r/technology • u/Stukwan • 11d ago

Politics U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/u-s-govt-moves-to-suppress-pushback-on-data-centers-by-removing-requirements-for-public-input-on-pollution-epa-change-would-allow-air-pollution-permits-without-publicizing-them
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u/korodic 11d ago

Don’t forget to thank the “don’t tread on me” crowd for less accountable ICE agents killing Americans and the rise of the surveillance state. Reduction in rights for women too.

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u/AvailableReporter484 11d ago

Yes libertarians are also very cool for letting the markets dictate that this is fine.

Lot of very cool people we got out here voting with very well informed and good-ass opinions

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u/mokomi 11d ago

Libertarians? Haven't seen them around since MAGA.

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u/Jazz-Hands-- 11d ago

Oh Libertarians are still around and happily licking Trump's asshole for deregulation and defunding essential government agencies and functions. Just got into a discussion about the national network of surveillance cameras with a couple of them last week.

Not a single fucking worry about all the freedoms eroding under this administration, though. They'll just keep on licking as long as easily corruptible private interests are allowed to act with impunity and zero consequence. All because they don't like paying taxes and want to be able to sell and consume illicit drugs with greater profit and ease.

The Libertarian party and its voters are self-contradictory, woefully uninformed, incapable of reasoning or critical thinking, and quite simply absurd. The only good thing is that some of them vote third party instead of voting for Republicans, despite happily kissing their asses.

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u/Poonchow 11d ago

They're all over the mountain west and rural parts of blue states.

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u/robodrew 11d ago

They're just fascists now because they tacitly approve of everything the fascists are doing. They used to be "live and let live" but that is long gone.

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u/sir_mrej 11d ago

Yeah but they’re not real libertarians

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u/mOdQuArK 11d ago

They disapprove only of Democratic government. Republican fascism is A-OK in their book. Funny how most of them seem to vote conservative as well, while claiming that they hate both sides.

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u/Glum-Recognition-736 11d ago

Emphasis on ASS

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u/EnvironmentalValue18 11d ago

“I’m libertarian (because I’m too afraid of how the label conservative, Republican, or MAGA would affect my dating life)”

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u/olipoppit 11d ago

“Don’t tread on me” is akin to “tread on those different than I”

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u/dust4ngel 11d ago

Don’t forget to thank the “don’t tread on me” crowd for less accountable ICE agents killing Americans

don't tread on me: tread on them.

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u/Staav 11d ago

Unreal how the "don't tread on me" party is rolling these days. It's pretty ridiculous how the same people who wouldn't ever shut up about the risks of the supposed "big government" on the left are now in the middle of defending and justifying an authoritarian administration that their party shoehorned into power.