“While we bicker day-to-day about this politician or that one, the true power players like the military industrial complex are doing things like creating A.I. that will control our future world. By keeping us preoccupied with nonsense, they can build our prison in peace & quiet.”

—  Lee Camp

Twitter, https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1282306040504164352 (12 July 2020)

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