For sure. Everything about US infrastructure is built around cars and the availability of gas. If gas becomes a luxury commodity, then the suburbs could to turn into mad max.
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0·2 hours agoCanada legalized assisted suicide, and it ended up massively increasing suicides by the working poor, and people unable to pay for health care: populations canada is happy to no longer have to support.
Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.
So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.
A leak showed that the US hand-picked its puppet government in its 2014 coup of Ukraine.
Good video on how much of a suburban hell most of the US has become:
“To Herr Dühring force is the absolute evil; the first act of force is to him the original sin; his whole exposition is a jeremiad on the contamination of all subsequent his tory consummated by this original sin; a jeremiad on the shameful perversion of all natural and social laws by this diabolical power, force. That force, however, plays also another role in history, a revolutionary role; that, in the words of Marx, it is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one, that it is the instrument with the aid of which social movement forces its way through and shatters the dead, fossilised political forms—of this there is not a word in Herr Dühring. It is only with sighs and groans that he admits the possibility that force will perhaps be necessary for the overthrow of the economic system of exploitation—unfortunately, because all use of force, for sooth, demoralises the person who uses it. And this in spite of the immense moral and spiritual impetus which has been given by every victorious revolution! And this in Germany, where a violent collision—which indeed may be forced on the people—would at least have the advantage of wiping out the servility which has permeated the national consciousness as a result of the humiliation of the Thirty Years’ War. And this parsons’ mode of thought—lifeless, insipid and impotent—claims the right to impose itself on the most revolutionary party that history has known!"
- Engels - Anti-Duhring
Signal DOES have my phone number but they can’t tell my government anything other than yes I use Signal yes I connected to it today
This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension, as well as those of everyone you communicate with.
They’re also subject to national security letters, meaning the US state can get that info without a warrant.
Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.
The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.
The full picture is that Signal has the most important piece of information you can give anyone online: your phone number (which means your real name and current address). Also that they’re hosted in the US and have close links to the US defense industry.
People are not as stupid as these large centralized sites like signal keep telling you they are. Ppl figured out how to make accounts on different services, forums, and platforms since the internet began. It is no more difficult to make a matrix account, or install simpleX than it is anything else. My partner and I figured out simplex within 10 minutes.
none of this information ever leaves your client device, so
The phone number you gave to signal to sign up never left your device? Do you truly believe that?
When you send a message through signal, do you actually think “nothing” left your device?
These are all “trust me bro” claims.
Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that this “sealed sender” is working correctly and not using the info you already gave them. We would demand this transparency of open source messengers, so why not signal?
0·3 days agoAnyone who thinks Biden wouldn’t have continued the US policy of bombing the middle east, are ignorant of the fact that he already did:
when it doesn’t know who sent any message
They have your phone number. You gave it to them when you signed up.
which group chats you’re in
Signal wouldn’t know how to route messages if it didn’t store this info.
What countries do you think have democracy?
Because liberal / capitalist dictatorships are not democracies, despite marketing themselves as ones.
The DPRK is a success story, they succeeded in defeating both the Japanese and US imperialists (despite the US killing 1/5 of their citizens), fought the US comprador government to a standstill (which still serves as a US military base and carries out attacks and propaganda against the DPRK), and made it through the incredibly hard period of the 90s (the arduous march) after the fall of the USSR.
Socialism can take on many forms, all of which can’t be divorced from the historical context in which they arose. Other comrades can give some deep dives into the DPRK’s governance system, which can show how it’s far more democratic than the capitalist dictatorship in the south.
We should all admire the DPRK for standing up to the US empire, and debunk the lies told about it first and foremost. Liberals tend to think its mordor or something, when in reality its a country where ppl go to work and live regular lives like any other.
Signal stores, and has access to, no message metadata.
Phone numbers are the most important metadata you can give them, far more important than message content. It means your real identity / name and address. With phone numbers you can build social networking graphs: who talked to who, and when.
To be convinced of this, take a look at the client source code, and compile the app yourself.
Client source code is irrelevant here. Signal is a centralized service, you can’t verify what their US-based server is actually running (although they did go a full year without publishing any server updates at one point, until they received a lot of backlash for it).
None of this information ever leaves your phone without being encrypted or otherwise masked.
You gave them your phone number / real identity when you signed up. The most important piece of info they could possibly give them, you already did.
Some introductory de-brainwashing links:
- Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
- South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.
- Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
- What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia