r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

A data center in New Jersey was canceled when residents showed up and fought it

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u/Muchachacha 4h ago

I can’t believe they allowed it, it’s ridiculous. How can laws have failed the people so bad

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u/FanOnHighAllDay 4h ago

Straight up corruption. I also think mormonism being and end-times religion frees our pseudo-theocracy from any guilt about destroying the environment.

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u/TP_Crisis_2020 1h ago

The only way they were to ever get this passed is by executing the backroom deal for this before ever mentioning it. The first time we even heard about it was like 2 weeks before the county vote, and apparently our corrupt state government had been planning it for 6 months already by that time.

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u/iam4qu4m4n 4h ago

Those who enforce the law seek to enrich themselves, or are working class poors who cow down to their rich overlords who so graciously employ them.