It is a bit ironic that the US used sanctions and tariffs to harm so many other countries but now believes that cutting off trade from their own country will help the US. "Live by the sword, die by the sword" type situation.
https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1912958097724694665
Here's a video of the US State Department spokesperson talking about the Chinese company and blaming China. She says that it is China who is against peace in the middle east.
Wojak was created in 2009. Wojak was previously known as "Feels Guy" and he would say the phrase "I know that feel". Soyjak Party was created in 2020, they don't own the meme.
https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
If you read this page on their website. The BDS movement says that they have different levels of targets. There is a "consumer boycott" category which says that you should not buy any products from those Brands. Then there is a "pressure target" category. It explains that a Pressure target is a company that you should "boycott when reasonable alternatives exist".
Inside of the Pressure Target category includes other very large companies: Google, Amazon, Disney. If I understand correctly, Microsoft will also be considered a pressure target, which means that avoiding a Microsoft product is not always possible. Example, many people use Microsoft as an operating system either at home or at work.
The BDS page for Microsoft, which was added to their website today, says "As a consumer, boycott Microsoft products whenever possible." It also gives you a lot of other pressure options, including "send a letter to Microsoft executives demanding that Microsoft end its complicity in Israel’s AI-powered genocide of Palestinians", "join or start a campaign to pressure your university to cut ties with Microsoft by divesting from the company", "pressure your local government to divest from Microsoft", "sign the workers’ petition at: noaa.cc/sign".
Obviously your post is in bad faith and honestly disgusting. You see a post where people are being silenced for supporting Palestine and you are trying to shift the blame to someone you don't like a personal level. You saw pro-palestinian and pro-lebanese voices getting silenced, 2 of these people have family being bombed, and you try to make this into an opportunity to stir up drama. You are gross.
All of the people who were banned are friends of Hasan and have direct communication with Hasan. None of the people who are banned would want Hasan to stop streaming. They like that he reports Israel's crimes to thousands or millions of people. It is very likely that Hasan is talking to them right now to try to help them out and possibly also talking with twitch to try to get rid of the bans.
FBI claimed to find the steam account of Thomas Matthew Crooks. Post on steam "July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds."
update // FBI has since retracted the statement.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/politics/thomas-matthew-crooks-steam/index.html
~~We're watching the Trump v Biden debate live on hextube. It starts in 20 minutes. 9pm EST~~ the debate is over. at peak we had 200 hexbears in chat. thank you everyone who came
Hannah Pearl Davis aka Just Pearly Things. She's a right winger misogynist youtuber. She calls herself antifeminist and says women shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Maybe they're feds, maybe they're not. I can't really say.
There is no perfect activist. Every person is flawed. I watched some of these people being interviewed and they seem like random people who are just actually afraid of climate change. Also the media did misinformation on the soup painting thing. The activists said they only threw paint/soup at painting that they knew was behind glass.
Last summer, the sky was filled with smoke for 2 whole months. For months of the summer there was smoke in the sky every day from the Canada wildfires. I could smell the smoke outside daily. I live in North Carolina. I am hundreds of miles away from Canada. I would ask people, "Do you see the smoke in the sky? Do you smell it? It's on the news" and still people were completely oblivious to it.
Every year is the hottest year on record. The sky is on fire. I'm struggling to care about the optics of painting of old rocks.
If climate change is a genuine danger, then some people will respond in irrational ways. The point is not to chastise the people who react this way, it is to fix the threat of climate change.
This isn't a guide to opsec as much as it is a guide to paranoia. Step 1 of OPSEC is figuring out your threat model, knowing who is trying to surveil you and why.
If you are simply trying to avoid being doxxed online by right wingers, pretty much every software you listed is extremely excessive. Just don't reuse usernames or passwords on different website and you are fine pretty much. Don't post your real name.
If you are trying to avoid surveillance by google or amazon, this is extremely difficult to the extent that you have to avoid most social media, block javascript on most websites making them nonfunctional, and even if you use a VPN, most people probably configure it incorrectly so that it's still leaking DNS or something.
If you are trying to avoid being surveilled by the government, your first mistake is owning a computer and a cellphone. Pretty much every computer and cellphone is known to have hardware backdoors since at least 2009. If you think you are going to avoid government surveillance, you're going to have to be using some pre-2008 computer and rotating out burner phones.
Besides that, pretty much everything you listed is a waste of time and effort. It's a fun hobby maybe. It's like when chuds spend thousands of dollars to buy some "zombie survival kit".
Posts like this operate on the premise that you should be hiding that you are a Leftist. Socialism is only going to come through public-facing organizing of the working class.
What does real opsec look like? Knowing that you are being surveilled when you use any electronic device and not saying things that could incriminate you. Treat electronic devices like you are in a public space. When you shop at Walmart, you know that there are cameras that are recording you while you shop. Does that stop you from shopping at Walmart? No you just take in consideration that you are being recorded.
It's the story of the dog who caught the car. Banning abortion was meant to be a way for the Republican Party to bait Christian evangelicals into voting for the party. The people who are republicans because they are capitalists never intended for evangelicals to get this. Now that the evangelicals got what they wanted, you have the bourgies in the party clashing with the extremely religious.
It was determined that 4chan hacked through a PDF file upload. The hacker uploaded a pdf file which contained malicious code, the server opened the file and executed the code.
The joke that I've seen people say about 4chan was "pedophiles hacked by a pdf file". 4chan admins said they have disabled pdf uploads temporarily.