The CCP, Stupid People, Data Centers and AI

This is a very sophisticated attack on the American voter psyche by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Are Data Centers bad? The CCP wants you to think so.

Are you fearful that AI will usher in the age of SkyNet, Terminators and eradicate humanity?

Do you know what "gaslighting" means?

When you look in the mirror do you see a really stupid person staring back? The CCP hopes you don't.

The CCP is working really hard to make you hate data centers in order to slow down America's build out of AI computing. 

The CCP does this by hyping out of context sound bites from Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, etc. The sound bites always emphasize the out of control race to develop a deadly technology. The latest silliness is equating nuclear weapons with AI - pretty easy to think past that bullshit.

You dislike data centers because you've been fed lies. Lies like "data centers will use all our ground water" (Nope, they use closed loop heat exchangers - recycling the water). Another lie "they'll run up our electricity costs" (Nope, they don't build unless there is plenty of power, or they generate their own).

You're afraid of AI because along with the CCP, every semi-educated huckster is on podcasts hawking their books - solid fear-mongering.

Something to consider: do you know why the US has fallen behind in Nuclear power? Because a lot of people believe lies about nuclear power. I'm afraid that we could harm ourselves again if we legislate "common sense protections" against AI. 

Do the people scaring you and feeding you a stream of lies have America's best interest at heart?

Ignorance and Cost of Living

 The polls, as interpreted by the High Priests of Media, indicate that Cost of Living is the most important issue for voters as we approach the Mid-terms. The talking  heads in the MSM quote people complaining about the prices of food, utilities, and rent. And as an aside, the CCP is running YouTube videos of 20-somethings complaining about the price of eating out at Chipotle's - supported by a bot farm of "life sucks because of these prices" comments.

I've gotten into the habit of using the various AIs to research issues - gone are the days of manually sifting through pages of garbage Google hits. Both Grok and Gemini pegged the cumulative inflation at 22% for the Biden (aka shit-stain) administration's 4 years. If you're thinking back to pre-Covid prices, (which is where my mind goes), prices have increased 29.4%.

From the good old days to now, prices have risen 30% - that's inflation.

Now the only way you could have a pre-Covid reference is if you were paying your own way 6-7 years ago - not likely your average 20-something. That's something to consider when I mention CCP-generated videos.

But assuming memories of the good old days, it is possible that a percentage of people polled are legitimately so stupid that they believe Trump can just wave his Presidential wand and reset prices.

I'm not dismissing the higher cost of living - I feel it everytime I check out at the grocery store. But I know the issue is being used politically and those pushing it do not have America's best interests at heart.

The Media wants a failure, but..

 I'll cut to the chase: the right wing pundits are full of shit.

Trump has stated a zillion times that the goal with the air campaign is to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Trump has also made it clear that he is not going to keep the Straight of Hormuz open by himself.

I never pay attention to the libtard media, but now it is the right-wing pundits who are claiming all sorts of crazy shit. Everyone seems to assume that Trump is a mental midget like Biden.

Trump is under no illusions about regime change. Trump knows it is unlikely America is going to find the cylinders of Uranium hexafluoride. He is also aware of war plan 99 course concept "escalation trap".

But Trump knows if Iran can't further enrich to 90%, they can't build a bomb small enough to deliver with a missile. Trump also knows that using 60% uranium 235 Iran can build a goofy-big bomb weighing about 20k lbs that could yield maybe 5kt. A bomb that could be moved by sea or a truck. For whatever reason, the pundits couldn't be bothered to at least run the idea by Grok before dismissing the risk.

When Trump used the word "imminent", he was right.

I'm not sure why, but it seems as though the right-wing is hoping Trump will screw up.

Messaging: Remember "low information voters"?

"Low information voters" entered our language in the run up to the 1996 Presidential election between incumbent Bill Clinton and challenger Senator Bob Dole. The media ran interviews of regular people, the most famous was a soccer mom who supported Bill Clinton saying "I don't trust him, but I think he's the better man for the job". Hence, "The soccer mom vote".

Assuming 2026 US population of 342 million:

• ~54 million people have an IQ of 85 or less
• ~233 million 85-115
• ~54 million with an IQ of 115 and above

According to Wikipedia, the US military will not accept or induct anyone below 83 IQ as they cannot be trained to successfully perform any job in the military.

The only requirements to vote are US citizenship and non-felon status.

All I know about the voting population is that ~156 million voted in 2024's Presidential election out of an eligible ~244 million (~65% turnout) voters.

I spewed all that intro as groundwork for the idea that campaign messaging needs to cover 3 IQ ranges.

Another idea is that the groups each have strengths and weaknesses:

• The 85 or less group will not respond to abstract concepts and will not understand academic language, but will respond strongly to verbal and visual appeals to justice and fairness regardless of truthfulness.
• The 85-115 group can  handle most abstract and advanced language, is suspicious of emotionalism but not likely to be knowledgeable of major issues.
• The 115+ group ignores appeals to emotionalism and switches off any dubious claims. Will not pay attention to logically unsupported positions.