Damn I haven’t heard the term “po po” since 2019 (Hong Kong Protests). Hearing that term again reminds me of another era. Covid wasn’t even a thing yet.

Wait wtf, its been SIX FUCKING YEARS?!? And now the world got more autocratic? 🥲

Edit: Also, I remember in school (in the US) when they said that you need a permit to protest, I was just like wtf?!? at the time, and at that moment, I knew “freedom” was just another lie.

Step 1. Enter the main office of a corporation en masse
Step 2. Refuse to leave

Blockchain? Like getting escorted by fascist soldiers on to the Chopping Block while in Chains? That Blockchain?

A true Liberal wants 100% deregulation.

I think you are talking about a Libertarian

What is a “concert”?

Is this something I’m too introverted to understand?

So far, what democrats propose aren’t really sensible.

They are giving authority to police to dictate who can or cannot obtain a gun permit.

Like wtf, fuck the police, I don’t trust them with shit.

Give that power to like, idk, some sort of jury and maybe we’ll talk about gun control. But I ain’t trusting cops with the discretion to hand out gun permits. They’ll give it to a white young-adult that’s racist as fuck and threatened people, but will simultaneously refuse to give a permit to a black store owner seeking for a gun to defend against a potential white mob trying to attack his store.

Before 2022, most Democratic jurisdictions operate under “May-Issue” laws, meaning, cops had broad discretion on whether to issue a permit or not, but then the supreme court, ironically its the 6 fascist-alligned judges, struck it down and the whole US is now under “Shall-Issue” laws, which means, cops cannot deny a permit if the background check comes clean, so no more denying guns to non-whites and using “he looks suspicious” as a reason.

Background checks? Yea fine.

Manatory gun safety training? Sure.

Permits? Ummm only if its a neutral nonpolitical jury/citizen’s commission or something like that. Cuz otherwise nope, can’t trust cops with the discretion.

Gun Registry? Don’t give it to the government. An independent citizen’s commission should maintain the registry, only accessible to investigators if there’s probable cause and a warrant should be required.

I mean that the pricing of the dev account could soon change because of the fact that we live under a capitalist society, not saying that capitalism is itself is going away.

Your computer no longer “computes”, its just a barebones terminal to access a “virtual pc” in the cloud.

Good news, you don’t need to pay $1000 for a good laptop, all you need is this $50 windows machine that only runs a client that streams a live feed from MS Headquarters

Bad news, its a subscription, stop paying and you lose all files.

Wait a minute did you type a “Eat The Rich” document, sorry can’t have that, violates ToS, deleted.

That’s would just be Windows 11 S _{Mobile Edition}, but you do not get the option to upgrade to Windows 11 Home _{Mobile Edition} as you would on a PC

Or maybe you do get an option, but its a subscription for $50 per quarter-year. 🫠

I thought leftists are always pro-gun, while its the liberals (which includes those progressives in the US Democratic party) are always against guns.

I always felt like a minority in politics. I grew more and more supportative of egalitarian policies as a I grew older, coming to that conclusion from both logics (I wouldn’t want to be treated that way), and also from experience as a racial minority.

But I’ve literally always been pro-gun since the moment the gun topic came up in school.

Which just leaves me in a very confused position when I learned that out of the two big parties (those that can actually win an election), the party I agree more with opposes guns. I just had a mini-identity crisis.

So while I do vote for democrats, I do so begrudgingly, because there is just no viable left-of-center pro-gun party. Every time they say “gun control” on an election year, I just facepalm, like c’mon just drop the issue from the party platform and win a lot more elections, the time to debate guns was 1789, now its kinda too late, cats out of the bag.

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

-Karl Marx

I disagree with Stalinism and Maoism, but Marx had great ideas, but sadly people just did a horrible interpretation/implementations of it and used communist/socialist aesthetics to justify their authoritatianism and never actually doing any real egalitarian stuff.

To add to this, the only redeeming quality of Android is that the Google Play Store developer account currently only costs a $25 one time fee, meanwhile the Apple App Store costs $99 per year. Google also seems a bit more permissive with its apps. You can still use an adblocker extension when you download firefox, even torrent clients are there. Apple doesn’t really allow alternative browsers, every browser is just Safari reskinned, no extensions, absolutely zero usable torrent clients whatsoever. And, there aren’t really any Tor browsers on iOS (probably because of the same reason why iOS browsers have no extensions), those that do exist seem very badly built, not officially made by the Tor Project, and some even require you to pay for it (which make sense given the $99 yearly fee).

But you know, its capitalism and the current pricing could soon change… 👀

(Edited phrasing for claification)

Not sure how pricing/value actually compares, but it does seem like if you want a phone now for emergencies you’re going to get fleeced (also required data package).

What? You need data make calls now?

Ah yes, I too blame the overworked and underpaid population that were never given a real education besides a dysfunctional and authoritarian public school system which contains at least 50% pro-status-quo propaganda and omit real useful information, and teaches kids to obey teachers and the school admin, and subjugate their free will. /s

You can still use AOSP to make your own phone, but you’ll just have to built your own apps too, since eventually, all of google play apps aren’t gonna work on degoogled Android.

I mean… there is a small part of DC that is a hell hole… y’all know where I’m talking about, the place where people in suits gather. And some weird house with an oddly-shaped office

Lmao OP needs to add Russia to their list

We have a unholy trinity of authoritarian regimes

I mean, if google is on track to ban sideloading, there’s not doubt they will also ban bootloader unlocking.

Howdy, fellow humans!

It’s a good day to be breathing air.

um… my favorite hobby is drinking water…

(Seriously tho, I already sus 50% of Lemmy users too, a lot of front page posts have the weird “mainstream social media uncanny feel” to it, at this point I treat the social-media/forums as entertainment, I don’t really take it too seriously. If I didn’t witness it myself, it can be potentially fake. That’s how I operate in this world)

Don’t wanna be a conspiracy theorist, wouldn’t it be a genious idea to split the oligarchy party into seemingly two distinct parties, with one side arming racist hillbillies and using propaganda to control them, the other disarming minorities and anyone left-of-center. Gun control is propaganda.

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

-Karl Marx

Bad timing for this meme. I do not trust the cops, esepcially not now. Correct course of action is to disband the police and create well-regulated militias (regulated by the people themselves, not the state). I see you’re from dbzer0, you should know that cops aren’t to be trusted.

Also: Dems really need to drop the gun issue if they hope to win an election, going “Beto O’ Rourke” every election isn’t helping.

Context: The moment where Democrats lost Texas Gubernatorial Election: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QR4mNrW0AlE