> I don’t know if the public would be as accepting of a bailout for AI companies

That's putting it mildly, IMO.

An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades.

jgilias 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

After seeing _what_ level of buffoonery, incompetence, and pure idiocy the gerrymandered American electoral system is capable of producing, nope, no, AI bailout won’t matter at all.

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lelanthran 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> After seeing _what_ level of buffoonery, incompetence, and pure idiocy the gerrymandered American electoral system is capable of producing

I honestly can't tell if you're talking about the Right pandering (in words only) to the voters or the Left scoring own-goals in the last election?

	▲	jgilias 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Both are part of “the American electoral system”

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lelanthran 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades.

One could only hope. In any case, in the short term, with AI having such a poor public-image story, if the Dems want to get back into power again they'd do everything they can to assure their voters that a bailout is not on the cards.

This is the first single-issue voter concern that has really popular support, and they'd be dumb for chasing identity politics again.

	▲	LtWorf 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You are assuming the democrats run on the elections for the purpose of winning them. But the latest election made me doubt that is actually their goal.

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Terr_ 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades.

Two concerns:

1. In a duopoly it won't doom either one party, not if the bailout-seekers involved are able to bribe them both equally.

2. A politician in not-so-bad party could let the other party doom itself in a long-term diffuse sense... Or they could accept some generous short-term very concentrated-on-me donations. The interest of the group is not always the interest of the members.

The US desperately needs voting-reform, to reduce the spoiler-effect and winner-take-all mechanics.

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rapind 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What if they are already doomed and just looting?

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somenameforme 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"They" bailed out big banks whose gambling resulted in millions of people losing their homes, and the electoral effect was basically zero. Just invoke 'the other side' come election season and all is forgotten. Third parties fail to the same trick - by 'wasting' your vote on them, you're indirectly voting for 'the other side.'

It's one of the many reasons that partisanship is foolish - it essentially leaves governments unaccountable. Another is the reason I put "they" in quotes. There will be lots of partisan finger pointing when the bubble pops, but it was both the DNC and GOP that bailed out the banks, and it'll be both of them bailing out big money again.

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parineum 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> "They" bailed out big banks whose gambling resulted in millions of people losing their homes,

That gambling actually led to people getting those homes. The people losing them was the correction.

> the electoral effect was basically zero.

because...

> it was both the DNC and GOP that bailed out the banks

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SideburnsOfDoom 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> That gambling actually led to people getting those homes. The people losing them was the correction.

Well, yes but there is a distinction between "led to" vs "losing them". The first is indirect, the second is not.

You could expand that as "That gambling by banks offering these risky mortgages to unsuspecting people, actually led to people getting those homes. When the banks who did this did not bear the costs of their actions, and passed them on to their customers, the people losing their homes was the correction."

	▲	somenameforme 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, the issue with too big to fail is that it can equivalently be rephrased as too big to learn. And this just came out: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-19/how-wall-... Sound familiar?

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kakacik 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't hold my breath for long term memory of average joe. Seems like US population was primed for short dopamine kicks for past 20 years with reality shows and similar clown stuff.

Look at who got elected, all those scandals, consistent lies, empty talk and fraud yet support is still strong.