The push to write in Biden on the ballot didn’t go completely smoothly. The weekend before New Hampshire’s primary, thousands of voters in the state received robocalls that used deep faked audio of the president in an attempt to dissuade them from turning out.
Whatever your thoughts on electoral politics are, this shit right here is such a terrifying prospect for the future…
I’m not sure if AI is going to revolutionize anything good, but it’s certainly going to revolutionize election interference.
That, misinformation/propaganda, scam calls, etc. Shits gonna get wild real quick here soon, and I don’t think we as a species are remotely prepared for it.
I am fooled by imageai posts about 80% of the time. I don’t know how to not be, but it just makes me distrustful of everything
It already has. But unfortunately the news is not in the business of reporting the news. It is in the business of advertising and engagement. And sensationalist/bad News drives engagement.
luckily deep fake audio still sounds fake…
however, im pretty sure this is real
https://youtu.be/ZiQRF5h3zDQ?si=4M0sYy8on2GnXFVmIt sounds like they’re talking exclusively from the front of the mouth. I used to talk like that when I was trying to conceal a tongue ring. I wonder why that is?
Linguistics nerd stuff below: American English is spoken from the front of the mouth compared to lots of other languages (not this far forward, but still). I wonder if AI voices speaking Arabic would move Arabic forward by the same amount, all the way to the front, or further back (no human anatomy restrictions on AI voices).
Basically, I wonder if this is a consistent artifact of AI voices or whether AI is just exaggerating unique features of a language.
Edit: I found this, which sounds natural enough that I wouldn’t have thought anything of it (aside from the cuts and the actual things said), had I not been watching out for front of the mouth talk
Goddamn. This is a depressing time.
No one is taking credit, but we all know which party they’re part of. Where is Roger Stone?
Not where he should be: prison.
His head should be adorning a spike atop a parapet somewhere.
That’s an odd way to spell “melting quietly in an oil drum”, but sure.
I’d stick him in a drum of “Turpentine, acetone, benzene. [Judge Doom] calls it the dip.”
Judge Doom wouldn’t put himself, voluntarily, in the dip.
Judge Doom is what happens when you bip around in history like a hare-brained child with no regard for multi-universal consequences and the strain it takes on the squishy human psyche. Apparently, the loss of his dearest Clara and their children was enough to make the ol’ Doc snap right to his core.
Why isn’t th federal government making a bigger deal out of the fact that an official political candidate was used in a deep fake ad saying non consensual words for political interference
Why haven’t these people been charged? Or at least found?? This was a litmus test for more deepfakes of joe during the main election…and they got the approval
Does this mean that liberals can do the same thing with DJT?
Tbh, I’m not sure what liberals could deepfake Trump that would be worse than what he actually says haha
You’re not thinking deeper enough. Imagine a deep-faked Trump saying “Actually, I like Mexicans. It was all a joke. Borders open for everyone! And to all of you who gave me money, thank you haha suckers!! I endorse Joe Biden.”
His voters literally don’t care what he says.
Trump is the President that signed an executive order restricting firearms, but it’s apparently Obama and Biden that are coming after our guns.
Every time his mental stability or physical health is brought up, I go back to this. His supporters are so sycophantic that he could shit into his open palm and lob it into the crowd at a rally and they’d never question it.
You can also watch videos of Joe Biden and see his daily public schedule and see him getting shit done without much difficulty. He’s obviously not how Republicans describe him but why convincing people not the believe what they can see with their own eyes is part of the Republican strategy.
“Don’t look up!”
I’d amend that to say his followers don’t know what he says much of the time. Their information comes largely through filters and fables.
neither does biden’s voters
if both of these candidates defecated on the constitution then wiped with it afterwards the people from both camps would still be clambering to lick those sphincters clean afterwards
I have no love for Biden. I think very few people are excited to vote for him.
But he’s not literally a fascist wannabe dictator who sells classified data to our enemies, tried to overthrow the US government, and rapes women.
So yeah, I’m voting for Biden.
I don’t like Biden. I wanted Bernie to be our president. But it’s either him or Trump. And fuck Trump.
You’re not thinking serious enough. Imagine the shit Trump has said on the campaign trail, but now he can tell his cultists directly on their phones. Lighting the kindling and seeing if it blows up or not.
You have to think so crazy you end up thinking normal
I’m not worried about liberals deepfaking Trump, I more worried about grifters deepfaking Trump to further take advantage of low intelligence/low cognitive function trump supporters. I already see it with freeze dried ration scams and such. I don’t want grifters to get ahold of my inheritance.
You’re correct, which is why the next best thing is just deepfaking him into a completely different personality.
AKA: Sassy Justice
The Navy seal copy pasta
DJT’s base doesn’t care. If there was video of Trump saying he’d make abortion mandatory, repeal 2A, increase taxes, and change labor laws so that only gay blacks could apply for jobs, they’d still vote for him. At this point, it’s gone beyond politics, into religion. As long as liberals hate him, that’s enough.
I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic about this. His base has all the marks of sectarianism. The far left does, too, to a lesser degree; look at the behavior of Bernie Bros. I think the difference is that Bernie is sincere about what he works toward, whereas Trump does whatever benefits Trump, but hides it behind rhetoric that only coincidentally corresponds with his actions.
In any case, we on the precipice of a sectarian war in the US. We already see sectarian violence from the right, with several instances of conservative physical attacks on the non-believers. Sooner or later, there’ll be a liberal response; the far-left is certainly capable of it, c.f. the ELF in the 90’s, and although that targetted property and not people, the angry violence is there and it’s not a large step to targetting people.
Why haven’t these people been charged? Or at least found??
This happened 2 days ago at the time of your comment, it seems a bit early to claim nothing’s being done
Because the U.S. government is incapable of enforcing rules and protecting its people, and is therefore illegitimate.
That’s why.
Dean Phillips got right around 20% even with the fact that Biden did a write in. I’m honestly kinda surprised it’s that low. I would have expected there to be more than that considering the write-in.
Not that it matters since the DNC took away New Hampshire’s say in the matter by nullifying their delegates. It is kinda horrifying that a private organization (the DNC) can just decide who has a say in choosing which candidates of the 2 we get to choose between.
DNC doesn’t need to even have primaries. The political parties aren’t public organizations. If another candidate was more popular, they foundy still win.
Besides, NH could have had a primary if they obeyed the rules. But they wanted to stay super special important so they were disqualified.
NH literally had to break either their own state law to move the primary, or break DNC’s rules to have a primary that counted. And their republican state legislature would not allow them to move the primary. So they literally had no choice in the matter.
How is it in any way fair that 2 private organizations get to decide if the American people even get a say in the 2 (realistic) choices they have?
P.S. I’m assuming you mean might where you put ‘foundy’. I don’t know how that got there but I’m guessing a phone keyboard.
The problem here is the state law having any say in an intra-party election. That shouldn’t be a thing.
Then run it on private property with private workers.
In what way is it unreasonable for a state to set rules for a private organization? Especially one with a huge say in determining who gets into public office.
If a state passes a law saying “All ice cream must be free.” don’t be surprised if all ice cream producers refuse to do business in the state, leaving the people there with no ice cream. Some rules are just stupid and the legislature needs to be cognizant of the consequences. They brought it upon themselves.
Sure you could easily argue that NH rules that they be first is stupid. And I agree with that, but it is also a bad look to take away that state’s say in the process for that reason. If your state political party said your votes don’t count and we are ignoring them, wouldn’t you get kind of perturbed? The people of NH have little to no say in what their legislature does. It’s not really fair to them that their primary votes don’t count because the DNC said so.
I wouldn’t be perturbed at Ben & Jerry’s for avoiding the state lol. I’d be perturbed at the people we elected to write those laws.
It’s stupid that primaries aren’t all on the same day. People would have a problem with a staggered general election, so why do the primaries get a pass?
Agree 100%.
It also effectively disenfranchises an awful lot of primary voters. If you are in One of the first handful of states, you probably get a full slate of candidates. But if you’re in one of the last handful, most of them have already dropped out and you probably won’t have the opportunity to support the one you wanted.
Making all primaries on the same day would effectively address that. I would prefer however to remove primaries entirely. Set a slightly higher bar to getting on the main ballot, but then say any candidate regardless of party who gets enough signatures can be on the final ballot. Then do ranked choice voting. That way you can vote for a lesser known candidate, without losing your abilities to support the more likely winner that you like and thus not losing your vote against the other guy.
The problem is your voting system, not that the parties control their own internal processes. Implement something that makes sense like ranked choice voting and these nomination shenanigans will barely matter, and you’ll be able to support more than 2 national parties. Most smaller countries have a lot more parties in their government.
Why not both? But your right only having 2 functional parties gives them a quite a bit of leeway. Since you only have 1 (or maybe 2) other choices, you functionally have no choice.
It’s ‘fair’ because you just accept that they’re the only realistic choices and just sit there and take it. Americans did this to themselves. They do it to themselves again every election cycle.
But more than 80% of the Americans have little to no say in how the government works. There’s a Princeton study that 90%+ of Americans have little or no impact on US Policy. It’s very much a cop out to blame Americans at large because it minimizes the harsh fact that money and the people who use it are what influences our system.
The ruling party should have primaries every election. The person in the office isn’t always who the people want to keep that position.
But the other potential candidates all died of old age, they’re running out of boomers to elect!
The reality is that in any other country a private organization (=a party committee) decides who is the candidate for their party, and therefore who the public can vote for
the USA isn’t really supposed to have political parties like you do now.
Washington and other “founding fathers” argued against a party system, and there are no references to parties in the Constitution or other original documents mandating how elections are conducted.
It’s always been the way. Even if the plebs vote for someone not approved by the party (ie Bernie), they have super delegates that get to outvote the others to promote their choice.
You can run as an independent or make your own party if you want to.
You know that’s only technically correct and not viable in practice
The sad thing is you’re technically correct only because it’s people with a similar mindset to you on the matter that perpetuate this idea.
No, it’s technically correct because the math just doesn’t work in favor of third parties. That can change, but you have to put in a lot more effort than just voting at every opportunity.
The point was, the only reason only two parties exist in this country has less to do with any mechanical reason why and more to do with the fact that a huge number of people, such as yourself, continue cementing into people’s minds that any alternative choice is worthless. Effectively, by continuing to perpetuate this idea over and over again in peoples minds, you have effectively created a self fulfilling prophecy.
You are technically, right. A third option has little to no chance, but only because people, such as yourself, have continued to tell others that a third options had little to no chance.
Sure you can, but what you can do is irrelevant. Even if you do it is guaranteed not to have a say nationally because of our first past the post voting system locks out any competition. You have 2 meaningful choices, anything else is locked out by our voting system and rendered non meaningful.
With the right candidate you could trick both major parties into secretly funding them as a spoiler candidate for the other party. You just need to say things that make headlines that people will engage with and come up with three word zingers that people will chant. Just say ambiguous shit and people will interpret it however they want to. There’s people winning elections as libertarians, so it’s totally possible with a more appealing platform.
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Choosing to ditch NH because it’s, “Too white„ isn’t a flex.
New Hampshire having a state law that they always get to go first, for a national election, that’s been around for 100 years, is dumb as fuck.
It’s good this change is happening. The primary orders should shuffle around more often. No state declaring “we’re always first” within their state laws should be recognized at the federal level.
Here’s a crazy idea. Every state has their primary on the same day so that no state gets to dictate who others get to vote for.
Here’s an even crazier idea. Ditch primaries altogether and use Ranked Choice Voting.
I’m sick and tired of other people deciding which lesser evils I’m allowed to choose between long before my turn to vote even comes around.
They should let the most populated states go first. I’m tired of having our votes count for nothing because half the candidates have already dropped out by the time they get to us, even though we outnumber the people in all the states that go before us. Those early wins and losses would really mean something if they represented a large and diverse population. Might make up a little for how underrepresented we are in the Electoral College.
You as an individual are under-represented, but you as a populous state are too powerful. If California primaries first , no one else matters.
When New Hampshire primaries first, you get a lot of meeting the candidates, an interesting survey result, but the result is still wide open.
Either way, it’s all of us in the middle who get shafted. We don’t get an early say but our vote doesn’t count for much with the big guys coming soon.
I’m torn about whether it is good to be a “safe”state. While it’s nice that we don’t get the nonsense or the robocalls or the mail or the ads, would it hurt to get some attention? Can we be treated like we matter?
How is that more fair than every state going at the same time?
The problem with that version is that, just as in the national election, the candidates will only really campaign in the purple states with a lot of independent or undecided voters. I’d like to see them have to reach out to a diversity of voters within their own parties first. I’m not saying it’s more fair necessarily, just that I think it would be good for the process and maybe help each party wind up with a better (or at least more representative of the party as a whole) candidate in the general.
I’m a fan of random order, all within 5 weeks. With polls being open over the entire week.
Helps get more voices in the say. With every state having turns seeing higher candidate engagement that only Iowa gets now. And candidates not feeling pressured to drop out right away because Iowa didn’t like them.
At first I disagreed a bit, but primaries are changing from what they used to be, so maybe you have a point. Used to be that there wasn’t that much political noise the year before a presidential primary, but now we’ve got debates and all sorts. There’s time now for candidates to get their ideas out there and for people to know who they are. I don’t think that was the case in say 2016, where we really got to know Bernie as time went on and that raised his popularity.
Every state should go the same day.
omw to the state capital to draft a law saying my state gets to go firster
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WTF is this part supposed to mean?
wasn’t on the ballot, it was still chock-full of candidates like the boot-on-head-wearing Vermin Supreme, Rep. Dean Phillip, and Marianne Williamson
Are they calling Dean Phillip a vermin supreme or did someone named Vermin Supreme actually get on the ballot?
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
For those that don’t get the reference:
I’m so excited that you get to learn about vermin supreme
Vermin Supreme have been in quite a few elections
There’s a comma.
Dean Phillips could be the apositive to Vermin Supreme, or both Vermin Supreme and Dean Phillips could be separate items in the list.
Vermin Supreme is a person who literally wears a boot on his head and is in politics. I don’t know what his platform his, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to vote for him.
Free ponies for every American. I’m not kidding, that’s his platform. He won me over.
He also has a strong stance on oral hygiene.
You should watch the video where he throws glitter on one of the other candidates and yells that they’re “turning gay”. https://youtu.be/O5nj_aex3QA?feature=shared (then you’ll want to vote for him)
Is it really fair to say he is “in politics” though? Seems more like he just runs in elections.
He’s the only person I actually want to vote for.
There’s a guy who calls himself Vermin Supreme. He wears a boot on his head and iirc claims to be a libertarian. He runs for president every year and never comes even close to winning anywhere.
Edit: meant to say he runs for president every election. He obviously couldn’t run every year.
I confess, I’m ootl here. Why was he not on the ballot?!
Essentially, the DNC decided to shake up the primary season by shuffling the traditional order of primaries, and had South Carolina as the first primary in February. New Hampshire has a state law requiring them to be the first primary, so they could either break state law or defy the DNC. (Keep in mind that parties are technically private organizations, so I don’t know how state law can force them to do that, but American elections are weird, and I’m Canadian.) The Republican-controlled NH government decided on defying the DNC, so although they technically held a primary, it was not sanctioned or authorized, and thus the DNC disallows contenders from appearing on the ballot, which Biden complied with. I believe the DNC has also invalidated the electors as a result, so they might not even count them at the convention.
TDLR; DNC changes primary schedule, Republican NH says “by law we go first”, DNC declares NH primary unsanctioned and tells candidates to stay off the ballot.
The DNC is not holding a primary so NH is just doing this on their own for fun, and to comply with it’s own laws. Because there is no contest, there is no need to collect the signatures and hire the lawyers and volunteers to get into the ballot. Other candidates did, but the national democratic nominating convention will be uncontested and Joe Biden will be the nominee.
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That’s really impressive and pretty encouraging.
I read too much b******* online, so knowing that he doesn’t even have to be on the ballot and can still win a primary is a wowser for me.
Sarcasm?
No, all of the whiney conservative trolling online honestly led me to believe Biden wasn’t very popular, so I was genuinely surprised that even without being on the ballot, he was able to win the primary.
I need to find a forum to balance out Lemmy. I appreciate the perspectives I get here, but I think it’s fair to say that it’s nowhere close to representative of reality.
I think it is close to representative of reality, and you aren’t going to find an online social media platform that is less polarized, due to the inherent anonymous and somewhat monoculture the nature of any platform.
We’re all reacting to the large but limited number of articles posted on here by a large but limited number of posters, and we’re allowed to anonymously post what we think or what we really think, but most of it is based off of what’s floating around in here already.
That’s social media, but I do like this platform more than other social media i’ve frequented.
If you’re looking for least biased material, you can join newsletters that give you just the most objective news articles, like join1440.com or someone mentioned the ground.news to me.
But you don’t get all that fun rolling around in the mud that you do here, haha
Ha. I think you touch on a very good point, that I’m not going to find a less polarized platform than this. I guess I wanted to look for a place to balance out the bias from here, but I’m not even sure what that would look like. L.W is slightly more left than reality sometimes, but what exactly would be slightly more right then reality? There isn’t isn’t anywhere. Reddit is the same, just with 100% more meme bullshit and feel good language obscuring interesting kernels.
Perhaps it’s best to simply be aware of the imperfections and keep them in mind.
If you’re just looking for news without a slant, that 1440 newsletter I mentioned previously. It’s pretty great for that, and it’ll only take up 10 minutes a day and you’ll be on top of pretty much everything significant happening in the world.
You might want to check out tildes, it seemed calmer relative to other social media. But I only used it for a day or something.
I joined Lemmy and tildes the same day, and sh.itjust.works let me sign up immediately, while tildes took 2 days, by which point I was already participating in Lemmy. But I liked the simplicity of tildes.
Tildes is entirely text-based, at least on the part that you’re looking at, from what I remember, and I think just the absence of memes and bright colors is calming to the users haha, so you don’t have as many explosive reactions.
I’ll have to look into tildes, good shout
A meaningless win because the DNC is refusing to sanction the primary and is engaging in voter suppression in favor of their own internal power plays.
As per their letter:
● The event on January 23, 2024 cannot be used as the first determining stage of the state’s
delegate selection process and is considered detrimental.
● The NHDP must take steps to educate the public that January 23rd is a non-binding
presidential preference event and is meaningless and the NHDP and presidential
candidates should take all steps possible not to participate.
● No delegates or alternates shall be apportioned based on the results of the January 23,
2024 event.
● No scheduling of events related to the selection of delegates or alternates in New
Hampshire may be based on the January 23, 2024 event.A candidate winning despite not being on the ballot is an impressive show of public confidence and voter preference regardless of the circumstances.
And yet I think they stood on some sort of principal. That should count for something, especially from a politician
Dark Brandon wins 100% of the elections he doesn’t run in. Fodder for the next ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theory, or a tasteful homage to the antique Chuck Norris memes of yesteryear.
Vin Diesel meme of yesteryear*
Oh, you sweet summer child…
? The Vin Diesel memes got edited to become Chuck Norris memes unless there was an even earlier person used.
Real talk: how high are you? 🤦🏼♂️
I was there, I know it was Vin Diesel and here’s some proof.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chuck-norris-facts
Edit: Or are you summer childing as the old SA meme? Because after GoT so many people say it now I didn’t even make that connection.
TIL; Chuck Norris is so strong he kicks a Vin Deisel meme to the curb. He stomped that meme so hard that no one ever heard of it. Chuck Norris kicked the Vin Deisel meme so hard you could hear as it sailed away “but muh 2fast2furious”
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Yeah because in other countries it’s not fakes, it’s the actual dictators.
For zero delegates…
Unless the DNC is going to retroactively change their mind and not strip NH of their delegates now that Biden won.
Which would be really shitty considering lots of people didn’t vote because without delegates it was literally pointless.
Just because Republicans went full on fascist doesn’t mean Dems need to start pulling this stupid shit.
Because NH got their panties in a twist and decided that their miniscule state needs to be first? They can go fuck off.
Nope.
Because there wasn’t enough time for NH to change their state law…
DNC and Biden got so mad a state wouldn’t violate state law to help him in an election, they stripped the state of their say in who the candidate was. And it’s a total coincidence he got his ass kicked there last primary…
But it’s cool, because he legitimately is still better than trump, and even though that difference keeps shrinking, no one is allowed to complain about Biden because trump exists…
You’re shouting in to a screeching void, haha. These degenerate buffoons don’t care, or want, the truth and figure the down vote arrow is a sword and that it actually deters you.
It turns out 30 years of dragging the Democratic party to the left lost us as many voters as we gained, and now a bunch of “Democrats” act a lot like Republicans and share the same morals…
What’s crazy is if they had stayed active in the Republican party, they could have actually kept the Republicans somewhat moderate.
Instead them leaving just concentrated the crazy, and turned 1/3 of the country away from voting.
The only ones that won from Dems courting Republican voters was conservative extremists. Everyone else lost.
Democrats don’t just want a pro-genocide corporate shill, they want an 80-year-old pro-genocide corporate shill.
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Get ready for next 11 months of “BoTh SidEs aRE thE SaME” bullshit.
If both sides are same, why not vote for pro-genocide corporate shill who is not a rapist, not a traitor, and not a criminal?
Because you can vote third party and not endorse Nazism
Low turnout and high degree of votes for independents tend to favor Republicans in USA, and you have heard of their project 2025 right? A program literally designed to be a clone of nazism
After all the 2016 fearmongering I am genuinely flabbergasted anyone is still falling for it. Republicans aren’t interested in overthrowing the plutocracy because the illusion of voting is the most effective way to keep Americans repressed and docile
They are literally telling you what they want to do. They want a republican president above the law and make a permanent legislative and judicial majority which can’t be unseated through elections.
If they wanted that they could have done it in 2020 when they controlled everything and Trump was president? We heard this story back then and aside from the looney parade on Jan 6, the Republicans did not try to keep him in power like some god ruler.
They tried but couldn’t due to infighting, and because they didn’t have a plan because they didn’t expect to win. Now they have plans. See project 2025 to start with
They absolutely tried to keep him in power, all the lawsuits and other shenanigans was all about trying to block transfer of power when he lost. They literally tried to rig the vote by damaging the postal service, because they knew democrats would rely more on voting by mail with the pandemic going on. They’re working on gerrymandering state maps to artificially give Republicans more winning districts, giving them a chance to win states where they lost the popular vote.
Because I won’t vote for genocide.
Instead I’m voting for Hillary Clinton.
