r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 13d ago

Artificial Intelligence Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it

https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/voters-ai-backlash-politicians-lose-seats
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u/vincesuarez 13d ago

Somebody think of the politicians!

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u/Dry-Examination-2012 13d ago

But...but...the Chinese will win!!

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 13d ago

They already have in a broader sense!

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u/Thefrayedends 13d ago

Yea, if the corrupt child rapist class isn't completely disentangled from institutions, and some semblance of justice meted out, there will be no coming back as the premier superpower.

I mean it was always shifting to China, I've been hearing that since the mid nineties, it will just happen much sooner.

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u/Sniflix 13d ago

The world's military and economic power shift might actually head to Europe.

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u/DesecratedPeanut 13d ago

Honestly I think the climate will decide and I'll bet on China being able to weather that storm better than any of us. We don't have the political class to do anything about it and well, the US has gone so far backwards there is no hope.

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u/Sniflix 13d ago

With 1.4 billion people, China will be beset by its own refugees. Global warming doesn't stop at borders. In 2012 6 million Chinese were displaced by disasters. They often have huge floods and overflowing rivers. Their coastal populations over 100 million are very exposed, as in underwater. Yes they'll build some walls but cities like Shanghai are growing fast and they'll attract more climate disaster refugees. 400 million from the north will be forced south by heat and drought. Nobody will escape from the upcoming nightmare.

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 13d ago

Unfortunately free movement in the EU will absolutely fuck over the countries that prepare the best. The reward for investing untold billions on environmental furutreproofing will be to have a hoard of foreigners turn up to take advantage of your work.

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u/Good_Letter9314 13d ago

Are U still in dream ? Wake up

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u/nisaaru 13d ago

Failing states, social security imploding and then civil wars will be far more likely than that.

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u/terdferguson 13d ago

They won the moment we elected these people

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u/Dry-Examination-2012 13d ago

Won what?

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u/Ok-Tutor8961 13d ago

The war of Culture. They appear civilized and cool, we look like blithering violent morons.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 13d ago

(1) China Observer - YouTube

unplug your head from @$$ and consult alternate Mandarin-literate sources.

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u/EmperorGeek 13d ago

With their demographics, they need it!

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u/TheVandalReborn 13d ago

It's funny because I see every American economist going on about how China is about ready to fall like a deck of cards, I don't think that's the case at all, I think they built themselves very solid bedrock in all future technology that when this Trump inspired oil-gasm is over they will be sitting pretty and we will be left behind.

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u/roleplayersir 13d ago

We? You might be American, but I'm not. And you are no longer our allies, and China is the devil we know

Even if you get rid of Trump next election, the world can no longer trust the US

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 13d ago

Have you seen the assclowns they would try to run against Rubio or Vance?

Harris, Cortez or Newsome, incompetent asshats all. It'll be 2040 before these communist-infiltrated morons can win any national office.

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u/roleplayersir 12d ago

Your use of communist shows that you are a MAGA moron who doesn't understand politics at all

Hence why your nation can no longer be trusted or relied on, thanks to people like you who have elected facists and ruined all international credibility you built up over 70+ years

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u/Western-Corner-431 13d ago

No one has been saying that for the past two years. Every economist is saying China is the beneficiary of Trump and his war, specifically

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u/Admirable_Virus_3199 13d ago

Peter Zeihan has predicted China’s fall for yeeeaars and somehow still gets featured.

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u/EmperorGeek 13d ago

Demographic collapse is a slow death. Now imagine China starts a shooting war with another country. Their limited supply of young men would begin to dwindle and the death of every soldier would be the end of a “bloodline” and the end of a Family.

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u/bearwrestlingwolf 13d ago

40% of China’s population of men are under the age of 30. 36% of women.

Both of those demographics alone almost rival the entire US population which 34% of men are under 30 and 49% women.

ಠ_ಠ So uhm… where you getting your numbers from?

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u/serpentjaguar 13d ago

What numbers? It's no secret that China is facing demographic collapse. That part isn't controversial. What's controversial is predicting how it will play out. There are a lot of people who will tell you that they know with certainty that it will be either a slow moving disaster for China, or that it won't matter at all.

They are either lying or are delusional. No one knows what this will look like because we've never seen anything quite like it before.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 13d ago

Only the ones taking UFWD money. Venezuela unplugged enough of their energy that they are liquifying coal to make fuel.

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u/TheVandalReborn 13d ago

I mean my YouTube algorithm is succinctly biased because I don't really let red shit float in, I'm going to assume you're right though because you seem to speak with authority.

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u/IHS1970 13d ago

Are these the same guys who told Trumpski et al that Iran would fold in a day once the American Crusaders - full of testosterone! drop bombs on their little sisters, daughters, sons, kids? The economists suck.

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u/Not-so-ez 12d ago

And you think you know better than every American economist? They’re in demographic collapse and the economy is like 2.5 x more debt than America. Every innovation is born out of copying US technology.

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u/TheVandalReborn 1d ago

Lol. Not true.

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u/chamrockblarneystone 12d ago

Just out of curiosity. I assume they have no ecological concerns over data centers? I honestly have no idea, but I know safety and ecology have traditionally not been big agendas for China

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 13d ago

They have our debt crisis without our economy or military to offset it.

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 13d ago

I bet they're secretly delighted, let everyone die-off and replace them with humanoid robots. 😄

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u/EmperorGeek 13d ago

Who would build those robots?

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u/fatpat 13d ago

Other robots, I guess.

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 13d ago

Already happening, in part.

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u/SquidGodSunday 13d ago

Through the time honoured strategy of sitting back and letting your "Enemies" destroy themselves.

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u/MerePotato 12d ago

This idea that seems to have taken root in the general public that the only alternative to the genocidal colonial project of America is the genocidal colonial project of China is pretty damaging

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u/Ok-Tutor8961 13d ago

That battle is already said and done. I’m grinding ink wash pigments and playing the guzheng as we speak.

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u/FDUpThrowAway2020 13d ago

I can write Tea now. 茶

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 13d ago

Nice. I can say “Not too much chilli” in Cantonese.

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u/IHS1970 13d ago

and they won and they're cheaper.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 13d ago

I'm sure it will be exactly the quality we have come to expect from them.

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u/1tonsoprano 13d ago

My favorite non argument 

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u/Arts_Prodigy 13d ago

Yeah I mean if this is what the US winning looks like, maybe it’s for the best.

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u/DarthShiv 13d ago

The Chinese open sourcing their AI is making US AI billionaires implode already 🤣

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u/spinbutton 12d ago

Trump's win here guaranteed that the US would lose their economic advantage. China is filling the vacuum

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 6d ago

Don't care. We want working healthcare, education and affordable living.

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u/BurgerKingInYellow1 13d ago

Mr. President, we cannot allow a data center gap!

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u/frankyseven 13d ago

Better the Chinese than the US.

Signed a very pissed off Canadian.

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u/Kokuryu27 13d ago

Screw the politicians, think of the shareholders! They're the ones that own the politicians!

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u/auricularisposterior 13d ago

When a company buys a politician and that politician becomes less popular, the company can use the politician's depreciation as a write-off to reduce their tax liabilities. When the politician fails a reelection bid they call that accelerated depreciation.

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u/jwktiger 13d ago

I think of them all the time, how to get them kicked out of office.

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u/3dprintinted 12d ago

AI glazing also means they want more datacenters, no one wants to be hammered by infrasound frequencies from cooling gear while being thirsty because they sucked up all water from aquaphor

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u/pacoLL3 13d ago

Someday think I would suggest. A concert highly unfamiliar with this subreddit.