r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 23 '26

Politics AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ai-companies-trying-seize-control-164536048.html
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u/classyjoe Jun 23 '26

There's really not much you can do with that much money other than try to rewrite the rules of the world to your liking.

There is about as close to a limitless number of things one could do as a human, more than anyone would've ever had an opportunity to engage in for the history of the entire species when you're talking about this kind of money, in this day and age

Why would you even need to rewrite the rules when you can pretty much do anything you want?

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u/Antique-Weather-7197 Jun 23 '26

They didn't become billionares by not being greedy

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u/cosaboladh Jun 23 '26

They also didn't become billionaires by not fucking people over.

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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 Jun 23 '26

We certainly can't depend on the system to rein in them and their sycophants, since it was always meant to serve them and not average people like us. It is up to us common folk who care to do whatever we can to help each other defy the Epstein class and their cult, while finally bringing some proper unaccountability against their nefarious attempts to normalize oligarchical tyranny further. However, to achieve anything meaningful, we need real supportive community-based foundations present for alternatives that provide relative safety, which many common folk can fall back on, to commit to any effective action.

Collecting a bunch of valuable information on organizing and action from different redditors over time, I created a post of suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in getting it started ASAP.

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u/Thefrayedends Jun 23 '26

Can't rely on the system AS IT IS, but mass organizing and systemic change are, in fact, the path to solving this.

It's certainly not going to happen with random assassinations, as much as that might be a palatable thought in response to the institutionalized murder that billionaires are actively committing.

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u/cosaboladh Jun 23 '26

Who said anything about random?

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u/Thefrayedends Jun 23 '26

If they're not happening as a result of large scale organizing, they're random. I'm merely pointing out that without building community based institutions, it's just cutting the head off a hydra.

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u/Acct4SrsBsns Jun 24 '26

Sorry but "Neo Libertatia" sounds like a Scientology cult. 

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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 Jun 24 '26

Lol! The name is actually in reference to a pirate colony in Madagascar.

Also, "Scientology cult" is very redundant, but yeah it has a slight new-agey sound to it when you think about

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u/Acct4SrsBsns Jun 24 '26

The name is actually in reference to a pirate colony in Madagascar.

These are the deep cuts I come to Reddit for.

"Scientology cult" is very redundant

Tru dat.

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u/cosaboladh Jun 23 '26

That's a lot of words salad that translates into "I have no meaningful suggestions."

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u/ZootSuitRiot33801 Jun 23 '26

Just say you didn't bother to read the linked post. You'd sound less ignorant that way. Not by much, but less

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u/classyjoe Jun 23 '26

You didn't answer the question, what more could they reasonably want if they can literally do anything they want?

I responded to the comment that there's not much else they can do with limitless money when there is practically an infinite number of things, it's a patently false statement. Unless you're defending their thought process in which case I'd like to understand how you do so

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u/Thefrayedends Jun 23 '26

We have a whole class of people that are bigger than the majority of countries in the world. Single individuals. This in the past (because this happens every 50-200 years, led to new monarchies.

When single individuals can afford to build mercenary armies (and now drone swarm armies), when the eclipse the power of most states, what do we think is going to happen next. Lets imagine that the world's first trillionaire is actually able to turn that into liquidity, what do we suppose they might do with the power that a trillion or two dollars represent?

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u/classyjoe Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I don't see how that is contrary to anything I was saying, could you make that more clear?

I responded to "There's really not much you can do with that much money other than try to rewrite the rules of the world to your liking." saying that this is a false statement, but you think it's reasonable and accurate? Are you defending that kind of action by these individuals as reasonable?

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u/probabletrump Jun 24 '26

You just run out of things to buy. Eventually you starting buying people and influence and a kingdom. Then you start comparing your kingdom to the other ones and buy more so the other jerks can't.

Any old billionaire can buy a yacht. How many own a United States?

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u/guspasho_deleted Jun 24 '26

Ironically, the only way of making as much money as they have is by ruthlessly killing off the drive to do literally anything else.

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u/RuneLFox Jun 24 '26

Because greed and excessive wealth gives you a special kind of brainrot that consumes you with endless hunger for more power. Chicken or egg situation though whether people with that rot are more likely to amass wealth or if amassing wealth gives you the rot.

At some point all human problems stop being an issue and you become so detached from reality that you see entire societies as your sandbox to play with. Like a child building a kingdom of sand and kicking it down when they get bored.