In writing about the Republican Party's nightmare class war budget proposal, what Trump dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill," I've tried to focus on the mortal toll this shit is going to foist on labor class Americans in order to give outrageous tax cuts to the richest people and companies in our society. I am not employing hyperbole when I say this reconciliation bill is going to kill people; the GOP is actively engaging in corpse farming to make the rich richer, while pretending they're fighting a meaningless US debt "crisis" the bill won't address at fucking all. This is the most important issue here, and Americans need to know that their representatives are literally going to kill thousands and thousands of them in a clear act of class warfare; these people must not be allowed to accomplish their goals, and the public, particularly folks in "red" districts. needs to let these folks know they will have neither a career, nor a moment of peace until they shuffle off this mortal coil, if they pass this theft and murder bill.

Unfortunately however, GOP control of the House and Senate, albeit by very slim margins, has also allowed them to stuff this odious piece of legislation with all kinds of other gifts to broligarchs and folks trying to transform America into a fascist dictatorship. One particularly disturbing provision, given the Trump regime's close ties to Silicon Valley nazi billionaire ideologues pumping an AI-bubble worth trillions of dollars, would block all State-level legislation of any kind on what the GOP broadly defines as "artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems" for the next ten years.

"Republicans in US Congress are trying to bar states from being able to introduce or enforce laws that would create guardrails for artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems for 10 years.

A provision in the proposed budgetary bill now before the House of Representatives would prohibit any state or local governing body from pursuing “any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems” unless the purpose of the law is to “remove legal impediments to, or facilitate the deployment or operation of” these systems.

The provision was a last-minute addition by House Republicans to the bill just two nights before it was due to be marked up on Tuesday. The House energy and commerce committee voted to advance the reconciliation package on Wednesday morning.

The bill defines AI systems and models broadly, with anything from facial recognition systems to generative AI qualifying. The proposed law would also apply to systems that use algorithms or AI to make decisions including for hiring, housing and whether someone qualifies for public benefits."

As the article notes, this broad overreach of Congressional power comes at a time when there are already class action lawsuits being filed against companies using algorithmic software to collude on rent prices, or discriminate against marginalized renters, and will almost certainly invalidate safeguards against such practices already legislated in some "blue" states. Perhaps more disturbingly however, this deregulatory provision in the budget bill will also protect and benefit projects like Elon Musk's DOGE-infused quest to replace most federal government workers with AI systems likely provided by and to benefit his companies. The ban would also apply to online AI information resources like chatbots and LLM-powered research tools; which doesn't sound that sinister until you remember we're currently in the middle of a massive AI scandal because *someone* (it was Elon Musk) programed the Twitter chatbot tool Grok to promote a nazi conspiracy theory about white genocide in South Africa and engage in a little Holocaust minimization and denial.

Look folks, I know that AI technology, for all of its dangers, isn't inherently evil. But at some point as the evidence that I'm right continues to compile before our very eyes, I'm going to need people to accept that the really-existing AI industry we're facing down today in the not at all hypothetical world we live in, is being run by billionaire nazi cultists who want to use these programs to destroy critical thinking, turn your kids into fascists, and transform our society into a reactionary hellscape controlled entirely by guys like them. That's just who these people are, and what they're trying to do with LLM's and algorithmic technology; and you can't say it doesn't matter because we just watched these guys transform social media algorithms into a new generation of young fascist converts over the past three or four years in America. Now the Republican Party wants to legislate a free hand to accelerate that project, tucked into a class war budget bill that will absolutely kill poor people. There's a clear plan at here, if you want to see it. Do you?