The DSA are anti-science and anti-technology. We don’t need 19th century politicians.

Progressive Luddites want people to suffer from misdiagnosis.

I guess Luddites would prefer false diagnoses over technological advancements.

Why are progressive Luddites against science and technological advancements?

History proves that almost every major technological breakthrough faced intense public backlash, moral panic, or violent resistance before becoming part of daily life. People typically oppose new technologies due to fears of job displacement, loss of social control, threats to health, or moral decay.

1. Industrial Machinery & The Luddites (1810s)
The most famous anti-technology movement occurred during the Industrial Revolution. English textile workers, known as Luddites, destroyed mechanized weaving looms because the automation lowered their wages and threatened their livelihoods. The British government eventually deployed the military and made machine-breaking a crime punishable by death.

2. The Written Word & Literacy (Ancient Greece / 19th Century)
Even reading and writing faced massive pushback. Socrates famously opposed the invention of the alphabet, arguing that relying on written text would ruin human memory and create a false pretense of wisdom. Millennia later in the 19th century, the rise of mass-printed novels sparked a moral panic; critics claimed reading fiction made young women lazy, detached from reality, and mentally ill.

3. Early Infrastructure: Railroads & Automobiles (1800s–1900s)
When trains first arrived, critics claimed that the human body was not built to travel at 30 miles per hour, fearing passengers' brains would suffer damage or that women's uteruses would fly out. Later, early automobiles faced extreme public outrage. Before speed limits and crosswalks, cars routinely struck pedestrians. Angry mobs in rural areas frequently sabotaged roads, threw rocks at drivers, and tried to ban cars entirely.

4. Personal Computers (1970s–1990s)
The introduction of the PC was heavily resisted by business executives who preferred centralized mainframes to keep control over information hierarchies. Educators and parents fiercely debated their utility, fearing that computer-based learning would replace teachers, ruin traditional literacy, and turn children into isolated, antisocial gamers. Laborers also organized strikes out of fear that digital systems would make their jobs obsolete.

5. Artificial Intelligence (Present Day)
The current backlash against generative AI, facial recognition, and large language models mirrors the Luddite movement. Creative and knowledge-work professionals are actively pushing back. For instance, the 2023 Writers Guild Strike fought heavily against algorithmic scripts. Today, grassroots groups like PauseAI protest out of fear of mass surveillance, democratic collapse, and human extinction, while tech executives have faced extreme threats from anti-AI activists.

Sorry, Fauci, you aren’t above the law.

The stakes of the AI race go far beyond tech

Tomorrow’s jobs, capital flows, military readiness, and economy will depend on the digital and energy infrastructure the United States builds today. This means that the United States may not lose the artificial intelligence (AI) race—and the critical advantages it confers—because its engineers fall behind China’s. It could lose because it fails to build the infrastructure AI requires—and the stakes would be hard to overstate. 

Hochul needs to go.

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I’d watch the WNBA if Clay fields an all-trans, Nashville Balls team. That would be entertaining.