The democrats have won most of the elections in the past 30 years and they are still going more and more right. I don’t think you’re correct in this analysis. Hilary Clinton and Al Gore won the elections and didn’t become president, even discounting that the democrats have been in power for the majority of this century and they have only become more and more right wing.

US Elections are decided when they do redistricting and manipulate the voting districts to ensure the results they want and isn’t a real democracy. The US is run by oligarchs who run their enterprise corporations and the power is concentrated there, not in the government.

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I actually pirate things because I don’t like spending money, don’t care about content creators and want to save for retirement more than I give a fuck about anything else

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I also prefer freetube to the containerized web hosted softwares like Invidious because I sit at a personal computer all day.

Thanks for the gold!

Go ahead and use these services. I don’t care about you, what you do or what you think. You are deeply unserious if you are not paranoid about the surveillance and I really have nothing to discuss with you.

My behavior is toxic because I am saying VPN services aren’t safe? OK whatever. I really don’t care what the fuck you do. Go ahead and pay money for these services 🤷‍♀️

You might have heard about Edward Snowden? Have you looked into anything that he leaked?

Oh also people use VPNs to buy DIY hormones online, what happens when the inevitable US anti trans witch hunt happens?

Yes, a hosted seedbox paid with crypto and self managed keys is the way to go for torrenting

you don’t really need to scare quote they in this context. The NSA and similar organizations are real and operating at this scale right now.

Will they compromise their back door to go after a pirate? No. Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.

It is not if, it is when the digital police state is imposed will we know the real end state of this level of data collection. My warning about them is not just about the pirates, its about installing their software and letting them port mirror you and cache your dns calls for years to target you later.

Yeah there is no way Surfshark, NordVPN and other services are compromised and or straight up run by the NSA

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Believe it or not I’ve come into contact with Microsoft Exchange 2010 running on Server 2008 for 2000 days once. The company had ransomware.

I don’t think surpassing or having anything to do with reddit is valuable. I use lemmy because I think reddit sucks but now I can see how it can be better. For example, I want to disable all voting on my instance, I don’t believe it helps anything and the only reason lemmy has it is because of reddit, there is no algorithm or anything. That to me seems like the worst reason to have something.