Post #2458759
2026-05-11 16:19 UTC
@hllizi@hespere.de @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com
I think we're seeing the supercharging of the old trick that Nye Bevan characterized so well:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9907942-how-can-wealth-persuade-poverty-to-use-its-political-freedom
LLMs and associated slop ducts have persuaded people dying of covid to support the people whose recklessness got them infected. I'm not sure what people down the rabbit hole *wouldn't* vote for at this point. They're so hacked.
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@eswag@dju.social 2026-05-11 16:34
@hllizi@hespere.de @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com I remember reading Tom Paine's Rights of Man during Brexit, & chuckling despairingly when he claimed that (paraphrased badly), just as all city dwellers pitch in to help with the harvest, so no person will vote against their own interests. I read that at a time when British crops were rotting in the fields because no bugger wanted to pick them, a year or so after a vote to prevent the poor sods who did want to pick them from being welcomed into the country.