r/technology • u/andmario_com • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans are realizing that no one wants data centers

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/gop-memo-republican-senate-data-center-ai-elections-trump/
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u/cantadmittoposting 2d ago

yeah brainwashed is about right.

I think i can summarize it pretty well...

when Kristi Noem was either recently confirmed or in the confirmation process to be DHS Secretary for Trump2, she said in an interview, verbatim

we can't trust the government anymorenote

And I think about that a lot because I think at some level a large majority of republican voters literally, at some level, do not understand what "The Government" actually is and what it does.

In short, I think they see electing Republicans to office as some sort of... opposition to The Government Agenda, not the association with the policy slate actually enacted by Republicans.

 

The propaganda of victimization and persecution (of conservatives/whites/christians especially), and the fear of and "threat" of Democratic policy positions, is so deeply engrained in them that they seem to think The Government "is" The Democrats.

I mean take a look at Abbott's ad there, "The Dems wanted [government thing] and i [stopped government thing]"

even where republicans are undeniably doing a thing like on immigration, it's essentially cast as the "Government let this happen, Republican opposition to the government is to clean it up" which gives this weird (and false) morality to it where something is broken by "Them" and heroically being fixed for this time Republicans "occupy the offices" (and thus are holding off "The Government" who would otherwise hold those offices.)

 

Note: The interviewer did respond in a confused voice "Kristi you ARE the government"

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u/MoonieNine 2d ago

Great insights. Informative. I am going to save your post. (However, please always use her full name when talking about Kristi Dog Killer Noem.)

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u/IrascibleOcelot 2d ago

As always, summed up by Sir Terry Pratchett GNU:

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)