Trump’s First Moves: Toward More War, Nothing for Workers
Donald Trump’s first executive orders should dispel any fantasy of him as either a noninterventionist or an economic populist.
But my eggs? I was told their would be cheaper eggs!
We managed to solve that issue for pharmaceutical executives, you're gonna have to wait your turn.
It’s my eggs and I want them now! - JG Eggworth
Reduced demand (through more deaths) will naturally lower prices
"No wars under Trump"
-- the dumbs
Another order canceled Joe Biden’s sanctions on the most violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank, who are apparently not “terrorists” despite their violent and politically motivated attacks on civilians. He also seems to be laying the legal groundwork to carry out his campaign promise to deport foreign students who participated in antiwar protests as Israel systematically drove millions of Gazans from their homes and killed more children in that tiny territory than had died in all the war zones in the world for years before.
And here I thought voting for Harris means you support genocide and there is no way genocide gets worse once it starts being genocide. That was what I was told for weeks before November.
Minor correction, most of them seem to think that voting at all is the issue. Can't imagine why they work so hard to depress voter turnout on left-leaning social media
Yep sounds about right
Believe me, I'm no fan of the guy but for now he is trying to spin the Stargate thing as a job creating measure. Hell, in the short-to-medium term, it could well spur some short-lived economic benefits within the US. Beyond that though, it will probably be disastrous. I really hope world governments have the sense to develop countermeasures as soon as possible, with high priority.
There's going to be a lot of economic benefits to those who supported his campaign.
Yup, even if the short-lived boost I mentioned was about the people who will do work in the datacentres, he's really doing this to benefit the tech billionaires he has swarming around him lately.
That money will be paid out to cronies and will never lead to any new jobs or technology. It's a naked giveaway.
It's great because when the AI bubble pops everyone will just say "damn, THAT'S why there is nothing to show for it" while his bros waddle off with pockets just bursting with money.
They're definitely going to make criminal amounts of money off this one way or another, but he still has to put up a pretense (like the incomplete border wall).
Also, I don't know about Masayoshi Son, but I suspect this is a prestige thing for Sam Altman and Larry Ellison, among their billionaire buddies. I don't know if Altman in particular is going to be okay with just bailing from something high profile.
I can't help envisioning long-term corporate welfare here (similar to Musk companies, hence his jealous jabs about it), nominal jobs (with a sudden loss of job security as soon as AI can replace them), and horrid potential uses for the AI advances they do make.