People would vote for a government that gave them cheap electric cars. This has nothing to do with needing to win elections, it has to do with pleasing daddy US and daddy doesn't want the world to stop using oil. Europe is a US neocolony.
The term I like best for them is "probability engine" because they're just giving the most probable next iteration in a series.
People are familiar with their phone giving bad auto-complete suggestions when texting, and that's a great first step to understanding why the LLMs are not intelligent enough to even lie. They're just unthinking auto-complete models, but on a larger scale.
I think Iran had to prove to its own population that the US is non-agreement capable. There were still millions of Iranians who believed that they could just make a deal and make the suffering stop, Iran had to prove to them that no such deal was possible for them to finally stop demanding negotiations and reforms and concessions.
There's likely a die-hard contingent that will always believe a deal is just around the corner, but at least they're quiet now.
Incumbency is only protective when economic conditions are stable. When times are tough, like they are now for most people who aren't involved in constructing data centers, incumbents get voted out. These things go in cycles.
There's basically no way to know what economic conditions will be by 2028, but odds are they'll be fine. The economy has long periods of stability with only short periods of crisis, after all, so on average incumbents have an advantage.
And that assumes the Party doesn't force her down voters' throats anyway. They like doing that shit too.
If she wins, they're stuck with her in the next election too. They won't be able to nominate anyone else because she'll be the incumbent. In the meantime she'll drag the rest of her party down, depressing voter turnout as people stay home because they don't want to vote for a party that has leaders like her.
At the same time, anti-ICE protesters are being gunned down and given decades-long prison sentences. Some spirit seems to have motivated them.
I think we need to identify these wedges within the settler cohort and use them to divide them against each other and against the settler-colony. We can create more traitors, even if they won't read.
Lex is also a "12th level intellect" i.e. one of the smartest people in the universe.
Porky is a dumbass that thinks he can use a chatbot to replace his workforce.