If there's no point in voting, what's the point in following the law at this point? That's the only thing holding up this system of governance, the will of the people. Should the people feel the government has become tyrannical (aka consistently ignoring the direct democratic will of the people through their votes) then it is the duty of the people to alter or abolish it. The Declaration of Independence says as much.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
1 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
74289 readers
2777 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Yes, now please take action.
They won't. Things will unfortunately get worse before getting better. Right now people have to much to lose. Eventually they won't, and people will actually standup for themselves.
There is a clear breach of the social contract between the state and the citizens. The consent of the governed should have been withdrawn decades ago.
Missouri voted no for on paying for a Kansas City sports stadium but the mayor is building it anyway.
What’s the point in voting if they don’t care?
To show them later that a peaceful option was presented.
Of course they don't care. The government no longer fears the people. The people are little more than livestock to The Epstein Class and their minions.
Always was. 🧑🚀 🔫 👩🚀
Burn it down over and over. Napalm it. Vandalize the trucks and equipment. Sabotage the shit out of it until their insurance costs just aren't worth it.
No we only let police use their helicopters to bomb citizens not businesses
This actually happened btw
For anyone curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
Though they could also be talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
Or
Join the crews working on it. Mark out and soften up a secret access point for a plucky freedom fighter.
Include an unprotected exhaust vent in the trench.
One about the size of a womp rat.
Don't you just love it that the country that made a point of it for decades to bomb some democracy into other countries also for decades ignored the votes and voices of its own citizens?
Anyone here old enough to remember how Gore lost even though he won, but a few people in power just decided to ignore that?
America never was a democracy, it always only pretended to be
If ONLY there was SOMETHING the Residents could Do when their Voices are VIOLENTLY Ignored by Rich People and Politicians! OH WELL make sure you FOLLOW the LAW or Go To Jail POORS!
I drove past the construction site every day. They call it "The Barn" after hiring a marketing firm to come in and try to make it more appealing. It's massive and just gets bigger and bigger. iirc they got permission to begin construction before it was approved, then the zoning drama began. There's now a razor wire fence around the perimeter and the area is patrolled by state cops during the day. Clearly they know the situation.
The worst thing is I constantly get targeted ads about the construction. The ads say "we'll pay for the giant increase in energy consumption" and "it'll help reduce costs for everyone!" which is obvious horseshit. What costs are gonna go down, how will they be reduced? Energy costs? Fuel costs? Taxes? The marketing firm knows people are stupid enough to believe anything, even sentences that don't make any fucking sense.
Bottles can fly from real far away
Come down here and give it your best shot
But I see a lot more armchair militancy than actual actions
Seriously. Your more likely to see a woman from tiktok planting bamboo (hilarious, although probably ineffective) by the data center then all the "if it were me I would" type of comments.
Or a teen from Instagram who thinks he has nothing to lose.
Because in this day and age, they kind of don't have anything to lose. Especially if our dumbass fucking president gets his way.
oh this sucks man.
they are already losing AI race to china: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals
why even make people suffer from high electric bills
Interesting read. Here’s a link without the paywall: https://archive.ph/20260507223322/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/why-china-s-deepseek-qwen-and-moonshot-are-a-worry-for-us-ai-rivals
Edit:
Anthropic has accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and another Chinese AI lab, MiniMax, of “industrial-scale distillation attacks” — illegally extracting capabilities from its proprietary Claude model using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to gain an edge
Anthropic’s says:
Illicitly distilled models lack necessary safeguards, creating significant national security risk
So open weight models are a national security risk? Guess we’d all better pay subscriptions, let the data centers be built, and let a couple companies building proprietary models have a monopoly to protect our security, then. 🙄
Poor things, they paid fairly all the data harvested from us, creators and publishers and now the Chinese have that data for "free"
You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the vast sweep of the common people have any power over the decisions that govern their lives at all, beyond the doomsday power of revolution. Which is hardly ever used because of the mess.
I have told the leaders of my county they were unwise to give our water supply to Amazon. The balance of wealth and power is staggeringly on the side of Amazon. They could buy and sell our entire county 100 times over but somehow our board of supervisors thinks we are going to get a fair deal? Idiots.
I've been rewatching Community and the more I watch it, the more I feel like Britta's "dumb" comments are real.
"If voting had any effect, it'd be illegal!"
That line is actually a quote from "Red" Emma Goldman.
Voting has the effect of allowing the population to feel they are steering the ship when actually they are swabbing the decks.
Unless those infrastructure promises are built into law and enforced, they're lies. Why do we have so many superfund sites and leaking abandoned oil wells? Because industry gets to lie and destroy as they please before using lawyers to evade responsibility through the courts until residents give up or die.