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Nedia Romero's avatar

Forget AI Start helping people economically and financially and healthcare systems food security climate change infrastructure gas prices this is what we need We don’t need Big brother watching or listening to our everyday moves or our private data.

roseanne demaria's avatar

thank you for all that u do.

Amanda's avatar

I’m reaching a breaking point watching what’s happening in this country. The future is starting to look dark, and it feels like humanity is moving backwards instead of evolving. We’re pouring billions into surveillance systems and totalitarian camera networks while cutting the basic supports that disabled people and families in poverty rely on just to survive.

SNAP keeps shrinking. SSI is still below poverty level. Housing vouchers don’t cover rent. Medicaid waivers take years. Food access programs are constantly threatened. It’s always the people who need help the most who get hit first.

And now we’re throwing massive amounts of money and resources into AI data centers — giant facilities that devour water, eat up federal land, and push an already fragile electrical grid to the edge. We barely have water as it is. We barely have land that isn’t being swallowed up. Our grid is already stressed and we’re paying outrageous prices for electricity. And somehow the solution is… more data centers?

It’s becoming painfully clear:

If you have enough money, you can do whatever you want.

And more and more people in power are choosing profit over compassion, profit over sustainability, profit over civil rights, profit over human lives.

I recently read a resignation letter from a pediatric oncologist — someone who dedicated their life to saving children. He said he couldn’t do it one more day. He knew about treatments that could save kids’ lives, but he was forced to use poison instead or face criminal charges. Imagine being a doctor, knowing you could save a child, and being legally forced to harm them because someone with money decided profit mattered more than human life.

That’s not just a policy failure.

That’s moral collapse.

We’re told there’s “no money” for disabled people to eat, but there’s money for surveillance networks.

We’re told budgets are tight, but billions magically appear for AI facilities that drain the resources we barely have left.

We’re told to trust systems that clearly prioritize profit over people.

This isn’t evolution.

This is regression.

This is what it looks like when a society chooses control over compassion, extraction over sustainability, and surveillance over humanity.

I refuse to accept that this is the direction we’re heading.

If you’re tired of watching essential programs get gutted while surveillance expands and AI data centers drain our water, land, and electricity, speak up.

Share posts. Sign petitions. Call your representatives. Support disability justice groups. Push back against policies that treat vulnerable people as expendable and our environment as infinite.

We deserve a future where people are fed, housed, cared for — and where our natural resources aren’t sacrificed for systems that don’t actually help us.

If we don’t fight for our future, the darkness wins.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Powerful and true. Very well stated! We can't let these moral degenerates in DC win!

Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Amanda, this is when We the People need to stand up and push back. We need to be constantly emailing and calling our representatives. We need to help those in need however we can. I am 67 years old and there are times I want to crawl into a hole and just cry. But we can't do that. That is what this evil administration is wanting us to do. I donate to schools and the homeless and pet shelters what I can. I am an election official and I take that job seriously. I go to as many rallies as I can. I know who I am fighting for. I am fighting for my late veteran husband who gave his life for this country. I am fighting for my children and my grandchildren and I am fighting for those who can't fight for themselves. As long as I have breath in my body I will not be quiet and I will keep fighting.

Gale's avatar

Thank you for your powerful and inspiring message. I stand with you!