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So… when and where in history is your ideal time to live in? Curious… 🤔

Tell me, do you think a Black person is safer living 100 years ago in the USA, than today’s USA?

Don’t get me wrong, innocent black people are still being murdered, but it’s nowhere as common as before. It was at least 100x worse 100 years ago.

Jim Crow

Before that was slavery. The Civil Rights act was the result of the Progressive Era.

The Wars on Crime / Drugs / Terror

War on Drug and War on Terror happened at the-end-of/after the New Deal Progressive Era

Two major Red Scares and a collapse in union membership

Xenophobia is nothing new. Again, the Red Scares were the backlash of Progressive policies, and marked the end of the Progressive Eras.

The oligarchs in power want to make you feel powerless, they want to make you accept defeat, but don’t surrender, you have more power than you think.

Progressiveism and Regressiveism is always in a tug-of-war, there will be constant progress and constant reactionary policies, but the general trend (across the world) is towards progress. Monarchies have fallen, eventually Oligarchies will fall. (Hopefully towards a stateless egalitarian future)

We got a Progressive Era out of it, maybe we’ll get another one?

Edit: To clarify, I’m talking about the New Deal and New Deal v2 Progressive Eras (and the era of Progressive Democratic supermajorities that dominated congress)

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“He who save his country does not violate the law” 😏

The Arnold Method

teslas aren’t even worthy of the designation “self-driving”. They use cheap cameras instead of LIDAR. It should be illegal to call such junk “self-driving”.

Remember, you have the right to self-defence, against both rogue robots and rogue humans.

Well then…

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y’all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

Hmmm

I skimmed the webpage and seems like some minimalist phone, which cannot adequetely replace many functions of a modern smartphone.

Fairphone works in Europe, but in the US, for example, only Tmobile allows fairphones, the other carriers, while there nothing technological that prevents them fron working, the carriers being being really shit about it. And Tmovile could also become hostile with a flip of a switch. So yea, that’s a huge issue, unless you want a wifi-only device.

I fear in the future, devices will be more strictly locked down because of “terrorism” “scams” “fraud” or “criminial activity” that allows the authorities, worldwide, to control devices even more. Perhaps, computers could also face such lockdowns.

I mean, look at drones. One harmless crash on the US whitehouse lawn triggered a lot of laws restricting them, inclusing the infamous DJI Geo-locking. One terrorisr using encrypted messaging apps to coordinate would allow governments to control our communications even further. All locked bootloaders. Perhaps even locked BIOS/UEFIs. Imagine such a future.

The future looks bleak. It’s not even like 1984, the reality of dystopia is more subtle. People are being stalked by the government, while there are parties are happening all around, that is what dystopia looks like.

China turned QR codes red to restrict people’s movements on the pretenses of Covid. The US trump admin could do the same with QR code IDs to “prove you are a citizen” with checkpoints throughout the country.

(Sorry if it kinda got offtopic, but still kinda relevent)

Sadly, no linux phones that are actually usable.

Let me give you an analogy.

I was born in the People’s Republic of China. I immigrated to the United States of America when I was not even 10. I grew up in America, I grew attached to the principles of Freedom and Democracy. I went through the proper channels and I obtained Citizenship through the proper way. I am an American.

If someone were to tell me that I’m “not American”, and that because I was “born Chinese, I must be Chinese for the rest of my life”; or, in your phrasing: “A Chinese person cannot become American” you’d be a xenophobe.

Gender is a social contruct. If a man wants to be a woman, or a woman wants to be a man, just let them. Its not denying that they have XX or XY chromosomes, that is what their biology says. But being a “Man” or “Woman” are labels society attributes to those chromosomes, just like the concept of Nationality.

TLDR: Please just let people be whoever they want to be. If you start attacking people’s identity, nobody is gonna wanna talk to you. If you want to spread transphobia, you can go to twitter. Enjoy your nazi bar.

Really?

I’ve used Samsung and Motorola Android phones, I can set them up offline.

I assume every other OEM is the same.

Apple does this.

Microsoft is now doing this.

I wonder how long until Google start doing it with Android 🤔

This future is so fucking dystopian

Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.

Please elaborate? What exactly do you mean?

Given now that the US has a russian president, maybe the US should sanction itself lol

conservative: says a racial slur

Online Platform: bans user

conservative: “sO mUcH fOr tHe tOlEraNt lEfT 😡”