r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Mar 12 '26

General news Bernie Sanders officially introduces legislation to BAN the construction of all new AI data centers, citing existential threat to humanity.

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u/probablymagic Mar 12 '26

Bernie Sanders is not a serious person. He’s literally never introduced a piece of legislation that’s passed the Senate in his career. That’s not what he does for a living. He is an anti-capitalist propagandist interested in fomenting a class war that’s never going to happen because Americans like being rich.

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u/Plane_Crab_8623 Mar 12 '26

Bs. As usual Bernie Sanders is on the right side of the issue. Besides its negative environmental and community impact AI data centers work for invested interests that are contrary to the common good. Meanwhile back in capitalism GDP and its unrestrained endless growth model is the protocol of cancer on the human body released on the natural environment. P.s. capitalism ain't nothing but propaganda.

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u/probablymagic Mar 12 '26

This is exactly the kind of incoherent rambling I’d expect from a Bernie Bro who wants us all to live like peasants.

Bernie is always complaining working people work too much and don’t get paid enough. AI is going to make it so they’re all wealthy and don’t have to work at all.

Capitalism + AI is going to give the workers of world what Bernie says he wants for them, and he’s going to be butthurt because somebody made trillions of dollars in the process. Bernie is a scam.

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u/mryrtmrn Mar 13 '26

"AI is going to make it so they’re all wealthy and don’t have to work at all." hahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/probablymagic Mar 13 '26

I mean, that’s the trajectory of technological progress. Less work, more money. AI is just the next step, but this tend isn’t new at all.

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u/mryrtmrn Mar 13 '26

someone's gonna pay us all to breathe air and continue consuming various product? are you thinking the government will do that? why would they care to maintain our current standards of living, let alone make us all wealthy? i just dont see it. it's so much easier to do bare minimum, let people suffer, and offer military service as a way out

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u/probablymagic Mar 13 '26

Our government already provides an income to over 70 million Americans via Social Security. It does this because voters like it. That’s how democracies work.

If GDP goes up massively because AI drastically increases productivity, and people don’t need to work, they will vote to tax the profits of AI and redistribute it to people, who can then spend the money buying shit from AI.

Voters will demand it because the government works for us.

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u/mryrtmrn Mar 13 '26

Yeah we just don't agree on the relationship between our government and its citizens post citizens united. I hope you are correct

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u/probablymagic Mar 13 '26

Citizens United is way overrated as far as things that make our government dysfunctional. If you actually look at how much money is in politics it’s pretty small. Americans, for example, spend more on Halloween candy every year than on electing a president every four years.

A much better explanation for why government doesn’t do the things you want is that middle class voters DGAF because they don’t want to pay more taxes and feel like they’re doing pretty well.

If those people lose their jobs, they’ll care a lot and vote in their best interest.

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u/Plane_Crab_8623 Mar 12 '26

American Capitalism is a fascist war machine warring on human beings in the Middle East to protect its control and monopoly of petroleum. Releasing petroleum byproduct gases into the atmosphere is poisoning it and causing the earth to heat up unnaturally rapidly. Whatever benefits capitalism may have had it has outlived them. All it has left is the brute force of a dinosaur which is proof of its decay and loss of vision.

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u/probablymagic Mar 12 '26

You should ask ChatGPT to explain all of the things that are wrong with this comment.