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i’m not really saying we have no use for them. just that they will not be effective.

i vote for all the great people I can, but most of them end up not really accomplishing much. there is a hard limit to what electoralism can do.

its boooooooth

no, I remember you

but the omega at the start is somewhat familiar.

the system itself is corrupt, man. ive personally seen actually good politicians in my country be bullied and persecuted out of congress. or worse. usually worse.

at best she ends up like bernie sanders, who says things we might agree with sometimes but its otherwise harmless, and fundamentally changes nothing beyond tiny wins.

im not pessimistic or optimistic. i observe what happens and am saying it out loud.

its no use to keep trying to do what we have been doing for decades now expecting things to unfold any differently.

politics is more than just voting.

i don’t think even google sells it outright.

they collect it, use it to train ai. not to mention how 3-letter agencies get it too.

selling it outright is a matter of time.

i also absolutely do not get why apple fanboys defend them so rabidly. its just a phone like any other.

they do profit off it. its in their license agreement.

Americans willing to do anything to make it stop

yes. socialism. they were starting to demand socialism. no wonder new deal policies were heavily inspired by soviet policies.

the great depression was nothing more than a top-heavy deregulated capitalism crashing. exactly as predicted by marx. neoliberalism has risen to replace traditional capitalism, because us people bought the new deal as a compromise instead of deposing the capitalists.

bringing us right back to a similar conundrum now.

violence is one of the tools at our disposal, the threat of the upending of the status quo is what did it. that comes from leftists, not politicians or institutionalism.

the institutions are there to uphold the status quo, regardless of the good people that might be elected. it also explains why the trump admin is dismantling them, he wants to break the status quo for something else.

who are you quoting again?

since you are repeating yourself ill take the liberty to do so myself:

saying it was simply “grassroots support” whitewashes all the blood spilled to make it happen. it wasnt given by benevolent capitalists.

socialist blood. the candidate in your article will fade into irrelevancy because there isn’t a mass leftist movement to support radical change like there was back then.

if there was enough of a movement, you can bet you could force trump himself into passing progressive laws. no need for specific candidates to vote for.

the new deal came about because of socialist pressure. thats also why it ain’t happening again, because there are barely any socialists in the us anymore.

grassroots support in response to the horrifying economic conditions

who was supporting grassroots work reform? thats right, the socialists. under the threat of violence. saying it was simply “grassroots support” whitewashes all the blood spilled to make it happen. it wasnt given by benevolent capitalists.

“centrist” (your words, not mine) - Frankin Delano Roosevelt

i literally said nothing about roosevelt or centrism in any of my responses to you. putting words in my mouth.

you are the one who should read a book, preferrably something not whitewashed by the CIA or something, cause holy shit.

a potato computer can be a server if the workload is light enough.

i had a core 2 duo era pentium with 2gb of ram as a server once and it did the job. minecraft server for 6 people + pihole + file server.

core 2 duos are dime a dozen in brazil and are probably more powerful than some older RPIs. you can probably get something newer too.

preach

ok, piracy it is then, thanks.

yes. infiltrating capitalist institutions famously doesn’t work. we call those entrists.

i don’t care for lone wolf martyrs. be them entrists or shooters or bombers alike. those can be cathartic but this is it.

leftists organizing their own institutions is what historically works, and is a better use of talented people’s time and abilities.

and yes, it has worked in the US to give workers better wages, and famously the right for workers to have a weekend and the 8hour-maximum workday. entrism on the other hand never did much of anything.

a bit more personal and warm, its nice.

infiltrating capitalism to ‘defeat it from the inside’ is famously ineffective.

tbf i don’t think apple is any better

and making them replaceable would be even more practical than making them charge faster

i don’t think you can have a phone that doesn’t spy on you without graphene, lineage or similar.

firefox/fennec with ublock origin