The environmental argument benefits fossil fuel companies who can turn to anyone not already wildly anti-ai and say "See, even the tree-huggers admit that AI needs lots of power, and obviously we won't take their advice of just letting China win the AI wars, so we will need to drill baby drill ASAP"

Also, people already undederstand how fiction works, for an analogy.

When I see a film character make a speech I understand that he is not a little guy in a box thining that (and not even created as an author's direct mouthpiece, but by a vague collective "them", by the studio in general).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tmf...

The gay romance novel Red White and Royal Blue, received fan backlash for a line where the protagonist's mom, the President (D), casually mentions that an ambassador “said something idiotic about Israel, and now I have to call Netanyahu and personally apologize.”

Also a whole fake song from them in the end credits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPE...

I know its a hack comparison, but it really reminds me of Rowling: The way she used genuine talent to strikingly portray the Wiz world's flaws with Dickensian social realism, all the cruelty and small-mindedness, and then somehow got into fandom feuds about defending the worst aspects of it.

Also, that is an AI cover.

They SHOULD be called Peter Pan laws

Everyone knows that Trump hates the rule of law, attacking him on that is like attacking him on being bad for the environment or for gender equality, his base is already overlooking or actively enjoying that.

Breaking his image as "at least he keeps us safe from crime/migrants" is where its at.

That "was" gave me a heart attack.

???
As someone who watched anime in the late 2000s and got back into it recently, most stories don't seem to handle women much worse at all than they used to to say the least, there is cool stuff like Apothecary Diaries, G-Witch, lots of girl-friendgroup fluff without any overt leering, etc.

When people say that they were big fans of Kirk's pious motivational content, they (or at least some of them) are not just trollong you by ignoring the elephant in the living room, they really knew him for that.

If Goebbels had millions of tiktok followers where he just kept making strudels, and got into the party as "the strudel influencer guy" then they WOULD be on equal footing though.

Its not that the two sides MORALLY balance each other out, but it is also not just some obscure trivia.

I'm about evenly divided between the boring moral impulse of hoping for the most progressive outcome, the shitposter impulse for a Pope with a funny name, and the liberal impulse for a Pope of Color.

Yeah, we didn't see 18 getting printed, that was during a montage. The implication *is* that the clones are different because the printeds are lazy/reckless, but it is implied to have happened to all of them to some degree

You could just pretend that by "next decade" you meant the 2020s.

It's not, the point is about self-perception.