The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.
The Department of Energy announced on Monday that it will award $900 million each to American Centrifuge Operating and Orano Federal Services, as well as General Matter, a nuclear startup backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel.
The funding will be distributed through task orders over the next 10 years, under what the department described as a “strict milestone approach.”
The Nazis are spending our money.
What else is new. They never stopped spending it.
Hmmm, more corruption and destruction of the working class.
Billionaires should not exist. They serve ZERO purpose and only work to hurt us.
Fallout here we come. For one am not ready to die in Anchorage
Alaskan Front please
baked Alaskan
Fuck Peter Thiel in the ear. He and Stephe Miller are such vile pieces of shit.
Eat the rich
Cronyism. They always say “There’s no money for that” when it comes to helping people who need it, but as soon as it comes to helping their rich friends or building monstrosities of vanity, suddenly they find the money for it.
At this point, ordinary income-earners in america should just stop paying taxes, because they’ll never see that money come back to help them in anyway. It’s all getting funneled directly to the rich, who also happen to be receiving enormous tax cuts.
It’s stealing from the poor to give to the rich…
Just call it what it is — capitalism.
I’m sure you mean socialism, where the government picks the winners and losers? /s
Some capitalists might argue on ideological grounds that government intervention is not a truly free market (although none would turn down government funds if offered, because they’ve sold their souls to the infinite pursuit of greed).
In reality though, most modern capitalism is crony capitalism. So the distinction loses meaning.
Cronyism implies someone with their hands on the levers of power pulling them to help their friends/accomplices, which this certainly is an example of.
tRump hands out favors to anyone who bows to him. It’s cronyism.
The reality is that never in the entire history of capitalism has there been a free market, and in fact there is nothing capitalists fear more than a truly free market.
The most successful companies inevitably become monopolies, which gives them near total control of the market, and the capitalist at the top trembles at the thought of competition arising that may unseat him. So he bribes a politician to make laws that favor him and allow him to find new ways to control the world and maintain his status. Eventually, inevitably, as is the case now, the state and the capital class become indistinguishable.
The free market is a myth, and I personally would rather have an economy that is planned for the good of the common person than the rich motherfuckers who enslave us.
In essence, I agree with you. Perhaps that just means that all capitalism is crony capitalism. It’s not that big of a distinction to my mind.
And yes, I too would much prefer an economy that’s planned for the good of the common person. Why does that feel more like a pipe dream with each passing day?
Fallout looking more and more realistic by the day…
FUCK PETER THEIL. His Cocksucking bitch ass will be the end of us
The cock sucking part doesn’t seem relevant. Plenty of straight monsters out here.
Its not relevant in the homophobic way OP meant, but it kind of is relevant that he has aligned himself with some of the same people who would destroy him if they had the opportunity.
It does when he uses it to keep people silent and on his leash, people like JD Vance, who has been fully OWNED by Theil since he was in college. Literally every job he’s ever had was given to him by Theil, including the VP.
Collecting politicians is the new Sociopathic Oligarch hobby.
Billionaires aren’t gay or straight. They’re not people in the sense that we know them. They have no authentic community, they’ve removed themselves from the human race.
Plenty relevant because he says women voting in america is a bad thing. but he loves it up the ass more than any women I bet
His misogyny terrifies me. But plenty of gay men believe women are fully equal humans and even enjoy our company.
yes, I never said this wasn’t the case. just that Peter Theil is a vile cocksucker.
Classic lib with internalized homophobia can’t wait to call people slurs because they’re on the wrong team
Were you also furious at minorities that voted for trump? Did you call them slurs
what?
That’s a MUCH better us of MY Taxpayer Dollars then FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
Don’t forget funding things like CPB, too.
So glad we can enrich the weird end-times freak Peter Thiel. The fan of Curtis Yarvin and The Sovereign Individual.
One step at a time. Maybe we stop using tax dollars to cause child starvation before we ease into preventing child starvation.
Good news, we can do both!
… But we won’t
Free money for billionaires to make themselves more money. The GOP really is just a group of pedophiles.
The dems love billionaires as well.
We really need to get over our obsession with billionaires and stop letting them have so much influence.
We need to reframe the concept of billionaires among the public. In reality, they are seriously mentally-ill people with uncontrolled OCD that manifests itself as Financial Hoarding.
If a neighbor was hoarding animals, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, etc., the authorities would step in, get them mental health assistance, and clean up the mess.
But that’s not how we handle people that hoard money. Instead, we worship them, excuse them, laud them as great businesspeople, and give them MORE money. Can you imagine if the government responded to the lady with 100+ cats, who is making the entire neighborhood miserable, by giving her 100 more cats, making the situation even worse?
That’s what we’re doing with Sociopathic Oligarchs, and making a bad problem even worse. Now they are battling for Trillionaire status, and we are already seeing people like Musk using his money to act like a nation, cutting personal deals at the expense of entire nations. He has already shown his willingness to control Starlink over battlefields.
What will happen when they start becoming trillionaires, and can fund their own military? What if multiple trillionaires decide to form an alliance, and form their own Military-Industrial complex, and start manufacturing their own armaments, including nuclear?
None of that is far-fetched, and is easily predictable. With that much money, at some point, some psychopath is going to go rogue, and then we’ll all be wondering why we didn’t stop them when we had the opportunity.
They are mentally ill, let’s treat them as such.
It’s capitalists in general, not just billionaires.
100% agreed. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and the DNC leadership are corporate and AIPAC whores.
Only the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a couple of independents are actually on the side of the American public.
Well, when the electorate only gets our news from the media and aren’t capable of researching candidates on our own, how else do you get elected?
Peter Thiel plans to kill us all and emerge from the ashes.
Evil never dies, goes bankrupt, or loses control.
These people got so much money it’s literally an existential threat to the rest of us
Wait until they start becoming trillionaires, form alliances, start their own Military-Industrial complex, conquer land, and create their own sociopathic Libertarian governments, complete with eugenics and slave labor.
The problem with setting up a neofeudalist mafia regime is that there’s always someone waiting to slit your neck and take your place. Except in the modern era it will be one of their capos shooting a hellfire missile right up their asshole. That’s one of the reasons why we left the imperial/monarchic systems behind hundreds of years ago.
Ready Player Two
Mama Mia!
Ah yes the pro quo
I’ve got a lovely quid to sell you…
How much?
$Texas
2 sticks of RAM should do it
S***. In this economy?
