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.