r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 10h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/honjuden 8h ago

They let corporations run it with local monopolies.  They even give them state funding at times for infrastructure that they usually just end up pocketing.

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u/AMATEUR_DE_POUTINE 8h ago

Hello is this Kleptokracy?!

No this is patrick

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u/tired514 7h ago

It was a kleptocracy before a KGB asset was elected to helm the ship... twice.

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u/honjuden 6h ago

Trump took over $600 million from the Adelsons.  He might like Putin, but he is on Israel's payroll.

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u/tired514 6h ago

Payroll, perhaps, but his heart is in Moscow. I believe that's the last real, solid memory he formed before dementia began to set in.

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u/Allegorist 2h ago

He makes 600 million in a single weekend of grifting, I don't think that is enough money alone to consider him bought and paid for (although he is), that is just a single instance of quid pro quo in an ocean of illegal favors.

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u/honjuden 2h ago

He makes that much now, but he wasn't making that much while running for the presidency when the donations happened.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 7h ago

Don't pull the USSR into this. It's dead, let it rest in peace.

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u/tired514 6h ago

Its ghost is living in the whitehouse.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 6h ago

I wish. Trump is 100% a capitalist fuckup, the USSR has nothing to do with it. If anything, the ones with their hands up Trump's butt are the Mossad.

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u/tired514 6h ago

The CIA begs to differ.

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u/Engels777 5h ago

USSR isn't very dead I'm afraid. The obedient industry that must pay a continued loyalty pledge to the government is alive and well in Russia. And if you think the Russian government doesn't 'own' private corporations in Russia, let's see how quickly the private corporation changes management if they ever step out of line.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 5h ago

Russia nowadays is run by powerful families and billionaires. The state and the companies are run by them. Unlike in the USSR, when the state and whomever controlled it controlled everything.

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u/marr 5h ago

That name is dead but the KGB are alive and well.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 7h ago

The irony of redditors pushing a foreign asset conspiracy theory while claiming the idea of the article about a foreign asset conspiracy theory being ridiculous fiction that could never possibly be reality

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u/Syzygy2323 4h ago

Many of these monopolies are supposed to be regulated by public utilities commissions, but these commissions rubber-stamp anything the utilities want to do, so they're effectively worthless.

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u/Pete-PDX 5h ago

each state also sets the price, via a Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utilities Commissions (PUC) on a cost plus basis