The only thing people should be giving up is their Amazon Prime subscriptions and AWS hosting. You’re very likely getting ripped off and overcharged if you use AWS. Also although I recommend ordering from other websites if you have no choice but to use Amazon you don’t need Prime for free shipping, just wait until you have enough stuff in your cart such that you’re over the free shipping threshold. Don’t order unnecessary stuff to get over the threshold.

This is good but no matter what I don’t think Google should have such a monopoly over the web.

Solution: cancel your Amazon Prime subscription. Remember that Bezos also funded Trump’s inauguration and he ruined the Washington Post.

I remember Brave was popular among MAGA-type people during Trump’s first term. I suspect it’s likely the same.

The logo has a striking resemblance to one I remember seeing on a big pro-Trump community. It’s described here https://www.vox.com/2019/8/29/20838289/trump-fascist-lion-head-bull-testicles-video-twitter basically the logo is associated with Mussolini.

In addition if you check the Wikipedia article you’ll notice this:

In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital and the Digital Currency Group.[13]

Moreover some right-wing type people expressed their “solidarity” with Brendan Eich for his anti LGBT stance so they used Brave.

I see, I guess I’ll have to see if I can find any troubleshooting information or take it up with Zip.

For what it’s worth I read the whole thing in what felt like one or two minutes and I don’t think I’m a particularly fast reader. I think it looks longer because there are not many blank lines. It seems well written but I guess I do slightly get that AI feeling too, it just might be because he/she is a good writer so now people think good writing is AI, sad it’s coming down to this.

I totally agree with you. I literally made my username “BoycottTwitter” because it’s so important and so basic.

Good point! I fixed the sentence.

I think it’s time to make a serious push into getting people to boycott Microsoft along with OpenAI. Windows 11 is now a bloated surveillance operating system and Office 365 raised their prices to pay for an AI feature based on OpenAI’s LLMs. OpenAI donated $25 million to Trump.

Russia tried to invade Ukraine and that’s why we have the war. Russia is being imperialistic and Ukraine wants to preserve their country and not live under a Putin dictatorship.

The EU is preparing and strengthening themselves in response to Russia’s aggression. The end result is that they are more resilient and stronger against threats.

By standing up to Russia’s aggressions they are showing the world that they will not tolerate military invasions into another country. Meanwhile Trump threatening to annex other countries is giving a green light to dictators like Putin and Xi Jingping to invade other countries.

THERE IT IS AGAIN! “ANTISEPTIC”! It’s a psychic trigger word implanted by the globalist pedophile vampires to short-circuit your brain before you can expose the truth about their dual-citizenship space bank on Mars! They’re not just cleaning the information, they’re sterilizing your soul with fluoride-laced chemtrails so you’ll be too docile to notice the lizard people running the Federal Reserve and using your Social Security number to power their gay frog-transmuting weather machines! IT’S ALL CONNECTED!

/s again of course.

Oh, you don’t mean “antiseptic,” you mean “antisemitic,” and let me tell you, that Freudian slip is the key to the whole thing! They’re not just cleaning the wound of truth, they’re cauterizing it with their globalist mind lasers! This isn’t a mistake; it’s a coded message from the deep state, a subconscious cry for help as their brain-waves are being scrambled by the 5G towers they’re using to turn the frogs gay and control the weather! It’s all a plot by the interdimensional goblin bankers who live inside the hollow Earth, and they’re using these Hollywood CEOs as their puppets to distract you while they replace your drinking water with nanobots that make you crave avocado toast and obey their every command! WAKE UP BEFORE THEY TURN YOU INTO A SOY-BASED CYBORG DRONE!

Huge /s of course.

BoJackHorseman, I think you’re getting brainwashed by “X”/Twitter. Maybe you should consider taking a break from social media then when you come back please read this article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240509-the-sift-strategy-a-four-step-method-for-spotting-misinformation

And the fact he linked to “X” is just icing on the cake. We can see what app is rotting his brain.

Take the first steps. Here are things you can do right now:

1. Stop using Microsoft Office especially stop using Office 365 and switch to Libreoffice.
2. Stop using Windows and switch to Linux.
3. Stop using Reddit and switch to Lemmy (for other people, not you since you’re already here)
4. Cancel your OpenAI/ChatGPT/Copilot subscriptions if you have those.
5. Most importantly stop using Twitter if you use that and urge everyone else to do likewise. Bluesky I really like but it’s technically based in the US too but rewarding non-rightwing companies is like positive reinforcement. I haven’t seen enough people talk about using both the carrot and the stick. There’s also Mastodon which is great but some people feel it’s more for “techy” type people.

Right! I’m shocked anyone would want that. I just told someone else it’s like leaving an abusive partner for an even more abusive partner. I’ve noticed countries being pushed towards China after the US went even more crazy after Trump winning. I believe they are making a mistake. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan could fulfill most of the same needs as China does and do so better. Just as a random example Japanese capacitors are known for their high quality. Japan and China both supply capacitors. Why not bolster Japan’s instead of China’s?

You want more global support for China and Russia?

That’s like leaving an abusive partner and going to an even more abusive partner.

We need to support stable and ethical countries like EU countries.

VGA meant to say that China would replace the US if they acted better. VGA is not blaming China for the US.

However I will assign a little blame to China for Trump because TikTok helped get Trump elected. I strongly suspect that there was a backroom deal between TikTok/China and Trump prior to the 2024 election.

This article is the most damning: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-tiktok-courted-conservatives-before-trumps-win (archive/non-paywall: https://archive.is/TUjo9)

The top leaders pushed through content moderation changes that made TikTok more accepting of some conservative views on the fairness of elections or transgender rights, including by updating policies on banned content or enforcing them differently.

I hate the way they worded that. What they really mean is allowing the big lie (false claims the 2020 election was rigged) and transphobia.

See: https://www.theverge.com/politics/656717/trump-tiktok-ban-maga-influencers (archive link: https://archive.is/DMOLf)

MAGA influencers also view TikTok as a relatively reliable platform to publish pro-Trump content without fear that their accounts will get demonetized, restricted, or worse, deactivated.

Also see: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maga-republicans-defend-tiktok-conservative-platform-fate-hangs-balance-supreme-court (archive link: https://archive.is/RGBC8)

“Trump won the election because he listened to first-time voters like myself and joined TikTok to get his message to us directly,” RNC Youth Advisory Council Chair Brilyn Hollyhand told Fox News Digital of the impending ban.

Also see: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-courts-john-bolton-politics-donald-trump-8a7ff9c4e60678aafcd7f430e49196ea

President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.

The website you posted has a history of collaborating with other fake news fascist websites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouthFront#Disinformation_and_propaganda

In 2016, Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro described SouthFront as “an allegedly citizen-sourced project that looks more like a suspicious information operation”. Describing it as “a fascinating hybrid of revealingly detailed military intelligence and totally bogus stories”, she said that the site’s content centers on “the success of Russia’s armed forces, and showing off Russia’s weapons”.[13]

In 2017, researchers at Oxford University’s Internet Institute studied the collaboration of SouthFront with two US-based fascist fake news sites, Veterans Today and its sister site Veterans News Now.[14][15]

Philip N. Howard, one of the paper’s coauthors, told McClatchy DC that the three websites underlay “an entire ecosystem of junk news about national security issues that is deliberately crafted for U.S. veterans and active military personnel … a complex blend of content with a Russian view of the world – wild rumors and conspiracies”.[16] The Oxford researchers concluded that the three sites were more successful on Twitter than on Facebook, saying “on Twitter there are significant and persistent interactions between current and former military personnel and a broad network of Russia-focused accounts, conspiracy theory focused accounts, and European right-wing accounts.”[14] SouthFront representatives responded to a Politico story about the Oxford study with an email saying they had no connection to Russia’s government, adding that describing them as part of a Kremlin network was “contrary to the principles of freedom of speech and … discriminatory against Russians.”[15]

Hey Bubbles,

I notice you’ve been posting some articles from Sputnik news. Do you know about Sputnik news?

According to https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sputnik-news/

Sputnik news is a right-wing biased website known for “Russian Propaganda, Conspiracy, Lack of Transparency, Some Fake News”. It’s factual reporting is “very-low” and it was created via a presidential decree by Vladimir Putin.