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therobots927 a day ago

That would sink the Republican Party.

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etempleton 21 hours ago | parent [-]

I am sure buying OpenAI would be the thing that does it.

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therobots927 21 hours ago | parent [-]

It certainly won’t help. And I’m not just saying the headline “US bails out OpenAI for $850B” will cost them support. The programs they cut to fund said purchase will cost them support. And that’s assuming they can even pull this off by November, because if the democrats take back the house and senate it’s game over. They won’t have time to fund the purchase with corporate tax breaks. At any time dems may be able to force a shutdown just like they did over DHS funding.

	▲	nextaccountic 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The programs they cut to fund said purchase will cost them support. They want to cut those programs anyway, it's a win/win. The Iran war is probably going to cost $1T or more (it's ranging from $1B/day to $2B/day already), so it's going to be more costly than this hypothetical OpenAI bailout. The Republican base doesn't care.