The state governments are run by electricians? That sounds like a strange system of government.

Hm, fair point. Individual racism can definitely be a thing, have not considered that. Thanks!

No, it’s a qualitative difference if a member of an oppressed group is bigoted against one of the oppressing group, or the other way around.

Racism against white people isn’t really a thing. It’d have to be an oppressed minority for it to be racism, else it’s just good old bigotry.

Edit: changed my mind! racism against white people is definitely a thing on an individual level, which I didn’t consider.

Man, lemmy sure does seem to love its historical revisionism.

The opposite is true: The USSR tried forming alliances against the Nazis while all western powers signed agreements with the Nazis, with the USSR finally joining in to buy more time to prepare for the coming war.

Yes, but the first builds from Google made no reference to it, so it was reasonable to prepare for a situation where Pixel 11 wasn’t supported.

However, noone can inspect the source code and see if encryption is implemented properly, or at all.

I read that as “I don’t accept trans peoples gender, but will act like I do if it benefits me or my cause”, is there another interpretation I’m missing?

Small businesses are often worse, since there’s less oversight, more willingness to gamble on ‘risks’, a need for higher margins to stay afloat and generally fewer different interests at stake. The issue is private ownership in itself, not how that private ownership is structured.

No, most of Graphenes features are not implemented in AOSP. There are a lot of CVE patches from Graphene that land in AOSP, but it doesn’t have any of the hardening or sandboxing that makes GrapheneOS what it is.

Wrong, all political parties in Germany (except for parts of Linke and BSW) are economically liberal.

Very interesting, thanks for the link. Definitely something I’ve noticed before with specific users.

It literally is. You must be extremely bad at reading. (Or just regular bad at gaslighting in bad faith)

I see you didn’t read the article. These questions are answered there. Engaging with you is obviously a waste of time.

The weirdest thing is how western liberals keep trying to spin the events at Tiananmen square like they’re at all relevant to the political situation today.

Here’s some stuff on the topic you should, but probably won’t read.

Likely because it would be very strange for the CPC to provide office space for a CIA front.

Ah yes, I’m sure the command came straight from the CPC, not business people that benefit from the private company making bigger profits. Perfectly logical, so of course the article doesn’t provide any proof, I mean who would need that?

Love how you can clearly see people still benefitting from Socialism, decades after it’s been abolished.

Small businesses are very often forced to compete with bigger players by exploiting their workers more and make higher margins on the same product/service. That’s just how a capitalist ownership structure works out.

I guess it’s the deathrattle of the petit-bourgeois that’s spinning up these romanticized stories about themselves because they don’t want to accept their class is being dissolved and most of them are forced into the possessionless existence of being a worker.

Got any actual points to argue?

The German Bundeswehr is completely riddled with (Neo-) Nazis and Fascists and has lost around 48.000 rounds of ammunition and more than 60kg of explosives that reappeared in the hands of a neonazi militia, and that’s just a single incident.

It’s bizarre that people pretend that the existance of a well-armed national army is somehow good for them as citizens? All that you get from your country being able to “defend itself” is a higher likelyhood of being put into the meat grinder that is war.

Freedom is worthless when you’re dead. Anyone who says they’d rather die defending their nation than being ruled over by another nation is either a liar, an idiot or a lunatic. (Talking about a capitalist nation being attacked by another here, wars of extermination are an obvious exception, since you’re not defending your nation but the people around you)