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

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724 points simonw | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.556s | 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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guappa ◴[11 Jul 25 07:29 UTC] No.44529288[source]▶
Is being a tax haven and doing propaganda to tell your citizens how virtuous you are economically (what NL has been doing for several decades) not right wing populism?
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rahkiin ◴[11 Jul 25 09:12 UTC] No.44529968[source]▶
We haven’t had a left-wing parlement for some decades now
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1. guappa ◴[11 Jul 25 09:40 UTC] No.44530217[source]▶
My point being that the 20% right wingers aren't really a 20% minority… they're more like the majority.
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2. bojan ◴[11 Jul 25 10:17 UTC] No.44530456[source]▶
Next to the Messiah parties, there are also other established (far-)right wing parties that have a reasonably steady electorate. The Netherlands indeed didn't have a left majority for some decades now.