Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/caught-on-camera-shelbyville-mayor-insinuates-citizens-opposing-data-centers-are-poor-renters-in-shy-houses/
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 111 pts · 84d
That should absolutely be a career ending statement.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 57 pts · 84d
If this was a proper country he’d have people already outside his home and office
badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 83d
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 84d
It would be, if people voted in municipal elections.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 83d
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.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
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!"
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 82 pts · 84d
Shelbyville? Don't they have a monorail?
badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 83d
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 83d
My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty
Pickleideas@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 84d
And why doesn't this mayor have an issue with their poor constituents being stuck in "shitty houses"
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 83d
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.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 83d
SO MAKE RENT AFFORDABLE AND HOUSING AVAILABLE, MAYOR DUMBASS!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 83d
But Springfield and North Haverbrook have datacentres!
badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 83d
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 83d
Is there a chance the grid could bend?
bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 83d
Is this that same kind of tactic as like “anyone who doesn’t want to go to war with Iraq is gay?”
CptInsane0@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 83d
And marry their attractive cousins
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 83d
Where the fuck is shelbyville?
Some shitholy state no doubt, or the southern half of a mid tier norther midwest one.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d
For the sake of accessibility, I've translated the relevant part of the article so it's easier for you to read:
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 83d
India?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 83d
Yes. It's the state where American Indianans come from, naturally.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 83d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 83d
That’s Shelbai ville.
Coincidentally also low rent with shitty houses.
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 83d
They could be anywhere!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 83d
India? Huh.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 83d
INDEPENDENT
or something I dunno
Spooge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 83d
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 4 pts · 83d
If they're renters they have no economic roots and will simply move somewhere that has jobs and no data centers, or at least jobs. You live in Indiana. You should know this.
"Why is my small city dying? this is all Indianapolis's fault, oh I hate those city slickers so, daddy gubmint pls halp"
omega_x3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
Shake harder boy, shake harder.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
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.