and you just fucking ruined what would have been the coolest thing ever by putting it in public!

yeah brave always felt gross and i remember them doing shady crap for years.

im not aware of proton changing terms, but their CEO announced he has trump’s dick down his throat. well, as far as it’ll reach. between his lips, at least. so they can’t really be trusted to not snitch at this point.

the only one of these that surprised me at all was firefox going to shit, and that started months ago with a smaller thing.

laws are just excuses for the men with guns. there’s plenty of social cohesion and harmony you can have without men with guns, but if you want laws to be actual things, you need to keep up on the men with guns thing. the democratic party will never deploy them against other elites. liberalism, a law based form of social cohesion, will not save you when someone it will not target decides to not obey the laws that were designed to benefit it.

Liberalism will not save you. try something else.

and does that word mean anything in this context?

‘scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper’. right. that’s the joke. that it’s for someone important enough for their death to make the front page, which is visible without buying the paper.

fascists really love LLM’s. like ridiculously in love with them. it’s where all their ‘art’ comes from. it’s made of the shallow aesthetics with no interiority they love so much. plus it doesn’t really require articulating your desires much, or having artists.

these short boycotts won’t fuck them on dollars, but there is a potential benefit: just in time economics and these long slow prediction-powered supply chains cannot handle this shit.

i mean, right now the question isn’t ‘violence’ it’s ‘against whom’. we fucked up all the futures that weren’t a river of blood. the fascism, the horrors, the manufactured consent and insane obedience. the question isn’t “river of blood or not” it’s “whose, and how deep?”

I personally would prefer as little as possible and none of it mine, but apparently wars where millions of conscripts die are more ethical than the assassinations of the couple dozen leaders that start them and manufacture consent to keep them going. letting people be disappeared is more ethical than stopping it. letting people die of poverty on the street is more ethical than breaking the locks on dumpsters to feed them, or putting them in vacant/airBNB’d houses.

silver lining: it is at least gonna be really fucking metal. so we’ve got at least that to look forward to.

yeah. letting any SS officer survive world war two was what caused this shit. letting any confederate officer survive is what got us that shit.

fascism must always create more outsiders, must always create more enemies to keep control, to keep things directed.

remember, fascism appropriates genuine upset and the fact that to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. it steers itself by creating enemies to hate. remember: people’s lives are genuinely fucking miserable. there is dystopian shit happening. and all of that is really complicated, and if people stopped to think about it for five minutes, they would pull a 1789.

so they just keep adding more enemies, and more derangements like what the qanons call ‘baking’ but hitler just said was the way everyone should read books, until they live in a totally unhinged fantasy world, and any method of social control must engage with the fantasy.

tl;dr: sacrificing external allies to fuel a persecution complex, keep control, entrench the madness, keep attention off the american elites that were at least rhetorically some of the initial targets.

can someone explain to me the difference between corporate and government censorship, when corporations and the government are definitely fucking?