cobra89

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You can try WhoBird. It's open source (available on fDroid) and runs completely locally on the phone. I've had decent success with it even in noisy environments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you want open source adoption to continue to be low, please, keep making comments like this.

If you want people to switch, the apps need to be appealing not a chore. And relearning a workflow you've fine tuned over decades is a serious chore and may even be detrimental to your job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised the great firewall doesn't block known blocks of VPN IP addresses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah actually it was a Belarusian journalist, Roman Protasevich.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

These people care more about their "principles" and lack of fundamental understanding of the realities of a first past the post system, than the very real reality of people like us losing our rights.

Everyone who thinks voting 3rd party or staying home is an option is rooted in privilege.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

No, it's because people like you don't vote in primaries. I vote in every primary for better candidates meanwhile people like you scream how the candidates are awful while staying home during the primaries.

The candidates won't get better until we grass roots organize and start actually making good candidates popular.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Also I guess losing the majority on SCOTUS and losing abortion rights was just a "hypothetical scenario" when people like you refused to vote for Hillary in 2016?

When will you people learn that, yes, elections have consequences.

Trying to pretend like they might not and Trump might somehow not be worse is being deliberately obtuse and sticking your head in the sand. Wake up and smell the reality.

Please tell me about your hypothetical future where you don't vote for Biden. Please explain to me what your best case scenario and outcome look like in that situation? Please tell me, what are you working towards?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you think you're going to change anything by not voting or voting third party then I have a bridge I'd love to sell you and decades of American history I'd like you to read.

Please explain to me what action you're going to take and how that's going to lead to positive change?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (30 children)

Nope, they'd rather scream about "not voting for the lesser of two evils" full well knowing that if they don't that the likelihood of Trump becoming president and having MUCH worse policies for the Palestinians becomes much greater.

But hey, why care about the realities of a situation when you can scream about principles or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Is there so much more he could have done without an act of Congress? We saw from Trump's presidency that most executive orders do not hold up in court and Congress controls the power of the purse.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Remember how Russia forced Navalny's plane to land in a different country so they could arrest him? Not that I agree with the action, but it might not be a bad idea for Europeans and Netanyahu. Just sayin'.

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