• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.

    Nailed it.

    You can’t gaslight people when they can’t put food on the table. The people who get elected this November in the US will largely argue against data centers and for affordability. (Though I’m skeptical that any of them, save Graham Platner, would actually vote for any meaningful change.)

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        The only thing we can do: organizing locally. “We the people” don’t have any power outside our local jurisdictions and cities.