Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
by lmm on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:24AM
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That's not how I read it, but the crazy predictions I can remember were also nothingburgers. The "muslim ban" sank without trace after like a week. The stuff about how he was going to sabotage the coronavirus vaccine couldn't have been more wrong. He was going to lock up Hillary Clinton? Haha, no, of course he wasn't. He was going to do some sort of coup thing on Jan 6th? Again, no, big hysteria that turned out to be a nothingburger. If someone wants to claim that he actually did something crazy, they should give an example.
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
by throwaway290 on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:34AM
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It looks like Trump's second presidency is very different from the first and a bunch of things actually happened like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511213, renaming of international water bodies, rugpull meme cryptocoins, DOGE and stuff it does, appointing convicted criminals to the gov, tax cuts on the rich, tariffs on allies (UK/Taiwan), pardoning darknet druglord, disappeared a Muslim student and terminated her visa apparently for coauthoring a pro-Palestinian op-ed in university newspaper (https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachuse...) etc.
Things are happening very quickly
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
by lmm on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:25AM
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> It looks like Trump's second presidency is very different from the first
That's a pretty big backpedal from "For 10 years now, we’ve been hearing how hysterical the predictions about Trump’s actions are. And then he does them."
Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
by throwaway290 on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:36AM
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I didn't give those examples but stuff was happening during first presidency too (the wall, abortion, Jan 6). And now it keeps happening except more often & worse. Both can be true.
> We've been hearing hysterical things about every Republican candidate for at least 30 years. Nothing ever happens.
I think you replied to something you made up to avoid replying to the actual thing. It was that in case of Trump apparently there is a history of ppl saying "surely it is joke and president would never do that" but then the president does exactly that. Not about hysterical things talked about US presidents.
After many cases where he said "I'll do that" then people like you said "no that's insane he's not going to do that don't worry" and then he does it, a sane person should assume that maybe he talks without thinking but then he sticks to what he blurted. And those things include attacking allies bordering with USA
So it can be up to USA military to uphold constitution or do what president says.