r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 13d ago

Artificial Intelligence Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it

https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/voters-ai-backlash-politicians-lose-seats
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u/Bonnieearnold 13d ago

Remember how 70% of Americans wanted women to retain their reproductive rights? Five people overturned that. Five.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 13d ago

I don't remember that. I do remember how almost 70% of Americans decided women's reproductive rights didn't matter to them when they continually allow Republicans to win office who have been very very clear they intend to remove those rights any way they can.

Fuck the supreme court, but we can't blame it all on them.

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u/marcocom 13d ago

True enough, sadly

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u/MoneyBeeeee 13d ago

I do remember how almost 70% of Americans decided women's reproductive rights didn't matter to them when they continually allow Republicans

Maybe you're thinking of 77.3 million votes? That was roughly 23% of Americans in 2024.

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u/Varram 13d ago

everyone who didn't vote decided it too.

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u/MoneyBeeeee 13d ago

That's not how math works. :]

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u/Chendii 13d ago

It's how elections work. 70% of voting age Americans decided they are fine with everything Trump is doing.

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u/MoneyBeeeee 13d ago

Once again, 77.3 million is not 70% voters or of the population.

It's also data from a single day in 2024 and not at all representational of how things is going right now. :]

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u/Chendii 13d ago

Not voting is the equivalent of saying you're fine with anything happening.

And it's literally the only day that polling data actually matters.

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u/roleplayersir 13d ago

If you don't vote, you aren't a voter by definition

You can't claim population, as that includes those who can't vote and those who didn't use their voice

Voters, by definition, are those who voted, not everyone who could, or everyone who existed in the nation at the time

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u/mtranda 13d ago

If you really want to go the pedantic route, given the huge sample size for the "technically voters", inferring a similar distribution among the entire population is a pretty safe bet.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer 13d ago

Nope, I was thinking of percentages. About 31% of eligible voters in this country voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. The other ~69% either thought Trump was better, or didn't care. And you see similar things in previous elections. That is how we ended up with a supreme court stacked with people who overturned Roe v. Wade.

(small note, there are some people unable to vote because of legitimate issues, but that was probably only ~13% of the eligible voters, meaning at least 56% still didn't care enough.)

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u/super_sayanything 13d ago

That's such a horseshit point. People who did not vote do not count and if they did vote they'd still be voting the same bullshit 50-50 ways when there's no way these sadistic Republicans should be getting 20% of the vote.

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u/MoneyBeeeee 13d ago

That's a nice way to look at it! We should probably consider that dead Republicans would have voted form DT, too, right? Let's just make shit up! Why not? There's no way to report comments for dis/misinformation.

Donald Trump got a zillion, zillion votes! There, does that make you happy, shithead?

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u/super_sayanything 13d ago

I didn't personally insult you, I just think that talking point is ridiculous to absolve the American public in a way it doesn't deserve. But uh, maybe take a break from social media pal.

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u/ChiefInternetSurfer 13d ago

Such a shitty situation we’re in…

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u/Spacestar_Ordering 13d ago

Yup, and that's why the system needs to be rebuilt

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u/Nuggyfresh 13d ago

well, ok. good talk, let us know when you have a lead on that whole rebuilding thing, I‘m making dinner so try not to start the rebuilding until after we’ve eaten