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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: 0s | 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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1. v5v3 ◴[11 Jul 25 12:23 UTC] No.44531324[source]▶
His party didn't implode, and he didn't have one every few years.

He succeeded with UKIP as the goal was Brexit. He then left that single issue party, as it had served it's purpose and now recently started a second one seeing an opportunity.