I’ve also been confused about this, but this is my take on it.

You’re correct that they are making these changes to Android and not AOSP. This means that an OS like Graphene or e/OS/ will still be able to use sideloaded apps and other appstores like F-Droid.

I think the reason everyone is freaking out about this, is that it hurts appstores like F-Droid. It has a chilling effect on apps that are released to alternative app stores and may cause those stores to fail over time, thus killing FOSS apps at the point of distribution.

That said, this is also over my head technically, so I would love if someone more knowledgable could weigh in.

Read the rest of the discussion. To me, you come across as part of a mob trying to defend Russian state media.

And I’m saying that’s a problem with your reading comprehension; not the content of my argument. Especially because I never defended Russian state media. I too think state media is bad. The difference between you and I is that I’m not fooled by the corporate proxy that is western media.

I’m not arguing that all of western media is perfect; much of it is corrupt (especially in the US, but that is not all of the west). But not all of it is that bad.

Again, go on…

I am aware that making sense of that diversity requires critical thought, which is in increasingly short supply in recent years.

And yet you seem to struggle to explain how it’s so “diverse.” What’s diverse about it? Who are the non-corrupt Western sources? Please tell me, since I’m so stupid 😕

but that’s not all of western media.

Please, go on. I’d love to hear more.

I still don’t get why so many people here are so desperate to defend the state-controlled media of a brutal dictatorship.

…or just accuse me of something I wasn’t doing. You’re definitely someone who approaches things in good faith, unlike the Russians.

You cannot be serious. You know Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, right? What do you think is happening here?

The only difference between Russian State media and our media, is that the western ruling class is savvy enough to launder their propaganda through privately owned media.

Been thinking a lot about this. I think it’s going to be more prison labor. New crimes will be invented and punishments for existing crimes will become more severe in order to put more people behind bars.

Given the way things are going, i think that the homeless will be an initial target, but I think we’re also going to see an unprecedented criminalization of our children. Children already have fewer rights in school, so it will be easy to transfer that idea to the workplace. States like Iowa have already started rolling back child labor laws. The path ahead of the USA looks dark.

I bought a Flint 2 GL-MT6000 and I’ve been pretty happy with the choice.

• its currently on sale for $125
• it comes with a custom version of open-wrt, but it can be flashed to a different firmware
• easily purchaseable through their site
• I have not had signal issues in my place, but YMMV
• sustained speeds are at least 500Mb/s
• supports features like VLAN, which is part of why I bought it

Side note: Flint 3 just came out, but I’m not familiar enough with it to recommend.

Hell yeah - FMA has so many good side characters!

I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.

Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was

I had to switch away from Jerboa because it would crash any time I’d create a link with custom text in my comments. I switched to Voyager and it’s on lot more stable.

If we’re going by Columbus logic, probably “Jupiter”

Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.

Taking someone against their will and putting them in a cell that they can’t escape sure seems to fit the definition to me!

I had a discussion/argument in ~2018 with a friend who is/was very anti-trump. I brought up the dangers of ICE and how, at the time, they were the biggest sign of an overtly fascist future. He immediately handwaved it and dismissed me as crazy.

He’s got a degree in history education and was obsessed with WW2 history, so I didn’t think this would be a point of contention. But for a lot of liberals (including him) Fascists have to literally be wearing a swastika before they’re called what they are. Some won’t even acknowledge the existence of a Nazi Salute when they see one.

Even today he’s obsessed with Trump as the single anomaly in US politics and doesn’t see the bigger picture.

Yeah, I wonder why everyone isn’t on the Nazi website calling out Trump. 🤔

Trump is quite clearly a monster. Theres never been a question in anyone’s mind (other than idiots) that Trump would commit attrocities. What is striking is that Biden would act similarly to Trump, which is why people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 were especially angry.

Had you libs actually taken this genocide seriously for the past year rather than spit in the face of anyone who had a conscience, your question would be irrelevant.

Mastodon’s Crack the Skye tells a story about Astral Travel and weaves in references to Rasputin

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2016/02/15/prognotes-mastodons-crack-the-skye-part-i/

Fat Cats, Bigga Fish tells a story about the broader effects of class struggle

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pios2RY2G_Q

You’re absolutely right that they dont fight dirty enough. Hiwever, I’d say that Democrats lost largely because Kamala was too cowardly to distance herself from biden and his awful policies. She lost because she chose to court moderate Republicans (who gave her the finger and voted for the fascist. Big surprise!).

Biden pardoning his loser son does nothing for the most marginalized folks who will have to deal with Trump’s fascist regime in the coming year. It’s not a good look that the only time Biden “fights dirty” is to serve his own interests.

Abused his power?

Yes, I would say that pardoning your own son as president is a conflict of interest, unethical, and an abuse of power. It demonstrates that Hunter is above the laws that Joe Biden helped architect. I’m surprised that this sentiment is so controversial.

I’m specifically talking about the silly framing of “a child” rather than “his child”

1. Biden sponsored the crime bill that put those people behind bars in the first place.

2. Biden abused his powers to pardon his son for crimes that other people will remain in prison for. Crimes that are more severely punished because of Biden.

Its actually quite relevant to the conversation

I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. 🤷‍♂️

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old. Biden is also responsible for thousands of people behind bars because of “a dumb drug offense”.

I don’t think that Trump should be the bar for morality and ethics in this country. It’s lazy to bring him into this conversation.

While i abhor Bush Jr, I would put Reagan as #1. He paved the way for Bush Jr. And Biden. IMO Bush Sr is tied for the #3 spot simply for pardoning members of the Iran-Contra affair.

Nixon is one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had though, and I would put him higher than any of the others. The “war on drugs” caused so many rippling horrors domestically. And those horrors don’t compare to what he did abroad.