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Anyone who thinks this was about getting AI working was the idiot from the start, there still isn’t even a real use-case for it. This was always about funneling huge amounts of money from the government budget to a bunch of rich assholes. The outcome doesn’t matter at all here.
So, basically the military industrial complex (which liberals support!) but with less genocide? Don't get me wrong, I hate Trump and Republicans are clearly the greater evil, but liberals have helped conservatives funnel trillion of dollars in public assets to the 1% for decades. It was under Bill Clinton that the internet, which was publically funded and publicly built, was given to the 1%. So to me, this is just more of the same: capitalist politicians stealing from us to make the 1% wealthier.
Do you have any proof, or is it just conspiracy theory?
So you want to say that liberals who oppose wealth inequality themselves support that same billionaires? What a BS.
P.S. It seems that democratic party in US is more right-wing than "social democratists" as in the EU, looking at their policies.
Most democrat politicians aren't Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Sure, other very progressive dems also do exists, but the majority are those "human-faced capitalism" types.
Democratic party in US is more right-wing, looking at their politices. But by liberals I meant center-left like "social democratists" in the EU.
The person you're replying to may be much further to the left than you give them credit for.
The lesser of two evils is still evil and deserves to be called such. The US is not a benevolent nation.
By liberals I meant center-left like "social democratists" in the EU, but I now realised that you were talking about Democratic party. They are more right-wing by their policies.
That user is saying it in a more conspiracy sounding way, but isn't factually wrong as long as you replace "given" with "sold".
The publicly built and operated Internet infrastructure was cut up and sold off in 94 by Clinton to telephone companies at very friendly rates.
Governments send money to their fellow top people, by accident if not design.