felipeforte

her batteries probably ran off

You probably misunderstood mine as well

"yay mass murder yolo"

My theory is that it's just scare propaganda. This video, along with the constant scaremongering about Russia and China serves only to increase the fear, therefore, reaction against China and Russia.

To be honest, I rarely see those leftists, and if I would guess, they would be the liberal left. But at this point, I wonder what's the point to consider them leftists... 🤔

For quite a while here in Brazil, the United States was somewhat respected up until the 2010's. Of course, those more inclined to history, humanities or left-wing politics despise the country, perhaps except the liberal leftists, who normally don't care about the external world. The non-political minded are inclined to idealize and like the US because it's related to the media they consume – sports, music, series, etc. Besides that, the country is largely ignored by Brazilians.

Usually the US is admired by the extreme right-wing of my country, especially after Trump's election. For instance, here is a right-wing gathering in Brazil, where these cursed flags are displayed:

After the election of Biden, the US has been slowly losing its prestige among the right-wing nuts. They still idealize the country, but are extremely disappointed by the president.

Weird

Average age, 13

This is the democratic and meritocratic system that labor aristocrat liberals defend. Of course they see nothing wrong with it: this doesn't affect them.

I just thought about all the Linux distros out there that protect your privacy in certain ways, out of the reaches from Big Tech control.

To a certain extent, yes. But if you think about hardware, we are very far from having control. Even my highly niche distro, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, which is one of the few distros accepted by the FSF for the promotion and use of free software, still is obligated by the circumstances to leave proprietary code related to some Intel processors microcode. Even FSF accepted distros have to allow things like this related to hardware, otherwise their system would be unusable.

But yes, Linux laid down a very solid framework to develop alternatives to corporate control of your software. However...

I don’t see the capitalist control in my life anymore, and this is thanks to these things.

Even if you don't see "capitalist control" of your life, it still exists irrespective of your knowledge of it. Everything you need to fulfill your existence is a commodity, and to buy these goods, you need money. If you have no properties, to earn money you either steal it, or you sell yourself (your labor, your life) to a small or large capitalist in exchange for money.

Capitalists achieved monopolies on the internet, such as Meta, Inc., Google, Reddit, Twitter, etc.. They've all become propaganda networks of the United States bourgeoisie. These corporate monopolies share a similar business model: to earn money through advertising and capitalist propaganda. The selling of commodities tailored to your interests based on an algorithmical profile description, and the push of narratives usually following the interests of the imperialist bourgeoisie.

Irrespective of your decision not use these platforms, your family members do, your friends do, your colleagues do, even your cousin's three year old infant has an Instagram profile nowadays. Considering all of this, I think you'll agree with me that we can't escape capitalist control by changing our distros, but I agree with you that it's a healthy direction to use free software.

That's only true if there's an organized effort for that from users and developers, and still that would be true only for ownership of software limited to the Linux operating system. As for technology in general, it's almost totally under the control of the capitalists and large shareholders.

I have no idea how this incoherent display of terms that should never go together sounded reasonable enough for him to post this. I have a spiritual headache after reading this

Also consider removing or censor your screenshot it seems to leak some private data such as your entire name.

I use Facebook, Instagram and other bourgeois social media, so my entire name may be linked to many other accounts elsewhere if intelligence agencies wanted that much, which is why I don't really bother. But is there any other private data I may be missing except my name?

It's indeed related to my ISP. I use two different networks in my house, the second one is used by the rest of the people I live with, and Wikipedia pings effortlessly there. But this only happens from time to time.

Is my ISP blocking it, or suffering a packet drop DoS? What does it mean?