Aaaagh how do I get motivated?

Here you go, buddy. Here's your motivation.

Living in China is always my go-to, especially for showing liberals the big bad bogeyman they're so afraid of.

I shall remember this going forward

Oof, that's an L for me

Perhaps they should move to Mastodon instead. CIA regulated social media is impossible to use on the right side of history reliably.

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't Chinese phones just as bad for privacy? Since most if not all run on Android. Shouldn't we be de-googling and go for GrapheneOS?

This is something to consider, certainly. What I do know is Huawei has developed its own operating system called HarmonyOS (proprietary, and we know proprietary models are less advantageous than FOSS ones) that it's been integrating into its products (and, from what I understand, shares no code with AndroidOS). I can see other relevant Chinese tech companies doing the same, if not eventually settling on a universal standard. That being said, I would trust a device running HarmonyOS more than a device running AndroidOS. I've not delved terribly deep into mobile operating systems, so forgive me for being a little bit lacking in this area at the moment.

You are absolutely right, though. We should be de-googling and moving to something much more secure (like GrapheneOS). There's always room to improve OpSec.

Do you have any experience with those? I was thinking of getting one of their Kamvas screen tablets on my next payday, probably the Pro 16 4K version.

Not personally, but I've heard nothing but good things from friends who own tablets.

What's Hexbear's hosting status? Presumably the servers live in a country that won't respond to a US/UK/EU court order or subpoena?

This I do not know, hence why I say reasonably sovereign and not completely sovereign. I have been worried about this for some time now. I seriously hope @CARCOSA@hexbear.net and the admin team have contingencies and hosting options to pivot to outside the jurisdiction of all Western countries (it would be total heaven to host from China if we can), because I absolutely see the US empire trying to seize the domain, server hardware, or whatever else sooner or later. I believe China offers some rather cheap hosting, but I forget the exact details about which companies.

De-Westernize your technology as much as possible. Consider going with Huawei or Xiaomi or OnePlus for phones (or stuff like laptops, which there's also Lenovo (seek out a model that is made to support Linux)), Aliexpress for shopping, and Huion for art-related hardware. China's always producing better and better shit, and they very well may extend their satellite mobile and (potentially) internet services to the global market. Keep in mind protectionism is escalating in the West, so expect interference and sabotage at some point.

Those who are on Windows and Mac, consider getting something really cheap like a raspberry pi or dual-booting a Linux distro and slowly developing the skillset to leverage it to your everyday needs, then start carrying your workflow over gradually until the other two are obsolete.

Especially keep an eye out for 100% indigenous Chinese technologies like CPUs, RAM, GPUs, etc etc. Shit the West can't backdoor in the production process because they have no control over it.

Those of us who are already here on Hexbear, which is basically reasonably sovereign territory not controlled by the CIA, are already in a much better position than fucking Reddit.

For videos, consider using something like https://www.bilibili.tv/en/ if you can't afford to host or trust any existing PeerTube instance. Odysee is technically an option too (based on the LBRY protocol, decentralized video hosting), but it's currently full (and I mean full) of chud content (and possibly nsfw shit).

For file hosting I highly recommend something like IPFS if you want to guarantee file authenticity and make it impossible for someone else to censor (you control when and for how long you host the file). IPFS has been used to host a copy of Wikipedia in the past (yes, can host static sites) when the Turkish government (I believe it was?) basically yeeted the site in an act of censorship. The latter is just an example, nobody should ever rely on NATOpedia for anything political or historical, at all.

Those of you who feel are lacking in technological warfare literacy, you can follow the news at https://www.eff.org/ to understand the trends the state has used and is using to undermine the proletariat.

The West wants to be able to easily rug pull you, so make it a big ass fucking chore for them to do so.

The fuck is it with liberals finding the aesthetic of oppression sexy? If you die without fighting your oppressors, you're a sexy hero. If you fight back and attempt to liberate yourself from your oppressors all of a sudden you're a hideous beast and suddenly it's your oppressors who need all the backup in the universe to protect them from your "unprovoked" attacks.

It's literally an ideology to disarm the oppressed and protect the function and integrity of oppressors (justifying mythos). These people want type shit where they believe bringing a bunch of flowers to your own fucking funeral is somehow noble praxis. Surrendering yourself to the enemy is how we're supposed to win struggles... Well, why aren't they suggesting such shit for the Ukrainians? They conveniently support force only when it's the worst people imaginable perpetrating it.

Liberalism and the justifying mythos they leverage must be destroyed. Force works. Fuck these people who try to keep the oppressed docile.

I actually wasn't aware that the move was received negatively, although from what you describe it makes sense.

As far as deporting them, who knows. All Ukrainian refugees are potential cannon fodder to keep the war machine going. It's like a reserve army that NATO can decide on a whim to throw into the jaws of Russia's military.

Perhaps in Poland's case, though, you're onto something that this won't happen. We'll see where this goes.

I'm hardly surprised when it comes to the Poles. We're talking about the nation that just opened its doors and gave Ukrainian refugees basically full citizen rights, including the ability to run for office, law enforcement, be teachers, etc etc (seems they, like other EU nations really have a thing for importing nazism).

People in the US (at least) have always been promised better and delivered a heaping bag of steaming dog shit, which is pissing more and more people off every day.

Well, I literally just found them a few days ago after rabbit-holing on Invidious from Mildreda (still not terribly familiar with this one, also a rabbit-hole find).

I'm going through shit right now with all the bullshit happening in the world (aren't we all), and this just scratches the itch to have something comforting that's not breakneck fast, gives good ear-sex, and has themes relevant to my struggles.

If you know other bands like this, I'd love to know.

Edit: I'm also surprised someone else knew about Morne. It's so out of the way and just obscure. I like to hunt for such music, though. Never used Spotify or anything of the sort. Always rabbit holes.

See, this is the kind of shit that radicalizes young people. Older generations just nonchalantly gambling their children and grandchildren's futures and losing it, and then what? Often the responsibility is shifted to the ones who lost everything due to their greed and negligence.

- "Like, sorry, no college fund for you, but I heard bootstraps work just as well"

Well, I bet their son will eventually be interested in a copy of Das Kaptial

Gruesome Newsom on quite the streak. Still, one has to wonder if these bills only ever made it to his desk on the condition he would veto them, to tease people into harder mentality.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it does seem awfully convenient to legitimize a system that a passive observer would consider "working, but just one person ruined it" (if one person can fuck the whole thing, how is that viable?)

If what we do and who we are in someone else's home is really a fuckin' issue, then give us our own houses and we'll do whatever the fuck we want in the privacy of them.

Nobody wants to live with strangers anyways, and we've got shit we wanna finally be able to do without having to answer to "daddy".

We leftists don't have time, resources, or largely even the desire to have children in such a shithole. We're also way more literate than the right and have a sense of forward thinking and planning, so we understand what parenthood requires.

We have a revolution to build, and simply don't want to be tied up in parenthood and join the ranks of the rest of the miserable, dysfunctional families capitalism has forcefully cultivated. Not only that, we're always considering what our theoretical children would want, since bringing them into this world isn't just about us. Don't forget, we were/are someone's kid. What did we get out of the arrangement? A front row seat to the end of a viable future. This is what we're supposed to reproduce? This is the burden we're supposed to force on someone else who didn't consent to being born in these conditions? Fuck. That.

The only way I'd have kids is if China or the DPRK guaranteed my theoretical partner and I a secure existence will full citizen rights, that way we'd have piece of mind we couldn't be rug pulled and sent back West to fucking die. The West cannot have my children, ever.

As for your question about being worried reactionaries are having many more kids, I honestly don't worry all that much. Those type of parents tend to be abusive and sabotage their children's interests, development and aspirations, or fight against them. How many of us are products of abusive reactionary families? Don't Elon Musk's kids hate him? Proletarianization is inevitable, and history always has a Marxist bias.

The Car is the hill westerners really are going to die on. As the rising cost of energy crimps our access to treats, the ability to just do donuts in a parking lot for hours on end will become the gold standard for American success. Westerners fucking worship the damned things.

Well, that and fireworks. China has moved onto drone light shows and displays to curb unnecessary emissions and pollution, but I can't see parting with their damn "patriotic" explosives/explosions.

The top comment blames socialism. This country is so fucked

Just wait until they see China and find out it's communist building real socialism

Edit: All seriousness, though, it does suck. We've got quite the fight on our hands here, don't we.

Best we can currently do is continue organizing and increasing political, historical and cultural literacy wherever possible.

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