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gulliver

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6. Standing on principle won't help without political leadership

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 02:49 PM

6 hrs ago

It stuns me that neither party is leveraging the AI buildout and buildup for the common good. If I were anything other than a sunny, trusting optimist, I would think that either money must be changing hands somewhere, or folks don't know what to do. Perish the thought.

On edit: Bernie has talked about it. I exclude him from my criticism!

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