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their efforts aren't buying the political capital they'd hoped for.

Trump did get elected by "AI money" and they all celebrated on stage with him, you know.

Midterms? Yeah, when you are an indisputably shitty President who has broken every campaign promise and is openly deranged, you will likely lose the midterms no matter how much you try to pump Republicans. Diminishing returns.

Usually the "winning" party only holds power for a couple terms, then, after their incompetence has disgusted yet another generation of voters, they lose, only to be replaced by the other party that will repeat the process.

bOtH sIdEs, YeS, oH My

I vote in every election, and you should too. Because it's funny

Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.

I don't think they plan on voters being an insurmountable problem.

Turns out telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined. Imagine spending hundreds of millions buying political influence, only to discover voters don’t enjoy being treated like obsolete hardware.

Which billionaires aren't flooding money into politics to influence elections? They were doing it long before all the AI drama.

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren't paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They're using AI. They think it's wonderful, they've barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think "data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don'T yoU?"

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

• Therapy and companionship
• Organizing my life
• Finding purpose
• Enhanced learning
• Summarizing content
• Generating ideas
• Generating code (for professionals)
• Improving code (for professionals)
• Creativity
• Visual art and design

Expect bipartisan legislation to increase the anonymity of PAC money before the year is over.

By backfiring you mean they have nearly total control then yes. Those losers, it has totally backfired on them and now they are richer and more powerful than ever!

All Dems have to do is run with Data Center Prohibition as their main issue, and they would win EVERY election, and destroy the MAGA movement. Even Republicans hate Data Centers, and ALL MAGA candidates LOVE them. No MAGA candidate cans say anything against them. Florida MAGA candidates are trying to ease it by claiming that they'll make sure that citizens won't pay the costs, but everybody knows they're lying. That's about the most opposition they're putting.

MAGA is the party of UNLIMITED Data Centers. Just slam that over and over, and NOBODY will vote MAGA.

~~AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics~~ are flooding politics with money, or pouring money into politics.

This is grade school stuff, FFS!

Give us each $100,000 and I'll consider it.

Hello Americans! Please vote! Sincerely, everyone else.

I'm sick of all the shiny shoes and the posturing. I need a serious person with substance.

Troll Musk. Vote Democrat.

The next step seems obvious: they'll take a page from the tobacco, gun, and meat industries and instead create fake think tanks or associations to funnel political money semi-anonymously.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Futurism articles are just written by AI tbh...

Low bar journalism and reporting.

Everyone who goes into politics wants money. Musk gives them money. Profit!

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.