This isn't a one-election thing. It's going to be a generational effort to fix what these people are breaking more of every day. I hope I live to see it come to some kind of fruition - I recently turned 50.

Hope is not a plan, unfortunately, so if that's all we've got, I don't have much hope.

The current situation in the US is the depressing thing- articles like this give me hope. Real Americans aren't having these BS authoritarian violations of our constitutional rights.

You mean, what's been happening to the USA? this isn't a new trend. Militarization of police, open attacks on democracy, unilateral foreign policy moves.

the country jumped the shark post 9/11 and has been on a slow rot since then.

> Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership.

Would be nice, but I have a bad feeling that the impact of widescale mostly unregulated AI adoption on our social fabric is going to make the social media era that gave rise to Trump, et al seem like the good ol' days in comparison.

I hope I am wrong.

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