Someone brought a guillotine to a city council meeting in Salem, Oregon on July 27, 2026. Not a sign shaped like one. Not a drawing. According to community accounts and social media posts, an actual guillotine structure appeared at the protest outside Loucks Auditorium, where hundreds of residents had gathered to oppose a proposed multi-billion-dollar AI data center. Company representatives reportedly assessed the scene and left, citing safety concerns — though that detail hasn’t appeared in formal news coverage or official minutes.
“The poors are making tasteless and threatening jokes here. Let us retreat to our hilltop mansions and simply increase our payments to the local council so they deal with the riffraff for us.”
I’m ok with them feeling unsafe.
I am ok with them becoming physically unsafe.
Yep, my hair is almost white from the stress they’ve put me and everyone else in, they should feel a little stress in return
I want them to feel unsafe all the way up to the blade drop. Actually they say the brain stays on for a few seconds after so until the eyes stop blinking.
They should start chopping up watermelons with it and be like “what guillotine?”
If the rich fascists are scared now, wait til we start using the fucking things.
Good. Keep doing this everywhere.
Good analogy. One ugly creature is scared but were still fucked…
I don’t like the comparison this suggests, because it paints the data-center protestors as fascist overlords.
Person who posted the meme doesn’t understand the movie on that level lol
They just remember a scene when the good guys confront the big bad and the movie’s psychic golden boy announces that it’s scaewed.
Good.
As he should, and he should stay away from now on too.
Good
Okay, does this mean that they’re conceding an effective means to counter their money?
This is really shitty reporting.
It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional. They make it sound like it could have been used. It was a prop.
Sounds more like a shitty resistance. You can’t behead the overlords with a prop.
I think it’s funnier that they felt unsafe around a prop. Let the symbolism sink in.
But you could grab the overlords and put them in the prop and try?
It might even hurt more that way!
Death by a thousand bludgeons?
Not in favor of murder, but suffering is a whole different thing!
Better that the shitheads think it’s operational. Let them lose sleep over what’s coming.
Maybe. I personally prefer accurate reporting. We don’t need more misinformation
It doesn’t mention anywhere that the guillotine was not functional.
I just looked at the social media post. It’s a tiny scale guillotine. It’d struggle to slice anything larger than a carrot. The blade probably isn’t even real, nor made to come down.
and STAY out.
Whoa. I still have to admit that I’m not quite clear on just why AI data centers are what has galvanized resistance so much.
Of all things, why those, I wonder?
It’s a bipartisan issue. The Left likes having clean air, clean water, and a safe environment for wildlife. The Right likes lower energy prices and hates government surveillance. There’s also a lot of crossover in those concerns to different degrees. In some cases, local officials appear to be signing NDAs, accepting bribes, and other corrupt hijinks that benefit themselves over their constituencies. Corporations and billionaires will make billions at a tax discount or tax free on the backs of local taxpayers. There’s really a lot to hate about building more of them.
It’s the whole package. It’s the unsightly huge buildings, the taking of jobs, the AI slop, the environmental destruction, the electricity cost increase, the noise, the pollution. There are few good things AI does, and none of them offset the negatives.
They’re building data centres in the idiots’ backyards, that’s why. Rural voters vote Red because they’re disconnected from society and have no tolerance for people different than themselves. This issue affects them so they care. The people on the left care about the environment and oppose them despite not being directly affected. Because they have empathy and the capacity for critical thinking.
I’m not sure this issue “unites” people against anything other than data centres specifically, but time will tell.
Because there’s literally nothing to gain and everything to lose. Not even “jobs” as the common narrative is for company tax breaks.
So yeah, it’s the pinnacle of how this isn’t a partisan war, but a class war. And the tech industry has done a shift job with PR trying to convince otherwise; the left are disillusioned and the right never trusted big tech coastal elites to begin with.
It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
