harimau777

Sure, but that only works if corporations are willing to value being a decent person in their hiring and performance reviews. In my experience, that is not the case at all.

To what degree are the employees getting the benefit of any increased productivity from AI?

I guess people go where the incentives are. For at least the last decade that sort of behavior hasn't been punished or has even been rewarded (see: the entire Trump administration).

Meanwhile, being a decent person carries very little benefit anymore. So it's probably not surprising that people no longer take the effort.

I mean, generally speaking they actually haven't. Look at all the candidates who abandoned trans rights.

Why should someone vote for the Democrats when they will just throw us under the bus the moment it becomes convenient?

If I remember correctly, the crime statistic that they give in one of the movies is also much lower than many US cities.

A major portion of vocal 2A advocates cite the need to own guns in order to protect against government overreach. The argument being made is that the government is now overreaching but the 2A advocates aren't actually using their guns to protect against it.

With respect, I think you might not spend much time in leftist spaces. Leftists are notoriously vicious in attacking people for ideological impurity. Is it possible that you are conflating leftists and liberals/mainstream democrats?

Most people recognize that the freedom of speech is not absolute. Leftists arguing for hate speech laws are generally doing so from a reasoned position that hate speech falls within the "not absolute" area. You may disagree with them, but that doesn't mean that they are hypocrites.

On the other hand, there's not an apparent principled reason why the government's actions here wouldn't fall under the arguments made by the 2A advocates that the parent is referring to. Therefore, it appears to be hypocracy.

That being said, I run in fairly left wing crowds and the idea of passing hate speech laws almost never comes up. I'm sure that there are people who would support that, but there simply isn't any meaningful movement to actually try to make it happen.

Yes, and the issue at hand here is neither of those.

Just because it is assumed by someone doesn't make them right.

Things aren't that simple. Some illegal immigrants were brought here long before they were old enough to have a say. Some were here legally but then Trump canceled their asylum.

That's not relevant to him spying on political enemies.

Their speech doesn't strike me as all that different from other religious texts like the Dao De Jing.

Do you have any evidence that they spend their whole day on their smartphones? It's also not clear to me that they claim to live exactly like their ancestors. They just claim to have knowledge that was refined and passed on to them by their ancestors.