Someone brought a guillotine to a city council meeting in Salem, Oregon on July 27, 2026. Not a sign shaped like one. Not a drawing. According to community accounts and social media posts, an actual guillotine structure appeared at the protest outside Loucks Auditorium, where hundreds of residents had gathered to oppose a proposed multi-billion-dollar AI data center. Company representatives reportedly assessed the scene and left, citing safety concerns — though that detail hasn’t appeared in formal news coverage or official minutes.
“The poors are making tasteless and threatening jokes here. Let us retreat to our hilltop mansions and simply increase our payments to the local council so they deal with the riffraff for us.”
So do the citizens…
That’s why they brought a fucking guillotine.
Like, this is the result of all the shit they’re pulling with bribing politicians and having them arrest anyone who talks back at meetings.
People aren’t just going to lay down and take, at a certain point when the 0.01% keep violating the social contract, everyone else adapts to the new reality
It’s like a little kid who cheats at Monopoly and loves the game, nothing can make them stop cheating and they always insistnon playing.
You fix that by cheating back just as hard, ruin the kids game, and teach them that if everyone plays by the rules we all have fun.
If a few refuse the rules, everyone else refuses the game.
Short of Monopoly ever being a fun game, I agree. Push people far enough, and they’ll push back.
If the rich fascists are scared now, wait til we start using the fucking things.
They should start chopping up watermelons with it and be like “what guillotine?”
Good.
Okay, does this mean that they’re conceding an effective means to counter their money?
As he should, and he should stay away from now on too.
Whoa. I still have to admit that I’m not quite clear on just why AI data centers are what has galvanized resistance so much.
Of all things, why those, I wonder?
It’s the whole package. It’s the unsightly huge buildings, the taking of jobs, the AI slop, the environmental destruction, the electricity cost increase, the noise, the pollution. There are few good things AI does, and none of them offset the negatives.
They’re building data centres in the idiots’ backyards, that’s why. Rural voters vote Red because they’re disconnected from society and have no tolerance for people different than themselves. This issue affects them so they care. The people on the left care about the environment and oppose them despite not being directly affected. Because they have empathy and the capacity for critical thinking.
I’m not sure this issue “unites” people against anything other than data centres specifically, but time will tell.
Because there’s literally nothing to gain and everything to lose. Not even “jobs” as the common narrative is for company tax breaks.
So yeah, it’s the pinnacle of how this isn’t a partisan war, but a class war. And the tech industry has done a shift job with PR trying to convince otherwise; the left are disillusioned and the right never trusted big tech coastal elites to begin with.
