Comment by rushcar
1 day ago
"Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."
This is authoritarian behavior. You're having trouble negotiating a contract, so instead of just canceling it - you basically ban all of F500 from doing business with that firm.
This certainly isn't going to attract foreign investment. Business isn't big on governments that capriciously threaten to seize control of or financially harm them.
The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.
Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.
Americans remain blissfully unaware.
> The US is currently an autocracy/idiocracy. A staggeringly corrupt, busted nation.
We are in a bad place right now, that is for certain.
> Soon enough the midterms will be effectively cancelled.
That would be a pretty big leap from where we are. I think it is important to pay attention, and very important to vote, but there is not a particularly plausible route to cancelling any elections. But they can certainly make enough noise that a lot of people may become confused or scared to vote. So we need to remain laser focused on getting everybody to the polls. Like, this should be priority #1 for every citizen who wants to see democracy continue.
The midterms are not going to go according to anything like historical precedent. If allowed to function normally, Trump loses, and the whole stack of cards collapses. They know that, and will do literally anything and everything to prevent it. If allowed to get away with it, the US is never coming back.
Civil unrest very likely in November.
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They won't outright cancel the elections but they will do things like send ICE to contested districts to harass law-abiding voters; pressure states to remove people from voter rolls and make it difficult if not impossible for them to re-register in time to be able to vote; and otherwise just scream fraud and cheating and stolen when they lose the House.
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No, it's pretty obvious what these ******s are about to pull. "We'Re NeVeR gOiNg BaCk" --Trump
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To be clear, the sovereign is generally considered to be vested in Congress as representatives of the true sovereign, the people.
That’s not true at all. The people selected an executive.
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What does being sovereign have to do with anything in this case?
The sovereign is the ultimate authority. In the USA “we the people” delegate the sovereign power to our elected officials.
They are now exercising that power in the interest of the people (they believe) that grant that power.
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Anthropic dictating what our military can and can't do is also authoritarian behavior. The military is responsible to the US people, where Anthropic isn't. Giving power to a company instead of the people is wrong.
The word you are searching for is not authoritarian, but liberty.
Is Anthropic required to sell to the government even if doesn't want to, and is willing to give up its government contracts rather than change its terms of use?
Anthropic is free to not sell to the government.
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So what I'm hearing is, having trampled every other amendment in the Bill of Rights, the Trump administration is now turning its sights to the Third.
>No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
We are not talking about soldiers living in Anthropic's offices. We are talking about an office employee being able to generate a PowerPoint about autonomous weapon systems.
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