Or they continue because they do know to believe in a better world and refuse to bend to Google’s CorpoKnee.

“Neurotypical” people aren’t as aware of differences due to being the “dominant” group. They often have a herd mentality and join whatever dunks on others best to come on ‘top’.

Anonymity is part of fighting censorship. State actors will try to undermine that.

Out of curiosity, why did you buy it? It’s so big and seems like a safety hazard for people, wasteful as well.

What would’ve convinced you to switch back to something else? Or what would convince others to do so?

That’s North Korean levels of spyware, jfc

Russia annexed Crimea, has military operations in other countries, is currently invading Ukraine with the goal of conquering it, and has Belarus and Transnistria as puppet states, as well as Ossetia and Abchazia. And not to mention, it’s spreading its poison of fascism abroad to Hungary (yet another puppet state) and Trump is bootlicking Putler’s shrimp dick.

You can deny what you want, but the harsh truth doesn’t care.

The only good fascist is a dead one, point said.

Ironically Bryan doesn’t even understand the Bible, as God in the very Bible is described with not just masculine but also feminine and neutral attributes.

They for example are described as being beyond humankind, yet the latter proceeding forth from them. Guy, gal, all proceeding forth from God; in other words, God isn’t a man, woman, but beyond either.

It’s ragebait that he posts and either he knows what he’s doing (likely), or he’s just that dumb/hateful (also likely).

The Bible itself is also pretty contradictionary. For example. God punishes slavery, by releasing the refugees from Egyptian servantry; yet he rewards Adam for snitching on Eve, and makes Eve a slave to him.

The closest analogy to the fictional God is a power-tripping CEO like that of United Health.

These are all straight lines, give me the real gay flag

Personally, the way I view it, the rainbow is most flexible, as it literally includes everyone (queer and nonqueer), and the progress pride (as in, pride + triangle with whatever is in there) mostly functions as an acknowledgement of especially repressed groups.

View it like how countries have their national days, or how there are weeks of reading focused on a particular theme or subject (school homework included). That, but for queer stuff.

I haven’t really heard of those jokes and animosity. We’re not letting ourselves get divided, though.

Comrade, remember that the fight is not with other queers, but with those who repress everyone; the oligarchs.

Wouldn’t that only tell the ‘parts’ rather than the sexuality, gender, and so on?

Techhnically that’s black and white stripes with a capital lambda.

Black and white stripes can be used as such too, though.

Yes, and the jurisdiction counts too. I still don’t understand for example, why Wikipedia still is based in the US, when there are much freer options.

And… even with surveillance, I think police needs a reform. Right now cops are biased in favour of repressive forces, to dismantle liberty and order, in favour of chaotic surveillance.

There are no good reasons for pervasive government surveillance. Especially not without a warrant. Fuck that shit. It’s all about control.

Depends on your threat model. Generally, whichever country can harm you most, (eg. your residence country, or a privacy-disrespecting one like the USA and China), are to watch out for. Remove those.

And in case you’re forced to still pick one of either… have burner phones, focused each on a different country. So if your threat is the US, go for China, and vice versa. After all, the US hates China, and vice versa. So if you’re looking up stuff that would be illegal in the US but legal in China, that would best be done on a burner for China; after all, China supports enemies of the USA. And vice versa.

Personally I’d say the following ones would be (relatively) good. Good as well is to reduce dependency on a single country, and to compartmentalise your searches. Use a paid VPN and a privacy-respecting browser like LibreWolf.

• Anything obscure that isn’t ultimately owned/followed by the US or China.
• YaCy
• Qwant
• Ecosia
• Mojeek
• Exalead
• Presearch

The more you spread it, the better. Also a good tip, be active at different hours. Not always afternoon, or whatever. Watch your user agent and try to combat deep packet inspection.

And the CLOUD act then? Doesn’t the US require a backdoor for a lot of stuff?

I’m paranoid of the fascists.

Mojeek is British, not EU. But it’s good privacy wise.

For a Startpage alternative, Qwant exists (which is very good). But it’s not as good for privacy.

Yandex is supported by the fascist, imperialist Russian mafia state.

I’d recommend self-hosted SearXNG instead.

Waiting for the orange turd and the Russian baldhead to kick their buckets.

Just hopping in to say, first of all:

as a queer person, i’m genuinely super proud of you for realising this, and improving. you’re awesome 💕

the way i see it, you don’t need to embrace or approve of what others do - but letting them and treating them like ‘vanilla cishet’* people would get treated (ie. with respect), goes a long way. When you’re in a sauna and there are gay people, ask yourself: would I comment on a straight couple being together?

everyone has their own preferences. it’s normal to have the things you like and dislike; though it’s not normal to mistreat others for it. in that sense, your ick for lesbian stuff (but liking other stuff) is fine, to the extent that you don’t harm or hate on others for having their preferences. so imho, that part isn’t homophobic.

whether or not you were a homo-/transphobe is not for me to decide. i think the bullying counts, though; but no need to beat yourself up over what happened; the past is the past, you’re working on a great future.

Apologising in earnest to the victim, if they’re open to it, can help. he doesn’t need to accept it (nor do you), but to you both, it’d be a weight off your shoulders. Closure helps a lot in dealing with that shit.

I don’t think one needs to overworry or overthink it – it’s valid to be concerned; but at the end of day, we’re all people, and you’re welcome too.

* only saying this because in my view, the ‘vanilla cishet’ person doesn’t exist, just as the full-of-fetishes/kinks queer person doesn’t exist. It’s a spectrum which is best seen as, “Who cares, but support for anything that’s mutual between consenting people of mature age, and support for whatever makes their life easier”.