Nice “democracy”, not even worth farting on.
I’ll do you one better, but I have to be vague and I won’t to go into too many details cuz don’t wanna get doxed but:
Adjacent, ultra water intensive, non-data center project. The project is taking place on property owned by the city (small town < 3k people), but well outside city limits, out in the township. Project is on behalf of a megacorp the city is courting, and the project affects some hundreds of non-city, township residents (and potentially everyone who draws water from the same aquifer (which is, uh, a lot of people)).
Anyways, city hosts open meeting AFTER project has started and hundreds of township wells have dried up.
Meeting room lined with city cops. City project manager: “everything is fine and if I hear anymore yelling you’ll all be arrested. You should be grateful we’re even having this meeting because legally we don’t have to because you’re not citizens of the city! The fact that you all suddenly don’t have running water has nothing to do with us, and the fact that your well pumps are filled with [redacted for anonymity purposes] has absolutely nothing to do with us either! Everything is fine. Go fuck yourselves!”
Animals who’ve drank water from nearby wells have died, plants have died, and it’s important to note that no city residents are affected because they’re on municipal water. ugh there’s a lot more to this story but I can’t share it here.
TLDR: “YOU WILL BE ARRESTED FOR BEING OPPRESSED AND YOU WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR IT”
open hearings are required, america is just a fascist shithole.
my county doesn’t even allow the public to attend meetings, you can send an email or leave a 3-minute voicemail. much democracy, wow
“Data centers” is such a nebulous term.
Who owns that data?!
They aren’t even datacenter, there’s little “data” in there. They are clanker training supercomputers.
Yup. Same energy as those who try to speak up against war
It should be blatantly obvious at this point that peaceful protest is over
I’m not surprised but did I miss some news stories
Just the other day the pigs arrested someone at a town hall, it seems like every one that’s done someone gets arrested and hurt.
I would just chalk that up to someone getting legally ‘too heated’ if it was just one person every time. Its something people should get really heated up over.
I would not doubt that they are at least keeping the names of people who spoke against for further surveillance.
feeling pretty bummed out about how fucked up everything is ngl
Americans, like with health insurance, like their democracy while they didn’t need to use it. Once they actively get to reclaim their rights, they found that the system is made to pretend it exists for them when needed, but actually is there to use them while useful and discard then when not.
This is kind of FUDy. Don’t dissuade people from going to public hearings.
Not my intention, but it feels like they hold these things knowing full well they can sic the pigs on anyone who acts up?
