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And folks, if you haven’t de-googled yourself by now, well it’s past time.
Waylp that sucks for me. I knew about it and was lazy.
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
What is the choice. Apple?
GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS,...
It's still Android, but it's built off the open source base of Android.
Or real non-Android-based mobile Linux?
It's about time for the year of the Linux phone
That's my next stop probably. Been on degoogled Android for many years and loved it. But vendors have started locking down their bootloaders (fuck you, Samsung!), Google has made moves to make life harder in Android for custom ROM devs and sidesloaders alike, so it's only a matter of time until they'll go full Hitler on it. So: Go, penguin, go!
DHS can eat a US defense budget sized bag of dicks
The folks up at Whipple here in Minneapolis have been chucking dildoes at ICE and local law enforcement. Helps that one of the major spots for local resistance is a sex toy store, and they've got a lot of "expired" dildoes around.
(If you see reports of "objects" thrown at fascists, it's not chunks of ice anymore, lol.)
What the hell is an "expired" dildo?
Something like this, I imagine
Be careful with glass ones, though.
Why should you? The shrapnel won't hit your allies
- It might, 2) they might think they are being attacked seriously and use live rounds, 3) they might identify you later and put you into jail.
They criminally charged a man and he lost his job for throwing a club sandwich at ICE. They think they are being attacked seriously by anything. Your solution to obey and cower in fear and let fascists take over helps them out.
Not cower in fear, but throwing a brittle hard item (that is, made of glass) at them may be legally stretched far enough. Perhaps if you are fine with dealing damage, do a proper Molotov cocktail.
Jeffery Epstein had a gmail account. The redacted emails are in his gmail account. They should be forced to publish everything fucking now!
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Funny how when you let conservatives have power your rights start being infringed upon.
Anyway, I wonder how Palestine is doing.
Honestly dude, I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala.... I just don't fucking understand how so many people can come to that conclusion, unless I really think about it, and then the reasons are all so sad and stupid. I swear to god the main reason, above racism, above hate, above the propaganda of the election cycle, the main reason he won over Hillary and then Kamala is that he had a TV show for many years. A lot of people over look the simple fact that in the American psyche, being on TV is validating, or at least it was when Trump was elected, before everything went upside down. People will stay in the same shitty town and keep the same toxic relatives in their lives for their wholes lives vs finding people that they actually harmonize with because they're familiar. People who grew up in shitty households find partners like their shitty parents because the shitty behavior is familiar. "Familiar" feels like family. Trump was a household name, and some people didn't even know Kamala had been swapped in half way through the election season. So they trusted Trump when he'd lie because he's familiar, but they distrusted her when she seemed to avoid a subject because she's unfamiliar and so inherently suspicious. They should have both been suspicious af, but he had a TV show and was president once before so they trusted him more.... which is very fucking stupid.
Nobody actually thought Trump would be better for Palestine. The ones that said they did were bots.
Yeah, I think you're hitting on something important. This is probably also why people living under dictatorships sometimes approve of their dictator. The devil you know.
It's called propaganda, and it sure worked. Divide and conquer.
I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala…
Few did. Those of us who knew that people would stay home because of it tried to warn everyone that if Harris didn't change course, she would lose. Centrists didn't want to hear any of it. They either didn't believe us or didn't care because they wanted genocide so badly that they were willing to accept trump.
And I fully expect someone to reply to this by trying to convince me to vote for her even though I did and the election is over.
WaPo (gift) article: "Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon"
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
So glad that I'm not a US citizen.
Don't worry. They're already working on exporting fascism.
I can't wait !
I suppose they're still working out the details of Fascism as a Service (FaaS), i.e. the monthly subscription fees, tier names (Trump > Mussolini > Franco > Hitler > Thiel), and so on...
They probably need redundant fascists too, in case there's ever a global outage for FaaS
I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google's domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren't in service to the Regime.
YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.
It doesn't seem to be as well known, but YouTube is one of the biggest distributors of blatant disinformation, and they have done fuck all about it. There are so many individual right wing disinformation channels that wield so much more power than they should. It's so fuckin insidious. Seriously, go find one of the alt-right YouTube accounts, and just look at the comments. Not a single one will be negative. They literally police their comments, and the only thing left is sycophantic bullshit like "thank you for exposing the truth!" It's actually disgusting. Every YouTuber can essentially build their very own echo chamber, and they do.
I know YouTube comments should generally be ignored, but when you see something that is intentionally, blatantly misleading, a single sentence comment could be all that is required to pierce the veil. It's axiomatic at this point that their bullshit doesn't stand up against even surface level scrutiny.
Google could combat this with little to no effort. Put a flag next the username. Display the number of manually deleted comments. Done. But they won't. Fuck youtube. Fuck Google. They are perfectly happy to lead the charge into fascism.
It's not just political disinformation. Watch a few how to videos on something you know a lot about. You'll find the same wrong information repeated over and over.
All of these 'content creators' are really just 'regurgitationists'.
If you want to know how to do something wrong, watch a you tube tutorial.
There is no reason to honor these warrantless requests. The Bush Administration sent National Security Letters to them, demanding all this information without a warrant and threatening massive penalties if they told anyone. They had no legal basis to do such a thing, the constitution demands they get a warrant from a judge as laid out in the 4th amendment and calls anything in violation of the constitution to be illegal and unenforceable.
But the rot has been spreading for a half a century, the immune system of the Republic is haywire, we have autoimmune conditions, the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.
America isn't a country of laws anymore. The supreme court rubber stamps anything the administration wants to do, and the administration "declines requests from the judiciary". You've got administration officials that don't know what Habeas Corpus means, suspending Habeas Corpus. You've got a military openly/brazenly committing war crimes on the international scene (blowing up unverified "narco boats"/civilians). You've got a paramilitary gestapo-like force quite literally shooting citizens in the streets, your own government aiming to terrorize its people -- which's the whole point of the violent Ice operations targeting blue states.
But yeah, sure, Google and the big tech bros who have been supporting Trump's actions throughout all of this will totally draw the line at disclosing data.
Nah, SCOTUS pushed back on Trump, first time around and this time as well. The administration had a solid run of Supreme Court wins for several months because they only brought cases they thought were slam dunks. Now that we're getting into meaty subjects like birthright citizenship, the justices look to stand firm. Too little, too late, I know.
That’s a great way for Google to go out of business.
Oh my sweet summer child... Google is half the internet and is funding this nightmare.
They don't need to demand. They already have access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The cloud act requires a warrant, this is them just demanding access.
"The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil."
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