When the going gets tough, or even mildly inconvenient, liberals will always side with fascism instead of “the left” (NOTE: the left includes the concept of basic human rights).

Surprise! Every conservative is pro-fascism. That’s why they’re conservative. Most of them just don’t know it yet, until their mouthpieces tell them how to think.

Mass surveillance has also been a complete security failure that has made everyone significantly more vulnerable to attack from the most dangerous and destructive foreign and domestic enemies, including surveillance capitalism and “intelligence” agencies (authoritarians, fascists, pedophiles, terrorists, and other criminally corrupt psychopaths).

Now we know that our secret police (aka “intelligence”) either created, enabled, or (at the very least) allowed Epstein’s child sex trafficking — for decades — under grounds of “national security”, and our tax dollars have been used to rape children and protect pedophiles the entire time… so all their claims about security, safety, and child protection are equivalent to a pedo-fox in the hen house claiming it’s chaining up the chickens to protect their chicks.

Let’s not regulate the social media corporations and algorithms who are amplifying propaganda and radicalization for profit though… Let’s force everyone to verify their identity with a big brother constructed by the Epstein class… To protect the kids, of course!

This has to be the most shitlib hot take I’ve heard in a very long time. It’s indicative of the average voter though, thus indicative of why society is collapsing… so bravo, I guess.

It’s almost like a party led by a neoliberal corporate whore banker will do nothing to fight the late stage capitalist oligarchy created by corporations and bankers…

Cap dictatorships, doing cap dictatorship things, because they’re cap dictatorships.

Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.

What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?

Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these systems because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt.

Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition, control the narrative, and propagandize (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).

I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable or worthy of your attention; basically mimicking the way people build relationships in real life (without third party oversight).

The correct response would be to expel their ambassador.

No neoliberal will ever have the balls to do such a thing, though.

It’s called economic terrorism. Fascists try to financially harm anyone they disagree with… until they gain enough power to murder anyone they disagree with.

9.5 years is ancient in smart home devices.

Though, any company that stops supporting a device should be legally required to open source all dependencies required to operate it, or provide a full refund.

Nothing’s been done about it because the oligarchs who own every political class, in every country, are using big data and analytics to wage psychological warfare and infect the global population with a sort “disinformation psychosis”, “broke mind virus”, etc … corrupt societies logic and mental health so significantly they can enslave us, rob us blind, use us for cannon fodder, etc, etc.

Representative democracy is the only threat to their wealth and power, so their goal is to exterminate it.

Corporate-whorism

Neoliberalism

Money

This is why I switched to ZFS with sanoid+ syncoid. Any breaking update or data corruption can be rolled back, giving you the freedom to auto-update with minimal risk.

And if you roll all your dockers on ZFS as datasets + sanoid you can just rollback to the last snapshot, if that ever does happen.

That would only be possible if we lived in real democracies, instead of a “corporate dictatorship masquerading as democracy”.