Remember all those tech billionaires who supported Trump? Their software is now getting banned in Europe, because we do not trust the Trump regime.
Really well played Google, et. al.
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Remember who funds Google,...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
#PrinceBonesaw is spending $100 billion on AI, to achieve what?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub
Money laundering, like Putin's Russian oil oligarchs?
https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-era-us-saudi-minerals-cooperation
Fossil fuel funded fascism?
https://www.ft.com/content/176c7859-fdda-40d2-92a5-15d570f7accf
An International state surveillance platform?
Ending any democracy acting on climate?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/gas-power-ai-climate
Morw housing market manipulation?
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/31/2025/saudi-real-estate-developer-partners-with-google-on-ai
All the above?
@randahl BABA (BUY ANYTHING BUT AMERICAN)
@randahl
Yes. But that’s not the fun part!
The fun part is…. TAXES!
We’re not there yet as they are still needed for European defence. But at some point in the near future, the tax revenue will not get IP’d to America.
@randahl I have long anticipated this danger, having last addressed it in a thread earlier this year. Take Google, for instance: their enduring mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. However, the belief that this universal goal could be reconciled with the demands of specific national contexts has long seemed naive.
@randahl What software? I didn't know it!
But suppose Trump gets trounced in the next election and the Dems or Socs (AOC) come to power. Will we all be friends again, or will we have learned something from this? Have our eyes finally been opened, and do we now realise that, besides sunshine, it can also rain in America?
@bitchboss @randahl Most likely is there's not going to be elections.
@Diana_european I still think most likely there will be elections. Because the alternative is civil war, and I do not think Captain Bonespurs has the same appetite for war as Hitler had. Nor does he have the skills to lead a war or the support from the military.
@randahl @Diana_european @bitchboss
For me, the question is not whether there will be elections in the USA in November. Most likely there will be.
For me, the question will be whether there will be accessible elections:
1) Will people be disenfranchised?
(not be able to vote while they are entitled to).
2) Will there be enough voting stations and capacity?
(during the last elections, some lines were three hours long. Unheard of in the Western democratic world)
@randahl whether he is going to war depends on the budget pocket - if someone is paying for it he will do it right away as long as it takes not his money. With even promises of benefits for him, he is puliing the trigger without a 2nd guess. We all know, war can bring benefits to single persons. @Diana_european @bitchboss
@randahl Not just Europe. I've left everything but Google behind (and am in the process of leaving that too; moving over to the extremely ethics-driven, antifascist Autistici/Inventati) and have never been happier. SO many people are doing the same. Soon I expect our governments here will cut their cords, as well.