You’re right, but it’s worse. That sentiment isn’t just why our cohort votes right - it’s why our cohort is unwilling to change the status quo. It’s scary, when you have a kid and rent and a partner and aging parents and just a fuckton on your plate, and even if your morals are all in the right place you have to choose between even protesting, potentially being jailed or worse, or just biding time to vote. And that’s ignoring even any actual radical expression. Revolution is a young man’s game.

“I bet the DHS, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and NSA are all competing to see who can recruit me or kill me before I graduate highschool”-ass threat model

“My hobby is writing James Bond / Freakazoid erotic spy thriller fanfic”-ass threat model

“I drew a dick on Pete Hegseth’s face last time he was passed out drunk before Sunday service”-ass threat model

All spiders matter

I always take it as good clickbait. The articles never have good info, but the headlines are never outrageous IMO. Just kind of a “Tom’s said X, let me do some research.”

Fair enough. Like I said, I got mine, and I am a fan. At the end of the day though, so long as it’s hardened and runs Foss apps then it’s good by me. I couldn’t see being pro-privacy enough to take the plunge on a hardened phone AND being consumerist enough to the point of brand loyalty, lol

Eh. I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to give google the money. I love my pixel, I love my graphene, but at the end of the day privacy is the first, last and only priority.

Unironically. What sucks is how exclusionary it is to people without google, too. Like Microsoft is bad, but google uses literally every product to pull you into their ecosystem. If I want to access a google doc, I have to use a google email address. To use the email, it eventually forces a phone number, then begins putting up more and more strict validation prompts while advertising google authenticator. Meanwhile, you now can access files in a half-assed browser. But what do you know, google drive has a desktop application that is a lot more responsive. So just off of one doc share that could have been emailed, now google has incentivized you to give them access to your email, phone, passwords, and pc, all through sheer enshitification.