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But it's not just him, it's the entire party aggressively supporting him and everything he does.
That's untrue.
If you do some homework you will see Republican politicians and the Supreme Court disagreeing on a number of issues. Amongst Republican voters, his approval rating has been sliding and is now below 80% in most polls.
Land of the free, land of the brave. Free market. Freedom of speech. Market economy. These words don’t mean what they use to anymore. Newspeak is in full swing. Words still sound the same and are written in the same way but now mean something completely different. If Mao and Stalin were alive, they would be nodding approvingly.
Free for me, not for thee! I hope the Chinese models catch up soon so I can stop contributing to the American economy.
Don't start to rely on it . The US might remove access next month in a fit of pique. The Chinese models look increasingly more reliable and safer.
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Congress passed the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2778) in the Ford administration and it has been applied to software since at least the Clinton administration.
isn't this materially different in that it creates a kind of class system within the US?
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Trump has an 87% approval rating amongst Republicans as of the last poll I can find. While Trump is a megalomanic and does whatever he wants, he has the mandate of the Republican party, whose elected officials could choose at any moment to end this by withdrawing support. Don't let them off the hook.
It's lower than that. Most polls show below 80%.
> Don't let them off the hook.
That's not the way.
It's like the epidemic of scam nvidia cards being resold without gpu or memory - where do you think those are going?
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Startups don't have as much money to spend on lobbying and gifts, though.
Well... there are crypto startups, and perhaps a generous definition of "money"
It's not impossible, of course. It's not even terribly difficult, but it does require a different level of record.
(No, I'm not saying that the goons running the United States give a shit or won't do it anyway.)
Next time someone tells you this is the party of free market and small government, I guess you just laugh now?
I've been laughing when people tell me that for my entire adult life. It remains a pretty funny bit of dark humor, though.