#authoritarianism

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Let's be clear: What they want is privacy for the monarchs and nobles, and to remove it entirely from the peasants.

Because they want to control the peasants.
They want to control us, entirely.

We never left feudalism, the monarchs and nobles simply changed their titles and fashion, while letting us believe we could become one of them someday.

But we will always remain exploitable and expendable peasants to them.

We cannot wait after them to improve our lives. We must organize to take the power back to the people, where it belongs.

"In late July 2025, deep within the Pentagon’s bureaucratic machinery, the U.S. Army quietly signed away a piece of its sovereignty.

A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.”

It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract.

A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”

J.D. Vance, propelled to the vice-presidency by $15 million from Peter Thiel, became the face of tech-right governance. Behind him, Thiel’s network moved into the machinery of the state.

Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public …

>>“It seems clear from his own order that [this president] plans to see how far he can stretch the law before someone tells him no,” she said. “And if the administration won’t publicly name drug cartels in the Caribbean, you can bet that they’re not going to tell you the name of this new list of domestic terrorist organizations, only this time the secret lists are not made up of drug traffickers and international waters, it’ll be Americans on American streets and in American homes.”

“I never thought I’d have to lay this out about my own government,” she said. “The idea that intelligence officers could be asked to target Americans turns my stomach.” <<

https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/im-popping-a-flare-slotkin-says-trump-is-using-same-playbook-as-every-authoritarian-in,162791

I'm old enough to remember when having your photo and fingerprints taken by the authorities was reserved to convicted criminals.

Now it will eventually be all of us.
All of us constantly tracked by governments and corporations alike, requiring our biometric data for anything they feel like.

Our privacy rights are going down the drain under the pretext of security.

But it will not make us safer, on the contrary.
Don't believe their authoritarian lies.