Republicans Sabotaged Farmers to Buy Land Cheap For Data Centers
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The Republican party is so corrupt that they don’t even bother to try and hide it. Instead, they dupe the American public with their endless hate indoctrination. That’s why they bought up all the local newspapers and got white supremacists elected onto school boards. That’s why they gobble up all the radio stations and use algorithms to deprive people of choice.
It’s a full court press of oppression and they get us from every angle. That’s what you have to do when your objective is to rob people of their constitutional rights, their autonomy, their property, and, ultimately, their lives.
Take, for example, the proliferation of surveillance centers. Other people call them data centers. I call them surveillance centers.
For a long time, people have whispered about the dangers of government surveillance. Wouldn’t it be awful if the government tracked your movements? Wouldn’t it be awful if the government recorded your conversations? Wouldn’t it be awful if the government had access to your biometric data?
Well, surprise, smartphones allow malicious forces to track all of that. There’s a reason batteries can’t be removed from your phone anymore. If you could take out the battery, you would have assurance that the phone was turned off. Now, even when a phone is off it can be turned back on with a signal.
People have been turning all sorts of information over with their fitness apps, their social media profiles, and the mics and cameras of their devices. The problem is that malicious forces really couldn’t process all the information. Think about it. Could they really afford to have some dude sit there and listen to everything you said and did?
Of course not.
That’s why they invented artificial intelligence. Actually, first they got the taxpayers to fund it [https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/openais-tax-subsidy-efforts-amount-to-silicon-valley-socialism]. As always, the working class is forced to fund their own exploitation. Modern AI can go through billions of hours of recordings and find the information authoritarians need to destroy you. If they can’t find it, they can make it up [https://abcnews.com/GMA/News/man-sues-law-enforcement-alleging-ai-facial-recognition/story?id=133810835]. It’s increasingly getting to the point where AI has more authority than real people.
The problem is that processing all that data takes a lot of computers. Computers generate a lot of heat. Heat burns up a lot of water. If you wanted your kids to have access to fresh water, too bad. Republicans are committed to establishing a surveillance state.
So the problem becomes where are they going to build all those water consuming surveillance centers?
The answer is obvious. All Republicans had to do is look for an already indoctrinated population that’s extremely vulnerable to economic hardship.
They’re called farmers.
Farmers like to think of themselves as independent from economic fluctuations. After all, they literally extract food from the soil and the sun. The problem is, selling their crop depends on international markets.
It turns out those markets can be easily destroyed by tariffs.
Farmers also rely on government subsidies.
Those subsidies can be easily destroyed by dismantling USAID [https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling-what-it-means-farmers-and-ag-research].
Farmers also need fertilizers that are shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait can be easily shut down with an illegal war.
Republicans know full well that American farmers are not going to be able to keep their land. The vice-president himself funded AcreTrader [https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/]. Naturally the Republicans are prepared to take advantage of all the economic devastation that will come as a consequence of their deliberate actions.
Republicans know exactly what they’re doing. They profit from it. They hurt farmers.
They also know they own the media and they’ll be able to direct a hate propaganda campaign against liberals to cover up their crimes. They’ve been doing it for fifty years, why stop now?
“But what’s going to happen to all the angry people?” you ask.
Well, Republicans have also dismantled the pandemic response [https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/white-house-empties-office-us-pandemic-policy-gaps-left-behind] team. Today, a particularly nasty strain of Ebola is fighting containment [https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON607]. If it escapes, all the angry farmers who had their land stolen are likely to be wiped out. After all, Republicans have already indoctrinated them to eschew wearing masks, washing their hands, or taking any other reasonable precautions to avoid infection.
With all the people gone, the tech overlords can rely on AI and automation to do all the work. They’ll have their land. They’ll have the surveillance centers. The people that remain will be uneducated servants who live in constant terror of speaking or even thinking anything that will result in punishment.
Land of the free, home of the brave.
The last bit of irony is that the government is already equipped with the power to take your land. It’s called eminent domain [https://www.justice.gov/enrd/condemnation/land-acquisition-section/history-federal-use-eminent-domain]. The fact is, the idea that you can own anything is an illusion in the USA. The government can take what it wants when it wants.
Except, at some point along the line, the Republicans realized all they had to do was run for office. The very voting demographic that claims it doesn’t trust the government, gives power to the people who strip them of their land, liberty, and ability to live.
The Republicans told them exactly what they were going to do and the farmers voted for it anyway.
It was all in pursuit of “owning the libs.”
Now they’re poised to lose everything. When the bulldozers roll in to knock down the farmhouse that’s been in their family for generations, I wonder if they’ll realize they’ve been duped. When all the water is used up by surveillance centers, I wonder if they’ll start to recognize the difference between the liars and the people who tell the truth.
Republicans are about to steal everything from the American farmer. It adds salt to the wound to recognize that the farmers gleefully voted for this. They laughed the whole time.
Nobody is laughing now.
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