Let’s add a 4th person in there, someone who thinks they’re helping by doing nothing but yelling that the fire isn’t allowed to burn things

This is absolutely one of the reasons they’re pushing this garbage so hard. It’s VERY easy to manipulate as a propaganda tool.

You can already see that most of these tools lean right because their userbase does - leftists don’t touch this garbage because of numerous ethical concerns as-is. Add more astroturfing on top of that, and now it’s just a straight up automated fascist mouthpiece.

Of course it’s right-wing, lemmy.world is literally just a liberal hub LOL, its no different than reddit’s awful default subs.

Oh I’m sure, I’ve heard the same from some friends up north. Rising fascism is a global trend right now and it’s fucking horrifying. Need to get out to the range and practice more myself too for sure. Getting out of here is all well and good, but being prepared for the worst is more important right now.

LOL

Canada is probably gonna be the plan though honestly. Driving distance, easy on the dogs, minimal culture shock. Just gotta talk with the wife and start seriously planning it out. We slacked on getting our passports renewed last year though, big mistake. Playing it by ear right now - staying and fighting back just seems like a poor option right now while the empire is collapsing on itself.

They’re gonna tell us to all vote for Gavin Newsom 💀

Seriously. Like sure it’s a half-decent start I guess, barely, but AOC and Sanders are still centrist liberals. Kicking the can down the road by keeping capitalism alive will get us right back here in the future.

It’s incredibly depressing that this country is in a state where people genuinely believe these two are anywhere left of center

At this point I’m just waiting for a refugee program abroad to open up so we can get the fuck out asap. I have zero hope in this country ever doing anything about this shit, even if the current regime is toppled. Until capitalism is a thing of the past, it’s always going to happen again.

Every day I wake up praying to read the news that someone did the funniest thing to this nazi fuck. I’ll settle for an arrest though.

Or deportations or attacks on LGBTQ+ rights

Meanwhile Biden deported more people than any sitting president ever before, Harris’s biggest campaign promise was “the biggest and most lethal military in the world”, democrats are throwing LGBTQ+ folks under the bus right now and censuring THEIR OWN PEOPLE when they actually have the gall to do the slightest amount of fighting back. And that’s all on top of the ongoing genocide Biden funded and supplied and Harris was 100% committed to continuing and all establishment dems completely support. Both parties are rotten.

Harris would’ve been nothing but another twist to the right for the overton window, and we would inevitably have this exact same sort of fascist administration right after she left office. It would’ve been nothing but kicking the can down the road.

Accelerationism is fucking awful but frankly this current shitshow was inevitable without a complete overhaul of this system. Democrats are a far right forced opposition and nothing will change until we install a far left worker’s party and give all of these capitalist warhawks the boot.

I haven’t majorly fucked up any recent systems (almost botched the steam deck once or twice but nothing that required a reinstall), but god 10 years ago I probably reset my arch dual boot like five times lmao

I got a retroid pocket ages ago. Thing’s been in a drawer since day 1. Feels incredibly clunky, both hardware and software. It just feels like a cheap toy.

I have an analog pocket now that does everything I wanted the retroid for much better, and even though it’s not quite the same form factor, the steam deck is an emulation beast too.

True true. There’s also GrapheneOS’s Vanadium browser to keep an eye on, but so far I don’t think it’s usable outside of GOS without jumping through some hoops. Personally not a fan of Chromium-based browsers so I haven’t done much digging outside of the Firefox ecosystem though tbf.

Absolutely. I’m a bit of a ways outside the city and waiting for the day the raids hit in full force here for anyone who doesn’t align with fascists.

Just to clarify, Fennec is a privacy-focused fork, kind of in the same vein as libreWolf but not as extensive. Since LW isn’t available on mobile, Fennec seems to be the next best thing.

I can’t really think of any browsers that have all the features OP is looking for. FF (+forks) is probably the closest thing out there.