the entire administration negotiates in bad faith. literally every agreement they sign whether it's international trade or corporate contracts is up to the whim of a toddler with twitter

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runlaszlorun 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You pretty much nailed it. I can't even get outraged at any given instance now that the trendline is so staggeringly clear.

I can't see anyway this ends well for the US. I say this as both an American and a military veteran.

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cyberge99 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Never in history has an authoritarian ceded power without massive violence.

	▲	tokai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The dissolution of the USSR was not massively violent. Frederick VII of Denmark, an absolute monarch, introduced parliamentarism without any violence or even broad public pressure. And thats just what I can remember without digging.

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afavour 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And they don’t think anything through. If they do this then Amazon, Google and the rest will need to terminate their involvement with Anthropic. Trump will be getting a call from some Wall Street bigwigs imminently and it’ll get rolled back, I bet.

	▲	Kim_Bruning 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Alternately, they COULD terminate their involvement with the pentagon.