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norealme@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Everyone who goes into politics wants money. Musk gives them money. Profit!
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 6 minutes ago
Musk should consider skipoing the middle man and paying citizens dire tly for their votes. Proportional to his wealth. Like the taxes we used to charge the wealthy.
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Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Which billionaires aren’t flooding money into politics to influence elections? They were doing it long before all the AI drama.
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Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
By backfiring your mean they have nearly total control then yes. Those losers, it has totally backfired on them and now they are richer and more powerful than ever!
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Troll Musk. Vote Democrat.
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reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
should also campaign for third option so there are options and idiot party could be left to wither. Current situation leads to slow and inevitable fall as stagnation is the very best that can happen.
Anything that makes republicans weaker is a win for your country.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Expect bipartisan legislation to increase the anonymity of PAC money before the year is over.
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
All Dems have to do is run with Data Center Prohibition as their main issue, and they would win EVERY election, and destroy the MAGA movement. Even Republicans hate Data Centers, and ALL MAGA candidates LOVE them. No MAGA candidate cans say anything against them. Florida MAGA candidates are trying to ease it by claiming that they’ll make sure that citizens won’t pay the costs, but everybody knows they’re lying. That’s about the most opposition they’re putting.
MAGA is the party of UNLIMITED Data Centers. Just slam that over and over, and NOBODY will vote MAGA.
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redballooon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Would the promise require dems to actually do something about data centers?
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TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren’t paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.
They’re using AI. They think it’s wonderful, they’ve barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think “data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don’T yoU?”
The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025
- Therapy and companionship
- Organizing my life
- Finding purpose
- Enhanced learning
- Summarizing content
- Generating ideas
- Generating code (for professionals)
- Improving code (for professionals)
- Creativity
- Visual art and design
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So, you also cannot discern the difference in traditional DCs and AI DCs? I feel like you know and I’m missing something.
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pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
You’d be surprised. Data centers seem like a big issue. My boomer parents hate data centers, as do a lot of rural voters who have them nearby or proposals nearby. But to your point, I also see a lot of people who are aware of problems around ai/data centers/billionaires still using ai.
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redballooon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The problems with data centers are not the data centers, it’s missing regulation about where and how to build data centers.
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taiyang@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My thoughts exactly. I know two folks who are going all in with AI and haven’t even considered any controversy. Feels like they live on another planet. Hell, one of the guys was even showing off his pervert glasses and when I called them pervert glasses he laughed and said he hadn’t heard that before.
I really hope those folks are in the minority.
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pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Dang. Their online filter bubble must be strong. Likely the kind of person who also doesn’t care about surveillance capitalism because “it’ll recommend good things to buy.”
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melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I’m sick of all the shiny shoes and the posturing. I need a serious person with substance.
inari@piefed.zip 10 hours ago
The next step seems obvious: they’ll take a page from the tobacco, guns, and meat industry and instead create fake think tanks or associations to funnel political money semi-anonymously.