cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/76163261
Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
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Very misleading title as the protest is against the building of the data center. They broke into a construction site, not an actual data center. Some could read the article before commenting, maybe?
Time to steal all of our data back. They stole it first.
Holy shit the amount of bot lickers in this thread is astounding.
Just like the luddites.
The Luddites were right though
Tear’em up! Burn’em down!
Algorithms really got Gen Z to stop spelling “fuck”, huh?
Is that what all that is about? People are nutters
Lekker bezig
ITT a bunch of bot accounts trolling people and farming upvotes on their troll accounts.
Good.
Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
rrrriiiight. So 100% politically motivated.
Any reason why these protests shouldn’t be completely ignored by normal people?
edit I take that as a no
Normal people oppose genocide.
Of course. Normal people can also correctly identify genocide.
There’s still people like you? Wow!
This is an 80/20 issue now, normal people hate Israel.
This is an 80/20 issue now, normal people hate Israel.
Yeah, I’ve noticed, at least in here. That doesn’t mean they’re right in everything they say. It just means that Hamas won the PR war.
Hating Israel is not antisemitic in itself, but still the history of antisemitic hatred is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism
Netanjahu fucking off and perhaps rotting in prison (if it could happen) would not be a bad thing though and I would fully support that.
Well you know when an entire group of people on being killed because of who they are. Yeah that’s genocide. It’s actually really easy to identify it has a very particular look.
Yep, we agree on that. Some people still get it amazingly wrong (mostly false positives) because they just get their thinking from their ingroup.
What else would you desire motivate a protest? Oh no, please don’t protest genocide! The humanity!
you tit
Look at their post history, it’s absolutely shotgun there’s no consistency at all, so it’s almost certainly a bot.
I’m not unsympathetic to their cause, but I do expect that each and every one of these protesters then also boycotts all of Microsoft’s products; otherwise it would be hypocritical. In the end, that, if done en masse, will hit them harder than some banners…
you critique society yet you participate in society! I am very smart
I demand perfection, pluck out your eyes
If people routinely break into construction sites, it puts their insurance, security, etc costs up significantly. In the UK factory’s that made parts for drones ended up shutting down over rising insurance costs.
You can protest something that you’re forced to use
Breaking into a building is not a protest, it’s a crime.
True. It’s not what happened though.
They broke into a construction site, which is private property. Are you suggesting private property can be entered by anyone?
Nope. Also not what you said.
I said building. It was a construction site. Same argument.
And if you read my comment, I agreed with the concept ;)
as if those are mutually exclusive
When I read protest my mind doesn’t go to ‘break and enter’.
demonstrations with signs and chants in the street are the simplest form of protest and ideally would be the only one necessary. if they’re not backed-up by the threat of more disruptive and direct action, they’re toothless and ineffective. protesting is the whole thing, and since the power systems don’t usually give a shit to the first and kinder stages of protesting, it becomes necessary to venture into the realm of “cRiMe”
the definition of crime is arbitrary and subject to change and not really relevant to the definition of protest
What a load of dribble.
Luddites never change.
Luddites opposed child labour.
And Hitler was opposed to animal cruelty, but we’re not gonna say that was a key part of his politics, are we?
Except opposing child labour was the key part of their politics and it’s what you were referencing.
As long as you believe it.
2-year-old account and this is your very first comment?
these websites need up/downvotes for users (not just comments) to identify shills like this
Yeah, I registered my account a very long time ago and haven’t used this site. Is that a problem for you? Do I really need to explain this?
Sorry for not spending my life on this.
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Ludd for president! He’s got my vote! I’m voting Ludd!
That’s exactly why it would be a good idea to introduce an intellectual qualification for voters.
Breaking in isn’t protesting.
Protest is intentionally inconvenient. Thats the point.
To be fair, there are protests around the world about everything from social inequality to datacenters.
It has zero effect on decisions being made. So at some point, people will actually have to do something and not just stand around with banners.
Its necessary since current leaders don’t fear the people and in fact are laughing at them.
Actual change comes from people having enough power to say no more. This is a fact, and it’s needed in this very special time when peoples wishes are ignored completely.
The standing around with banners is supposed to carry an implicit threat:
“Deal amicably with us peaceful protesters, or you’re going to have to deal with people taking direct action.”We’ve been educated to misunderstand this.
yeah, banners are just messaging. nobody in power is gonna change shit if you only stand around demanding change. the threat behind a demand is what’s effecting change.
It also pisses people off sometimes: “Ugh… Protesters again, now my commute will take 15min longer, what the fuck is wrong with these people… GO TO WORK FUCKING HIPPIES!” As if they were part of the upper class lol, I like how gary from gary’s economics explains it, you are not part of the elite, policies that benefit the elite hurt you, as resources are limited wealth has to come from somewhere, if the rich are getting richer faster that means you also go poor faster
Exactly, yeah.
and its very easy to ignore our neighbors suffering simply because it takes a damn massive crash for us all to come together in today’s hyper individualistic consumer societies. Thank the stars for all the incompetent epstein class parasites making things bad real fast for many or we would all still be hyper focused on transgender bathroom rights while the house burns down around us. These problems are not unique to the USA just on full display, loud and proud.
It’s the same everywhere in the west I think. We are fighting eachother instead of grouping up.
If there was a political party who represented sane human values, I would support it. But today it seems the majority of humans are very confused and don’t know what is right and wrong anymore.
It can be. They clearly protested.
protest breaking your nuts but don’t protest breaking the artificial billionaire bubble , you will lose your jobs and be happy to own nothing, Keep paying taxes while I cut services and take your jobs, no health care for you but have a nice data center , don’t forget a bucket.
three year old account and only 8 comments…
the datacenter just opened it doors? gust of wind.
