You know your country is fucked when the guy that implemented “trickle-down economics” is seen as a sane person… at least compared to… ahem…

[gestures at the current US adminitration]

Horses are superior. When your car break down, you’ll starve to death. Horses, however… 😋

Well then…

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y’all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

DEFCON?

Next event is apparantly August 7-10, 2025.

outright paid indirectly by the state

I think he realized the US’s turn towards fascism and amp up the right-wing rhetoic to secure his adjustment of status. AFIAK, he is still a citizen of South Africa, and I’m not even sure if he has permanent residency in the US, or just some visa. I think he’s bootlicking to make sure he doesn’t get deported to South Africa.

And he’s a cishet white man, so this spiral into fascism doesn’t affect him, which is why he’s too blind to see the shit that’s been happening.

And its also the fact that he criticized South Africa and China too much, he just has to keep his mouth shut about the US to stay out of trouble, kinda similar to how Snowden went against the US, and now he is in a situation where he can’t criticize the Russian government.

I got a weird vibe with serpentza.

One one hand, yes he does tell the truth about China sometimes. But he also have this weird vibe like putting “My Chinese Wife” in youtube titles (like imagine a white guy in America putting “My Black Wife” in the youtube title) or even a video title designed to clickbait people like “Are Chinese Men Cowards” which its just like WTF is that title, he did answer “No” in the video, but this guy clearly doesn’t care about Political Correctness (aka: Politeness).

But he literally made a video recently proclaiming the USA is “the best” country in the world. Not “one of the best”, he said “the best”. The Video was made after trump won the election for the second time.

You can’t take this guy seriously.

The homeless thing is real tho. They exist. But my point is: serpenza is a joke.

Edit: This is the video where serpentza said the “America is Best” thing: https://youtu.be/1hePvgiYyhU?t=1029 (Starts at 17:09)

“America is the best country I’ve ever lived in” Which is because he have lived in 3 countries, South Africa, PRC, USA, of course the US seems the best, because he haven’t lived (as in long-tern) in EU countries, but then he doubled down in the next sentence:

“America is the best country in the world” LOL nope. Dude forgot the EU Exists. 🤣

Video was published in December 30, 2024, like… bruh… forgot the LGBT people? Minorities? Immigrants? 🤔 This is white privilage in action. Maybe he isn’t malicious, but this is peak ignorance and being totally out of touch, even if he has good intents.

Cold? Lol, they should live in russia, the regime they are loyal to. Experience the actual coldness.

Hmmm

I skimmed the webpage and seems like some minimalist phone, which cannot adequetely replace many functions of a modern smartphone.

Fairphone works in Europe, but in the US, for example, only Tmobile allows fairphones, the other carriers, while there nothing technological that prevents them fron working, the carriers being being really shit about it. And Tmovile could also become hostile with a flip of a switch. So yea, that’s a huge issue, unless you want a wifi-only device.

I fear in the future, devices will be more strictly locked down because of “terrorism” “scams” “fraud” or “criminial activity” that allows the authorities, worldwide, to control devices even more. Perhaps, computers could also face such lockdowns.

I mean, look at drones. One harmless crash on the US whitehouse lawn triggered a lot of laws restricting them, inclusing the infamous DJI Geo-locking. One terrorisr using encrypted messaging apps to coordinate would allow governments to control our communications even further. All locked bootloaders. Perhaps even locked BIOS/UEFIs. Imagine such a future.

The future looks bleak. It’s not even like 1984, the reality of dystopia is more subtle. People are being stalked by the government, while there are parties are happening all around, that is what dystopia looks like.

China turned QR codes red to restrict people’s movements on the pretenses of Covid. The US trump admin could do the same with QR code IDs to “prove you are a citizen” with checkpoints throughout the country.

(Sorry if it kinda got offtopic, but still kinda relevent)

Sadly, no linux phones that are actually usable.

overwhelmed and doing nothing instead

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it

Brb, creating my new account

@TrueAmericanPatriot42069

First Post: “I love the Second Amendment. I hate when tyrants are trying to take away our rights. We should really be using our amendments against the deep state and wealthy foreign billionaires manipulating the elections and our government. If the First one doesn’t work, try the Second. As the oath says ‘Against all enemies, foreign and domestic’. I stand with the American people to defeat the enemies within.”

IYKYK 😏 (Read Between the lines 🤭)

I mean… look at Signalgate.

These fascists are incompetent.

“People around me”

Me who doesn’t have friends:

I mean, stateslessness is quite rough. You kinda have to pick one of the (approximately) 200 cults in the world.

“If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em” 🤷‍♂️

Let me give you an analogy.

I was born in the People’s Republic of China. I immigrated to the United States of America when I was not even 10. I grew up in America, I grew attached to the principles of Freedom and Democracy. I went through the proper channels and I obtained Citizenship through the proper way. I am an American.

If someone were to tell me that I’m “not American”, and that because I was “born Chinese, I must be Chinese for the rest of my life”; or, in your phrasing: “A Chinese person cannot become American” you’d be a xenophobe.

Gender is a social contruct. If a man wants to be a woman, or a woman wants to be a man, just let them. Its not denying that they have XX or XY chromosomes, that is what their biology says. But being a “Man” or “Woman” are labels society attributes to those chromosomes, just like the concept of Nationality.

TLDR: Please just let people be whoever they want to be. If you start attacking people’s identity, nobody is gonna wanna talk to you. If you want to spread transphobia, you can go to twitter. Enjoy your nazi bar.

This is a matter replicator, not a matter plicator

😉

Really?

I’ve used Samsung and Motorola Android phones, I can set them up offline.

I assume every other OEM is the same.

Apple does this.

Microsoft is now doing this.

I wonder how long until Google start doing it with Android 🤔

This future is so fucking dystopian

Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.

Please elaborate? What exactly do you mean?