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@weekendspy@mastodon.nz There are no subsidies and excemptions under capitalism. You've been led to believe that a system which steals most of the produced wealth and distributes it as it sees fit is capitalism. It is not. Mises improved the definition of capitalism (and communism) to control of production instead of just ownership). Bottom line, we currently do not have capitalism. BTW, capitalism would at a minimum require money (capital) to be market driven instead of issued by an institute which is a plank in the communist manifesto (central banks)

@SuneAuken Was I also a hero when I left birdsite (I was on the fediverse for over 10 years by then already) in something like 2020 because of woke censorship and covid resistance censorship (which overlap)?

They seem to be trying to keep politics out of technical things. Good for them. As I read it It's a deliberate choice on technical merrit alone, which seems reasonable.

Choosing a framework is *not* a political choice per se. It can be a pragmatic choice if you accept a bigger up front cost for saving over the long run because of upgrades and repairs. Because it is impractical to impossible to prune every supplier you buy from to every project you support and the criteria will become more vague as you go down that path, it makes sense not to go there at all and be a technical project instead of attempting to mix it up into a political group.

BTW, even though there are statements of the people you talk about that I myself strongly disagree with, I find it weird that those views aren't acceptable BUT supporting communism, which killed the most people of all political views, including facism is totally fine. You are pressing framework to also defund those people and projects.

@davidnjoku One, we don't have capitalism, we have neoliberalism (which needs big government). Two, though you are right that they wouldn't be funded with money taken through proxy violence, that doesn't mean the concept would be entirely dead. Capitalism doesn't exclude collective but voluntary initiatives, quite the contrary.

@ronald @johan @hermannus @TheDutchChief @janvlug @PartijvoordeDieren dat is waar maar privacy focused devices vereisen voorlopig nog technische kennis en oplossingen voor wat er niet op werkt. Tot vorig jaar bv zat ik met een groot probleem dat ik whatsapp weiger MAAR dat was het enige kanaal dat de school van mijn kinderen gebruikte

@ronald @PartijvoordeDieren @janvlug @TheDutchChief @johan @hermannus Dat is al lastig maar daar bijt ik door. Maar officiele schoolcommunicatie niet krijgen was een brug te ver, dat is ten nadele van mijn kinderen.

@Grumblesock@clew.lol @Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club @ottman It currently is, but as I learned from Russia blocking @simplex@mastodon.social by detecting it's packets in traffic, when they do care enough, it'll stick. We (the masses) are blind to the danger of big government.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I'd be highly surprised if it didn't have a backdoor. Microsoft is not a company you should trust

@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social Told you it would keep coming back. The only way to stop chat control permanently is to take out the perpetrators.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Taxed at what rate? Yeah, thought so

@REA@ec.social-network.europa.eu The EU always was and currently is a totalitarian project. From chat control to the war on cash. It costs a crapload of money to take away people's freedoms. And truth is, we can have free trade and travel all without the giant, corrupt bureaucracy it brings.

@Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club @Grumblesock@clew.lol @simplex@mastodon.social @ottman We will be saved when we collectively limit government power to the bare minimum. Given that we have to put our children in indoctrination camps for at least 12 years, I don't see it happening any time soon

@Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club @Grumblesock@clew.lol @simplex@mastodon.social @ottman I'm less optimistic. I realize the resistence against it is staged and any cleanup we will soon see will lead us to a more powerful regime (because we think they saved us)

@petergleick@fediscience.org Not sure where you live, but in Belgium and The Netherlands, fuel prices are mostly made up of taxes (Belgium 70%). Big winner is the government.

@vkc@linuxmom.net The additional problem is that there are massive blocklists for things that most users one a instance may not even notice. One of them blocks all instances using soapbox as a frontend because the developer holds controversial views. Another lists blocks instances that themselves don't block certain instances. And a user has no say in any of this and often won't even know. I believe users should be in charge of what they want to block and what they want to see. Nostr's relay model is much better in that respect.

@PeopleVsBigTech@mastodon.social Yeah, without Big Tech we wouldn't have chat control! Oh wait. The EU is totalitarian without big tech, they just did a gradual rollout. Age verification and digital ID are next

@chatcontrol@mastodon.social Yeah, the totalitarians want control. Big surprise there. Until we fight THEM instead of whatever dangerous proposal they put forward we will never win.

@dansup@mastodon.social Seriously, MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA?! Stop with this BS already or at least stop asking us to take it seriously.

@os_sci@mastodon.social That is still the case for any storage @stoev@social.stoev.dev @DiogoConstantino@masto.pt @killyourfm@layer8.space

@starlabssystems@mastodon.social Nice! Not cheap but nice

The open web is more nostr

@ottman On what basis? Scary shit these days, Western governments seem to want to go full North-Korea