• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s kind of a brilliant move.

    AI heads constantly try to tell us this will be a revolutionary technology that will help everyone. This forces them to put their money where their mouth is and give up a controlling stake.

    It also means one hallucinatory techbro can’t decide “8 million new data centers!!!111” on his own.

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      11 hours ago

      LOL
      You really think the government is going to decide anything against their owners?

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        11 hours ago

        Fuck off with doomer takes.

        “The government” is not a person. It’s lots of individual people executing control. They get more and more of it the less people collectively decide to participate and push alternative ideas to their methods of control. Like, say, mocking the idea the government would ever do anything for them.

        Bernie is trying, even knowing there’s often low chance of immediate success. It forces oligarchs to fumble their way through efforts to explain why their position is bad. That can push a lot of people from undecided positions to pro-populist ones.

        If New York listened to people like you, they NEVER would have gotten Mamdani in place. You may be vastly underestimating how important it is for the government to maintain some level of popularity with its actions.