That’s a bummer. My next phone will likely be a used Pixel with GrapheneOS. After that, I’m hoping there will be a usable Linux phone with Android app support.

I’m happy with my OnePlus

I think it is truthful, and it’s important to be honest about it-- not least if you genuinely want a way out of Trumpism. Pretending that the Democrats aren’t a big part of the story of how we got here is dangerous. We need to come to terms with our fundamental issues before we’re able to start moving in the right direction.

All this bullshit about this or that is officially dead or over in America… Democracy, the American Dream, leader of the free world etc. None of that shit was ever true. Yes, Trump is a particularly unvarnished avatar or the US, but stop pretending we were ever what the propaganda told us we were.

Lol at military pilots worrying they might one day have to face return fire. Get fucked, baby killers.

Offensive? No. Antagonistic? Definitely. Exclusively displayed by racists? Also, definitely.

It’s small now, but growing. You can’t scroll infinitely for new content. It’s grown a lot in the time I’ve been here. The smallness can be a positive if you work to have genuine interactions with people. There’s no “karma” and some instances have disabled down votes entirely. You have sometimes subscribe to more than one community of the same topic (each on a different instance).

Every fucking version displays our HTML email signatures differently.

Title says “lost”. I took that to mean killed.

I find this difficult to believe. Edit: Wikipedia has a total (both sides) death toll of 160k-290k.

I don’t want anyone to get discouraged because of this post. Bottom line is that it is very easy to make a “live USB” of a Linux distro and play around with it. There is zero risk or commitment in doing so. Another great option is to install it on an old computer you have or can easily get. It may or may not “be for you”, but it is very easy to try out.

Wanted, tried, couldn’t. Adoption process seemed too intimidating. Making the best of it.

You’re the goofy one if you think that public vs private propaganda is a binary phenomenon, or that you can’t have aid without interference. Of course I’d prefer pure aid, but Trump would be canceling that too! I’m just also happy he’s undermining US Intel ops, because yes absolutely, America bad.

What are you even talking about? Are you saying that the US government doing evil is better than EvilCorp doing it? Or are you saying that the government can’t do good without also doing evil?

Is that what VOA and RFA are doing?

Psst, this is good actually. Even if he’s doing it for the wrong reasons, disrupting CIA operations is a net win.

The whole world is a “tough neighborhood” for small states. Cuba has been remarkably successful given its adversaries.

“American warship, go fuck yourself!”

Is it cuz they hate our freedoms?

I like this topic. Pretty much wherever you go, people are practicing this kind of syncretic belief. This is why the “same” religion in two different countries has local flavor. More often than not, when a religion is expanding into new territory, it absorbs some of the preexisting local beliefs. Christmas is a good example within Christianity, with the Christmas tree.

Another example is Japan where they say “you’re born with Shinto, marry with Christianity and die with Buddhism”. Many places maintain animist beliefs alongside more recent religions. There are even communities in South Asia where people attend both Muslim mosques and Hindu temples!