Vance and Starmer Approve Of Our Demise

J.D. Vance and Keir Starmer agree on the most pressing issue of our time: humanity comes last.

Sir Keir Starmer and Vice President JD Vance share little in common when it comes to politics, and indeed their outlook on life. One is a former lawyer, a man bland enough to lead the Labour Party to a massive general election victory by refraining from saying too many stupid things and allowing his opponents to make all the mistakes. The other is a man from Middletown, Ohio. A former senator whose life story—one shaped by drug addiction and poverty—whose working-class credentials won him President Trump’s stamp of approval as he continues his effort to turn the Republican Party into a mixed-race, populist, working-class movement. One endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s extremist, progressive, open-borders agenda. One is among the most recognizable faces of the modern populist right.

But there is one thing these two men have in common. Despite Vance having blasted the United Kingdom’s drift toward speech policing, criticizing Starmer’s backing of laws that criminalize “intent to stir up hatred” online, the two appear to have been duped by Big Tech CEOs. Well aware that they cannot afford to wait for new leaders they like, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and others are striking while the iron is hot to secure the political backing they need to advance their novel artificial intelligence and large language model technologies. Both Vance and Starmer have had the wool pulled over their eyes, and for one reason or another, are advancing the misguided idea that artificial intelligence… humanizes us.