Truthfully, people only put up with pocket because Google is worse. It does have a silver lining in that it shows Mozilla’s true colours which we should never forget or let them forget. They’re still Western libtrash bordering on fascism, but ✨open source✨. Even ignoring their political stance, the even worse thing about them is the fact that they are a for-profit corporation posing as a nonprofit. They treat their developers like shit just like Google, have an internal attitude of management knowing better about the direction of their software than the people writing them just like Google (their devs have repeatedly spoken out against Mozilla’s direction to no avail), their management still hoards the organization’s capital and there is a massive wage disparity between the CEO and board and the workers just like Google, they barely pay their workers while management makes millions not including bonuses just like Google, and their position in open source allows them to leech off the free work of community contributions not to mention direct donations from people who don’t know any better. Mozilla is bourgeoisie trying its absolute damnedest to convince you they’re not. They are not leftist in any capacity, a lot of the developers and other proletarians who work for them are I’m sure, but certainly not the organization. Pray for the day when we have a truly leftist and libre software group and Mozilla dies along with Google.

People like these are so threatened by those around them that they’ll shame poor people for being poor as it doesn’t conform to their worldview.

What are you talking about? The US definitely doesn’t have a child murder problem, and don’t you know cLiMaTe cHaNgE is Chinese propaganda?

Oh look! Literally how the US government currently operates in every single facet!

Events always seem more obvious and predictable after they have already taken place.

Events always seem more obvious and predictable if you’re not a fucking moron. The German public was terrified of Hitler, he absolutely did not represent the majority sentiments, and lost horribly in the first and only election he ever ran in. Instead, he created his own paramilitary force called the SA and intimidated people and politicians alike until he was given power to appease him, and you know the rest.

There were more communists and socialists than Nazis in Germany when Hitler first got into office. They actually attempted a revolution, which was actually what prompted Hitler to convince the German parliament to sign an emergency bill to make him dictator and round up all the communists in concentration camps.

Austria saw a brief stint under partial socialist control as well. It’s why there’s a historic housing district in Vienna called Karl Marx Hof. Actually, the presence of socialism and communism in Austria was a major contributor in the eagerness by the government to let the Nazis take them over so they could deal with the communist threat.

Sounds similar to simplified Chinese. Which was intended to, get this Orwell, increase literacy in a country where the vast majority of the population at the time was totally illiterate, and to, shocker of shockers, increase access to information by the common citizen. The exact opposite of Newspeak.

And of course the Chinese supremacists (yes those exist, I’ve interacted with them as a Chinese person myself) hate Simplified Chinese because it’s “destroying culture”, it’s not, and I shit you not this is a real argument I’ve heard at least once: “The Chinese script we know now was historically for the royalty and nobility. The commoners had their own scripts similar to how hieroglyphics was only for the Pharoh in Ancient Egypt. It’s disrespectful to the history and culture of China to mess with this.” Might be why HK and Taiwan didn’t adopt it?

Are they still trying to make “alternative facts” happen?

Based

Didn’t they pull out of Kyiv and Ukraine’s native territory ages ago and are just focusing on DPR, LPR, and Crimea?

Hold on gonna microwave some popcorn and jump on Western social media real quick…

“horrifying the experts”

In the same way a jumpscare in a Slenderman game horrifies you, I guess. Like, you had to have known it was coming.

Ask the Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada how well that went for them

This is what I call the paradox of revolution.

Things that are generally agreed to be good (with a few vocal “”“critics”“”) and was gained at least in part through revolution, riots, or other violent societal pressure by the people:

• Every single modern republic that was won from the old absolute monarchies.

• Freeing slaves

• Women’s rights

• People of colour’s rights

• LGBTQ+ rights

• The paradigm that a criminal defendent is innocent until proven guilty

• Freedom of religion (and the freedom to not believe in a religion)

• Ending the holocaust and the Axis Powers

• Five-day work week, child labour prohibition, and other worker’s rights

• Almost all of the other major legal protections and regulations we enjoy today

BUT, any more revolution, no matter how good the cause, is unacceptable. Obviously.

Exacty!

Personally, I think she shouldn’t be on YouTube for a completely different reason. The internet is actually unsafe for children that young and there are a lot of disgusting pervs on YouTube. You’re not supposed to be on social media till you’re 13, and I think even that is too young, a safer age is probably 15 or 16.

And as we’ve seen here, if you’re from a country the west hates, you’re a target. Even if you’re a child. Not against people in the DPRK posting to YouTube, obviously, but for their safety it should be limited to full adults only.

Wait, I thought those were banned! The west would never lie about countries they hate!

Are they going to write a “why are people racist to Russians all of a sudden” op-ed later?

So…

It looks like a high altitude weather balloon, has typical hardware and sensors for a high altitude weather balloon, and is rated for the height of high altitude weather balloons?

By god! It is a spying tool!

Apt metaphor for the US:

Ok no seriously, so as far as I know Apple is vertically integrated for their non-semiconductor manufacturing. So you can’t even make the excuse of “no, a Chinese company runs the factories and Apple just buys their services!” They own their factories and is managed centrally from California.