BakerBagel

It's a Charlie Brown and the football situation. You can only fall for the same bait and switch so many times before you just give up. In a democracy it leads to voter apathy. And primaries are poorly run. If it isn't a prominent one, you likely won't find much information on the candidates prior to the primary election, and for the president, they sre pretty much decided by 4th one so if you're state does a later primary, chances are that your preferred candidate has already dropped out by the time you can actually vote for them.

Focusing on cannabis since the guy is complaining about his hemp farm.

The Democrats here in Ohio have done fuck all to protect the decriminalized cannabis that we voted in support of by 60% back in 2023 (same with abortion the same day). Republicans immediatly set to work to limit home growth and how much you can buy. Did the Democrats run ads in Ohio about how they were going to protect our right to grow and consume cannabis? Did they talk about how Republicans were going to roll back the provisions we all agreed on? No. They ran ads about how they were going to help Trump hurt trans kids and "secure the border" here in Ohio. The Democrats and Republicans have lost all credibility with everyone that isn't a die-hard supporter of the parties. People stop voting when they feel like neither party cares about their interests.

Because the EU has always been an austerity driving neoliberal organization dedicated to corporate profits.

We are looking at the mistake of allowing capital to offshore everything in the 70's and 80's. China didn't force those companies to stop maintaining their existing infrastructure and outsource all their manufacturing overseas, they chose it in the interest of lower costs.

See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I'm just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I'm sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won't do that.

There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM's from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn't want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.

You can hold someone accountable when a person runs over a child or a pet. Who is the responsible party when a waymo kills someone?

Because at it's core, the EU is still a neoliberal organization that promotes business interests over public welfare. It exists to ensure giant corporations in Europes developed core can compete against massive non-European firms. The only reason they don't push for American levels of cruelty is that the people of the EU would riot and overthrow their governments if their hard earned benefits (universal healthcare, worker protections, pensions, mandatory vacations) were severely threatened.

The aquifer has been totally drained by wildcat wells since there is almost zero access to running water in Jakarta. The draining of the aquifer has resulted in the rapid sinking of the city

Jakarta is quite literally sinking into the sea. The government's solution was to move the capital to a new island

They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up

It's happening in your country too. The status quo is clearly untenable, so people will vote for the one who offers to change it. Reform UK willbe terrible for everyone but the wealthy, but people are done with parties that only seek to assist the wealthy. Labour's austerity refusal to aid British citizens will only lose them votes