GreyEyedGhost

Your gotcha is that it only cost $3000 per person to deport them?

While you're correct, another option would be to use that money to help his fellow countrymen, but apparently that isn't American.

More like $4.

If you try to get elected by blaming something on the currently elected official and say that you will fix that, be 100% prepared to take the blame if that thing gets worse even if it was something you had no control in whatsoever, because you stood up and took responsibility for it.

If you don't want to be blamed for saying stupid things, stop saying stupid things.

And also, "Why won't the opposition release details on this? I'm as in the dark as the rest of you citizens because those in power don't want us to know." But if he had the clearance and the briefings, he wouldn't be able to say that shit.

"I don't rightly know why we started a-fueding, but by God Sarah, you're a red hat, you can't go out and marry a blue hat! Granny would keel over and die!"

Welcome to the internet, you must be new. Keep scrolling through new here and you should see some pretty common jokes about the falliability of AI of various flavors. Criticism of the weighting on training models can be found with just slightly more effort.

I don't think you're wrong in general, and I could give you a list of criticisms of Gate's actions even today. But if we're going to have wealth disparity, and we probably always will, I'd rather it be pragmatic self-interest clothed in good will than rabid self-interest clothed in freedom.

I can't think of anything that would give more of an appearance of weakness than setting demands on another party for who they'd install in cabinet if they won.

An aberration like industrialization, greater transportation, and intragenerational mobility, causing widespread societal change and cultural norms?

For the last 200 years, a significant amount of slavery has been limited to certain phenotypes. I agree that prior to that, it was less prevalent. That doesn't mean we don't have a historical model of slavery based on phenotype, it's just more recent history.

The core tenet of tribalism is "They aren't like us." That might be based on skin color, hair type, clothing, smell (from different diets), behavior. Modern racism (from the last couple hundred years) likely has some elements of more traditional tribalism with relaxed standards so the people a few hundred miles away can start to wrap their heads around the idea that Irish, for instance, are more or less the same as British.

I do hope people can get to the idea that anyone from a given point on this planet (so far) is just a person and not an outsider, but it looks like we have a way to go.