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The AI industry calling for regulation is a better sham still. They know the regulation will be toothless, there is nothing for them to fear. But if the "regulation" materializes, they can deflect any liability for the sizable damage they cause by pointing out they follow regulation.

Related are the calls to get public oversight in the form of part government ownership. Which is a ploy to sell their inflated stock to taxpayer suckers, to get the government on the leash to pave the way for them with all of their problems, and to get a guarantee of government bailout if things get sour.

Beautiful in it's own right, but oh so cynical and evil. Get with the times, I guess.

In fact, there is a lot wrong with Democrats. If there was nothing wrong with them, no one would be voting Trump over Democrats.

Leaving aside bipartisan issues like corruption, lies, and incompetence... Where Democrats fall behind Republicans these days is that Democrats consider party discipline more important than election results, or even any results at all. Republicans took note that Trump was making waves, understood that the wind was changing, and they remade the Party in his image to get ahead. Democrats on the other hand cut the head off of anyone who threatens the status quo of power in the party, and are then left wondering where they should get themselves a Democrat Musk or Rogan... you already had those, but you could not forgive them they had a few of their own ideas about things too, and you threw them away and turned them against you!

This is why Democrats are left fielding unelectable mediocrity like Clinton and Harris, and of course Biden, who only won the first time because Trump had made such a joke of himself. By enforcing rightthink in the party lines without exception, everything that can draw and keep voter attention is bred out of the Democrat bloodline. Bernie, betrayed. AOC, of borg by now. Mamdani, in progress. Platner, destroyed. By the time anyone can get nominated, they have already for years had the charisma of drying paint, and vision to match. The bloodline by now is of late stage Habsburg quality, with results to show for it. Came Trump second time, even the joke that he is was still beat the joke that was the Democrat campaign. Not only that, Democrats have lost the ability to govern and are basically imploding by now, only making half-hearted noise about issues, but folding every hand without any actual fight. Pity.

Next he will be renaming the United States of America to America of America. Or maybe straight to Trump America.

It's turtles all the way down.

Bill Gates is building a pharma, biotech, and gmo IP empire. Whatever his argumentation is, the general topic means he is 100% pushing for his own interests.

This describes pretty much all news though...

In general, all code is always pushed upstream, barring legal reasons. Because by pushing it upstream you also push maintenance costs upstream; by not pushing upstream, you set yourself up to forever maintain a fork and to forever merge your changes again and again into a forever changing and diverging upstream code base. Which is a drag.

Making us dependent and stupid is the whole game.

If someone came to me and thought I would watch three hours of that sociopath con job, I would be stunned too...

Well at least /I/ made an argument.

For comparision, when private capital and Saudi princes subsidize e.g. Uber, to capture market share, bankrupt competitors, dominate markets, and then set prices to whatever they want, that is totally fine. I guess it's because if someone does something as industrial policy and nation building, it's bad, but if it's just destruction out of pure greed, it's the bee's knees.

Good luck with that...

Part of the bigger strategy, going on forever now, but especially pronounced in the last decade or so, "If you don't support government policy, you are unamerican, and clearly an $enemy asset.

There's a new word for such a someone now. Domestic terrorist. Wrongthink alone is enough to be called one.

The decline of the US empire started with the ascension to power of neoliberals, both parties, starting with the election of Reagan. Everything about the contemporary US is downstream from that. No matter who's in charge, the US has chosen business over people every time since.

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