you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then “Add Tag” or “Tag user” from their profile

interesting note: a flavor of techno fascism actually started in the 30s, it was called Technocracy, Inc.

The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy […] a California engineer, invented the word technocracy in 1919 to describe “the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers”

here’s an article explaining how Musk, Thiel, and Andreessen (and other tech billionaires) have adopted a similar philosophy with the “Charter Cities” ancap utopianism they’re working to replace democracy with.

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

I’m so sick and fucking tired of “the drug problem” being used over and over and over again to justify anything the government wants.

the US has been fighting a war on drugs to the cost of trillions of dollars over 50 years and what has it led to? massive expansion and militarization of the border at taxpayers expense, and more people do drugs today than EVER!

we need to stop letting the propagandists win by nodding along to this ‘fentanyl is America’s #1’ enemy bullshit. people are on drugs because theyre fucking miserable! they don’t have safety nets, homes, communities, support to quit, or meaningful work. enough is enough!

they probably mean “culturally progressive”, as in, woke leaning. bombs with rainbows painted on them.

the US was only very briefly controlled by a progressive govt and it took a great depression and threats of mob violence against the ruling class to get that much.

as much as tariffs are a comically bad self-own, I’d actually be happy if this means even a fractional decrease in Temu’s non-stop generation of landfill waste.

low cost, ubiquitous knick nack consumerism needs to be curtailed.

maybe. it might also be that most of the damage is the result of a few particular bad actors… arguably a large amount of the runaway environmental destruction we’ve witnessed is the accumulated result of a very small portion of the population being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want whenever the fuck they want for ~200 years?

we could test this theory out, empirically. I propose an experiment where we, um, neutralize, the top 1% who directly facilitate eco-cide in pursuit of corporate profits and then we’ll see if nature improves.