• Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Ya even with our conservative court they even can’t ignore the power states have in enforcing their own laws outside of what the constitution specifically says the federal controls. I guess that assumes if any of them even care about the constitution anymore.

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      He’s trying to rule by decree, but most of his orders are for things he has no authority to do.

      They should be printed on soft paper so at least someone could wipe their ass with them.

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    sTaTeS rIgHts *

    *does not apply to Democrats or people trying to protect human rights within a state if it conflicts with right wing authoritarians’ vision for how everyone else should live.

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    Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this effectively toothless? Like executive orders only effect things directly under federal and more specifically executive purview meaning even a city government could pass a regulation on AI in their area and it’d have more legal weight than an executive order. Or are they abusing unrelated powers to declare that no one can regulate AI?

    Like I’m pretty sure the supremacy clause doesn’t apply to executive orders.

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      Yes, you are correct. A federal law would preempt a state law, usually. But this is not a federal law, so it’s a load of kindling.

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    This is almost certainly because this very thin economy, or at least the stock market, is only barely staying afloat on the back of the AI bubble. This move could create room for them to superficially extend the bubble as long as possible and maximize their profits.

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      Well no, because this order has zero legal weight. They are liars, though, for pretending it does.

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Conservatives have always been fine with federal government taking away other states rights.

      The civil war started because the South didn’t want the federal government to force them to stop using slaves but 100% okay with the federal government forcing Northern states to return slaves back to the South.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      The cons whine about things like gender fluidity, but they’ve always been quite morally fluid, let’s say…

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    “Let’s push something that destroys the ecology and economy! We’ll call it “AI”! People everywhere will be jobless and suffering except for us!”. The world, with usa as a superpower, is very badly broken. Maybe it’s time to drop off the usa at the old folks home.

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    So are they saying AI is a national security threat? Or that living without AI is a national security threat, in which one would imagine AI should be provided free access by the federal government to every person, as it is a threat to not have access? As an executive order is designed to be used only for an issue of national security, which we must have been living in such a threat since the country was founded until now.