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Bernie Sanders Proposes To Seize Half-Ownership
of Large AI Firms

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 6/1/2026 8:05:16 PM

Senator Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont who with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an agenda-setter on the activist left wing of the Democratic Party, is proposing that the U.S. government seize 50 percent ownership of large artificial intelligence companies. "I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our country," Sanders announced in a New York Times opinion article published online. "It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits

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Reply 1 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 6/1/2026 8:10:17 PM (No. 2111536)
Thieves engage in theivery. It's what they do.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JHHolliday 6/1/2026 8:15:49 PM (No. 2111539)
This is socialism sliding quickly into communism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: itsonlyme 6/1/2026 8:23:38 PM (No. 2111541)
Bernie Sanders The socialist will be 85 in September
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 6/1/2026 8:25:46 PM (No. 2111545)
Maybe such a threat might drive the owners out of the arms of the DimoTwit Party. I can dream, can't I?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Lucky5 6/1/2026 8:30:30 PM (No. 2111547)
I watched some ancient video of Bernie. He is such a loser. He has been saying the same thing for as long as he has been grifting in office. He has done NOTHING of worth in all those decades.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 6/1/2026 8:31:45 PM (No. 2111548)
OK, Boshevik Bernie owns three mansions, right? I propose to seize two-thirds of them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 6/1/2026 9:06:36 PM (No. 2111563)
He’s a lazy communist thief!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 6/1/2026 9:09:38 PM (No. 2111565)
Commies are all thieves at heart.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Sardonic 6/1/2026 9:12:51 PM (No. 2111567)
Effing communist.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 6/1/2026 9:19:11 PM (No. 2111570)
In a saner universe, this is called theft
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Reply 11 - Posted by: edgar 6/1/2026 9:36:46 PM (No. 2111571)
Does anyone take what "Bernie proposes" seriously?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Encore 6/1/2026 9:38:19 PM (No. 2111572)
Socialism…stepping stone to communism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Nimby 6/1/2026 9:55:08 PM (No. 2111574)
How about giving half of his ill-gotten money and 1.5 houses to start with!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: SALady 6/1/2026 9:55:14 PM (No. 2111575)
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Castro are so proud of their protege, Comrade Sanders!!!! He is such a good little Communist!!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LanceLink1 6/1/2026 9:58:39 PM (No. 2111577)
Government confiscation of private industries. How very commie of you, you Bolshevik pos.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: davew 6/1/2026 10:23:44 PM (No. 2111583)
"...a unique in-kind tax payment structure that would require firms with ownership of AI to remit equity shares to the public." We already have that. It's called the stock market. What Sanders is proposing is taking shares out of the voting shareholders' hands and giving them to the State. Actually, he doesn't realize it, but this is exactly how AI companies operate in China under the CCP's SoE structure. Our AI is about democratizing human skills; China's is about controlling human populations to protect the CCP.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Sunhan65 6/1/2026 11:07:46 PM (No. 2111593)
The only Bernie Sanders seizure I'm interested in is the one that permanently ends his ability to steal things that don't belong to him.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: DVC 6/1/2026 11:09:57 PM (No. 2111594)
"Legislation would give the public ..." THEFT of private property, so casually proposed by this rotten old Marxist.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: lakerman1 6/1/2026 11:19:17 PM (No. 2111595)
will he do half the work?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: stablemoney 6/1/2026 11:28:34 PM (No. 2111596)
Bernie, never having earned a dollar in his life, always has a plan to steal other people's property. Bernie always uses the power of the government to make the theft legal.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: joew9 6/1/2026 11:40:42 PM (No. 2111598)
I think it is a great idea. And by half ownership he will also be on the hook for half the losses. And since AI is a ridiculous bubble and is going to crash it would do my heart good to see him and his leftist buddies on the hook for billions in debt. Sell those mansions Bernie. You can always live in your limo.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: JimBob 6/1/2026 11:58:16 PM (No. 2111602)
#6, you beat me to it! Treat Crazy Bernie the old Commie the way he wants to treat everyone else.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: FormerDem 6/2/2026 12:00:30 AM (No. 2111603)
jealous and stupid. doesn't understand it, doesn't know what to say or how to interact with it so he falls back on default behavior: seize it, tax it, boss it, yell about Marx and capitalism.
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