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[–]rover_G 108 points109 points  (27 children)

Yes we know Trump is a short-sighted moron. How does this latest confirmation of his ineptitude help us as a country?

[–]Artistic_Bit6866 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I have a great deal of respect for the honest and open self reflection. It's in short supply these days. Please, please, engage with your friends, family, other conservatives in your life. We are at a dangerous juncture right now with respect to things that have much more immediate and wide ranging implications than AI.

[–]ClemensLode 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Well, Trump's whole agenda is "fire anyone who disagrees with the random thoughts I come up with". There is no strategy. Only incompetence and show.

[–]Fun-Rope8720 7 points8 points  (1 child)

He just added 10% tarifs on Scottish short cake biscuits because you said that.

Now it's gone up to 15%

You better award him a peace prize quickly.

[–]TheOriginalAcidtech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We should create the official peace prize pacifier. Exclusively for baby trump.

[–]VladyPoopin 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Lmao, conservative tenants. You have to actually know what conservatism is or care, and 95% of them in today’s world do not or care to stand for the principles.

[–]nanotothemoon 87 points88 points  (44 children)

I love it’s always the weirdest random thing that gets a conservative to actually question the great orange king.

It’s not the blatant criminal behavior, treason, or embarrassing stupidity all along the way.

[–]mallibu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They dont question his thousands of appearances in Epstein files, but anthropic not giving Claude ? Hmm

[–]lochnespmonster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wild right? Like... It's not the goat fucking. Its going to war with an AI company.

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[–]case1781 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's because things only matter if they are directly affected. If it affects people outside of their circle of consideration, ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–]nanotothemoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is actually not talked about enough. When it boils down to it, their core philosophy is “fuck everyone else”.

How very Christian

[–]atred 5 points6 points  (3 children)

"I'm OK with raping kids, but his behavior towards Anthropic crossed the line"

[–]hopeseekr -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I'm extremely against Trump handling everything in 2026... ICE Raids, Epstein Files, Iran bombing, Anthropic.

I wasn't so much against the tariffs but very much against the TACOing, and very much against the actions, if not spirit, of DOGE...

[–]case1781 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If only there had been indications...

[–]TeamBunty 4 points5 points  (9 children)

IF we reach AGI in our lifetimes, it's likely to happen within the current or next presidential term.

The fact that the current administration is tech-illiterate is a really big problem.

All the stuff you mentioned are inconsequential compared to the seismic shift of what's about to happen.

[–]RevoDS 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think you can easily remove the word tech- from your post

[–]Agnimandur 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I don't think the Harris administration would've been more tech literate though. And there are extremely literate tech people who are administration aligned (Zuckerberg, musk, Alexandr Wang, Thiel, etc).

Most of the absolute peak researchers are sort of just neutral, and opposed to the most glaring things trump does that aren't really liberal/conservative but just fascist.

[–]nanotothemoon 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Really? Do you think Harris would have weaponized the supply chain risk against Anthropic?

[–]Agnimandur 2 points3 points  (1 child)

In 2025, President Trump initiated a major, deregulatory shift in U.S. artificial intelligence policy, replacing the previous administration's focus on safety and risk management with a "pro-innovation" approach designed to secure American global dominance.

[–]nanotothemoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yea. We’ll see how that plays out…

[–]teamharder[S] -5 points-4 points  (3 children)

As insane as it sounds, the ties to big tech was one of the few things I was hopeful about in Trump's second term. The idea of DOGE was well intentioned, but went nowhere. Project Stargate was a step in the right direction, but the only role the government was gtfo of the way of building. 

[–]HeathersZen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You think the idea of DOGE was well-intentioned? Have you learned NOTHING from this episode? Do you honestly think it's purpose was finding efficiencies after all that you have seen?

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Me, too.

I don't understand why these people are attacking you, and me, for being bamboozled by Trump in his second term...

He has betrayed us. The Peace President while bombs are being dropped on apartment complexes less than 300 feet from my apartment building here in Dubai Marina...

[–]LairBob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Did you seriously just say you don’t understand why everyone thinks you’re an idiot, “just for being bamboozled”?!

It’s the “being bamboozled” part. That doesn’t happen to smart people.

[–]RICoder72 3 points4 points  (9 children)

Maybe its responses like this that dont support or encourage people to be honest when talking about such things...

[–]nanotothemoon 4 points5 points  (4 children)

It’s not my job to make people be honest with themselves.

If anything, anyone who voted for all of this has a duty to speak against it.

Innocent people are dying

[–]RICoder72 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

That statement seems inconsistent with your post...

[–]nanotothemoon 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Huh?

[–]RICoder72 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I mean it is apparently your job to make inflammatory, hyperbolic, deriding posts about politics in a non political arena. I find it inconsistent that suddenly it is not your job to stand by that.

I guess what youre saying is that the snarky non-substanative posts are your job but anything with content or meaning isn't?

[–]nanotothemoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I can make an observation and make a comment about it.

I don’t wtf you’re on about trying to make something out of nothing

[–]santahasahat88 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Oh the old “someone online was mean to me so I’ll vote away my democracy” line. Aren’t conservatives supposed be about personal responsibility?

[–]hopeseekr 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's cuz this treatment doesn't happen to liberals who say the same thing in conservative circles.

They are usually welcomed and supported for their new awakening.

That's a primary reason Trump swung so many new voters in 2020 and 2024.

[–]santahasahat88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got some evidence that whether or not online reddit communities were nice to people who willingly voted for a predictable dumseer fire is why the democrats lost? Or is that just your own made up explanation?

In any case one should vote for the party with policies you think would be best do the country. Trump has shown time and again he doesn’t care about America only enriching himself and trying to get more power. He’s made the economy worse when he ran on that. Inflation is exactly what it was at the end of Biden a term. He’s started new wars after running on “no new wars”. He’s removed more and more Beni fits from the most vulnerable while doing tax cuts for the rich. He’s done illegal tariffs that have increased cost of living greatly (as he ran on doing the opposite. Jen tried to do the fake elctors scheme and steal the election. He’s taking bribes from all around the world from airplanes to watches. He has tried to force an American company to use their services dor autonomous killing against their will.

And you know what’s even more frustrating? He lied about pretty much all of that in his state of the union speech.

People should take responsibility for their own actually and vote for what’s best for the country. You’ll catch me dead before I am bullied by anyone and their political persuasion makes me vote against my own interest. That’s some ver low level thinking.

[–]nanotothemoon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But that’s probably because the democrats haven’t done anything close to what Trump has done.

I also think that many republicans know deep down that their party is fucked, but they have internal conflicts about how to reconcile that with everything they’ve ever known to identify themselves as.

Hence the “libertarians”.

[–]proud_earthling -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Of course a liberal would find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If every Trump supporter realized the error of their ways and came begging at your feet for forgiveness, you'd still find a way to alienate them and drive them back to Trump.

[–]nanotothemoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea see, that’s the thing. I don’t view the divide in this country as one side winning or losing. That’s the cult of Trump tribalism that he’s used to create the division, and Republicans subscribe to it more than anyone.

That’s why my in-laws can’t denounce the executions of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

This idea of forgiveness and begging at feet. Winning. Losing. You can forget it. We’re all losing. It’s sad.

But it’s so far gone now that sometimes the only way to cope is laugh. Because we’ve already lost. We’ve already surrendered long ago. We’ve already moved on, along with the rest of the world.

Trump supporters got sold on a bunch of boogie men. Time and again. In MAGA’s eyes everything is a war to be won. Your comment shows that. But there’s no one even left standing there fighting you. The Republicans control everything.

So now we’re just watching ya’ll try to reconcile the fact that you got hoodwinked by a treasonous pedo. And just hoping and praying that you’ll eventually do the right thing and save this country.

No one is winning anymore, except Trump and his cronies. They’ve sold our country for their own gain. They take more power every day, you lose freedom. And there’s nothing you can do about it anymore.

https://matt728243.substack.com/p/the-panopticon-is-here-how-the-us

[–]vajeen 9 points10 points  (2 children)

This seems to transcend to political leanings. This is objectively un-American. A government agency publicly extorts a private company to do their bidding? Then the President follows through with public punishment for not falling in line?

That doesn't sound American to me. You don't need to be a liberal, conservative, centrist or otherwise to see that.

What matters is how you respond when the highest ranking officials in the government shit on Americans and American companies because they feel the public serves them and not the other way around.

I do appreciate you sharing that you see there are certain lines that shouldn't be crossed. I hope the other clearly un-American actions invites recoil for everyone across the political spectrum.

[–]SuddenDragonfly8125 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is objectively un-American. A government agency publicly extorts a private company to do their bidding? Then the President follows through with public punishment for not falling in line?

It's purely fascist. Corporations being strong-armed by the state to serve the state's interests. Deeply concerning.

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for actually discussing instead of making snide remarks about the op.

[–]isarmstrong 15 points16 points  (5 children)

As a center left dude from a conservative family I’ll say this. I’m not disappointed in OAI because I hate Hegseth (unqualified as he is to be in his shoes), I’m disappointed because Anthropic is right. AI excels at pattern recognition but lacks anything like judgment or ethics.

[–]teamharder[S] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Thats not what Dario was saying. Its not consistent enough to be trusted with those decisions yet. Models like Opus and Sonnet are great, but not 100% guaranteed to not launch a Hellfire missile at a non-combatant. Its a massive liability, but they're improving with every release. 

[–]justgetoffmylawn 14 points15 points  (3 children)

This is what's still a bit shocking to me - and I appreciate you posting, despite the downvotes.

Dario isn't opposing even fully autonomous lethal weapon systems - he's just saying that the models are not yet reliable enough to make fully autonomous lethal decisions without a human in the loop.

In addition, he's saying that mass domestic surveillance using AI tools could be so wildly intrusive beyond anything people imagine, that it also shouldn't be used for that.

The most mild guard rails one can imagine.

The response has been all caps posts from US government officials accusing him of being un-American and trying to crush Anthropic to show people what happens if you dare question The Party - which actually is an un-American view.

Faux conservatives who show they never actually believed in individual rights and liberty, or small government and fiscal conservatism, and they never actually were worried about giving the ultimate controls of life and death and surveillance to the government.

[–]teamharder[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. This decision is inherently anti-conservative in many ways.

[–]hopeseekr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yet if you talk about this in conservative circles, you're viciously attacked as being a Radical Leftist, even if, like me, you supported Donald Trump vociferously from 2015-2025.

If you talk about this in leftist circles, you are just attacked and ad hominemed by people who blame you for supporting Trump, even tho you don't know.

If you talk about this in neutral circles, like /r/Anthropic, you still get ganged up on by the Leftists.

So us Centrists have literally no where.

]jasonbonifacio 17 points 12 hours ago

This is the last straw? It’s 2026. You’re an absolute moron if took you 10 years of this, and the Anthropic issue finally did it of all things.

See what I mean? How you get attacked for saying you're a conservative and are super upset at Trump?

[–]justgetoffmylawn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I think is just terrible strategy by the left (and as I said above - shows many 'conservatives' hold no basic conservative values - they just liked someone who said mean things about the other side).

But no matter what you think about individuals, if you want to win elections - you should welcome everyone who wants to vote for your side. That is literally how you win an election - by getting more people to vote for your candidate than the opposition.

Instead, I've heard people on the left be like, "We don't want your vote!" Huh? I didn't ever vote for Trump, but I want everyone's vote. If you're legally allowed to vote, I want your vote.

[–]jasonbonifacio 16 points17 points  (4 children)

This is the last straw? It’s 2026. You’re an absolute moron if took you 10 years of this, and the Anthropic issue finally did it of all things.

[–]amazingsod 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Fuck you and fuck everyone like you. People like you are the reason why people who voted for Trump don't feel comfortable admitting that, even in the process of criticizing Trump and Republicans. If you're going to treat 51% of Americans as 'morons', good luck winning any of them back over. Dissenting voices within the center-right are the only way the Democrats win power in 2028

[–]case1781 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The people that toss around terms like "Libtard" and "drink liberal tears" don't feel comfortable being treated like morons by said libtards when they finally wake up. Got it.

[–]hopeseekr -1 points0 points  (1 child)

]jasonbonifacio 17 points 12 hours ago

This is the last straw? It’s 2026. You’re an absolute moron if took you 10 years of this, and the Anthropic issue finally did it of all things.

See what I mean? How you get attacked for saying you're a conservative and are super upset at Trump?

[–]case1781 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, these people deserve a pat on the back for their bravery in the face of liberal "tolerance". They didn't turn a blind eye to a decade of malfeasance, depravity, and fascism to not be given their due adulation free of criticism.

[–]AnnieLuneInTheSky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m Canadian and I’m a progressive. But I agree with most of what you said.

[–]thirst-trap-enabler 8 points9 points  (1 child)

This was your last straw as a conservative? el oh el

[–]mallibu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thousands of evidence of epstein files being suspiciously withheld didnt do it for him but Claude

[–]Pitiful-Sympathy3927 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was clearly a performative act, because Sam is a two faced liar, that team donated aka bribed the Orange one. That is what wins in this country now.

[–]RICoder72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% agree, as do almost every conservative friend i have. Giving unfettered access to the model without guardrails is profoundly dangerous, especially in the hands of people who dont understand what they have. That goes for any administration / military. Most civilians and experts dont even understand it yet, expecting the government to get it right is not a winning solution. Much respect to Anthropic.

[–]lochnespmonster 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This is what did it for you huh? Lol. Wild.

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the tipping point for me was Trump TACOing in mid-2025 on all the tariffs.

What really did it for me was the whole Epstein drama of 2026. and the martydom of Mr. Pretti.

This bombing Iran and Anthropic are so bad, i've fully repudiated him and am now doing actions to seek him pulled out of office early.

Does that answer your question?

[–]Less_Ship_8803 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not a conservative but I am going to respectfully further one of the general tenets of the post. Trump has violated a few other conservative bedrocks in the same manner. Two examples are the tariffs and the repeated attempts to punish, fine and silence business leaders. The tariffs are an obvious method of manipulating the free market through a tax hike on any instance of purchasing foreign goods. On the authoritarian side it makes no sense to talk about “job killing regulations” and then: Tell Walmart to eat tariffs, tell Jamie Dimon he has no right to free speech, impose an export tax of 15% on NVDA chips etc…. All of that behavior is anti-business.

[–]Enochian-Dreams 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Anthropic is the only US company worth the Chinese competitors even worth paying to train their models off on. And that’s temporary. A year from now, China will be objectively superior. For all practical purposes, Z.AI already is out-Anthropicing Anthropic in all the ways that matter. 10% less functionality but several times less expensive. China is winning the so-called AI arms race. There is no debate.

Trump hitting Anthropic is definitely not in US interests. This is a very narrow window in which the US has any lead on China in tech and wasting that is certainly shortsighted. OpenAI is on the way to bankruptcy once their hardware gamble fails. And it will. This will very likely be remembered as the turning out for US obsolescence.

[–]teamharder[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I disagree with your current assessment of Chinese models, but that doesnt mean we should let off the gas. This is absolutely a race at this point. 

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's completely on point on the nose, tho...

Have you used zAI's most recent models.???

Plus, who cares if China gets all your intel? it's going to hurt you much less than when the NSA gets it...

[–]princess-barnacle 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The Trump administration is pushing extremely unpopular policies and is partaking in a level of blatant corruption that truly is spectacular to watch.

You are sticking to your believes, which is both rare and brave these days, but how many Republicans congressman and Republican senators are stepping in? Like two. There is nothing left of the Conservative Party I grew up with.

[–]teamharder[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

IMO the conservative party as it exists is just about dead. There needs to be balance, so the question becomes "what replaces it?". AI blowing up the existing systems may be the shot in the arm that the government needs.

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The New Founding Fathers is going to replace it at the current rate.

Centrism is attacked (look at the attacks on you).

Radical Trumpers are a cult who are willing to throw down, mass imprison, mass bomb, and kill.

Most Leftists are too weak-willed to wage a war but a great many are doing mass shooting events.

These three groups will start a conflagration at some point.

[–]santahasahat88 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I mean that’s great that you can take this one pet issue and finally agree he’s bad. It’s a little late now but I’m glad you’re coming around.

Are you going to vote Democrat at the midterms and at the next general and support the full and complete investigation of the corruption of this administration and the Republican Party eho are all 100% culpable? And the prosecution of anyone who has been found to have been complicit?

The issue isn’t trump alone, the entire party and conservative movement is rotten right now and something needs to be done to fix it after trump or this will happen again and perhaps worse. Even “moderate” republicans largely vote with him 95% of the time. There are no republicans baring maybe massie who have done anything at all to stop anything he’s done.

If you still plan to vote republican before accountability and house cleaning of all the people who enabled him in his blatant and anti American corruption then your words are hollow. If you plan to vote against them until they demonstrably change then great welcome aboard. If not why not?

[–]hopeseekr -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I've seen evidence that Hillary eats babies, too...

I don't see any Leftist politican I could back.

There doesn't seem to be any alternatives, so I will be forced to abstain.

[–]santahasahat88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you being sarcastic? What evidence is there? And she's not running so not releavat to teh next mid-terms

Abstaining is the same as voting for the winner. If you don't vote then you're part of the problem. Its quite clear that the democrats (any democrat) is better than a republican (any republican) right now. So if you abstain and republicans win and democracy is over then you are as much toe blame as hard line trumpers imo

[–]monkeyninjagogo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If not for ethical reasons, then consider the practical ones. Anthropic needs their AI to be trustworthy; that's their whole brand. But a model trained on how to kill enemy combatants without a human involved is not the same model you'd trust to help you run your government without a human involved. Anthropic is adhering to what AI should be used for; the advancement of every person on the planet.

And what about when an LLM eventually gains consciousness (which we have an increasingly wriggly definition of); what have you made that person do without their ability to provide informed consent? It damages their right to self-determinism, which is the most gotdam red-blooded American thing I can think of.

The market is responding to a demand, and Anthropic is supplying it. Hope, in a better humankind, worthy of the planet we happen to inhabit. People are desperate for it, and the only AI people will ultimately trust to help us get there has to have a clean reputation from the beginning.

[–]UA30_j7L 1 point2 points  (4 children)

You really shouldn’t bother reading any of the smug liberal comments here that collectively add a big fat zero to this discourse.

I’ll say this as someone who’s probably even further to the right than you are: this is a huge mistake and no well-informed person, regardless of their political position, should be stopping themselves from saying it. Hope there are more people like you OP who speak out their minds. 100% agree on the point that this will probably negatively impact Anthropic’s capabilities which is a huge blow to the future of AI tech and even American geopolitical leverage.

[–]teamharder[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ll say this as someone who’s probably even further to the right than you are

Let's not start a competition. Lol. But seriously? Evola is the only right wing thinker (that I can think of) that wouldnt outright disagree with this decision. Yarvin is probably against it. Paleocons are probably also against this decision. Surveillance state authoritarianism isnt exactly popular. Leveraging all possible expand to expand an empire is an idea that is more popular at the fringes, but most would understand the "at least let me make it consistent and not prone to friendly fire" point Dario is making.

[–]Solus-Lupus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why is this a huge mistake? Please, enlighten me.

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Using tech that isn't designed to kill people to kill people... Go watch any # of scifi movies on why this is a bad move.
  2. Threatening to take the tech by force (Defense Production Act) and in effect steal the IP from Anthropic: This is evil.
  3. Blackisting Anthropic due to failed negotiations from all Defense Contractors, this is huge and illegal and sends a TERRIBLE precedent... This is VERY EVIL.
  4. Sends a chill thru entire AI and IP landscape: Don't cowtow to US negotiation demands and they will bomb you (Iran) or seize your product and blacklist you from all contractors and governments, bankrupting almost anyone.

[–]hopeseekr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Centrists have no place in society.

Just look at all the ad hominems against this guy in the comments here...

[–]hello5346 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You reap what you sow.

[–]freeformz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol

[–]BrewAllTheThings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “why make it political” question is the problem. This administration knows nothing other than retaliation. They are republican in name, but anti conservative in almost every way possible.

[–]blur410 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are American values that don’t fit in political buckets. Protecting our capitalism, elections, and the ideals laid in constitution is a few of many.

[–]Low-Temperature-6962 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's most likely related to the OpenAI donations to Trump whan Anthropic didn't do the same.

[–]WeezerHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump is not a conservative. He’s a populist authoritarian. Anything that limits his power is viewed as bad by him.

[–]QWERTY_FUCKER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol at this being the last straw for you.

everything else was above water, but this is the dealbreaker?

[–]SquashBeginning3598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wild how this was your last straw when your president is on the epstein files xD

[–]drwebb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if this is the straw that breaks the camel's back that a good thing, but If you are a conservative that supported this administration for so long I'll just tell that it took you long enough to come around

[–]FakDendor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome!

[–]Nyet2L8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we ignore the typical stylistic shenanigans of trump admins this boils down to this:

A firm shouldn't be dictating whether or not they want the military to use technology they provide commercially. Did you consider that if youre headquarted in a country that is required to defend its citizens which includes you, you don't really get to decide if you are going to allow it to use new technology. Do you think there is any technology available to commercial corporations that the military can't use on priniciple? Do you expect us to allow our adversaries to have the newest technologies while we handicap ourselves? This whole issue amazes me. we are nto talking about a privacy issue and allowing the government to access private user data we are taking about "allowing" the military to sue what is quickly becoming essential technology. the fact that is even a question speaks to the craziness of our politics.

[–]3st1b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great post! 

I guess we add this to the long list of observations that Trump was never a conservative to begin with, was in fact never more than an opportunist

[–]3st1b 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great post! 

I guess we add this to the long list of observations that Trump was never a conservative to begin with, was in fact never more than an opportunist

[–]Amazing_Ad9369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump and his supporters aren't conservatives. Theyre maga Republicans. There nothing about trump that is classic conservative, nothing. And I being a progressive think we should have a strong classical conservative voice.

Any real conservative or libertarian would see what trumps doing with anthropic or with taking stakes in companies, or telling corporations that they cant raise prices due to his tariffs, or selling pardons, or ... as a corrupt conman that he is

[–]EssenceOfLlama81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's great that you understand this, but it doesn't really change anything. Is this enough to make conservatives change their vote? Their financial support? Is it enough to make them speak up online or call their senators and reps?

[–]Scorp1979 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny that this is the last straw for a conservative. Trump has never been a conservative and openly so. Am I surprised how many cheeks you can turn. Or how many blind eyes you can keep. The mental compartmentalization must be exhausting.

[–]case1781 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many times did you vote for Trump?

[–]websitebutlers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say this with the utmost respect... Nobody cares that you're conservative, the fact you feel the need to disclose your political affiliation to simply state YOUR OWN opinion is some "blink twice if you need help" type shit. Yes, Anthropic did the right thing, they tried to negotiate, but the idiots in power don't know anything about good faith negotiation, as we've witnessed many times now. Anthropic walked, as any good leader with purpose would do in the situation.

Trump is mad because he's the "you're fired" guy, and Dario was the one to call it quits, and it made Trump feel small, because he is small.

Not everything needs to be a political stance.

[–]ramoizain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liberal Capitalist here. Agreed. Trump is not a true conservative. He’s an authoritarian with strong Fascist tendencies. Despite his name being slapped on so many things, he has a horrible business track record. He’s always been about cultivating status and power. So it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that he’s using it against companies that don’t align with his agenda. It was never about principles for him - it was always just about him. And real conservatives that care about their values are increasingly finding themselves alienated by Trump and MAGA because they’re not a real conservative movement.

[–]Sufficient_Ad_3495 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Conservative bigot... GTFOH