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'Impeachable': Explosive report on Trump's massive crypto 'scandal' stuns observers (www.rawstory.com)

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The New York Times on Monday published a blockbuster report detailing how US President Donald Trump’s administration gave the United Arab Emirates access to high-powered artificial intelligence chips just days after receiving a massive investment in Trump’s cryptocurrency startup.

As the Times report documented, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) ruling family, had one of his investment firms deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, the startup founded by members of the Trump family and the family of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.

Just two weeks later, wrote the Times, “the White House agreed to allow the UAE access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence,” despite national security concerns about these chips being shared with China.

NYT Archive Article: https://archive.is/IIcca

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[–] stretch2m 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wake me up the day this SOB suffers any actual consequences for anything he does.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 25 points 2 weeks ago

I too want to sleep forever

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, he has suffered consequences, like Jean Carol, humiliations by Obama, tons of companies going under, etc. He just blames others for it, so it doesn't mean much. He's not a happy dude either and his health is deteriorating fast. I just think they're not equal to his crimes.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

his health is deteriorating fast.

The man is nearly in his '80s... He could be the happiest man in the world and his health would likely be deteriorating.

That he's lived so long when better men have died early is proof enough that God doesn't exist.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Or if he does exist, he's more like the Old Testament god.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yahweh woulda smote his ass long ago

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m more of a mind of if, in the highly unlikely event that, there ever was an intelligent creator they are long since dead or have moved on to other projects.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a safe bet knowing enough human world history from the first civilizations to be built in dank river valleys to present day to say no gods ever interacted with us while we're alive anyways. If they exist at all. Or that it/they could be aware in the first place of some temporary peach fuzz growing on a doomed tiny rock ball.

I'm on team Pointless Math Bubble expansion Big Bang among countless other universes instead of singularity Big Bang myself. Not that it matters. It's just one of the 27+ Big Bang theories. I just like Time kinda existing beforehand in a higher plane.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is actually how I've been thinking about it.

I still don't believe a God exists, but if he does he's an absolute piece of shit. Sounds about right for the world he supposedly created

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I like the Gnostics' take on this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

The Old Testament God (Demiurge or Yaldabaoth) is explicitly a force of chaos and evil separate from the True God (Monad), who is just an absent father. The Demiurge, and by extension all of material existence, is either separate or directly opposed to the Monad.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How does free will factor into this worldview?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

If we're supposing a God exists then I suppose my free will is limited to what their intentions were for my existence.