To the people that don’t get it. Censorship is when the government oppresses or modifies speech.

What the user above is talking about is when social media companies like Twitter banned Donald Trump and neo-nazi accounts.

Social media companies are private entities that you have a contract with where they provide you with service and you agree to abide by specific terms of that service. Hate speech and promotion of violence are things that you have agreed to not do on their services. If you do those things, then you agreed that your account could be terminated. That is what happened to Trump and the neo-nazi accounts (but I repeat myself).

I can agree that social media companies have too much power over public interaction and media consumption but I also agree that a person or organization should not be forced to host and broadcast messages that they disagree with.

Ironically, this standing legal interpretation is due to a right-wing lawsuit widely celebrated on the religious right about a cake baker who didn’t want to make wedding cakes for a gay wedding. The ruling is what affirmed the ability of private entities to regulate speech on their platforms.

Complaining about being banned from a public platform and also celebrating the victory of the cake baker is a situation where their side wants to have their cake and eat it too.

This brand of argument is basically ‘If you can’t do everything perfectly, then it is pointless to do anything especially the thing that you’re suggesting.’

You see this person in every thread on every topic where people discuss things that they can contribute their expertise to. Their message is ‘it is hopeless, your plan won’t work, give up what you’re doing, you don’t stand a chance’.

Honestly, and forgive the langue, but fuck those people. You know what your strengths are and what you’re capable of, not some faceless bot pushing violent political rhetoric who is, by its own admissions, not in the US.

If you don’t want to participate in the tech landscape as it exists today, there is absolutely nothing wrong about avoiding it entirely and building something else. Companies will not be so complacent about their position in the market if they know there’s a completely Free alternative that does everything that they charge a subscription for.

The people who are doing self-hosting today are exactly like the early adopters of the smartphone or any other technology. There’s always people trying new things and sometimes they succeed.

People who are using privacy focused approaches to personal technology, like self-hosting, are beta testing the ability to use cheap, mass produced hardware and open source software to build a product ecosystem that meets their needs. That progress is enjoyed by anybody in the future who decides they also want to leave the walled gardens of Tech Giantopia.

Yes this.

The US Military is setup to fight and disable entire countries, not to sustain a ground occupation contested by native guerrilla forces.

Urban warfare and the fact that native attackers can hide in civilian populations will grind any army down. There are simply too many avenues of attack in an urban environment.

The Army wants to draw a line in the ground and completely dominate one side of the line and then deploy the capability to rain death on anybody within 100+ miles of that line. They don’t want to be clearing a neighborhood house to house and trying to detect every IED and ambush when any civilian could be holding a grenade or gun and any pile of rubble or trash could be an explosive.

The only way this has been avoided in modern times is when Israel completely flatted most of Palestine, killing a large amount of civilians in the process. I don’t think Donald Trump would try to avoid that option.

You forgot:

3. The Soviet Union falling apart 50 years later

It wasn’t the killing of security forces that gave you independence, it was the culmination of a lot of factors that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union and former Soviet states declaring independence.

By promoting violence in the US, you’re marching lock-step with the Russians. So either you’re a Russian, in which case I hope you headbutt an artillery round, or you’re Ukrainian in which case it seems weird to wish internal violence on one of the countries providing you with the weapons manufacturing that you require to defend your country from capture. I can’t imagine that the US falling into civil war will increase the weapon shipments.

Benn Jordan has some other ideas too(and a bit more detail on the mesh technologies/DIY options available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

1. Natural Gas is still fossil fuel.

2. Ok. You still have to push electrons and also not destroy the global climate.

3. As much as you think it is BS, datacenters exist and they are attached to the same grid as your house, so if you don’t want the power to your house to go away then the grid needs more generating capacity. Unless you want to live under the ocean or in a desert then that capacity can’t produce CO2. The only options which generate power are renewables and nuclear. Solar and Wind cannot provide baseline power generation and the renewables that can provide baseline power (hydroelectric, for example) are limited in where they can be deployed.

So what power generating source exists that can generate baseline power, doesn’t produce CO2 and can be used without specific geological formations?

I’ve seen Andor so I understand your point.

In order for you to understand my counter argument you will need to read War and Peace, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the first three Harry Potter novels. Let me know when you’re finished and then I’ll respond.

I think the move here, based on recent events, is to hire an AI to do it then fire everyone else and complain that it isn’t built yet.

Good job, you beat up that mean ole fascist strawman that you’ve created out of thin air.

Any other positions that you want to imagine me having? Maybe pretend I’m a zionist, I’m sure you’ll do a great job against that one too.

Let me know if you need any more ideas for your fantasy world.

I doubt the employees of the Агентство интернет-исследований (““Internet Research Agency””) are worried about a Delta Force raid.

Isn’t this the chud that got caught at a ski resort on a vacation paid for by lobbyists?

Americans discovering what the rest of the third world has been warning of 80 years ago.

The US elites have always been ruthless powerhungry sociopaths but until recently they’ve had the political wit to save the most repressive tactics for overseas where there are only brown people who’ve been villianized already so nobody cared.

Now the right-wing elites are taking American foreign policy and deploying it in the US. Seize power, install a friendly and corrupt dictator, rule through the dictator and finance him to the point of being immune to protest or revolt.

At least they didn’t run over any actual people

I don’t think we have time to build a guillotine that big

advocating for compliance with fascists.

Ah yes, the old ‘Anybody who doesn’t agree with me is the enemy’ fallacy.

I don’t advocate for compliance, I advocate for not doing stupid shit like getting yourself arrested for promoting violence on social media so that you can actually do things that make a difference instead of staring at concrete.

What you are doing is dumb and, even if I completely agreed with you about when violence is required I certainly wouldn’t be talking about it on public social media, you fucking idiot.

Setup Meshtastic nodes too.

Having the ability to communicate without using cellular infrastructure is incredibly useful, especially during natural disasters (which ICE certainly qualifies).

Stop it, the downvotes hurt me so much

I can’t have enough cheesy saxophone music in my life.

I’m sorry, is somebody here to cite my work? As if it would take me more than 10 seconds to look at your history and find some failures of logical consistency.

Great non sequitor, Captian logical consistency.

Can you describe any sentence that I could have written which would make your comment less conspiratorial or paranoid?

Yeah and I’m sure your flippant attitude about openly advocating for violence is because you’re in a country where the FBI can’t get you.

I guess it beats dying in Ukraine with the rest of your rotting countrymen.