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  • I'll stick with X11 until they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

  • For all the bogosities and bullshit of Element/Matrix, fact is it's still the only protocol and platform I trust for private comms.

  • I said the business model is not inherently deceptive. Doesn't mean bad actors still won't try to deceive.

  • I'm fine with these companies charging to use their service, as long as they respect privacy rights in the process. I wouldn't pay for it just the same. But at least that model isn't inherently deceptive.

  • They did this from the start. Communities need regular submissions for growth. Just to keep momentum going.

    But it is inherently deceptive. And that sucks.

  • The leadership of Ukraine is not Nazi or totalitarian. Russia under Purin and China under Xi Jinping is totalitarian.

    You make a fundamental category error.

  • You confuse symbolism in your political opponents with actual conduct that mirrors the horrors of Nazi Germany by the Russian government under the dictator, Putin. The symbolism is used for a slippery slope argument to the very horrors we see Russia committing today.

    This is why you're deluded. See: Korzybski. "Science and Sanity," or his commonly used phrase, "the map is not the territory".

  • Can you describe these "different political ideologies" between Stalin and Purin, and how that matters to the absurd claim Ukraine is "Nazi" because some people wear insignia you don't like, verses widespread murder of civilians and the kidnapping of children - which you call merely, "fascist," as perpetrated by Russia under Putin's rule?

  • The issue is that Google locks down the bootloader. Nothing prevents the compute and display hardware from running a traditional Linux distribution, but that "trusted" bootloader does.

  • Fascist but not Nazi. Curious hair to split.

  • Some of us remember the Kuro5hin and how voting was gamed there in the very early 2000s.

  • On the one hand, the Nazis traditionally fought communists in Germany during Weimar. But let's not forget the Soviet pact with Nazi Germany, which only ended with Germany's betrayal of Soviet Russia. Further, both were horrific dictatorships which used blatant lies and propaganda and widespread terror against its own citizens.

    See the books: "Ministry of Illusion", by Eric Rentschler. And, "Projections of War", by Thomas Doherty.

    As for the rise of the Third Reich, see: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", by William Shirer, and "The Politics of Cultural Despair", by Fritz Stern.

    The leadership of Ukraine is not Nazi and is not totalitarian. The leadership of Russia is.

    I consider your position to be deluded.

    EDIT: A thorough rading of Hannah Arendt, such as, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" is in order too.

  • No, Jacobin. This is why I canceled my subscription.

    Rota honored a former Nazi and resigned in disgrace as well he should have. But Freeland is not her grandfather and a familial relationship does not make her a Nazi.

    Also, Ukraine is not Nazi. Russia is. That's projection. And Russian propaganda.