Chana [none/use name]

You should read the rest of the thread to get an understanding of why surveillance and deanonymization is being pushed. It is not to solve some real issue to the benefit of the public, it is a response to the failure of the media systems of control to control narratives.

Your claims about a “healthy democracy” are fairy tales. That’s propaganda about how it works, not how it works in practice. The UK has its current Prime Minister due to a series of coordinated media campaigns against the previous leader of Labour, for examlle, with an internal purge using bad faith claims following his removal. No element of that was democratic and none of the UK governments have been popular for ages.

Question why so-called democracies only produce unpopular governments. Why don’t the parties align with popular interests in reality? Whose interests do they align with?

I don’t, sorry

I think if you asked the people whattl they voted for none of them would say it was this. And yet it is still set to roll out.

Makes you wonder what liberal democracy really means doesn’t it?

We probably can’t because the political formations that need to be organized take years to develop and grow. Namely, socialist organizations. And the ruling class and its political class lackeys already go after those as well, so it will be full of struggle. But it is the only real path forward for any kind of actually democratic system and is worth pursuing ASAP.

If you use a flatpak it may be possible to set the proxy using the http_proxy env variable when launching it.

Stay safe, friend. If you are part of any serious and thoughtful left orgs this is a good time to analyze strategy vs. risk and whether it is better to lay low.

The last time I borrowed a Netflix account every show or movie would start at 1080p and then negotiate itself down to like 240p over 3-4 minutes. I have a very fast connection that can stream 4K just fine elsewhere and Netflix’s settings were set to high quality. They are just cheapskates that throttle based on your account patterns.

Great job! I’ve always avoided Surfaces because the guides to running Linux on them are always like 30 pages long.