for invidiual everyday people? Probably something that involves smaller countries. I think part of the reason we have so many of these brazenly corrupt and evil administrations is because the systems are so big the temptation to go megalomaniac just trying to steer the ship is there

, Imagine being told to vote in an election when you live in Idaho or Yukon, and that ultimatley, your vote doesn’t matter because everything gets determined by a couple of population centers (in the case of Canada) or the fate of how a couple swing states vote (USA)

and then once they’re in power, there’s 10,000 mouths all crowing at the mother-bird for food. and only the loudest half get fed at all

Im making weird analogies but the point is, I think we’re looking at this the wrong way. Countries, and therfor economies and Markets, were never meant to get to the size they are today, Countries Like China, America, Russia, India, they are largely unmanagable without brutal oppression , and economically, it’s herding cats.

I dont know if this is a serious question or a vieled whataboutism, but whatever the case, I do know one thing, Russia chose to start the war, and even more so, their mobsters used the excuse that their victims and enemies “made them do it”

I was making the remark that Fascists by design, have to portray their enemies as both powerful, and pathetic.

Russia is fascist, and declares “the west” to be both the great satan who threatens Russkiy Mir and their very existence for which they were forced to go to war, and simultaneously is full of weak decadent coward homeosexual liberals. its the fascist duality

No, they’d just end up in Lugansk, killing Ukrainians. Like all the other foreign nationals who migrated to Russia out of some dumbass belief Russia was a “conservative moral bastion” only to get thrown in the army like cattle

its gone beyond protesting, protesting is active, Im not so sure about China, but Russia is so far gone in it’s forever war mentality that its gone straight into thoughtcrime now.

Dissent

Hello, Is this the burn ward?

Well, until they drop the delusion that they’re bad enough to just jail / shoot everyone who opposes them, itll be rough.

tankie detected. opinion rejected. *

The USSR was just a Russian empire that pretended to be some international socialist brotherhood. Imperialism is married to the Russian identity and that didnt stop just because the Bolsheviks killed the royal family.

ah yes, the equally competent and incompetent natoids strike again.

rhetorical question, I know what she’s doing, clicking on random shit and then blaming other people for her problems.

every intrusive advertisement or popup. “I got hacked” every wrong website she goes to “this is a scam”

both of them shield, coddle, and enable a 53 year old man who is an overt Nazi and purge/mass death obsessed eugenicist freak, (my uncle), a lot more needs to be said to them honestly.

The insane outnumber them, and they made the decision a long time ago, the answer was yes.

depending on your household’s browsing habits, it can be downright insane how much traffic goes through ones network (and the web at large), that is just nothing but dog shit.

I monitored my pihole at my place and my own traffic is usually no more than 15% garbage with about 750,000 domains blocked, but the second grandma or grandpa starts doomscrolling boomer things on their phones and ipads. I saw the network traffic at 60% blocked one time and I had to confront them and flatly ask them “what the fuck are you doing on your phone?”

also set up a Region exemption or whatever, blocking russian, chinese, and a whole bunch of other untrustworthy TLDs and im literally showing my grandmother the repeated attempts to communicate with something in fucking China in real time whilst she’s playing some solitare game she downloaded.

Not even a linux guy, but I had a Pi from a decade ago that I never opened, decided to set it up and use it for something useful, friends suggested Pihole. pained myself for 2 days getting everything working (most of my trouble had to do with peripherals and IP addresses not the device itself) but after the grief, got it working and it was well worth it.

I even printed a sticker for it that said “where ads go to die”

sorry doubleclick, but you’re toast

you know that meme where its the guy saying he prefers the original, and multiple options are thrown at him where he keeps saying “no the real original”

I feel like we have a case of that here, except its what Makes an American, and it continues getting reductive until you’ve narrowed it down to a Jingoistic or Ultranationalist/Manifest Destiny type WASP (White, Anglo-saxon heritage, Protestant faith christian)

I only fell for one of those maybe once or twice before I caught on. No money was lost though. just spam/adware

I did manage to get scammed and have my habbo hotel account stolen though, I was also a stupid kid.

The internet in the 2000s was like a WW1 Trenchline. Noise and graphic content everywhere and one wrong move could cost you life or limb.

I dont exactly remember when it started getting “safer” because I think the same time the internet was getting safer to browse, a lot of Millenial and Zillenial kids were getting smarter and otherwise learning how to not get malware and worms on their PC

yeah cause you cant get one at your local best buy anymore, but someone will certainly harrass you into trying to buy a smart TV