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		georgemcbay 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 > Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. 2026 Skynet wouldn't bother sending humans to lobby in Washington, lobbying is a slow and outdated way of currying government favor with no assurances of success. 2026 Skynet would just move a large block of cryptocurrency over to World Liberty Financial and get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon.
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Terr_ 4 days ago [–]

> get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon

Likely already in-mind for parent poster, but a fitting headline from this week: "Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon."

(https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardo...)

zombot 3 days ago | [–]

The ever-expanding swamp of corruption. But since the US legal system is so obsessed with precedence, these feces will stick.

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