God, it’s like you don’t even care about maximizing profit at any cost at all.

Now I’m picturing Mark Carney showing up rapping.

Don’t forget:

“I didn’t vote for this!” <Continues to vote for this>

The article, with the Musk section, points out what nearly everyone else has identified as the primary problem: the people saying that AI will obsolete all workers, and the people saying that those who don’t work don’t deserve to eat, ARE THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE.

Even the most dumbfuck Magat is going to eventually figure out where that goes and react accordingly.

this guy just wants a local user with no cloud service ads in his face all the time

Yeah, but that’s not what the shareholders want, so they don’t give a shit.

What a world we live in, where we can’t be sure that the President of the United States has dementia because he’s always been mentally fucked-up.

Wow, did JD’s death aura kill Orban’s chances?

“Protecting” the US athletes, I assume. Y’know, like how North Korea protects its athletes when they go abroad and are exposed to horrible foreign thoughts.

Ah, but have you been raking your forests? Apparently that fixes everything.

What about for after he inevitably says “Oops, tee hee, the ballots were all soaked in gasoline and set on fire, you know how it is.”

They don’t even value freedom that much. If you have sufficient money you can take anyone’s freedom.

I think you just need to look to Russia to see the US’ future. At no point have they ever stopped to think “maybe we shouldn’t concentrate power in the hands of the incredibly corrupt”. Instead they’ve grabbed hold of the idea that the entire world is conspiring to keep them down, and they’re big mad about it.

He expected to lose the first election. He wanted to be able to use it as proof that the system was against him, to fire up the Fox News rubes and jumpstart his new TV network. He basically wanted to lose, and instead he won.

It’s amazing. He’s such a failure he failed at failing.

I think this article forgets how Trump effectively surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban the last time around.