Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.

I believe the consensus is that a successful popular movement needs 3 elements:

• a nonviolent protest movement to communicate and build support with the broader population
• a political party to communicate and enable negotiations with the opposing group
• a militant wing to provide a threat that incentivizes negotiations

Without the popular front, the political and militant groups will lose support of the population as well as their recruitment pipeline.

The political party can reduce the amount of violence and deprivation required to achieve objectives, by setting clear goals.

Without the militants, the opposing power already has a monopoly on violence and has no incentive to come to the table peacefully.

It's how the Suffragists finally got heard.

They aren't arguing in good faith and don't want to change their opinion so force has now become nessisary.

They fear ONLY for their personal well-being, they don't even care about their own kids.

You must speak before you fight, its the first step on the escalation ladder.

That and suing. But threats of violence might be faster and cheaper.

I am ok with them becoming physically unsafe.

Yep, my hair is almost white from the stress they've put me and everyone else in, they should feel a little stress in return

I want them to feel unsafe all the way up to the blade drop. Actually they say the brain stays on for a few seconds after so until the eyes stop blinking.

@thethrilloftime69 @ViceroTempus I'm with you. Hope it propagates to the rest of the mob family.

Short of Monopoly ever being a fun game, I agree. Push people far enough, and they'll push back.

I don't like the comparison this suggests, because it paints the data-center protestors as fascist overlords.

Good analogy. One ugly creature is scared but were still fucked...

Sounds more like a shitty resistance. You can't behead the overlords with a prop.

Better that the shitheads think it's operational. Let them lose sleep over what's coming.

It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional.

I just looked at the social media post. It's a tiny scale guillotine. It'd struggle to slice anything larger than a carrot. The blade probably isn't even real, nor made to come down.

It's a bipartisan issue. The Left likes having clean air, clean water, and a safe environment for wildlife. The Right likes lower energy prices and hates government surveillance. There's also a lot of crossover in those concerns to different degrees. In some cases, local officials appear to be signing NDAs, accepting bribes, and other corrupt hijinks that benefit themselves over their constituencies. Corporations and billionaires will make billions at a tax discount or tax free on the backs of local taxpayers. There's really a lot to hate about building more of them.

It's the whole package. It's the unsightly huge buildings, the taking of jobs, the AI slop, the environmental destruction, the electricity cost increase, the noise, the pollution. There are few good things AI does, and none of them offset the negatives.

It's the straw that broke the camel's back.

Because there's literally nothing to gain and everything to lose. Not even "jobs" as the common narrative is for company tax breaks.

So yeah, it's the pinnacle of how this isn't a partisan war, but a class war. And the tech industry has done a shift job with PR trying to convince otherwise; the left are disillusioned and the right never trusted big tech coastal elites to begin with.