Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’

18 days ago by return2ozma to c/aboringdystopia

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Ilovethebomb 111 points 18 days ago

That should absolutely be a career ending statement.

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cmbabul 57 points 18 days ago

If this was a proper country he’d have people already outside his home and office

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badgermurphy 18 points 18 days ago

Who's bringing the rotten produce?

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tabarnaski 33 points 18 days ago

It would be, if people voted in municipal elections.

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Ilovethebomb 30 points 18 days ago

Data centers have a habit of increasing voter turnout, in some cases by over 100%.

The best way to get people to engage with local politics is to piss them off.

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huppakee 1 point 18 days ago

Doesn't this only work if you piss them off about something you wanna change like "isn't it stupid how few data centers there are? We all want data centers but these stupid renters with shitty wages are always in our way, we should create build more data centers! We have to throw out the stupid renters and their shitty wages!"

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Endymion_Mallorn 82 points 18 days ago

Shelbyville? Don't they have a monorail?

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badgermurphy 40 points 18 days ago

I used to take the ferry over there with an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

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9488fcea02a9 19 points 18 days ago

My story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say dickety because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty

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Pickleideas 49 points 18 days ago

And why doesn't this mayor have an issue with their poor constituents being stuck in "shitty houses"

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baggachipz 45 points 18 days ago

And with that, a mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Shelbyville. They had banished the awful lemon tree forever, because it was haunted. Now let's all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.

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lemmyng 22 points 18 days ago

SO MAKE RENT AFFORDABLE AND HOUSING AVAILABLE, MAYOR DUMBASS!

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bmebenji 18 points 18 days ago

Is this that same kind of tactic as like “anyone who doesn’t want to go to war with Iraq is gay?”

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SaveTheTuaHawk 18 points 18 days ago

But Springfield and North Haverbrook have datacentres!

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badgermurphy 9 points 17 days ago

🎶 Data center! Data center! Data center!!!!!

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PodPerson 7 points 17 days ago

Is there a chance the grid could bend?

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CptInsane0 14 points 18 days ago

And marry their attractive cousins

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teyrnon 6 points 18 days ago

Where the fuck is shelbyville?

Some shitholy state no doubt, or the southern half of a mid tier norther midwest one.

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TheTechnician27 13 points 18 days ago

Where the fuck is shelbyville? Some shitholy state no doubt

For the sake of accessibility, I've translated the relevant part of the article so it's easier for you to read:

An image of the first paragraph with three red arrows pointing at and a red circle surrounding the word "Ind." after "Shelbyville" alongside a shocked reaction image

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Zachariah 9 points 18 days ago

India?

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TheTechnician27 16 points 18 days ago

Yes. It's the state where American Indianans come from, naturally.

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Zachariah 8 points 18 days ago

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jaybone 5 points 18 days ago

That’s Shelbai ville.

Coincidentally also low rent with shitty houses.

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pdxfed 6 points 18 days ago path: 0 24095479 24095610 24097323, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
teyrnon 4 points 18 days ago

India? Huh.

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i_stole_ur_taco 3 points 18 days ago

INDEPENDENT

or something I dunno

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Spooge 5 points 18 days ago

I mean, in the US they likely are though. It's hard out here for a G

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DisasterTransport 4 points 17 days ago

If they're renters they have no economic roots and will simply move somewhere that has jobs and no data centers, or at least jobs. You live in Indiana. You should know this.

"Why is my small city dying? this is all Indianapolis's fault, oh I hate those city slickers so, daddy gubmint pls halp"

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omega_x3 3 points 17 days ago

Shake harder boy, shake harder.

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AngryCommieKender 1 point 17 days ago

I'm sure the Mayor of New Albany, and the Falls of The Ohio preservation society have some choice words for the Mayor of Shelbyville.

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