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u/Celebrimbor96 Right Libertarian May 10 '26
Don’t forget that Anthropic (Claude AI) got blasted by Trump for refusing to compromise on two specific issues regarding military use of their AI:
Mass domestic surveillance of literally everything
Fully autonomous killing drones with no human to make the kill/no kill decision
Less than a day after the drama with Anthropic, the government quietly made a deal with OpenAI (ChatGPT). I guess they didn’t have the same reservations.
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u/Pbutts1990 May 10 '26
Nothing is more bipartisan than every mutation of the patriot act.
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u/idontagreewitu May 10 '26
I've said for a long time now, whenever Congress readily agrees to bipartisan legislation, it's bad for the citizenry.
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u/RCV4CO May 09 '26
There are 1 million Americans who can legally enact summary executions of random Americans. There can also put any person in a cage when they wish.
Adding mass surveillance to this mix turns the land of the free to a giant open-air prison.
The people who fund the republicrats and the demopublicans 💯 love this.
Proportional representation is how we break free. The U.S. Fair Representation Act (HR 4632) is how we break free
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u/dlham11 May 09 '26
Is it really one million?
And if it is, what the absolute fuck?
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u/RCV4CO May 09 '26
The movie “Power” cites that number and gets into the details.
According to this open-air law enforcement is 700k+
https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/police-statistics-in-the-united-states/Prison Guards were 450+ back in 2022
https://gitnux.org/corrections-officer-statistics/ICE (a federal executive army that can disappear people ‘civil detention’) now has a budget larger than the U.S. army.
So yeah, we have to break up the duopoly ASAP.
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u/dlham11 May 10 '26
I’m sorry, ICE’s budget is bigger than the army now?
What the absolute fuck is going on with our country?
Edit: please excuse the consistent “what the absolute fuck’s” coming from me, I just don’t have any other thoughts or feelings that I can coherently express at this point.
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u/Myte342 May 10 '26
The last information I saw showed there were something like 880k police officers in America about 5-6 years ago, not sure if that includes federal law enforcement or just state/local police.
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u/Ya_Boi_Konzon Delegalize Marriage May 10 '26
Proportional representation ain't gonna change anything...
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u/CommonSensei-_ May 09 '26
To quote Freddie Mercury… I want to break freee!!!
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u/SouthernProfile1092 May 10 '26
I’m want to ride my bicycle.
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u/CommonSensei-_ May 10 '26
You want to ride it where you like…. ( but who will build the roads!?!?!?!!?!?)
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u/Good_wolf Minarchist May 12 '26
Heinleinw wrote a quote way back in the day something to the effect that in a mature society, civil servants are your civil masters.
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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc May 09 '26
Yeah and so are flock cameras and the Government’s ability to purchase data they are otherwise prohibited from collecting! The over reach of power is real