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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Realistically, most EAs will vote for the white male over the non-white female anyway, but it's on-brand for them to post a giant substack with reasons why.

[–] aninjury2all@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

After hate-reading the replies I spied Roko plus an an unironic Yarvinite what an absolute G E M

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Dude posted to the EA forum as suggested and it went over like a lead balloon:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A6W5qm9gWyr3mikmS/the-ea-case-for-trump-2024

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Kinda funny that they write thousand page essays with detailed reasons on why to vote for a person who can't read more than two sentences without getting distracted by a ketchup bottle.