Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.

Hi, I’m john, I use brave. I’m a socialist and I fight for lgbtq and workers rights. I fight against the fascist regime.

Now you’ve met somebody personally who isn’t maga and racist who uses brave.

“you support fascism if you use brave” … Omg come on. This is really ridiculous. I’m a communist and active member in a socialist org. I’ve been in the face of proud boys, I’ve fought with ICE, I’ve marched with strikers… Telling people they support fascism through browser choice is fucking nuts. Everything you do supports the fascist system unless you live off grid in the woods.

There is no ethical consumption under a capitalist system. Do I like the guy? Fuck no. But I like brave search. I liked BAT when it was released; it was an interesting idea on supporting creators that ultimately flopped. I like the ad block. I also use firefox with ad block. I’m capable of both. I’m browsing the web for lifting videos, not planning the revolution.

All browsers suck. I’ve tried them all over the past 30 years. Show me a browser that doesn’t suck and I’ll change, I haven’t seen it. This shaming of people is really getting fucking ridiculous. It’s the most milquetoast lib purity test I’ve seen.

Yea I use deepseek at home for personal use. Our authorized AI at work is Copilot 🫩

Man, I’m pretty techy. I work in tech. I’ve learned programming, etc, I use Debian. but selfhosting seems so daunting, not to mention inconvenient. I need to get into it though 😓

My job bans deepseek. Because … China, or something 🤷‍♀️

I studied police in college through my degree, I’ve done ride alongs, I’ve visited prisons and morgues with these people. Cops are some of the most incompetent POSes on the planet. They have been murdering people with impunity for 50+ years. You will not convince me otherwise. You are delusional. ACAB.

All cops know how to do is escalate. Escalate, escalate, escalate, escalate. That’s literally ALL they do. How anybody looks at law enforcement in any capacity as a good thing is crazy to me.

I’m a hipster and also anti-capitalist. Tired of dogshit corpo social media enshittification

“Kid, I own the police!” –Biff Tannen Trump

“The police are not here to prevent disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.” -Richard J Daley right before the police beat the shit out of everybody and ‘shoot to kill’ was ordered.

Interestingly, NFTs could solve a lot of issues with deeds. This was posted on reddit some years ago

Spent some time working in real estate fraud. Your question [regarding somebody hacking your wallet and stealing the deed] creates a scary scenario but let me assure it isn’t better now. You would be surprised at how hilariously easy it is to get on title for a property and start fucking with it.

All I need is the current owners information (public record) and I can go record a deed right now. Its called a wild deed and while they don’t usually cause any trouble if your state laws are decent you can very easily wake up to someone else’s name on your title and an annoying legal process to clear it.

It happens by accident ALL the time and people usually don’t realize it until they try to refinance.

AINs that are different by a single digit are more than common. Deeds can be hand-written and there is a lot of room for human error in the recording process.

“Is that a 6 or a 0?” - Registrar employee about to ruin your month.

Now your neighbor “owns” your property, your lender is sending you angry letters, and you have a court date just to delete a document with a typo on it.

This is before we get into criminals actually trying to steal from you. The damage can be catastrophic. You will lose your home if you sign the wrong paper or (more recently) put your thumb on the wrong ipad.

There are issues here for sure but don’t think a paper deed in a lockbox is much safer than an nft. It’s just how we’ve always done it.

While I think the collectable NFT craze has crashed and burned, it was an interesting experiment. I think NFTs in some way have a use case. While not specifically an NFT, Buenos Aires for example rolled out crypto/blockchain backed Identification.

…and it will conveniently fail spectacularly in Congress while trump claims that he’s helping the working class.

I can’t believe it’s that cheap.

Great picks! I’m partial to Alwa’s Legacy

And yet the USA continually loses wargames: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-to-it-in-wargames-heres-a-24-billion-fix/

Don’t believe anything they say. It’s all propaganda and psyop.

Not really. People are in really bad spots and need money. While I roll my eyes at grindbros and hustle culture and all this pointless/asinine tiktok influenza crap, it’s pretty disingenuous to deny that people actually do need additional income outside of their main job.

That said, what you have described seems pretty annoying.

The only “evidence” I’ve ever seen cited (by western media of course) was all stuff the US does on a larger scale: blocking candidates from ballots, closing/changing polling places at last minute, etc (can’t remember the rest, it was too stupid to take seriously). I have however read several accounts that the elections were overseen by hundreds of world officials and has been repeatedly said to have been one of the most democratic elections ever.

Hmm, believe this or the US who has been meddling in South America for 70+ years? 🤷‍♂️

Maduro won elections in landslide and has mass support of the working class. Don’t believe Western media, which is controlled by the same capitalists orchestrating this attack, ICE, and everything else. The US has been meddling in South America for 70+ years: coups, assassinations, color revolutions, embargoes, sanctions … There is no reason to believe what they say about Maduro.

We’ve enjoyed voting between projectile vomit and hot sauce diarrhea for 100 years. The wheels were bound to fall off. What you’re witnessing are the wheels starting to fall off. 99% of the politicians are complicit, because that’s how the whole system works.

“Fascism is capitalism in decay” -Lenin. When the system starts to collapse, it needs to get more and more violent and belligerent. Trump is just the symptom of this. If it wasn’t him it’d be somebody else. Lesser evilism has brought us to this point, because it hasn’t and never will work.

Some good books to read are Blackshirts and Reds, and Jakarta Method.

We are standing up to him, but conveniently in capitalism it’s basically illegal to do so. We’re seeing people get arrested for protesting Venezuela attacks and ICE. This is by design.

What to do? Get organized! Join DSA. Join CPUSA. Join a union. Hell, join Indivisible. Start building your networks. Organize!