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Who is responsible for the shitty houses these poor renters are living in? Hmm, hard to say
What’s the implied point here? “Of course you’re against rich people exploiting everyone else — you’re everyone else! Haha!”?
That should absolutely be a career ending statement.
If this was a proper country he’d have people already outside his home and office
It would be, if people voted in municipal elections.
Data centers have a habit of increasing voter turnout, in some cases by over 100%.
The best way to get people to engage with local politics is to piss them off.
Doesn't this only work if you piss them off about something you wanna change like "isn't it stupid how few data centers there are? We all want data centers but these stupid renters with shitty wages are always in our way, we should create build more data centers! We have to throw out the stupid renters and their shitty wages!"
Shelbyville? Don't they have a monorail?
And why doesn't this mayor have an issue with their poor constituents being stuck in "shitty houses"
And with that, a mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Shelbyville. They had banished the awful lemon tree forever, because it was haunted. Now let's all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.
Is this that same kind of tactic as like “anyone who doesn’t want to go to war with Iraq is gay?”
But Springfield and North Haverbrook have datacentres!

Where the fuck is shelbyville?
Some shitholy state no doubt, or the southern half of a mid tier norther midwest one.
Where the fuck is shelbyville? Some shitholy state no doubt
For the sake of accessibility, I've translated the relevant part of the article so it's easier for you to read:

I'm sure the Mayor of New Albany, and the Falls of The Ohio preservation society have some choice words for the Mayor of Shelbyville.
That wouldn’t fly in Springfield
It's almost like the tech companies are preying on places that have cheap land and residents with less political influence...
Jesus, at least the meat packing plants and shingle factories employed people they were poisoning.
There is a shockingly high percentage of homeowners who sincerely believe that renters should have fewer rights. The most common seem to be that they shouldn't get to vote in local elections and that they shouldn't be allowed to park their cars on public streets.
renters are second class citizens in the USA, for sure.
not owning a home is considered a failure, like not going to college, or not being rich.
Bribeable officials appears to be the key ingredient for ideal sites for data centers.
Sounds like the Mayor of Shelbyville is volunteering to have the data centre in their backyard
Those sorts of people still have access to cans of gasoline and more motivation to prevent such places from existing.
That's the sort of thing that happens when you found a town specifically so you can marry your cousins.

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