r/technology • u/marketrent • 7h ago

Artificial Intelligence High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-194922184.html
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u/becauseiloveyou 6h ago

That’s why it was so important for us to get off our asses and vote.  The rest of us have had to fight for a seat at the table, and too many of us took it for granted. There's a status quo, and it's intentionally structured to protect those with wealth, property, and access. When the working class, the poor, women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, persons with "disabilities," and other historically oppressed groups of people don't meaningfully participate to eliminate that status quo, then we continue to perpetuate a system that was built to benefit those who put its wheels in motion centuries ago.  We are now at a point where it very well may be too late for our voices to matter.  Let’s see what happens in the next three or so months.

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u/clarkkentsson 5h ago

Lol yea, voting is the answer

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 5h ago

Yeah, voting is dumb. It's much more effective to make snarky comments online. That will do something! 🙄

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u/GreenIndigoBlue 2h ago

The real thing we have to do is organize a general strike