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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

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724 points simonw | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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pu_pe ◴[11 Jul 25 06:35 UTC] No.44528987[source]▶
It's telling that they don't just tell the model what to think, they have to make it go fetch the latest opinion because there is no intellectual consistency in their politics. You see that all the time on X too, perhaps that's how they program their bots.
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Davidzheng ◴[11 Jul 25 06:39 UTC] No.44529017[source]▶
very few people have intellectual consistency in their politics
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bojan ◴[11 Jul 25 06:57 UTC] No.44529103[source]▶
In the Netherlands we have this phenomenon that around 20% of voters keep voting for the new "Messiah", a right-wing populist politician that will this time fix everything.

When the party inevitably explodes due to internal bickering and/or simply failing to deliver their impossible promises, a new Messiah pops up, propped by the national media, and the cycle restarts.

That being said, the other 80% is somewhat consistent in their patterns.

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pjc50 ◴[11 Jul 25 07:05 UTC] No.44529159[source]▶
In the UK it's the other way round: the media have chosen Farage as the anointed right-wing leader of a cult of personality. Every few years his "party" implodes and is replaced by a new one, but his position is fixed.
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KaiserPro ◴[11 Jul 25 08:55 UTC] No.44529847[source]▶
The problem is more nuanced than that. but not far off.

The issue is that farage and boris have personality, and understand how the media works. Nobody else apart from blair does(possibly the ham toucher too.)

The Farage style parties fail because they are built around the cult of the leader, rather than the joint purpose of changing something. This is part of the reason why I'm not that hopeful about Starmer, as I'm not acutally sure what he stands for, so how are his ministers going to implement a policy based on bland soup?

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1. piltdownman ◴[11 Jul 25 09:25 UTC] No.44530089[source]▶
In the post Alastair Campbell era of contemporary UK Politics, it often boils down to 'Don't be George Galloway' and allowing your opponents enough rope to hang themselves.