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oh for sure. it’s horrifying. people are just existing with overt fascist propaganda around them all the time, and Google has been pushing it hard since 2019

for that reason i block it via uBlock origin because it is an operational reality that i need to see that shit sometimes. the only uBlock origin origin that never gets toggled is wix. that shit can stay the fuck off my screen

this is one of the examples of how electoralism can only ever give us some breathing room, but never our full liberation. even a “good” politician is still a politician. they may have entered government to reshape government, but eventually working in government will reshape them.

i encourage others to work to get the best possible politicians into positions of power, but to also work on coagulating people power in order to topple those same positions of power. here are some things you can do:

• organize a union
• learn first aid
• participate in mutual aid projects
• become acquainted with self defense and community defense mechanisms
• learn about reducing your digital footprint at protests

if you live in a common law tradition country like the United States, go read about Jury Nullification right now. and then shut the fuck up about it. if you are summoned for Jury Duty don’t bring it up unless directly asked about it.

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

and on some level it’s important for good opsec that things that don’t require opsec be done with good opsec

if your whole phone is encrypted this likely doesn’t apply to you so long as you have a strong passpharse (6 characters or more) and a good data shredding policy (shred after 5 wrong guesses)

however, that is not most people

as far as i know signal uses Google’s notification service and if you want it to not you need to use Molly

there’s a lot of things under fascism that shouldn’t be needed

here on lemmy we interpret obvious sarcasm as sincerity

absolutely. you need to own the infrastructure of the network

when authoritarians fight, the people lose

ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad

sorry, i’d take y’all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio

hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again

“i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”

what a fuckin’ loser

yes but Linux Mint XFCE doesn’t use all the heavy weight sytems that mean Ubuntu desktop needs 6 GB ram. for that matter, Xubuntu will, too, but fuck canonical.

however, as much as i loathe canonical i’m not gonna attract people to more secure from bullshit solutions if i’m net willing to meet them where they are. i’d rather we all be on debian however if even i can’t get my laptop to work properly with it, i’m gonna direct some people to mint just to get them a little farther afield.

or if you can’t get that to go (i had some hardware support issues) look to MX Linux or Linux Mint XFCE

exactly. make the artist feel like there’s an audience to be reached, not like the only point is ideological purity

and don’t be pushy and annoying about it. just ask if they’re on mastodon. if they’re not just say “ah bummer” and mov on

look at how it was dressed