I just saw a video from a local news channel about a different patch of land in Georgia where Georgia Power was given an easement across a bunch of people's land, essentially cutting these people's property in half, then they clear cut the forest at the back of their properties and installed some giant transmission line towers also to power datacenters. One young couple interviewed had just bought their property and were planning on using the land to grow food but now they can't and they also can't sell because only half their property is usable despite them having paid for the entire plot.
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Well, datacenters are pretty much Eminent Domaining people then.
never has been; it’s been an empire since white men crossed the mississippi
How can democracy exist when industries control the economy? When a business can just decide to pull out of a town and put tens of thousands of people out of work, how does “one person, one vote” have any meaning whatsoever? True power is held by those who control the economy.
Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with the economic systems based on inequality like capitalism. Democracy can only meaningfully exist in a classless society. And until that is achieved, democracy is best achieved by those societies who only allow the working class to hold political power.
Cannot wait for this AI bubble to pop as these corrupt politicians are so obviously doing this at our expense, while they pocket all the profit
Here's the thing. The bubble will pop, people will loose billions, the prices of everything will go into flux, the economy will crash, and the people who still have enough money to make serious investments during that time will be able to buy so much more stuff simply because so much more will be for sale.
We saw it happen in 2008, we saw it happen in 2020, and it will happen again when the bubble pops, and we'll just let the people who crashed the economy off the hook, and borrow more money from our future selves to pay them to fix it now.
well that doesn't sound as good, i never even considered this to be a possibility, but thinking about it logically makes sense
Happens every time. Realistically, the only thing that would "level" the playing field is a complete collapse of all currency. Unrealistically, it could be leveled through progressive taxes on obscene incomes, a recurring tax of accumulated wealth over a certain value, and closing of tax loopholes.
Don't forget how many good people will be left holding the bag due to their retirement funds being drained into that bubble while the elites cash out :( just like the 2008 crash this is just another pump and dump at our expense while the rich will make out like the robber Barron's they are anyways
Damn, Georgia too? I thought this was mainly a US American thing at this point.
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Easy mistake to make but this isn’t about Georgia the nation, it’s about Georgia, the asteroid.
I once visited a city called Savannah and was very disappointed to not find a savannah biome anywhere in the vicinity. It was far too forested! But maybe I was in that imaginary Georgia? I need to visit the real one.
I keep seeing this story all over my news feeds and YouTube recommendations. Glad it's being put out there, at least!
Remember that feelings of compassion should be contingent on the question: "Who do you vote for?"
It’s deranged to create a class of people that it’s okay to steal houses from and pollute the place they live no matter how they voted, actually
It’s wrong to steal people’s houses and to pollute the place they live, no matter who they voted for.
But I’ll be damned if I shed a single tear if these people happily voted in the regime which brazenly supports stealing people’s houses and polluting where they live.
You can still empathize with people who were uninformed and subsequently exploited / harmed.
Giving into the “me vs them” team mentality is giving the oligarchs exactly what they want: divide and conquer.
They were informed. They were warned. They were told about “project 2025” and how bad it would be. They’ve been through one trump presidency. They knew what they signed up for.
My stance on trump voters:
If you voted for him the first time, you made a foolish/uninformed decision. But forgivable.
If you voted for him the second time, you’re a dumb person and I don’t trust you.
If you voted for him this third time, after the insurrection, after how horrible he has proven to be, fuck you. You’re evil. No pity from me.
It is frustrating that a person can be as willfully idiotic as they can and if they get taken for fools by the fascists, that the left is right there with a safety net preventing them from finding out after they fucked around. I think at some point you are enabling idiots to go on being idiots without consequences.
Largely I agree, but at some point kindness in the face of hatred becomes its own kind of idiocy. You can't be allies with someone who is ambivalent or worse about whether you live or die.
Greatest challenge of our time imo. I'm very, very pessimistic about it
Straight-up. I really don't care who these people voted for. If they're pissed that datacenters are stealing their family home, that's actually a perfect opportunity to win right-wing votes that doesn't compromise values. At the minimum, It's an opportunity to fight back against big tech and data centers. Punishing them for who they presumably voted for is deranged on multiple levels, but unfortunately normalized among liberals.
Liberals will insist on adopting centrist and right wing policies in the hope of winning over jetski dads in the suburbs. They'll do anything they can to win over these voters. They do it every election. It leads to a cynicism among voters that nothing can ever change for the better (and they're fucking right). So people stay home or vote for someone else. The jetski dads predictably vote for the most fascist politician possible, because that's what they want. They don't want fascism lite, they want fascism done right. The centrist eats shit and blames the left (who often work tirelessly to elect their dumbass as a harm reduction measure, but whatever).
Then, when the Republican wins and starts doing Republican shit, liberals offer only condascending quips about a process that never works out for people. They insist that suffering is payment to them from the poorest and least educated people in the USA for not playing their little game correctly. And in the same fucking breath, they'll propose more dead-end centrist garbage to the same jetski dads as last time.
Stop conceding to the right. Run on populist left policies that improve the material lives of everyone, and you'll naturally win over voters. That includes saving rural Georgian families from data centers even if they don't like you or vote for you. If you do enough for them you will eventually win them over. Fighting data centers is a net win for environmentalism and labor.
they did this with foxconn or a similar company during trumps 1s term, the local govt "blighted the homes' to force them to leave.
Do you deprive these people of your compassion because you think they are evil? Because I sincerely don't believe in evil. I believe in stupidity, folly, shortsightedness... and the people affected by them do have my compassion and my empathy.
Also, given what you said I'd bet you voted for a billionaire-friendly, genocide supporter, fucking cop. So you, in that case, too have my compassion and empathy.
You don't believe in evil even though you shared a planet with Epstein? That my friend is folly and I highly recommend you set a new definition of evil for yourself with his and his co-conspirators' names.
Well, I believe in sickness too. And, yes, I also feel pity for Epstein and company, look at them, do you think those are happy people?
Don't get me wrong, I ain't no saint and this isn't any of that 'other cheek' crap. I do hate to live in a world full of sick, dumb, fool, shortsighted people, but in a more 'hate the game and not the player' way, specially since playing it is not really a choice.
To solve this issues, or any problem really, it's needed some understanding. I'm not very good with people or with social matters, nor do I like them much, but I think the attitude on your comment of 'I'm glad this bad thing is happening because it's hurting the other people more' isn't helping.
One day these companies will take everything away from someone who has nothing to lose. Remember killdozer, "Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things".
When reached for comment the family said, "how could this happen to us? We're not even trans?"
Have the day you voted for, know that you won't be the last people in rural areas that this happens to, and that when the AI bubble pops you still won't get the land back. It's gone forever.
Fucking bullshit time to burn these companies down and someone should tear down the fucking CEO home. And they are using dominance first. The fact that they are threatening sell to us or else says it a lie for them saying last resort.
You come try take and tear down a home that was supposed to be generational wealth I be burning some data centers to the ground. Now lady mom sold her home and I bet the money isn't enough to buy a similar home somewhere else. Fuck the government for allowing this bullshit. AI data center are not for public good just the opposite. When do we revolt.
Why is it always "someone" should do it? Why not you?
Because of our hyper individualism here in the USA, we have very little solidarity. It's this absence of solidarity that stays the hand. No one believes the rest of us will charge in after them and have their back. Why should they? This is the land of "fuck you, I got mine".
Stop encouraging people to confess to crimes on the internet.
Uh but there’s only like 12 of us on Lemmy right? The FBI probably makes fun of us…
Wrong takeaway. I'd prefer if he'd STFU and not say anything at all. Whatever he may or may not do does not need to be advertised on the internet.
Well, for starters Fredselfish.
Second I don't live in Georgia nor have the means or funds to start committing domestic terrorism. But you want start something and we can get millions with us then maybe we can do something that will actually work to end this bullshit. One man out doing shit won't do shit but get me 100 year prison sentence like those folks in Texas who most were not even connected.
So, if you're not in the area, and you're not willing to stick your own neck out ti uphold your expressed values, then why do you think you need to have an opinion?
Your opinion essentially boils down to "someone else should do prison time for the crimes I want to see comitted because I'm too chickenshit to live by my own values."
"You can't make a direct impact tomorrow therefore you can't have an opinion" is the stupidest take I've heard today. Keep raging online about how people vent frustration online lol
Good thing that's not what was said. But hey, good job on that public demonstration of your poor reading comprehension.
This is why it's important to stay in school.
"If you aren't in the area and aren't willing to stick your neck out"
"You can't make a direct impact tomorrow"
Those are communicating the same idea. "If you're not one who's willing and able to enact change, then you shouldn't have an opinion on it" You're arguing semantics because you know you have nothing else.
You added the "tomorrow". I did not specify a timeline. So, no. They aren't communicating the same idea.
But thanks for going so far as to put together a whole powerpoint about the poor reasoning and awful reading comprehension skills that caused you to create your straw man. (Tip: That's hyperbole. Don't take it literally, champ.)
What I said was - If you aren't in the area and this isn't "your" issue in some tangible way, why do you feel so strongly that you need to have an opinion about it that you express publicly? What purpose does this meaningless public exhortation for "somebody to do something" serve?
Maybe if you'd stayed in school, you'd understand that words have meaning beyond whatever your tiny, self-centered mind can conceive of. After all, you're so unoriginal you chose that username, likely to help communicate to the world the fact that you've got the mind of a twelve year-old prepubescent little boy.
Lol I ain't reading all that. Happy for you tho. Or sorry it happened.
Thank you for admitting you're wrong.
Not even close but keep coping since online comments sections must be all you have in life lol
Projection ain't just for the cinemas, kiddo.
It's going to be a great moment when you're old enough to have the lived experience to know that you're just telling on yourself with every comment.
He's got work tomorrow.
Too many people thinking they have too much to lose.
Too many people thinking they have too much to lose.
Yep. Too many people in the not-targeted class aren't willing to step up and do their part. They'd rather whine on social media about "somebody should do something." But that somebody is never them. Not until ICE is on their doorstep shooting their dog.

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