The democrats have less votes because their policies are platitudes and austerity at the expense of the working people and in service to party donors. It’s not for a lack of leftist sentiment, as Bernie himself still has quite a bit of a following in spite being independent

If a bully keeps bullying someone, until the victim finally snaps back, is it the bully defending themselves or should they not be held at fault for the bullying in the first place?

Well yes but that’s the problem, we need to think outside the box, revolutions are seen as a thing of the past but maybe everyone could learn from the french

When the vote is either voting for status quo or voting for something worse, that’s not a fair vote, it’s one made under duress

Well it’s not a private entity hiring them, it’s the actual govt. Usually the defense is that those are private companies and they can do what they want but that doesn’t apply here

Damn, jumping to accusations sure is crazy, what was your first comment in this reply thread again? Jumping to backdoor accusations.

You download a model that you plug into a front-end that supports that model type, if the front-end doesn’t give it access it won’t have access.

It’s like being afraid of Photoshop brush file, the brush is only used when you want it how you want it within the confines of Photoshop. Same for models. At worst a backdoor would exist in Photoshop (or in our actual case in one of the front ends) that the brush file somehow exploits, but that’s a big reach, especially with open source software.

If people are however downloading self contained .exes or something with a model+frontend pre-packaged, well, that’s on them. I don’t think deepseek makes any such file available anyway so blaming them feels a bit… xenophobic?

Just run it locally

Or I guess just self host an email server

Sadly you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If you’re voting you’re supporting the status quo of the Dems really only listening to corporate backers, if you’re not voting you’re letting the opposition (Trump) have a better chance at office (which he did get). They’re both terrible options, and I’m not sure blaming individuals who are tired of having to fight for the lesser evil instead of a better tomorrow is fair