinary situations, you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. When you're the president, according to SCOTUS, it's presumed that the law doesn't even apply to you because of immunity. And proving that it applies to you requires proving that what you did was or was not a nebulously defined "official act."
This ruling will make it virtually impossible to convict a former president of anything.
If he's such an existential threat (and he is), why the fuck are they not forcing the geriatric incompetent running on their ticket to drop out? They're sleepwalking into fascism and it's terrifying.
I'm against Biden but I'll vote for him if I have to. He should absolutely drop out of the race. He's going to RBG us.
No man it was legitimately bad. Biden did horrible. I'm terrified that we're gonna see a significant slip in the polls after that disaster.
Maybe bring a book? Why not save gaming for when you can actually do it well, not on a tiny screen at sub-60fps?
I guess I'm the only one in this thread that does other things when I've got down time away from the computer. When I want to play a video game, I don't want to play a shittier version of it.
So glad I have a computer I can play games on so I don't have to mess around with a smaller computer with a smaller screen and worse performance.
Edit: I pissed off the dad caucus with this comment. Steam decks are only for dads who can't get more than thirty minutes of game time anymore and have no space for a legit gaming PC.
Having listened to 800+ episodes, my impression of Alex Jones is that he's equal parts reactionary right winger and moneymaking huckster. He generally skims headlines and makes up a take that's compatible with his "the globalists are out to get us" stuff, most of which is based in white grievance identity politics.
Take this for what it's worth. I'm a socialist. But it's worth listening to an episode or two of the podcast to get a glimpse of Alex's typical stuff. Most people who have an impression of Alex as a truth teller haven't spent a lot of time with his show.
Listen to Knowledge Fight. It will disabuse you of a lot of the image that Alex Jones has as a "truth teller."
I think a lot of these issues stem from LLMs not having actual symbolic reasoning. They only do association. We humans do a lot of thinking via association, but some tasks require symbol manipulation in discrete stages. The clearest case of this is giving chatgpt predicate calculus problems. It can't solve them reliably at all and if you ask it to explain its reasoning in a step by step manner it will shit its pants and hallucinate answers. IMO once we figure out symbolic representation, we'll have real AI.