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And this is the problem we have with democracy, and why it's doomed to, eventually, die. People tend to believe words. I guess it fine when words are the only thing you can rely on, but in this case, we have history and past performance. And as someone who is not that interested in US politics, from my understanding, his past performance is terrible by all measures.

But I guess this is something that will never change. The older I become, the more apparently I see that it does not matter WHAT you do, it only matters how you SPEAK about what you (will) do, whether it be in politics or in a corporate environment. I'm not the kind of person who regrets things in life, but if I could travel back in time and give my younger self one advice, it would be "focus on becoming a great orator", as this opens any door regardless of the level of experience.

Edit: to clarify, in order to not reply to each comment individually, I might have used the word "terrible" harshly. The thing with politics is that as a complete outsider to the US, I don't have a reliable way to know what policies were proposed and what were adopted/rejected, nor the long term effect of them on the country. The only thing I can rely on, is information available online. His track record is not covered in a good light online.

Sure, you can say that information online is skewed in one direction, but this is true to an insider, as some comments have demonstrated. The results of a particular policy and its application are subjective rather than objective. My entire premise was to demonstrate that actions are meaningless in the eye of the public.

Theoretically, this means that you get a "get out of jail" card no matter what you do in life, as longs as you can articulate your words properly.
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Hey man ... just asking questions, right?
It is. At least they're not forcing the controversial changes such as Manifest V3 onto their users.
Promises from an incumbent can hit differently. If Democrats were willing and able, they should have done it in the last 4 years. If not, then why promise?
Trump in MI had more of a lead than the 100k gap that went to Stein
How did polls go so wrong? “gold standard” Ann Selzer predicted +3 Harris in Iowa and it became +14 Trump. That’s an incredible miss from a pollster.
Very cool. Somehow I missed the idea of flywheels used to store energy. I assumed one that small would peter out in seconds.
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Just asking questions ... questions questions questions.
Cross the border from here in Canada into very "blue" New York and you'll drive through a huge swathe of what is actually "red" Trump country in Western New York.

Outside of the urban areas even "blue" states are red, or "purple."

The reality is that America voted for this guy. It's not nearly as regionally divided as liberals in America want to think.

For me, it means not going there anymore. I just won't cross the border for any reason.
Hopefully, the economy will recover with him as president.
"A little over half of the voting population" is literally all that matters here! The levels of cope here are astounding.
> I'm sorry but if you want a pathological liar, criminal and an overall horrible human being as a president of the (probably) most powerful and influential country in the world, you're just scum. Keep the downvotes coming.

This is precisely what I'm talking about. You really think this comment is going to do anything but push even more people to vote for the right? Because why would they side with your camp when you just called them scum, because you don't understand their intentions for voting for him/the party?

Which is extra unfortunate, because your comment up until that part was pretty good.
> politician should not mean being lawless

Well, the US Supreme Court decided more or less exactly that presidents can break the law and get away with it: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrrv8yg3nvo

And "calling him what he is" has so far failed to sway his supporters, I don't see how it will do it now. OTOH, he (probably?) won't stand for election again, so the point is probably moot...
Yes.

They're poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in New Hampshire.

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote.
For one, hopefully the good folks of Mississippi will get some of their cotton growing and ship building jobs back.
Well, so long as prosperity doesn't mean cheaper TVs with Chinese parts in them. I guess they will have to buy American TVs from now on.
From my perspective, Harris mostly failed to convey what her agenda is.

The way I inform myself about politicians is by typing "<name> interview" into YouTube and listen to a few hours of interviews with them.

With Harris, nothing stuck except that she is pro taxing the rich.

With Trump, what stuck is that he is pro border, pro Bitcoin, pro tariffs and pro Tesla.
Blue areas aren’t states. They are cities. Democratic voting counties account for over 70% of the nations gdp. Conservative counties quite literally cannot support themselves.
Oh no, not cheerleading ... just wanting to talk "policy", for purely political reasons. No doubt.
> Statewide ballot measures aimed at abortion rights succeeded even in many states where Democrats lost.

Then maybe the Dems shouldn't have run on that as their major platform?

I mean, the message "Elect Me Because $ABORTION_RIGHTS" is pointless if the states are going to get their abortion rights anyway.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-im...
Can you explain a bit ?

As somebody not living in US, that's surprising. My opinion is that Democrats did a really shit job - focusing on wrong problems, promoting stuff nobody cares about etc. Trump / Musk did appeal to a lot of people for different reasons, some of which I can understand.
But both are grifters and very dangerous in my view.
I honestly think that Elon Musk is just on a personal vendetta against anyone who bruised his ego. He can't stand that he was called out for his Thai diver "pedophile" comment or that his trans daughter openly disavows him. He specifically blames the "woke mindset" for the latter. So for him, it's probably just a "stick it to the libs" kind of thing.
Oh, he definitely has an ideology if you've ever read about project 2025
Nobody cares about the free press, their content is, for the most part, garbage.
I think this election has signalled the death of the mainstream media, and the rise of independent media.
I find this absolutely wonderful.
I just came here to say I love the bulgy animation as you scrub through the movie to see the drops.

This is a fun idea but I also appreciate the extra effort to make it nice to explore!
He is not attacking them directly though, UK is pretty internally focused and won't really do much if the Ukraine operations expand and include to say other former soviet block countries.

In mainland Europe, France with La-Penne and Germany with AfD and now Sarah Wagenknecht[1] have far-right problems of their own and don't have political will for anti Russia stance so they won't be able do much either, rest of Europe are minor players or far-right governments like in Hungary under Orbàn.

[1] I refuse to call her party far left, now matter how she is described in media.
I don't know where you're getting this idea since one of the main goals of the Electoral College was to protect smaller states from more populous states dominating presidential elections.

Boudreaux, Paul. "The Electoral College and Its Meager Federalism." 88 Marq. L. Rev. 195 (2004). Available at Marquette Law Review.
> "A friend of mine just sent me an article from a Danish newspaper where they cover the reasons as to why people would want to vote for someone like Trump...."

And this illustrates the problem. Hochschild is a professor emeritus of sociology at Berkeley. Why in heaven's name would you think that good insights will be garnered by reading a Danish article about a book written by a Blue professor about another group of Red people... when you can go on x dot com and read for yourself why people voted as they did?

I can say for certain - from reading and listening to what Trump voters have said themselves - that Trump voters are absolutely done with this kind of framing.
> Are you going for irony?

Obviously yes: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-im...
Harris wasn’t just unlikeable. She came across as downright incompetent, a mediocrity elevated to the highest positions by the exact sort of identify focused criteria voters don’t want.
You are so right. Thank heavens she was defeated.
Becauase Trump is the champion of the name-calling politics and here we are in your comment, still playing his game.
I swear that has been something that, as an European person, left me quite speechless. We've heard a lot about Biden mental situation, but nothing about the other guy struggling as well
In a typical British parliamentary system, the executive also has majority in Parliament. If the executive doesn’t have parliament, they lose the executive.

‘Impeachment’ in Parliament systems only works when MPs are willing to think for themselves.
Bill Ackman, https://x.com/billackman/status/1854019674385547454

> The Democratic Party.. lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other [Democratic] candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate.
Stop calling working people without a college education stupid and stop alienating men. "Non-educated" people work just as hard or harder than the rest of us. I've been to college and the only thing it "educated" me in is Computer Science, which I majored in. I'm not in any way better as a human being than my friends working in construction. Quite the contrary, their job is far more important to society than mine. If I stopped my niche research tomorrow, no one would really care. If handymen, farmers, or truckers stopped working, there would be riots.

Also, the DNC should really stop forcing unwanted candidates down people's throats. It doesn't work, even when you spam social platforms with your narrative.
Congratulations on discovering the punchline.
Wow you couldn’t misinterpret this any more.
Recover? It’s better than ever on every actual metric.

But I do look forward to February 2025, when journalists will once again travel to rural Pennsylvania to interview Trump voters in diners who will say that the economy is amazing now that the Great Man has been in power for a whole week. The magic of recovery!
To me it seems like Democrats just failed to listen to their constituents, and being one who wanted Bernie Sanders to have some chance at running in 2016 and 2020, I think this is the reckoning of that more than anything. The Democrats have ignored their own base and this is what happens when they pander to signals from everywhere else.
The popular vote is not a good indicator. I live in a deep blue state, the fact that my vote doesn't actually influence the electoral college reduces the incentive to go vote, drastically.
Perhaps the economy as a whole is doing great, but the facets that impact the individuals across the nation are not. Many/most people feel that they have less in their pocket AND their refrigerator at the end of the month than ever before.
We'll have to wait and see re: tariffs, but the democrats are no different on tax breaks for the rich.
Plenty of people have good reasons to support tariffs. Free trade destroyed a lot of industries and adjanced communities and the free trade fans didn't give a damn about them.
Are you aware of the tariffs other countries have?

Try importing California wine into France or Spain as an example. Try importing American cars into China or South Korea.

There is also the de facto tariffs from Chinese currency manipulation.

Hard to be intellectually honest about tariffs without looking what much of the rest of the world already does.
Not from the US, but I really wonder:
Do you guys got not feel shame if a person with that character and that track record runs your country?

I mean sure: depending on your media diet you might find all his flaws acceptable, but ask yourself if Obama (or any other candidate) displayed the very same flaws if that would cause you outrage. If yes, you might need some introspection.
"Tens of millions" "coming in over the border"? Mexico only even has 120m people in the first place. What, you think that half of their population walked into Texas and bought a house in Dallas?
I went looking for it and got distracted by the faux wood grain paint on the aluminium frame.
The EU will most likely move towards developing a nuclear force of their own (as opposed to France only (the UK no longer being a member of the EU)).

If the EU declines to do this then the Polish government and possibly the Swedes will do it. It's a toss up whether Germany will in my estimation.

Nuclear proliferation incoming.
> Blue areas aren’t states. They are cities. Democratic voting counties account for over 70% of the nations gdp. Conservative counties quite literally cannot support themselves.

But they can feed themselves.
Is there some analysis why the polls didn't correctly predict the result?

A failure in representative polls like this should be avoided with statistical methods.
The common answer to that was often "just read this 90 page document where she vaguely describes her opinions". This isn't how it works, people.
To all the people wondering why Trump has been elected, the answer is very simple and has been true in all countries that have had elections. When a large section of the voting public is chronically missing out on the benefits of what they're told is a "growing economy", only to observe continued "unfair" extremes of wealth distribution, they become disenchanted with the system that has generated this situation. By definition almost, they become very willing prey for any demagogue that threatens to upend the system, turn over the money-changers tables. It's irrelevant whether the demagogue's policies will work or not. It's irrelevant whether the demagogue is provably lying or not. It's all about repressed anger being unleashed and finding a target. Even if the target is not the cause of their misery. And so every latent form of bigotry finds expression and is easily exploited by the demagogue.

It's worth re-reading Goebells primarily because his understanding of this psychology is what made Nazi demagoguery so devastatingly successful. Any attempt by a party to attack the demagogue without directly addressing the elephant in the room (the growing class of working poor) is not only destined to fail, but destined to fail badly. If I hate you - really hate you - I don't mind copping a few painful blows if it means I get to see you bludgeoned to near death. Vengeance is an incredibly powerful motivator. People trying to lump all of Trump's supporters as Nazi's are making a grave mistake and refusing to see the forest for the trees. Just as most Germans in WWII were not Nazis yet supported Hitler, so too with Trump. Latinos, blacks, gays and women all voted for Trump. Don't assume they're all stupid. When I hate you, I'm happy to burn in hell if you're there with me.

Of course, this is a simple generalisation and there are lots of "sub-reasons" (the bro-vote, the foot-gun Democrat advertising - "he doesn't have to know!", etc). If the Democrats had chosen Bernie Sanders as their candidate back in 2016, they would've had eight years in power. It's no coincidence that Bernie had a lot of support from those that otherwise voted Trump. They felt that he was real and was really concerned about them and would really do something to assuage their pain. Now? Now they're just mad - "enough is enough".

However, anger is not sustainable for too long and all demagogues eventually come undone because once the heat of anger is gone and you look around and realise things are worse than ever - well, that's when things can REALLY get dangerous.
That's why Kamala lost: they called supporters of the other camp racist and misogynists like you're doing right now instead of discussing and listening to their grievances.

Shitting on your voter base is no way to win sympathy.
> than 40k€ is around the correct ballpark price for an eGolf I would argue, relatively speaking.

Only if these cars are only intended for the affluent. Then sure. It's totally the right place for them. But I thought the point of EVs was saving our environment. What's the point if only a small fraction of any given population can afford one?
As a non-American, my personal concern for Democracy in regards to the USA is the questionable system of the electoral college which, in my opinion, is one of the worst forms of representative democracy on the planet and certainly not apt for a country so proud of its democratic values.

This also goes hand-in-hand with the black-white thinking of a two-party-system.
Spain has had a left-wing government for a while, and the current German one could maybe be described as centre-left.

Agreeing with you though that the EU as a whole isn't really "left-wing".
Also don't blatantly exaggerate and lie in journalism:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics/donald-trump-liz-che...
Indeed an EU nuclear weapons program is now a strong possibility.
Why not ask some of the distinguished conservative academics who support the likely (as I write) next President? By the way, how about turning the question round? I hope you do not think that's unthinkable.
Isn't that sentence literally true for the Republican party as well? So how would it be a differentiating factor?
What you've written is exactly what happened in the UK during the Brexit referendum. The lessons still haven't been learned.
Insurance companies tend to have far more capital than their employee numbers would suggest. Particularly Geico, who are famously cheap.
But you aren't getting any with this ticket. There is no political force in the US that would question the trickle-down fairytales, and your broken elections system won't allow one to emerge.

So you vote for change, yet the economics policies stay as unequal as always. But in the process you supported a rapist and a criminal who calls execution of journalists, suppression of women, blatant racism and just death and destruction of non-privileged people everywhere.
Biden was all in on tariffs too.
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The IPC overhead of process-based parallelism in Python is a pain to deal with in general, even when the underlying computational bottleneck are already written CPU optimized (calls to compiled extensions written in Cython/C/C++/Rust, call to CPU optimized operations written with CPU architecture-specific intrinsics/assembly from OpenBLAS via NumPy/SciPy, calls to e.g. GPU CUDA kernels via PyTorch/Triton, ...).

Sometimes the optimal level of parallelism lies in an outer loop written in Python instead of just relying on the parallelism opportunities of the inner calls written using hardware specific native libraries. Free-threading Python makes it possible to choose which level of parallelism is best for a given workload without having to rewrite everything in a low-level programming language.
You know, nothing gives me competence in my incompetence than seeing just how fucking successful Trump and Elon have been despite their lack of competence
That's what's the most mind-boggling for me - since when are the Republicans the ones considered most likely to bring prosperity to the masses?
> Harris wasn't likable/charismatic enough to many people, and was largely supported for her policies first and her personality second. Trump, on the other hand, went on a lot of longform podcasts, worked at McDonalds for a few hours, and generally seems more "human" to the average person.

I would argue it was the other way round. They both went on podcasts etc and I'm debate and in rallies Trump was verging on incoherent and boring his own supporters. But on policy he was far stronger. I'm not American and I'm left wing but the trade and tax policies he's proposing do speak to traditional left wing, trade union workers: put up barriers to lower cost countries undercutting American workers. I don't know what Harris vision is, it seems she has trouble articulating it clearly.
He’s 78. Trump isn’t the real threat too democracy. It might be what he sets in motion that is.
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Not everyone who voted for Brexit was a racist, but every racist voted for Brexit. - Bill Bragg

Pretty sure this would work with "Trump" instead of "Brexit".
> Are you saying that Trump has no ideology?..

It.. unironically seems so? Not long ago Trump used to be a Democrat. He has often backtracked and tweaked his public ideology to whatever gets the most populist support, e.g. Abortions.
Please don't be histrionic, this is the last place that needs it.
"America first" includes economic policies that drive up commerce, even at the cost of our allies. German news is full of VW and other auto executives wanting to leave for production in the US. Trump's tariffs mean companies will just want to produce in the US and export outside it. And it's working.

Do people not understand this?
I think in fact you'll find there's been a huge rightward shift in the tech sector in the US and HN reflects that.
There is always a fine line between professionalism and stick in your arse. Of course you need to know when such a culture is adequate and when it is not. If you work in support you probably don't banter with the people calling you. That would indeed be unprofessional.

Professionalism is to keep distance to others, banter is the opposite, as it is a form of bonding.

"Modern" workplaces that advertise themselves as such are very likely toxic. Might seem counter intuitive but it is often the case in reality.
True, that was an awkward episode. Now you've got me reading about the motivations for the civil war. I mean obviously slavery, but why go to war rather than let the Confederacy be a separate nation? Seems the fighting was over the political future of yet-to-be Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma (if I've got the right territories there), and whether they would have slavery, once populated.
GP is indistinguishable from a bot. Treat him that way.
Trump may not have deserved to win, but the Democrats deserved to lose - and I'm relieved they did.

Maybe after this rematch the blue team will finally understand the loss was their fault, so they can start moving away from the abominable ideology and spiteful elitism that handed them this result.
What? You explicitly want people to die?
I didn't say I thought it was a good idea, but clearly a lot of American voters think this is worth trying.
Yes. We Americans have the collective memory of a Mayfly and the inability to pay attention to things that drive actual inflation that take a lot of time to resolve, like bad housing policy, logistics logjams, and starving the beastly budget needed for oversight.
Terribly sorry for you and your father. Heartbreaking.
As in, they were right calling people bigots if they wanted to get out of the eu? That definitely didn't improve uk, I've even heard about people feeling "betrayed" by the now valid tariffs that damaged their UK business
Yea, but the game's changed. The Republican Party has figured out how to rally millions behind charismatic candidates. I wouldn't be surprised if we were in for a couple more years of Republican leadership.
My new unhealthy conspiracy theory is democrats like being perpetually in the minority where they can talk a good game but don’t actually have to follow through on anything. That’s why they always tack right and try to compromise with people who call them enemies and groomers and demons. “We’ll welcome them into our cabinet” never sat well with me in the era of Trump.
> all that matters!

Some perspective is called for.