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hunter

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8. The technology billionaire class largely turned against the Democratic Party...

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:56 PM

Sep 2025

... as soon as they heard the word "regulation" applied to AI and cryptocurrency.

These fuckwits really do think they are the good guys and that their libertarian technology fetishes will somehow save the world. (Well, maybe not Elon Musk. He's just a grifter who got really good at sucking up our tax dollars for useless sci-fi crap that will not make the world a better place.)

With any luck the AI bubble will burst covering them all with a stinky goo they can't wash off.

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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry [View all] Celerity Sep 2025 OP

REGULATE rampartd Sep 2025 #1

Sharing profits & services will work. Opposing AI won't work. There are too many forces behind it. We can shape it Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #2

All good points. We can't just oppose "because". KPN Sep 2025 #12

AI is costing a fortune in electricity Alice Kramden Sep 2025 #3

Rising electricity costs kill people... hunter Sep 2025 #5

twenty something music ppl I know love it even tho it will put them out of business. who needs young music when spotify msongs Sep 2025 #4

Merely trying to regulate it cost a good chunk of the last election. Maybe "just enough" usonian Sep 2025 #6

Too late now, other than requiring some statement that it's AI. Silent Type Sep 2025 #7

For real. The toothpaste is out of the tube. Orrex Sep 2025 #9

The technology billionaire class largely turned against the Democratic Party... hunter Sep 2025 #8

Becoming the Luddite Party moves in the direction of extinction JCMach1 Sep 2025 #10

The Luddites may not have been who you think they were. eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #13

The point is they lost everything and gained nothing in the teeth of a paradigm shift JCMach1 Sep 2025 #14

we can all do a little RainCaster Sep 2025 #11