Originally published via Armageddon Prose:Don’t Want an AI Data Center in Your Backyard? You Might Be a Domestic Terrorist!(+ Notes on the evolution of the national security state)Americans deemed insufficiently enthusiastic about the construction of behemoth AI data centers currently being erected all across the United States will now, per leaked DHS documents, enjoy the designation of “domestic terrorist” — a term, like “racist,” having lost nearly all of whatever meaning it might have once had due to gross overuse.Related: German Minister Announces Pre-Crime Surveillance, Prosecution of ‘Far-Right Extremists’A brief history of the U.S. national security state:· The U.S. national security state, as such, began in the aftermath of the Cold War with the creation of the CIA out of the architecture of wartime intelligence apparatus Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with its primary initial opponent being the Soviet Union and subversive elements inside of the United States sympathetic to communism· In the 1960s, it turned more overtly inward to confront the nascent left-wing “civil rights” coalition consisting of the hippies, Black Panthers, anti-Vietnam War activists, etc.· After the Soviet Union collapsed in ‘91, it needed a new enemy, which was provided (conveniently) by the 9/11 attacks: radical Islam (armed and financed by the CIA in many cases, but that’s neither here nor there).· In 2016, the national security state turned on Trump and his supporters, as well as Russia in a reimagined McCarthyism, which it claimed had stolen the election for Trump.