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•• 🎀 𝐹𝒜𝒮𝒞𝐼𝒮𝑀 🎀 ••¯°•Funny how when you let conservatives have power your rights start being infringed upon.
Anyway, I wonder how Palestine is doing.
Honestly dude, I cannot fucking believe people thought Trump would be better for Palestine than Kamala… I just don’t fucking understand how so many people can come to that conclusion, unless I really think about it, and then the reasons are all so sad and stupid. I swear to god the main reason, above racism, above hate, above the propaganda of the election cycle, the main reason he won over Hillary and then Kamala is that he had a TV show for many years. A lot of people over look the simple fact that in the American psyche, being on TV is validating, or at least it was when Trump was elected, before everything went upside down. People will stay in the same shitty town and keep the same toxic relatives in their lives for their wholes lives vs finding people that they actually harmonize with because they’re familiar. People who grew up in shitty households find partners like their shitty parents because the shitty behavior is familiar. “Familiar” feels like family. Trump was a household name, and some people didn’t even know Kamala had been swapped in half way through the election season. So they trusted Trump when he’d lie because he’s familiar, but they distrusted her when she seemed to avoid a subject because she’s unfamiliar and so inherently suspicious. They should have both been suspicious af, but he had a TV show and was president once before so they trusted him more… which is very fucking stupid.
Yeah, I think you’re hitting on something important. This is probably also why people living under dictatorships sometimes approve of their dictator. The devil you know.
Nobody actually thought Trump would be better for Palestine. The ones that said they did were bots.
Are you saying bots are pointless? They may have introduced the idea to the discourse, and they certainly amplified the signal, and I believe they succeeded at incepting the idea to many people.
It’s called propaganda, and it sure worked. Divide and conquer.
Trump is a peacemaker and good heart person. Who stirred up to world Definitly kamala harris. Man seriously conservatites are extremly ignorant.
And FREE PALESTİNE.
So glad that I’m not a US citizen.
Don’t worry. They’re already working on exporting fascism.
I can’t wait !
I suppose they’re still working out the details of Fascism as a Service (FaaS), i.e. the monthly subscription fees, tier names (Trump > Mussolini > Franco > Hitler > Thiel), and so on…
They probably need redundant fascists too, in case there’s ever a global outage for FaaS
Me too. But I live in a worse situtation country.
I’m glad I was already well on the pathway to de-googling
they have to ask?
The RSHA and NKVD dream. It’s time to dump Gmail.
Random critcs come to lemmy. I am demand information from department of homeland security.
I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google’s domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren’t in service to the Regime.
YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.
It doesn’t seem to be as well known, but YouTube is one of the biggest distributors of blatant disinformation, and they have done fuck all about it. There are so many individual right wing disinformation channels that wield so much more power than they should. It’s so fuckin insidious. Seriously, go find one of the alt-right YouTube accounts, and just look at the comments. Not a single one will be negative. They literally police their comments, and the only thing left is sycophantic bullshit like “thank you for exposing the truth!” It’s actually disgusting. Every YouTuber can essentially build their very own echo chamber, and they do.
I know YouTube comments should generally be ignored, but when you see something that is intentionally, blatantly misleading, a single sentence comment could be all that is required to pierce the veil. It’s axiomatic at this point that their bullshit doesn’t stand up against even surface level scrutiny.
Google could combat this with little to no effort. Put a flag next the username. Display the number of manually deleted comments. Done. But they won’t. Fuck youtube. Fuck Google. They are perfectly happy to lead the charge into fascism.
It’s not just political disinformation. Watch a few how to videos on something you know a lot about. You’ll find the same wrong information repeated over and over.
All of these ‘content creators’ are really just ‘regurgitationists’.
If you want to know how to do something wrong, watch a you tube tutorial.
No knowledge would be lost. Books exist, other video platforms exist too. Fuck YT, fuck Google, hope they die soon.
While I think I agree with your geneal stance, I also believe ‘no knowledge is lost’ is pure hyperbole.
Aside from many different quasi-documentaries, video essayists and slice-of-life bloggers (whose content is surely backed up on other platforms or by data hoarders) the sheer amount of tacit knowledge of small computer/electronics/hardware repairs and similar, especially in smaller channels, is in no way either ‘not knowledge’ or not ‘lost’ should the platform go up in flames tomorrow.
Before YouTube, people used to share knowledge of how to do shit with computers/electronics/everything on forums. I still go and find info on those forums more often than on YouTube. Nothing would be lost is perhaps a slight over exaggeration, but not a hyperbole. I can’t remember the last time I used YouTube for anything else but entertainment.
There is no reason to honor these warrantless requests. The Bush Administration sent National Security Letters to them, demanding all this information without a warrant and threatening massive penalties if they told anyone. They had no legal basis to do such a thing, the constitution demands they get a warrant from a judge as laid out in the 4th amendment and calls anything in violation of the constitution to be illegal and unenforceable.
But the rot has been spreading for a half a century, the immune system of the Republic is haywire, we have autoimmune conditions, the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body.
America isn’t a country of laws anymore. The supreme court rubber stamps anything the administration wants to do, and the administration “declines requests from the judiciary”. You’ve got administration officials that don’t know what Habeas Corpus means, suspending Habeas Corpus. You’ve got a military openly/brazenly committing war crimes on the international scene (blowing up unverified “narco boats”/civilians). You’ve got a paramilitary gestapo-like force quite literally shooting citizens in the streets, your own government aiming to terrorize its people – which’s the whole point of the violent Ice operations targeting blue states.
But yeah, sure, Google and the big tech bros who have been supporting Trump’s actions throughout all of this will totally draw the line at disclosing data.
Nah, SCOTUS pushed back on Trump, first time around and this time as well. The administration had a solid run of Supreme Court wins for several months because they only brought cases they thought were slam dunks. Now that we’re getting into meaty subjects like birthright citizenship, the justices look to stand firm. Too little, too late, I know.
I fully expect Google to give in anyway. The rule of law doesn’t count for much anymore.
Oh yeah for sure, they have been for some time well before this administration as I understand it.
Facebook is even worse I believe. They allow the police and agents virtually unlimited reach into our lives without warrants. They don’t even charge the government to comply with their demands. ATT used to charge the government a lot of money for wiretaps and the like, and made them get warrants. Facebook they just have to ask and they bend over backwards for them.
Maybe facebook and google are guilty on other fronts which makes them susceptible to betraying our freedoms here. Which is why you don’t allow such consolidation in the first place but too late now our courts are captured as well as the regulators and they won’t break up the trusts, not without a new muscular populist government on a full fledged campaign.
That’s a great way for Google to go out of business.
Oh my sweet summer child… Google is half the internet and is funding this nightmare.
Jeffery Epstein had a gmail account. The redacted emails are in his gmail account. Google should be forced to publish everything fucking now!
They don’t need to demand. They already have access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The cloud act requires a warrant, this is them just demanding access.
“The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.”
The lion doesn’t concern himself with things like warrant.
If you’re going to argue on this, just know that the president is a child rapist and all the oligarchs are friends with each other and the politicians and they rape children together.
Lion, yeah that is what these oligarchs are, lions. Totally not like Jabba the hut.
DHS can eat a US defense budget sized bag of dicks
The folks up at Whipple here in Minneapolis have been chucking dildoes at ICE and local law enforcement. Helps that one of the major spots for local resistance is a sex toy store, and they’ve got a lot of “expired” dildoes around.
(If you see reports of “objects” thrown at fascists, it’s not chunks of ice anymore, lol.)
What the hell is an “expired” dildo?
Something like this, I imagine
Be careful with glass ones, though.
Why should you? The shrapnel won’t hit your allies
- It might, 2) they might think they are being attacked seriously and use live rounds, 3) they might identify you later and put you into jail.
They criminally charged a man and he lost his job for throwing a club sandwich at ICE. They think they are being attacked seriously by anything. Your solution to obey and cower in fear and let fascists take over helps them out.
Not cower in fear, but throwing a brittle hard item (that is, made of glass) at them may be legally stretched far enough. Perhaps if you are fine with dealing damage, do a proper Molotov cocktail.
That guy’s (a lawyer) case was rejected by three Grand Juries, until they recharged him under statute that didn’t require a Grand Jury.
When they got to court, the ICE Ape “victim” testified that when the sandwich hit him, it burst open, and mustard and onions covered his body armor, and the smell gave him PTSD, which now uncontrollably triggers whenever he smells onions or mustard. His life was totally ruined by that sandwich throwing meanie.
During cross-examination, the defense really let the guy sell the story of his victimization really hard, then they displayed a photo of the sandwich, taken by investigators AFTER the incident, and it was fully, tightly wrapped by a Subway Sandwich Artist, who really knew how to wrap a sandwich. Give that person the Employee of the Month Award.
The ICE Ape’s testimony was proven to be an obvious total lie, and the dependent was quickly found not guilty. The ICE Ape was NOT charged with perjury, which is the real crime in this story.
And the defendant was a lawyer, who won his case, so if he was fired, I’m sure he’s been hired, by now. If not, he should do a GoFundMe, and he’ll be a millionaire in a few days.
They never charge police and their witnesses with perjury unless they cross the police. Perjury is a lot more serious than people think. An ex cop near me got charged with like a 30 year perjury charge in state court for instance. Sick fuck was covering for his 20 some year old kid in the big city, he lured someone to his house, and murdered and cut them into pieces, but then never got around to disposing of it and it stunk until someone called the cops and he got found out.
But the ex cop dad lied and covered for his kid. He got charged. I had no idea it was such a big charge, or can be. But the police habitually lie and and never charged. Prosecutors too, and they have total immunity from lying, it doesn’t matter if they knowingly lie to send and innocent person to prison or not. Prosecutors deserve a lot more scrutiny, and prison time honestly, they are some of the worst pieces of shit in the country that we never think about, and one of the most powerful people in any county. In the 80s they had a sort of power grab from what they were before.
And folks, if you haven’t de-googled yourself by now, well it’s past time.
What is the choice. Apple?
GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS,…
It’s still Android, but it’s built off the open source base of Android.
Or real non-Android-based mobile Linux?
It’s about time for the year of the Linux phone
That’s my next stop probably. Been on degoogled Android for many years and loved it. But vendors have started locking down their bootloaders (fuck you, Samsung!), Google has made moves to make life harder in Android for custom ROM devs and sidesloaders alike, so it’s only a matter of time until they’ll go full Hitler on it. So: Go, penguin, go!
Waylp that sucks for me. I knew about it and was lazy.
The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.
And Google will fold.
Of course. Google suckles the kings teet. They donated to his inauguration fund and the stupid fucking ballroom… they thought he’d never ask for the invasion of our privacy and they can’t wait!
google is also kneedeep in using AI for govt and military purpose, also they are platforming ISRAEL to spread propaganda on purpose.
Of course. Google suckles the kings teet
And it doesn’t matter who the king is; it just happens to be Trump now. They gave up Sensor Vault data to help convict Trump’s January 6 insurrectionists during the previous administration, and they’ll do whatever the next regime wants too.
How is that comparable? One was a crime, the other is an innocent person exercising their constitutional rights.
Agreed, this can be read both ways. It just goes to show that companies don’t give a shit about right or wrong, legal or illegal, and they’ll willingly collaborate with democratic institutions and oppressive regimes alike as long as it suits their bottom line.
Companies have always complied with legal warrants. They can challenge them, but they literally cannot refuse. Thats why companies need to actually collect less data on their customers, or protect it with e2e encryption.
So is Apple as bad? They have done all of that also. But all I hear on their Reddit’s is it had to be done they have a responsibility to shareholders.
Apple generally makes more of a show of opposing the government. They traditionally will file court suits challenging stuff. Not to say they don’t fold, just that they make a show of resisting, as they should it’s dumb of google to fold, and they only are because they don’t have enough competition, and have with other companies captured governments and regulators and courts.
Oh my god I knew this was gonna happen at some point, me and Google have a long history, and I doubt I’m gonna stop using Gemini, Google search, or YouTube.
- Gemini: I’d recommend not using AI, but if you want to, then use Deepseek, Claude, ChatGPT, or anything else
- Google Search: DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, Kagi, Mojeek, Qwant, Startpage, Marginalia
- YouTube: use https://invidious.io/ for watching YouTube videos (it also gets rid of ads), and use PeerTube (video platform federated like Lemmy) and watch videos, and maybe post some if you have something to post about
You can also search the web for lots of deGoogling advice and guides and for alternatives to Google services
Sorry, my sensors for irony, sarcasm and satire have been severely damaged by 2025. Please, puh-leaaase tell me this is!
Nope… This is a person actively choosing comfort over morals and over actual safety.
I used Google since I was a kid, so their products have been a part of my life for a long time. I don’t see myself not using YouTube.
You pick the platforms and pick what you share on each of them, be careful now what you say.
“My parents were a bunch of homophobic racists, so it’s OK for me to be a bigot today.”
“I grew up with domestic violence, so beating up my kids is just my way of being nostalgic.”
These statements sound insane, don’t they? Well, they’re perfectly analogous to what you said. You’re making it sound as if growing up with something makes it an immutable fact of one’s life. They aren’t. As we obtain better judgement of the world around us, we can grow out of things just like we once grew into them.
Google has been a terrible company for a long time now, and recently it has even become an active supporter of the fascist regime trying to establish itself in the U.S.
I’m not saying decoupling from the big tech oligopolies is easy; it isn’t. But not even making a conscious effort to even try, that amounts to being complicit in, if not supportive of the fascist takeover.
Your choices matter. Make them count.
