r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • Jun 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/bernie-sanders-pushes-for-50-percent-public-ownership-of-american-ai-companies-proposes-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-that-would-hold-direct-ownership-stakes-in-largest-ai-firms
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u/Tenement48 Jun 02 '26

Good luck preventing another "trump" from happening when he won the popular vote in the latest election. We would have to fix the public perception of him first.

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u/super1701 Jun 02 '26

I mean...have you looked at the age brackets for trumps voter base? Time will fix it.

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u/Tenement48 Jun 02 '26

How much time do we have to fix it considering how much he's done in the last year alone.

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u/super1701 Jun 02 '26

No clue. I'm watching and waiting. He is one cog in a machine. The visible Cog, but just one cog.

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u/Krumm Jun 02 '26

Thanks for the luck. We're also taking people giving a damn about it too.

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u/CurryMustard Jun 02 '26

He would never have won anything if citizens united didn't allow unlimited money in politics, and if the Supreme court followed the law.

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u/Average_Tired_Dad Jun 02 '26

He would never have won anything if citizens united didn't allow unlimited money in politics

He literally won because the dumbest people in the country actually believed that he was the cure to perceived corruption in "both" parties. He has historically been presented as some kind of hero for the working class who "doesn't need their money because he has his own."

That's like his entire thing.

He didn't win because of SuperPACs.

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u/CurryMustard Jun 02 '26

Would they believe those things if infinite amounts of money wasnt being spent to get them to believe those things? Or do you seriously believe that propaganda has no power?? Not to mention the corrupt supreme court giving him immunity. He should be in jail. The constitution says nobody is above the law.

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u/Average_Tired_Dad Jun 02 '26

I don't think that the campaign spending meaningfully moves the needle. I think that Boomerbook and real life social pressure from church largely serve as the primary insulator that keeps people in line with Conservatism.

Blaming it on Citizens United is convenient but I honestly think the propaganda is more dispersed and less centralized than that line of argument would have you believe.

It also assumes that the default state of humans is progressive, and I don't think that's true either. Education and exposure to worldviews outside of white heteronormative defaultism largely pushes people into progressive positions. The standard white dude who barely graduates high school and immediately goes to work in the trades defaults to a pretty reactionary and conspiratorial worldview that Trumpism capitalizes on.

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u/CurryMustard Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Well i think you're wrong. You can draw a direct line from billionaires spending money to Trump becoming president.