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Good summary :)

Just my 2c regarding

opposing things like taxes, gun control, abortion and speech restrictions, etc.

Opposing abortion is not a libertarian policy, it is a conservative policy. So conservative libertarians hold this opinion because they are conservative, not because they are libertarian. Your example is probably still correct though, because you say it is about US, and I guess in US lots of libertarians are indeed conservatives.

Why are you asking a question when you clearly made up you mind already? :)

You are wrong of course, you can buy anything with crypto as long as the other person accepts crypto (there are dozens of marketplaces, not only darknet ones, e.g. xmrbazaar).My instance hosting is paid for in Monero. I plan to change it soon to another hosting, which also accepts Monero. The domain is also paid for in Monero. Same for my VPN (Mullvad actually offers 10% off when you pay in crypto!) and mail. I regularly donate to projects such as GrapheneOS, Qubes, Whonix, TOR using Monero. I donate Monero to support people hosting things I use, e.g. invidious instances. Your employer absolutely can pay you in crypto if they choose to, and there are examples of people who do receive their salary in crypto. You could easily find examples/articles about that if you wanted to.No, money is not defined by "everyone agreeing that it is valuable and willing to exchange it for goods and services". Do you think Zimbabwean dollar (or any other foreign currency other than a few most popular ones) is valuable? Would you agree to sell me your goods and services for it? Why not? Right, because it is not the currency YOU use. Other people use it, so it is money for them. Same with crypto. People use it as trustless p2p money whether you like it or not.

If you need to hate crypto so much please get back to arguments such as "oh no it uses a lot of energy and allows people to ~~freely exchange it for goods and services~~ buy drugs on the internet", at least those are correct. Please also subscribe to r/buttcoin if you use reddit.

You should have stopped here, because no reason is ever a good reason for wishing ill upon another human being, no matter the argument.

What?

So, whatever I do, it won't be a reason for you to wish ill on me? I can burn down your house (maybe with your dog/cat/family inside) and you won't wish ill on me? I am a human being, so there is no reason for you to ever wish ill on me, right?

Telegram is indeed neither private nor secure (that is if you don't use secret chats), but the stupidity of people believing the narrative of

Russia-controlled servers

will never cease to fascinate me.

You know which group of people know for certain that this is not true?

Russians.

How can they be so sure?

Because of their government's constant attempts/threats to block it / slow it down. All in an effort to make people move to an actual messaging app controlled by them (MAX messenger).

Yes, absolutely, Russian government is trying to stop people from using an app they control, this totally makes sense.And if it doesn't, you can always come up with some totally reasonable and totally not a conspiracy theory of them just pretending to trying to block it so that you think it is secure. And people might even believe it. Except for Russians, for whom Telegram voice calls are broken (blocked) again, and MAX is advertised as an alternative.

For fuck's sake...

It's not just FULL-SCALE, it is also ILLEGAL!

Lol, it's not even a spicy question like "Why is Zelensky posting photos with soldiers with Nazi symbols if his regime being Nazis is Russin propaganda?", and you still got those "people" triggered XD

A job well done!

Both absolutely should be allowed/legalized.

Why not do it himself, with that 4 years of experience in kidnapping it shouldn't be too hard?

Ah right, kidnapping Kadyrov might be more complicated than kidnapping poor unarmed people from the streets...

I mean, the same people praise Azov, so no surprises there

I am too lazy to point the arrow to the correct place, but you get the point

Do you mean that the Ukrainian people are getting

assaulted, kidnapped

On the territories still controlled by Zelensky's regime - yes, kidnapping and assault (busification) is daily occurence indeed.

murdered

Well, this is the point of busification, to send the people to die, so also yes.

Thankfully, Russia is slowly but steadily liberating people from that.

Got reported for being a "state propagandist". Well, this is not true because.. Ah shit sorry, gtg, Vladimir Putin is here with my paycheck!

The author was so nice that he even included a paragraph about "b-b-but it's surely Russian propaganda!!1!", so that you wouldn't have to bother <3

The go-to response for many Zelensky loyalists will be to write the allegations off as Kremlin smears. Indeed Zelensky’s justification for his attempt to bring Nabu under his control back in July were vague and never substantiated allegations of Russian penetration of Nabu.

I'm curious, do people downvote it because even after 4 years of kisnappings with countless recordings of this happenning daily they still consider it "Russian propaganda", or are we fully in the "yes, it's happening, but it's not a big deal and we shouldn't talk about it"?

Ah right, thanks for pointing out my mistake!When talking about army of kidnapped slaves I of course meant the one from the country where busification (act of violently kidnapping someone to send them to the meatgrinder, obviously against their will) has become "the word of 2024" according to a dictionary organization from that same country.Would you be so kind to help me to identify this country, pretty please?

I wonder if in retrospect this will be considered "the straw that broke the camel's back"?

Putting aside the jokes about "they don't gain ground fast enough therefore I win", Zelensky's strategy of fighting with a slave army of kidnapped men was and still is quite sucessful - Russia liberates no more than tens of km2 a day.But now, for whatever reason, he lets a good chunk of potential cannon fodder leave. Eventually running out of cannon fodder was always a ticking time bomb, and now it's even worse...

Yep.

Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.

Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

You don't understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn't really another choice.

You don't understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.

You don't understand, we CAN'T be on f-droid.

You don't understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.

Did I miss anything?