That wouldn’t fly in Springfield
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Now, wait just a minute. We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville. Just tell us your idea and we'll vote for it.
I don't know, they got duped into a junk monorail. Just took a catchy song.
Bribeable officials appears to be the key ingredient for ideal sites for data centers.
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.
they shouldn’t get to vote in local elections
For a long time I assumed this was a rule. Figured, I'm not from here why would I have a say.
As I've gotten older, I've come to realize I'm not really from anywhere anymore. I think I visited my hometown maybe once in the last decade. Didn't really feel that comfortable weighing in on local politics as a student in a college/university town/city. I still voted on national stuff (not that it did any good), but at this stage I struggle even to think of myself as American. It's not a country where me or people like me have had any influence or agency. It's not my country it's their country, the oligarchs. Feels like there's no place where I belong, and any push for my views is just interfering in other people's business.
It creates a bit of a paradox since (broadly speaking) it's good when people don't push their views onto others, yet in this case that's creating a terrible selection bias. I still don't know if there's a good solution to this. I don't want to vote where I don't understand the situations and won't fully face the consequences. Yet, I don't want society to crush me out of negligence either.
Also keep in mind that many people rent for much of or all of their lives, even if they remain in the same area.
Feudalism 101
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.
Sounds like the Mayor of Shelbyville is volunteering to have the data centre in their backyard
i heard the shelbyville mayor married his cousin
That's the sort of thing that happens when you found a town specifically so you can marry your cousins.
Hey it's true but we still have a point
Those sorts of people still have access to cans of gasoline and more motivation to prevent such places from existing.