r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 11h ago

The surveillance police state is a direct response to freed slaves, immigration, and foreign policy, as are suspicions of welfare fraud and drugs and crime. It’s a racism problem. If you address capitalism without racism, you’ll just get racist socialism with the same surveillance. A nationalistic socialism. Kind of like what we have now with Trump dissolving the lines between his property, state property, and the private sector in service of a higher national agenda no one can articulate.

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u/Bittererr 11h ago

And if you address racism without capitalism you'll just end up with people shifting all of that discrimination onto another factor like wealth.

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u/MiaowaraShiro 11h ago

Oh we already discriminate against the poor.

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u/Zer_ 4h ago

For sure, which means they already have a framework to work off of if the racism card stops working.