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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Demockracy
Somebody help me out here. What's the opposite of "construction" again?
Direct action 😁
mercans dont have any political or legal power anymore
We never really had any to begin with all the way back to the founding. It is just now those in power do not give a fuck and tore off the mask.
Another lying headline. You all will up vote anything that makes you mad without reading it or thinking critically at all.
- Residents didn't vote on this, the town board did
- The town board was sued by the developers
- The developers were likely to win so the town settled and got some concessions from the developer
This is literally then one case where the slowness of the courts could have worked for the people. Even if the town lost after years of litigation, so what. They would have moved it elsewhere in the meantime. But someone got bribed to drop the lawsuit.
It's not free for a small town to litigate for years. The fact they settled so fast implies that the way they did it was not remotely legal. They may not have followed their own rules or state rules. Doing that is a good way to get a judge mad real fast. Judge could have put a preliminary injunction on the town to allow the construction to start while litigation proceeded. To do that the judge would have to determine that the developer was likely to succeed and that no irreparable harms would be caused. If the developers lost then they could just demo what had been built and restore the site, no harm done.
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Man, how's flint?
the datacenters are also likely going to be used for mass surveillance(flock, palantir,,,etc) anyways.
It's happening right now in Utah as well.
Now all that high tech electronics jacking from the first Fast & Furious movie doesn't look so dumb lol.