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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

99 problems but this bitch ain't one.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago

All my homies hate Raphael

[–] digredior@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

? I don't see them trying to sneak an AI regulation ban again anytime soon. This is about the strongest bipartisan support against anything I can recall in my life.

Many of the people that voted against this are to blame for many of the other problems we are about to be hit with.

However, of all the scary shit in that bill, this was one of the most concerning to me. Specifically in terms of irreversibility to the damage it would do, the creation of national AI surveillance databases being built across the country, and the kind of environmental and safety regulations that will have to be ignored in order to power them.

The closest thing to hope, I hold for my own state, is that I just hope whatever lesson we ended up serve as in future history books isn't on the same scale or worse than Chernobyl.

I can breathe a little easier knowing that the entire country won't be facing a mandatory federal law demanding they be more like Louisiana in terms of deregulation in order to make a terrible idea actually profitable, regardless of how many people it hurts.

[–] digredior@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As in Cruz wasn’t a problem this time.

He’s an eternal cunt and will be a problem again.

Fair enough. That's never been a doubt to me. I still don't understand how the Zodiac killer could hold office as long as he has, but as long as he's got power, he's going to keep trying to destroy this country.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 points 8 hours ago

I only use AI to make shitty furry porn. It needs to be regulated.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

ah Ted Cruz... the infected pimple in the ass that is the GOP

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ted Cruz. The ULTIMATE bottom.

[–] digredior@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Nothing wrong with bottoming…

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure the fuck is when Trump is your top.

[–] digredior@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 hours ago

It’s not bottoming when there’s no consent. Then it’s rape.

Cruz totally consents in this case, but as a generality, bottoming is juuuuust fine…

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago

No, but there is something wrong with Raphael Cruz.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is this foreign born person still in the US? Didn't Trump say he wanted to deport naturalized citizens? Deport ~~Ted~~ Rafael Edward Cruz back to Canada! Send him back!

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 day ago (13 children)

After all the shit you're giving us to deal with in Canada this would be the final straw that leads to war. He's a product of your culture and his power comes from you, he's your creation.

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[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol he even voted against his own plan. Imagine being the schmuck who was the one dissenting vote

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 29 points 1 day ago

Rafael Cruz hates Rafael Cruz so much that he voted against his own amendment.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 179 points 2 days ago (4 children)

“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

  • John Boehner

„Everyone hates Ted“

  • Donald Trump
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"I do not like that man Ted Cruz..." - John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-wckRIrz2w

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 123 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.

―Lindsey Graham

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

I think this is my favorite GOP quote of all time.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 2 days ago

I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

-Al Franken

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."

  • Al Franken
[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 140 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.

I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.

  • His father owns an oil company in Canada.
  • He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
  • He attended Harvard University and Princeton
  • His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs

This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to remember it's not about facts, it's about feelings. As I always say, we're all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I honestly don't understand how he still gets elected here. I would cry systematic election fraud in Texas but the majority of my parents generation seemingly doesn't vote at all. But their parents who just watch Fox News all day sure fucking do.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Rafael doesn't belive in preferred names. Stop calling Rafael, Ted.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop giving broadband funds globally, it's just squandered, it needs to be manually voted on and approved per project.

[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Agreed. Make them do the work first ffs or something. Tired of these "providers" getting free money for shit they dont even do.

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what I'm hearing is this is a bill to distract from more important things and to delay.

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But states rights? What happened to states rights?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 50 points 2 days ago

states' rights to opress people was the full thought

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I thought the 1 vote had to be ~~the Zodiac killer~~ Ted Cruz, but no:

The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.

Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So unless my math is wrong there are 100 senators. And if the only yes vote was my own lovely senator Tillis, Cruz voted against his own thing?!?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, even Cruz voted against it. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.

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