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glances at pre-order
Tell me, which alternatives are you considering?
Instead of getting a 13 Pro with 512GB, I'll take the 256GB version.
That'll teach em a lesson!
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#92Wonder how many orange-man-bad posters is having a gear move in their head and wonder how many times they complied oppressing domestic opposition since 2016.
Probably don't want to think too much about that, much better be outraged about far away distant lands as your moral sword.
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I don't know why people have such a hard time believing this. A 50 cent army to steer social media opinions is certainly a lot cheaper than aircraft carriers
To put a finer point on it: in order to believe that state actors are not major players in online discourse, you would have to assume that governments looked at Occupy, the Arab spring, BLM, Hong Kong, etc and consciously decided that opinion on the internet isn’t relevant enough to their strategic objectives to spend a few million a year on internet influence operations. That seems like an absurd assumption.
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#95I know that "violence is never the answer" but it's pretty pretty hard to swallow when corrupted thiefs and murderers have state-guaranteed monopoly of physical violence. I can't accept that, and no one should.
So they should invade the Kremlin 6 January?
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#96Thanks to proprietary, centralized, vendor-controlled app stores.
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But there was nothing to hide, everyone knew that it will be basically "vote for Communists".
Don't they need to announce a concrete Communist to vote for? Last time I checked the number of Communists in Russia was strictly greater than one.
One Communist Party candidate per electoral district, yes.
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glances at pre-order
Tell me, which alternatives are you considering?
Alternatives to what exactly?
A lot of people have reached the point of needing an iPhone. Nope, Android won't do, because it's not an iPhone. Too much friction and learning curve to ever use anything else than an iPhone. Game over.
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#99I know that "violence is never the answer" but it's pretty pretty hard to swallow when corrupted thiefs and murderers have state-guaranteed monopoly of physical violence. I can't accept that, and no one should.
What do you mean? Could you elaborate?
If a rabid dog attacks you, you won't save yourself by politely asking it to stop.
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There is a theory that Telegram is a Russian op, given that they still having office in Russia, which they are very secretive about, despite the claims of Durov being nearly chased by KGB on every corner.
You are correct that there is this theory, yet I haven't seen any evidence of that. Deleting Navalny's bot seems like a response to a threat from Apple and Google. To fight this, it would be great to abandon Apple and distribute all apps via Android APKs, circumventing the app stores. (Not gonna happen, I know) First they came for the American opposition, then they came for the Russian opposition, then there was no o…
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