Farmers markets and some local shops we have around us.

I get what you’re saying. However, we are dealing with rising actual, full fledged fascism on a world stage. And a common rebuttal from a fascist is that “everything I believe can’t be fascist” or “I’m not suddenly a fascist, what I believed yesterday wasn’t fascist.”

The truth of the matter is that fascism never truly left. The ultra-nationalism became more discreet and diffused with pride for one’s country. It eventually became unquestioning loyalty. See: American exceptionalism. Racial purity and bigotry was shamed on a larger scale, so fascists retreated to quieter spaces, but it never left. Through operation paperclip, America did the opposite and welcomed former Nazis and SS and allowed them to start families and provided them land (more than they did for African Americans, that’s for sure.) So is it any wonder that the Confederacy, which the Nazis admired and learned from, and the Nazis themselves, would lay low and eventually make a resurgence, as they are now?

All that to say, the tenant that I go by is what I said. If we have a disagreement, as another person said, about baking a cake, does that make someone a fascist? No, not unless that cake somehow is promoting some form of intolerance/harm/dehumanization of human life and identity (i.e. a Swastika cake probably won’t go over too well with the public, and you’d lose my business for sure.)

I think the ProtonVPN vs Mullvad recent issues are good to look at. Did the Proton CEO say some dumb stuff about Republican antitrusts? Yes. Did ProtonVPN provide an affiliate link to a French far right influencer? Yes. Do these actions make them fascist or fascist supporting? Probably not, that’s a bit of a stretch. The company also revoked the affiliate link and put out a statement that they do not share those individuals views. But we should still, and rightfully so, call them out and hold it to them that these are issues. They’re certainly warnings at minimum. And a CEO can be removed.

Mullvad’s founder has a lot more sway on the company’s path than a french youtuber. Mullvad’s founder isn’t just donating a small donation to the republican party either. He’s, essentially, funding an entire fringe alt right party on his own, one that is in support of ethnic cleansing. That means there is a very high likelihood that the founder shares these beliefs, and even if he doesn’t, by funding a party so aggressively, it provides them with an outsized voice amongst legislation and can lead to direct harm all by using money that you or I gave to them for a product where there are several other choices available to us. Does that make someone fascist, or at least aligned with fascism? Well, supporting a party that believes in ultra-nationalism with social and racial hierarchy/purity…I mean…I can’t honestly say it doesn’t.

So, is ProtonVPN fascist? No Is ProtonVPNs CEO a fascist? I doubt it Is MullvadVPN fascist? No, not yet at least Is Mullvad’s founder a fascist? I’m leaning towards yes Is the Örebro party fascist? Yes. By definition.

That’s a terrible example. No one, individual or government, is forcing anyone to do anything of the sort.

It is entirely within the right of the business owner to decline a request to bake a cake they don’t want to bake.

Can there be social repercussions for said action? Of course. Do people have the autonomy to decide not to give a business their money for whatever reason? Absolutely.

I wouldn’t give them my money because, I’m sorry, if your “religion” is based on oppression and denial of other humans their basic rights, then no, I won’t support you. Fuck off.

(Ironic as I know this incident and it’s based on Christian religiosity, which following the actual teachings of Jesus would welcome the stranger, the wanderer, the sick, and the hungry. Regardless of whether they believe or not, they are all God’s children. Given that Lucifer has no power of creation, only trickery, and God created all of his children, would that not imply Chrisitians should be accepting of Gods children in all their myriad forms, and to hate another is to fall for the trickery of Satan? That’s not religion, that’s just rationalizing bigotry. So double fuck off.)

“I like this burger made by fascists. I’m going to keep eating this burger, I don’t care where it came from or where my money buying the burger goes to.”

So many comments here sound like this, geez. Same people saying “we can be friends, can’t we, even if our politics differ?” Morality and respecting humans isn’t politics. And no. We can’t.

Also, yes, enforcing racial and national purity (remigration) is, in fact, fascist ideology. Get over it. It’s not extreme, it’s calling a spade a spade. https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847

Never heard of the tolerance paradox have you?

The way to resolve the tolerance paradox is to not tolerate intolerance.

“Donating money to” and “bankrolling the entire party, 10x-ing their entire funding in 2024 alone” are different things.

There are SO many people here who would happily dine with actual fascists just because they “make a good product.” Completely ignoring what their funds that support them go to and lead to direct harm.

And if you think I’m hyperbolic, please, tell me how this is an incorrect line of thinking: https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847

Yeah, I’m not trying to go against you either, sorry if it sounded like that.

Overall, globally, the averages are going up.

The only thing predictable is how unpredictable weather patterns will be going forward. 🙃

Jetsreams in the atmosphere and ocean currents are breaking down. While they would usually carry cold fronts/warm fronts predictably, these pockets of extreme temps are now acting more erratically. Like yoi said, we had extreme cold and winter storms last year which resulted in mild summers for some. Now there are massive pockets of heat across the Atlantic, causing extremely hot summers right now for the east coast of the US as well as the EU.

We’re at the point now that without some agressive carbon capture, we will experience climate collapse. Zero emissions is no longer enough.

But we gotta burn that oil, gotta make more money now!

I mean, to be fair, it was the engineers and founders who have done a lot of the work. They deserve the credit for making good products. Not Elon. He just profits off of them and the labor of the engineers.

Actually, winter is a little different. We call it climate change because as the averages get higher, the extremes get more extreme, and that’s true of cold temperatures as well.

Actually, I just saw recently in the US we’ve got snowstorms and glacial flooding. In the summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDOFgukWFs

Bro didn’t make it to the last paragraph. Those attention spans though.

Nuclear power can make energy.

Nuclear power can eradicate the planet and leave areas uninhabitable for untold years, and those it doesn’t vaporize are altered for the rest of their lives. And sometimes they aren’t aware until years after.

AI has good uses when applied carefully, such as in medical research.

AI is also being used as a reason to replace workers, it consumes massive amounts of energy, it creates sound and infrasound destroying environments around it, it consumes massive quantities of drinking water from surrounding areas, and is ultimately spurring on a society of wealthy ruling class who view humans as cattle, out in the open, and no one is stopping them.

Is it any wonder why people hate these things? But yes, a tool is a tool. It’s the people using it that hate should be properly directed towards. Unfortunately, those same ruling class epstein elites dismantled education over decades, so it’s harder for people in this day and age to think dialectically. It’s easier to think in black and white, in extremes, just like media would have you believe, just as the culture wars have taught us for decades.

Pay for the premium subscription, maybe.

Maybe sounds would be available in the battlepass.

It’s almost like you don’t own your own hardware or something.

The internet is a net positive for privacy and freedom of speech.

Corporations and governments are the net negative.

That’s why we’re fighting as much as we can to actually own our hardware. Linux, Graphene, FOSS, etc.

Encryption is pointless when someone else has the keys.

Microsoft’s bitlocker handed over keys to the FBI when asked. Something closed source like Whatsapp you can’t verify if Meta stores encryption keys and/or also has access to your messages, defeating the entire purpose of encryption.

Signal, even when subpoenaed, couldn’t produce any information besides account creation date. Because there was no data to share.

Make sure to be smart with your opsec:

• Restart your phone when you go out so it’s before first unlock.

• Disable any biometric locks, use a password. You have a right to remain silent, but police can show your phone to you to unlock it if something like faceID is enabled.

• Use hardened forks of Signal, like Molly, to include a password for encryption for your chats, so even if feds get into your phone somehow, they’re still encrypted.

• Set disappearing messages. The shorter the better.

• Turn off notifications as information can be stored in temporary cache locations and unencrypted

• Some options, like Graphene, allow you to set a reset password. Instead of entering a password to unlock your phone, a 2nd separate password can be set to wipe your device.

As shown with the recent cases against protestors im Texas getting 50-100 years (way more than any pedophile) even if you use Signal, it’s not 100% effective if you don’t take the necessary steps. Honestly, read the case documents, they contain a lot of info on how to better protect yourselves as well as the groups out there protecting your rights and fighting against fascism.

What’s so different about fascism today is the speed in which information travels. And that goes both ways. Stay safe out there, the internet is the last bastion of freedom. And it’s under assault, just like everything else (KOSA, Parents Decide Act, Age Verification, Section 230 repeal, VPN bans being discussed, etc etc.)

Fair, those that have principles are the enemy of fascism and we are in the “rules for thee, not for me” era of “justice”

Yeah, I don’t disagree with anything said here. Steam has an effective monopoly, but not because of mergers or violating antitrust laws. They’ve mostly focused on being a good value for consumers and have invested more heavily in their platform compared to competitors.

While Gabe is not perfect, I do worry when someone finally takes his place. If it’s someone with a sole profit motive…we’re fucked.

Personally, I think one of the major reasons to also not subsidize the steam machine is that it would then be an incredibly attractive choice as a simple workstation pc for businesses. It would be the cheapest choice in comparison to standard dell, ibm, hp, etc workstations and could simply be flashed with whatever workstation OS they wanted to put on it. This would drive a lot of buyers out of the steam ecosystem, defeating the purpose of subsidizing. This is one reason for consoles locking down their, essentially nowadays, pc hardware ecosystems.

Though, groups did recently unlock the ps5 bootloader and put Linux on it. Dunno how the performance lines up yet though

Are antitrust laws enforced anymore? (At least in the US)

I know some massive merged conglomerates who would be prime targets if so.

Well Asha, maybe you should talk to your boss Slopya about that AI problem that’s raising prices on everything.

Of course.

Unless we’re in a simulation, and only things you and other characters perceive are rendered.

Sounds like a great time for that age verification/face scanning/id scanning, right? Right?

It’s on purpose. The longer you scroll, the longer you’re on the platform. That’s higher engagement numbers and is used to expose you to/negotiate higher prices from advertisements.